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Re: Is it possible to fully cancel in store?
gramps28 wrote: Usually all cancelation needs to done over the phone with the retention team. Ugh, that's what I was afraid of. Hilarious that "retention" is the team handling cancellations. I don't want to be retained, I wanna get the hell out! Do you know if I can at least return the gateway at a store to avoid the need to mail it somewhere? I'm wary of ending up paying however many hundreds for an old Nokia trashcan gateway that's probably considered obsolete by everyone but TMo at this point.59Visto0likes0ComentariosIs it possible to fully cancel in store?
This service has been hot garbage for the past two weeks with constant disconnects (despite the admin portal showing "connected" for both LTE and 5G) and having to reboot the gateway 8 times or more per day. I work from home and I can't take it anymore, I need to switch to something far more reliable. So my question: is it possible to fully cancel in a T-Mobile store, meaning I bring the gateway in, they take it back, process my service cancellation, I get a receipt and am then done with the service entirely? Trying to avoid waiting an hour on the phone for support to pick up only to then mysteriously lose my cancellation request, or having to ship the gateway somewhere then get charged for it being lost despite having tracking showing it was delivered. I just want to bring it all in locally and walk out not having to think about this anymore.Solved204Visto0likes3ComentariosRe: Data speeds dropped to below 1 Mps. Am I being throttled?
Just to close the loop on this, maybe this time the "we're working on the towers" wasn't just a line. As of last night, I'm getting 120 down/20 up pretty consistently. So whatever happened took a week, but it's now better than it's ever been. We'll see if it lasts!87Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: T-Mobile Home Internet throttling speeds to certain servers (10x reduction)
HildaPoof wrote: I just posted about a similar experience with suspected throttling earlier this week and this is definitely interesting. This morning right after rebooting the router, I'm getting 730 kbps down, but 15 Mbps upload, which does seem weird if it's a tower issue like customer service likes to read off their little script. At this point, I'm ready to look for another option because I can't work with speeds this terrible, but I'll have to give the VPN idea a try first to see if that helps. The VPN didn't help unfortunately. My download speed is at least usable this evening (6.5 Mbps down, 19 Mbps up), but it still feels like internet I should be paying $10 for instead of $50.56Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: T-Mobile Home Internet throttling speeds to certain servers (10x reduction)
I just posted about a similar experience with suspected throttling earlier this week and this is definitely interesting. This morning right after rebooting the router, I'm getting 730 kbps down, but 15 Mbps upload, which does seem weird if it's a tower issue like customer service likes to read off their little script. At this point, I'm ready to look for another option because I can't work with speeds this terrible, but I'll have to give the VPN idea a try first to see if that helps.57Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: Data speeds dropped to below 1 Mps. Am I being throttled?
nc1037 wrote: I don't know what could have caused your speed to drop off like that. Have you called in and asked for technical support? I called the first day, was given the usual script that everyone gets - try rebooting the modem, oh they're working on towers in your area, will be better tomorrow, blah blah blah. The stuff they say to get you off the phone as fast as possible.32Visto0likes0ComentariosData speeds dropped to below 1 Mps. Am I being throttled?
Hi everyone, Since Tuesday of this week, I have been experiencing a steep drop in data speeds. I have typically been able to get between 60-80 Mbps reliably. Over the past few days, my download speed is topping out at around 5 Mbps, and that's right after a modem reboot. Eventually it drops to around 0.6 Mbps. Nothing has changed with the modem placement, no new devices on my network. It's just suddenly very very slow. Multiple reboots, unplugging and plugging back in, all the usual suspects don't work. I have the original Nokia modem if that makes a difference, but it hasn't had any trouble for a long time. Here's my signal info (I don't check this much, so I don't know if any of this is bad or good - the bars are the same as usual): I read recently that T-Mobile is going to start throttling heavy users. I checked my usage and I used about 735 GB of data in January. Is that enough to get me throttled? So far in February, I'm at 306 GB used. I'm not sure what the cutoff for "too much" data is, or what period of time is measured when deciding to throttle or not. I work from home, so I need to figure out if I use too much data to stay with T-Mobile. If anyone knows what the throttling threshold is, I'd appreciate it!Solved546Visto1like7ComentariosRe: 5G Home internet keeps dropping
Estrella wrote: Day 2 of T Mobile home internet in Phoenix. Everything is working great with the exception of one problem. My connection has dropped at precisely 729a two mornings in a row. I have to unplug the gateway and replug…and that brings back my connection. I created a ticket for the "engineers" and waiting to great back. I see that this has been happening for months with other customers with varying degrees of drop offs. I don't see any posts lately and wonder if the problem is starting to go away on its own with most customers? Any suggestions on a fix recently? As stated…my service is 100pct the remainder of day It's definitely not going away. I'm rebooting the router once a day at minimum now due to dropped internet.23Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Home Internet Gateway Needs Reboot Multiple Times Daily, Internet Access Dropping
N4WWL wrote: I was experiencing multiple drops daily, sometimes multiple drops over a 2-hour period. However, this problem seems to have been resolved. My gateway has held a connection without dropping for19d1h31m. Perhaps there was a firmware upgrade that fixed the repeated dropouts or maybe the "tower maintenance" argument was legit. The current firmware I show is1.2103.00.0338. Anybody else experience a similar result? I've experienced the opposite result. I'm just back up from my 4th gateway reboot of the day, same firmware version as yours. This service has gone from amazing to garbage in only 4 months. Never thought I'd be on the verge of going back to Comcast, but this many network and/or equipment failures per day is not something I can accept on a daily basis.21Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Connected, No Internet
RogerD954 wrote: Well, actually… I too have been experiencing loss of internet here in Ft Lauderdale. I made contact with T-Mobile on Twitter and after a few days got this response: Our engineers mentioned your device is connecting correctly to our towers; however, they are working on optimizing the area and this could cause issues like you are experiencing. This will be resolved soon, and your service will stabilize 😊. No relocation of Gateway or adding a cooling fan isexpected to help. No definition of how long "soon" would be. I am getting ready to cut off Comcast, but now thinking twice. This started happening to me this morning in the metro-Boston area. The gateway web page (http://192.168.12.1/web_whw/#/overview) shows connected to primary and secondary with 3 bars, green check on "Internet connected", devices connected to Wifi, but every 30 minutes or so, the ability to access the internet vanishes. This is a progression of steady worsening over time. I had the trash can running for 2 months with no issues, then a few weeks ago started having to reboot it once per week, then 3 times so far this morning. If their SOP is to "optimize" during the workday and make the network unusable during that time, then this has gone from "so much better than Comcast" to "Guess I should reconnect the Comcast so I can work".42Visto1like0Comentarios