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Re: High-Speed Internet Gateway will not lock to 5G speeds (5G21)
I know this is an old thread, but the issue seems to be ongoing. What I did was get a directional 5g antenna and aim it at the 5g tower (n41 band 2500 MHz) so the 4g (B66 band 1700 MHz) signal wasn't the strongest. What I really wish is that the gateway worked with millimeter wave bands (mmWave) as I have a mmWave tower in the boulevard directly across the street from me. Not even my brand new phone uses it, so I'd guess a new version of this gateway supporting mmWave in the near future.6Visto1like0ComentariosRe: NAT (Forwarding) in T-Mobile Gateway
inteller wrote: Holy sh* man you are saying exactly what I'm stating! The right thing to do would be instead of trying to work against me, work WITH me to pressure T-Mobile to get this deivce more functional and then we can ALL do whatever we want with it. All T-mobile has to do is enable the device to bridge. That's it. I know this because that's how my cable modem worked and I was able to do everything else I wanted from there. So if you want to sit there and tell me the networking configuration I used for YEARS was 'incorrect' and didn't work, go right ahead…..but you are not helping.You can be an apologist for why they don't enable these things, but this device is for HOME INTERNET. I do not sit at home on my phone and nothing else.If that is T-mobile's position then I'll be returning it and wait until they grow up. Actually, we're not at all saying the same thing. You believe the modem could be updated with a few featureand it would work. I'm saying that's not the case, as you're basically behind T-Mobile's NAT/VPN so enabling features on the model wouldn't solve the problem one bit. How exactly do do believe enabling bridge mode would solve your problem? You're comparing your cable company's network with T-Mobile, which are TOTALLY different. Your cable company didn't hide your connection behind a NAT/VPN. You could identify your home connection with a unique IP address which you could access remotely (with or without a DDNS like NoIP). But T-Mobile's network doesn't work like your cable company. Every connection is like a VPN or NAT, where there's not a unique IP address, but it's shared with many other people. So, lets's say bridge mode is available on your T-Mobile modem. How would you remotely access your home modem? By IP? Via a DDNS like NoIP? Nope! As there's still not a uniqueIP address assigned to your home connection, it's shared with thousands of other people. So you would try to access your home network and it could never route to your home. So I'm sorry, you don't know what you're talking about. You have limited knowledge and basing your assumptions on how your cable company's network is configured, when in reality T-Mobile's network isn't at all setup the same way, and as a result, your assumption that bridge mode will solve everything is totally wrong. Sorry, it's not as simple as that.10Visto1like0ComentariosRe: NAT (Forwarding) in T-Mobile Gateway
inteller wrote: I can't use noip with t-mobile because it doesn't support it, but if it was just bridging I could. I'm not willing to wait around for another device when the speeds I get right now are just fine and the device I have is capable of the functions I need. Sorry, you're incorrect. You can setup NOIP on other devices other than just your modem. I set it up on my local server. But, this doesn't work as T-Mobile doesn't assign you a unique IP address (it's shared with hundreds/thousands of other people). So even if you setup NOIP, that doesn't help one bit. Nor would port forwarding or bridge mode. You're failing to understand the problem. The issue is how the T-Mobile network is setup for a security aspect. It was setup to be a secured network for phones. It's not capable of working with a DDNS service, bridge mode, or port forwarding. That's why they disabled these features on the T-Mobile modem, as they would never work. Keep in mind that Nokia added these features to this modem firmware when they designed it (for other markets). When T-Mobile wanted to use it, they had to disable features as they don't work on their network, not because they wanted to limit the device. The new modem won't resolve the problem either. It may happen along with a T-Mobile network change, but a modem alone can't fix the problem, either a firmware update or new hardware. The only work-around is a service like ZeroTier until T-Mobile changes their network, which very well may never happen.23Visto1like0Comentarios