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Re: Why is my internet data usage high when not home?
If people only knew the level of automatic spyware built into their Googled and iPhone type phones, and those phones upload that data via whatever means it has readily available (including your WiFi). Your "normie" phone listens to everything you say, everything you do, every place you go, it sniffs the bluetooth environment you are in for other phones and wireless devices. It uploads your days activities in the middle of the night, to include pictures, texts, locations, your contact list, who you were within 32 feet of at any point during the day, if its an iPhone it sends it to both the iCloud and to the Google servers. If you have Facebook installed, it sends all or most of that same data to Facebook. If you tweet, instagram or use classic social media it captures that data and sends it to the cloud based services for them to mine your metadata and place you into cohort groups for further monitoring - this monitoring is then sold to anyone who might be interested in knowing your interests, and those groups then target you for advertising or other nefarious purposes. Ever wonder why new modern cell phones don't have easily removable batteries? Because even when your phone is "off" it is still active. The only way to truly silence it is to remove the battery or turn it off and place it in a Faraday bag. Then take a look at your 4am data (midnight - 6am) and you'll discover that your phone is sending hundreds of megabytes (more than likely gigabytes of data) in the middle of the night while you are sleeping. Get a De-Googled phone and this problem goes away - as long as you don't use social media on your De-Googled phone.54Visto1like0ComentariosRe: T-Mobile Home Internet pilot test begins, no data caps and $50 per month
I was invited to use T Mobile's Home ISP and took them up on the offer. A little background: I live in rural NE Georgia and Windstream DSL was the only option prior to this. The best data rate I could get from Windstream was 17D/1U with a latency that often exceeded 300ms. It was highly unreliable. T Mobile ISP is a no brainer. Its not without issues, and I'll get into them in a minute, but first let me praise the improvement and SOLID reliability of the connection. I'm situated between two rural cell towers and I live in a concrete (ICF) home, so signal degradation is a real issue. To find a placement for the TMobile modem I used a cell signal app on my phone and found a window that could give me the best signal. I placed the modem there, ran a Cat 6 cable to it and fed my Mikrotik Router and it has worked flawlessly and without interruption for several months now. I'm getting 46Mbps down and 2.5 Mbps up. The average latency is 80ms. I want that upload to be faster because I have a Plex server and several security cameras. This modem does have a built in battery, so it stays alive in power outages. It has three ports (1 WAN and 2 Ethernet). It has an on/off switch. The micro sim can be removed from the back without needing to open the case. Now the issues: 1. The current generation modem does not have external ports for connecting external antennas for better signal reception. 2. The sim card will not work in a Netgear LTE modem that does have external antennas. 3. The current (first release) modem does NOT have a bridge mode in the current firmware. 4. Using this modem for a 2.4 and 5G WiFi network will impede the cell signal and reduce your upload bandwidth. 5. The firewall is very basic. 6. Port Forwarding and advanced features are not robust. 7. No embedded GPS for location - this plays an important role in location requirements for streaming services. 8. You cannot reliably use VOIP on this due to a SIP issue or a double NAT issue created by having a separate (and more robust) router, even if you bypass one router and plug the VOIP directly into the T Mobile Modem the SIP issue remains. If T Mobile would release a firmware update that allowed this modem to be placed in Bridge Mode, it would be almost PERFECT. If the next version of this modem comes with dual external antenna ports, AND an embedded GPS, AND the option to place it in Bridge Mode - it will be PERFECT. Aside these limitations, the T Mobile $50 price point each month is about what I was paying Windstream for their unreliable DSL. So T Mobile is giving me 3x better performance than I had with Windstream, for basically the same price. I highly recommend this service if you get the invitation. All eight of the issues I've pointed out probably would not affect the typical customer and I expect T Mobile will resolve (hopefully) all of these problems in the near future. Are you corporate folks listening? Ret60sp9Visto0likes0ComentariosUsing the TMobile ISP Box sim in a Netgear LB1120
I have the unlimited TMobile ISP internet modem, and it works ok, but it has limitations that I can solve by using a different modem. The TMobile ISP box does NOT have a bridge mode and it does NOT have external ports for external antennas. For those of us in rural areas this means we get maybe 1 bar of service. The NO bridge mode means I either intend to let the TMobile modem be a router as well as a modem, and I don't like this idea for several reasons: 1) The firewall sucks. 2) no masquerade 3) No detail configurable firewall with subnets, 4) No embedded GPS for location & 5) the 2.4 & 5 Mhz Wifi is not powerful enough to reach the far corners of the home and those emitters interfere with the cellular signal at 1 bar, making upload speeds suck for a Plex server. So I prefer my Mikrotik router, and my Mikrotik AP's stanmding alone on the network - which means I need the TMobile ISP modem to be in bridge mode, (but they don't have a bridge mode) or I'll encounter a double NAT issue. There are too many ports to attempt to forward on my network and opening the DMZ is counter intuitive to the purpose of a true masquerading firewall. So using the TMobile modem as a DHCP server/firewall is not an option I'll consider. So I purchased the Netgear LB1120 modem and proceeded to transplant the sim from the TMobile modem into the Netgear 1120. I set the APN to fbb.home and - nothing. It will not connect to the TMobile network. No bars. I installed a generic TMobile sim card in the Netgear LB1120 and it comes right up - with 1-2 bars. So how do I configure the Netgear LB1120 to use the sim card out of the TMobile ISP modem? If I can get it to work I can install the L400 cables to the external grid antennas outdoors, pointed at the nearest cell tower, and I should get 5 bars and a truly descent internet experience.17KViews5likes33Comentarios