5G Home Internet Suddenly Very Unstable And Technical Support Is Essentially Useless
Wondering if anyone else is having similar issues. First, at $50/month for 5G speeds with no data caps, this service is pretty much the best deal out there. When it is working well, we typically see speeds in the 60+ Mbps down/ 20+ Mbps up which is by far the best performance we've ever had at our house. Unfortunately, it has recently become the case that it almost never "works well". Over the last couple of weeks, we are lucky if we can get an hour a day where it is getting this kind of performance. For much of the day, it is actually not even usable (we're talking less than 1 Mbps and barely registering uploads). The strange thing is that when we first got this modem, it never seemed to be the case. I saw some forum discussions that overheating might be an issue, but it really isn't that hot. Additionally, when it is performing poorly, I noticed that we are getting less than two bars primary and zero bars secondary on the modem. Again, this previously wasn't the case. Sometime rebooting with temporarily resolve this issue, but I am not kidding when I tell you that most days we restart the modem a minimum of five times. Many times it simply doesn't fix anything. Compounding this is the fact that TMobile seems committed to off-shoring their technical support and the quality of this service is so bad it could be a post in itself. Over the last couple of months I've probably called once a week, which typically eats up an hour of my day and has rarely resolved anything. On three occasions, the representative told me they would call me back and not one has. Not one. On the last call, I managed to get a "manager" on the line who honestly was not any better than those who work for him. His only solution was to downgrade us to LTE even after I told him that we ultimately go the 5G device because the LTE was working very poorly. Anyway, I'm 99% sure I'm just going to have to bail on this service and go with Starlink which is available in my area. This really bums me out because whenTmobile's service is even working halfway decent it is more than enough for us, but "half-way decent" at this point is a dream state for us. Again, I'm curious if others are having similar issues. For what it is worth, we have the Nokia 5G cylindrical tower.
5G home internet - interruption of connection -support was contacted
We started our 5g home internet with T-Mobile about 6 months ago, it was working fantastic for about 4 of those months. Last month near the very beginning we started having an issue where all of our devices are connected to the modem, but no internet connection is available, the only fix we have is to unplug and restart the modem. We called support yesterday, they told us about the new 2022 modems and that many customers have been calling in with this issue. After getting our new modem yesterday we still have the same issue every 30 mins a break in our internet connection begins and we need to re-start our modem. I called support again this morning to which they again said many customers are having this same issue. When I heared that a bell went off, "T-Mobile has a massive server or processing error with all of these modems, not just the old one we were dealing with." They proceeded with the basic turning the router off and powering it back on, the support told me he was doing some sort of trouble shooting (to which he was supposed to send a list of troubleshoots to use if it were to continue, he never did) I got a call about 20 mins after to make sure my internet was still working, I told them yes and that it hadn't even been long enough for us to have the issue again, they were happy with that and gladly wished me a good rest of my day. I am so beyond frustrated with T-Mobile right now, they honestly should be giving customers a refund of last months billing cycle and get this sorted for all the hoops we have to go through in order to even have a half hour of this so called premier coverage of 5g home internet, it's really feeling like a bad joke and customers are just supposed to deal with it.