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Re: Download speed
I see, thanks. It is a mystery why your connection quality fluctuates so much, yet you have a strong connection as that-- I’m still learning about what may affect the connection quality to get unexpectedly low performance in spite of the indicators showing such a good signal as yours…..7Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: High-Speed Internet Gateway will not lock to 5G speeds (5G21)
Got the Nokia gateway last Wed (May 5). Initially only got 2 of 5 bar signal strength, in metro area that T Mobile said has 5G available (I understand how that goes, "not necessarily where your exact location is" ) Still, highly motivated to get away from years of plunking down 3 figure monthly fee for landlineTV and internet (cable co.). Having some skills at using web GUI's I opened the one for this Nokia, noticed the "wireless" menu under "network" on left pulldown menu, opened each radio (2.5GHz and 5 GHz), I decided to turn off all of those (had to do it on each WiFi sub-SSID, 12 in total-- attention T-Mobile, y'all need to do some serious web page re-design to simplify that!😉 ) since I have my own established SSID's, and connected the gateway via ethernet to WAN on my home router. VOILA, it immediately got 3 of 5 bars, rechecked "speed test" on Google and it gets solid 40 MB/sec down, 9 MB/sec up, ping in low 30's ms. I'm not a "gamer" so ping time isn't a great concern until it gets over 50-- since Thursday, still solid on 3 bars, band 12 (I realize that isn't 5G, so if there's a disappointment, it's that so far).2Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: Download speed
Similar story here, I am in densely populated metro area on East coast, T-Mobile said they rolled out 5G home internet signal here so I pulled the trigger and got their 5G gateway device (Nokia). But I'm in a condo building which faces away from a major street which shows it has 5G signal-- so the best connection I can get anywhere around the interior is 3 of 5 bars, it settled on Band 12, and using "speed test" on Google it gets around 25MB/sec down and around 5MB/sec up with a ping in the 30ms range. So basically I'm paying for 5G service but only getting 4G actual…..still, it does perform equally to the existing service I had, thru Cox internet. I also connected mine to my existing setup which is a router to its WAN ethernet, and turned off all the Nokia's 2.5G and 5G wifi broadcasts (12 in total!) I had to use the pulldown menu in the web GUI on each, select them individually to turn off broadcasting. They need to do some serious redesign of their GUI to make stuff like changing those settings a LOT easier. Prior to turning off the wifi, I could only manage 2 of 5 bars for the gateway incoming signal-- since turning them all off, it's solid 3 of 5.5Visto1like0Comentarios