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Re: 5G Home Internet Service Equipment
Here is my experience if it helps someone … I have google-fi service and phone (pixel3) and one of these days when my home internet (comcast xfinity) was down due to weather conditions I did a fast.com test on my phone over cellular data and I got 160 MB connection which was 2x times the connection I was getting on xfinity (200 MB plan). So,I signed up on 3/15/2021 and received the equipment on 3/17/2021 which is fairly quick. The connection/setup was quick and I got 160-240 MB connection right off the bat. Here are the bad / negatives. There is no WPS (wifi push button service) feature. I have few devices that only support WPS for wifi (cameras) and couple like printers/scanners that have WPS as easy setup option. I cannot use cameras anymore (unless I connect thru ethernet-cable). I need to use usb connection to configure/setup my printer connection. The ethernet-lan-ports seem to be funky. I thought I can connect my exiting orbi-RBR50 as an access-point so that I dont have to change/re-connect all my devices and also it has WPS. But, the connection speed thru the orbi-access-point dropped from 160-200 MB to 50 MB. I thought the ethernet-cable is reducing the speed and ordered a brand new cable on amazon with the spec that states 1 GB connection speed. With this new cable, the speed further dropped to 30 MB. So, dont know if this is still the cable issue or the LAN-port itself has a significant quality issue. There are more issues with it. Before I attempted to connect the orbi access-point, I had configured/setup my chromecast and google-home-mini devices to connect to the t-mobile-wifi and tested them working fine. Once after I connected the orbi-access-point to the LAN-port, those device connections started mis-behaving. None of the streaming worked. I can change the TV sound via Google-Home app and I can see the TV display the sound level. Thats about it. When I try to stream / cast from youtube or youtube-tv apps, the chromecast (TV) attempts to load the app, but never starts the streaming. I suspect the LAN-port connection messed up the wifi configuration and you dont have an option to correct it. I had to factory-reset the device to get it back working. When above issues arise, both the mobile-app and the web-app choke. They stop responding. This gets corrected after rebooting the gateway device. But, the gateway app service is very choppy and rudimentary. It feels like tmobile (or nokia) hired high school kids to write these services as part of their school project. This is really a shame. After factory reset, I had to re-do all my device connections for one of the two chromecast to start working and the two google-home-mini's started working. I have one chromecast still not working. Right now its failing to make the wifi connection half way through the setup.I will call google to see if they can help troubleshoot it. Device reboot forces the device to get new public-ip-address. I require my ip-address to be whitelisted on my office connection and I have to go update it everytime I reboot the device. Here is the summary. The 5G-WAN connection seems to be very stable in my 4 days of testing. I let fourvideo streaming services run for 12 hours and didnt see any throttling. So, the service seems to be truly unlimted bandwidth (at-least for now). I let my laptop on a SSH connection running a test command in the loop for 12 hours and it did not loose the connection. The wifi-LAN (WLAN) is super basic and buggy. I am hoping tmobile can release firmware/patch quickly to remediate the issues. They must troubleshoot and make the ethernet-port connection to access-point device working at high-performance and just like an access-point supposed to without messing up the WLAN. Add WPS. I am not sure if this requires a new device but it will be cool if they can add it as a app feature either on the mobile app and/or on the web app. For now, I have my main connections that I rely on daily basis all working and I will continue to use it for a month and make a call if its worth keeping. For me at this point, connection stability and speed are super important and will post an update if those have any issues by end of month.1Ver2likes0Comentarios