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Re: sagemcom fast 5688w internet going out or losing connection
My 5688 is also dropping and reconnecting, I'm on 3rd power off, second reset button, not improving. Signal strength seems identical with better days. Even relocated the 5688, issue seems unimproved. Can't help but wonder if the capping of new "Unlimited" plans might be a hintat infrastructure limits which might, in turn, be causing the momentary disconnects to reduce the impact from high volumedata consumers.40Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: sagemcom fast 5688w internet going out or losing connection
David in PDX wrote: ... The new Sagemcom has been nothing but trouble! It seems to spontaneously reboot itself, and I've been dropped from multiple work conference calls while WFH. A few of the times when I've been dropped, I run upstairs (where the gateway gets a better signal) and see the front screen with the T-Mobile logo and "Powering up..." It doesn't just seem to lose the connection to the tower, but the local WiFi network also disappears. This happens multiple times per day. Sometimes, within 10 mins of me power-cycling the gateway!😱 ... As far as I can tell, the Sagemcom, while newer, is much LESS reliable than the Nokia I had.🤦🏻 I'm sorry that I swapped it out, as I the experiencehas gone from "annoying" to "unusable".😣 Similar here. The Nokia would reboot in the middle of a video chat. Local T-Mobile store offered that the Nokia devices were prone to overheating, bring it in, we'll swap it out. Did that but the Sagemcom 5688 is much worse, exactly as you mentioned. One Android tablet totally chokes with the Sagemcom but was fine on the Nokia. The T-Mobile Internet app is junk, offering no reasonable configuration tools. FWIW, the Sagemcom I was handed was a returned/refurbished unit: the "seal tape" was the second seal tape over the box latch, and a green sticker was on top of the box. I was involved in refurbishing returned products, that's how we did it. Thus, I'd say Sagemcom 5688 is another weak design.10Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: Internet App Gives a 500 error on Devices when Amazon Kindle connects to Internet
Sagemcom 5688 for T-Mobile home internet gateway here, and I have no Kindle devices. I see the same 500 error in my Android internet app when my desktop PC is powered on (and no error when desktop is powered off). That PC is wired to the gateway Ethernet port. The 500 error may have to do with identification information sent from your home devices into the devices app. I'm sorry I don't have any other details on this effort, that's all I can offer. My case suggests that the error isn't just Kindle, isn't WiFi only.20Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: T-mobile Wifi Gateway Home Internet
kennyc wrote: Yes a lot of work...I've got the 4G LTE home internet for about a year now and it works 'okay' but it's just me using it and it slows and buffers (on TV) every evening.. I bought it hoping to soon upgrade to 5G but It still tells me it is 'unavailable' in my area…. Signed up on the 'Upgrade' and "Notification' list for 5G 6-8 months ago and nothing...nothing….nothing …despite having solid 5G service on my phone from T-Mobile…. given the issues with the 5-G gateway maybe that's not such a bad thing. :) The website application process gave me bad positive result, based on their own error which I later corrected, and got the bad news which you get. Let me explain a bit. I entered my proper street address, but when I submitted the information, the web page had silently changed the street address, so initially, I got a false positive saying it was available. When I went to place the order online, I see the address is incorrect, I fixed it, and when I go to submit the corrected information, I got an error. Ok, lets re-do that whole thing from the start. I entered the proper street address again, but this time I forced the web page to accept my correct street address, submitted that and got the 'not yet available', like yourself. I dwelled on that for a week or so. I then realized that my One Plus Nord N10 was usually getting 4 bars of 5G, +/- 1 bar, so why would the web site say 'not available'. I then drove to a nearby T Mobile brick and mortar store. The 2 youths there both said no go. So, same story as website, not available at my location. Next day, I'm in a different location,I went to a different brick and mortar store and that guy worked with me and I'm happily posting from T Mobile Home Internet using 5G. I have a very steady 3 bars on the gateway, not 'stunning', but sufficient for me to stream HD to the TV, one dropout in over a week. Moral to my story: if anyone local to you has the 5G service, maybe you could push to get the setup, since you have decent cell signals - don't always trust the techno-kiddies at the brick and mortar stores. After all, this is a no questions asked situation - return it at any time.21Visto3likes0Comentarios