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Re: 5G Home Internet vs. phone data speeds
Welp. At about 4:30pm on Friday the download speed plummeted to 11. By 5pm it was 6Mbps. On top of that, my cellular service dropped from 3 bars to 1 (even briefly went into SOS mode). I expected a drop at peak hours. But I'm not sure total paralysis of the service during work hours is something I can deal with long-term. Those are peak hours for a reason. People need internet / cell service most at that time of day.14Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: 5G Home Internet vs. phone data speeds
Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I decided to do the trial run. I've had the gateway up and running for about an hour on aFriday afternoon, which I assume is a pretty decent time to test signal strength at peak (or close to peak) usage time. Im getting speeds ranging from 45-220 down depending on the device and the room I'm standing in, and from 7-12 up. The lowest of those numbers is still better than I'm used to from AT&T in my neighborhood. So far, so good. One curious thing though - the video streaming is nice and fast on my work laptop. However, when I sign into my work's VPN and attempt to load one of the web pages that requires the VPN, they no longer load. The VPNs are signed in and connected, but the work-related pages that need the VPN are not loading anymore on the T-Mobile wifi. Am I just missing a setting or something?10Visto0likes0Comentarios5G Home Internet vs. phone data speeds
So I'm a Magenta Max customer and mostly happy with my service. We live in a town where the 5G can be very strong depending on time of day/which part of town you're in. So I started considering switching my home internet to T-Mobile's 5G Home Internet, and did some research. I turned off my phone's wifi to run speed tests on my phone's 5G data from inside my home. It varies a TON depending on the room and the time of day. I've seen download speeds as high as 300+ and upload speeds of about 6-8 (at the times you'd expect… late night or early morning) but as low as 6Mbps for downloads and 1 for uploads (during peak times). That lower number concerned me as I work from home during the day, participating in a lot of mandatory video calls. I can't have my internet just disappear during peakwork hours. A great price for home internet won't matter if I lose my job because I can't stay online on a Thursday afternoon. So I went to a T-Mobile outlet to ask an employee about it. The kid told me the phone data speeds are worse thanwhat I'd get with Home Internet because the wifi customers are "on a different tower." I'm no expert on this stuff, but this sounded made-up to me, like he just wanted me to feel better so I'd buy something. But maybe someone who knows more can confirm if the T-Mobile employee was correct: Are Home Internet speeds better than what I get from my T-Mobile 5G device in the same building, and if so, is it because they deliberately use different towers for that service, as this guy told me? I should add that this kid was very obviously trying to get me to sign up on the spot, showing me 1000+ speed tests on his device (irrelevant to me because I don't live at the T-Mobile store so my speed won't be the same). So I protected myself by leaving without signing up for the trial service, although I am still considering it. So anyone with better knowledge than me - and with no stake in trying to sell me something on commission - what's the real story here? Can I reasonably expect better speeds (and most importantly, no frequent drops in service while I'm working) then I get on a 5G mobile device from within the same residence? Thanks for any help!7.5KViews1like15Comentarios