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Re: T-Mobile Cylinder, pfSense and Google Wifi
cbm4032 wrote: I'm using the T-Mobile gateway as a secondary Internet connection at home. Primary Internet is with the cable company, and the T-Mobile appliance and cable modem are configured as a gateway group on my pfSense firewall. I use Google access points for home WiFi. My primary WiFi network uses two Google access points in a mesh configuration. Unfortunately the T-Mobile device cannot be configured for bridge mode. I've disabled the T-Mobile WiFi and connected it to my pfSense appliance on an Ethernet port. As a result, I do have a bit of NAT madness going on. Direct WiFi speed through my T-Mobile gateway to the Internet clocks in at around 100Mbps, but traffic through my pfSense drops down to ~ 40Mbps. (I tested direct WiFi through T-Mobile before disabling it.) Though the T-Mobile gateway is configured as my failover Internet connection, your question got me wondering about external Plex access. I like to access Plex from hotels when my family is on vacation, but had not tested it out through the T-Mobile gateway. So I switched my default pfSense gateway over to T-Mobile, disabled WiFi on my phone, and tested Plex access across the cell phone network. It works. I monitored the pfSense firewall logs and verified that the client traffic (phone) was coming from a T-Mobile IP address. I was streaming a Plex movie on my phone while my kids were on the home WiFi using tablets for YouTube, and a baseball game was streaming on a Roku player in the other room. I realize that my home setup isn't exactly what you were looking for, but hopefully it's close enough to help answer your question. The T-Mobile gateway isn't flexible enough for me to want it as a primary Internet connection. But it's been a great secondary/failover option for me. And for $50/mo it's certainly better than no Internet connection, which is where I used to find myself when cable Internet outages hit. Almost exactly the same setup I have. Tmo home internet for backup at $50/month, and local cable company in Dallas for primary connection. I use 2 Nest routers (1 as a bridge) and 1 Google wifi pod for my mesh. Tmo doesn't seem to interface with the Google Home app, which shows the network as down if Tmo is serving as the router and ISP.29Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: T-Mobile Home Internet + Google Nest WiFi
Bad wrote: SETTING UP GOOGLE NEST WIFI POINTS WITH T-MOBILE HOME INTERNET Example 1: You had Google Nest Wifi Points setup with a modem from another provider. The Google Wifi point plugged into the old modem is the "router" point and all other wifi points are "bridge" points. Since T-Mobile is a "gateway" that means it's a modem and router all-in-one. Make sure the wifi point you plug into the T-Mobile gateway is the "router" point (the point that was plugged into your old modem), not one of the "bridge" points. Otherwise you'll have to RESET all wifi points in the mesh just like you had to do when you first setup your Google mesh. Use the Google Home app if you need to find which point is your Google wifi "router" point. Make sure that your T-mobile gateway network name isDIFFERENT from your Google mesh network name. The T-mobile gateway is also wireless and if both your gateway and mesh networks have the same network name then you'll have problems (DOUBLE NAT) with devices and apps because your devices and apps will think they're on the same network but in reality some are on the T-Mobile wifi network and some are on the Google wifi mesh network, thusthe devices and apps can't "see" each other. (I.E. Your Roku app can't see your Roku TV or your laptop can't see your wireless printer) Make sure your phone is on the correct network. In phone settings select your Google Mesh network and connect. Turn on "prefered network" and "automatically connect network". All the other networks, the Google Mesh Guest and the T-Mobile network select Forget Network, unselect orturnoff "prefered network" and "automatically connect network" so your phone will not automatically connect to the wrong network. Make sure these settings off in the networks not used as the default setting is on. Example 2: You have T-Mobile Home Internet and you want to extend it with a Google Mesh Wifi Points or Hubs. The Google Wifi point you plugged into the T-Mobile "gateway" is the "router" point and all other Google wifi points are "bridge" points. Just pretend that your T-Mobile "gateway" is just a modem, not a router and do the Google Mesh Wifi setup. Make sure you follow Steps 1-3 in Example 1 as you do the setup. WARNING: I know in the geek world to have a Google wifi point "router" plugged into the T-Mobile "gateway" router/modem is redundant and we want to FIX IT. Some want to make all the wifi points "bridge" points and not have the Google "router" point. The Google mesh is designed where the Google "router" wifi point controls all the Google "bridge" points. If you change the router wifi point to a bridge point then your mesh system will NOT work. Some want to reconfigure the T-Mobile "gateway" and turn off the router portion of the modem/router combo. The research I've done suggests this can't be done because the "gateway" modem/router are integrated. Love the post and the geek world part. Yes, it's bugging me to have a redundant router with the T mobile gateway.15Visto0likes0Comentarios