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Tmobile Home Internet with Tmobile Cellspot
Hey, so two days ago I received my tmobile home internet gateway router and it works great with one issue I have not been able to overcome which is I also have the cellspot for expanding coverage in my house as there is hardly any to no signal within the house to use our phones. We have wifi calling and everything enabled and it just didn't work at all, but the cellspot worked great. The issue is the cellspot transmits a tmobile radio signal and my home internet wants to connect to the cellspot because it is the strongest signal it can pick up and obviously that wont work because the cellspot is connected to the home internet gateway router. So is there a way to blacklist or block the home gateway router from using the cellspot signal and to connect to the cell towers instead? With the cellspot off the home internet gateway router works great with awesome speeds, as soon as I plug in the cellspot I get nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated5.9KViews5likes31ComentariosRe: Tmobile Home Internet with Tmobile Cellspot
snn_555 wrote: I thought the cellspot needed cable for backhaul. Mine was network cabledto the WiFi cellspot. The cellspot into the cable modem. I didn't think the cellspot could work without the cable to take back info from the cellspot. Basically the cellspot provided a way for phones to connect to the internet and network. So in my mind it's a snake eating it's tail. The cellspot is putting out a signal but no info coming in or going out. The home internet gateway is receiving and sending nothing as well. Hope they get this figured out for you. that is correct, The cellspot needs an outside source of Data (which in my case would be the tmobile home internet gateway router) If it worked as I described in the other post it would work flawlessly. It is in fact a snake eating its tail because it wants to connect to a device connected to itself, However those 3 solutions I posted would fix that and allow both devices to work perfectly together. Again thanks for the input and I hope it gets resolved too. Honestly its a simple solution it is just whether they are willing to do it or not5Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Tmobile Home Internet with Tmobile Cellspot
snn_555 wrote: Again the gateway is going to take the strongest signal that is T-Mobile whether it is a cell spot or a tower. What was the purpose in having the LTE cell spot still plugged in and functioning? easy answer, read my other post and what the Home internet is made for. Its made for people in rural areas that do not have access to other internet and likely have a much lower signal strength. That being like I said in my other post it is in T-mobiles best interest to provide both the home internet and the boosted signal strength from the cellspot within a household. I know there is "wifi calling" but as someone in this field for a long time I can also tell you and even more so confirmed the last couple of days that it is not near as reliable as having a cellspot recreating the signal for our cellphones as well as the internet being provided by the home internet gateway7Visto1like0Comentarios