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Re: T-Mobile and being "SO MUCH better than when we had it last
Yeah, I presume that'd be the problem. Lots (LOTS) of noise at sign-up about how T-Mobile has DRASTICALLY improved, AND gained a bunch of <something> from Sprint, and they're now the absolute BEST for coverage. Even discounting the usual sales "exaggeration", it seems odd that it's worked so consistently poorly . Apparently, they haven't done a lot of that "improving" on the Gulf side of Florida… BTW: Here's where we are at this time. ON the T-Mobile coverage map. Looks like a huge RED area with at LEAST 4G all around here. So far, the "coverage" on the coverage map has been very optimistic (ok, completely inaccurate) in the locations I've been in Florida. So what information can we actually expect to be accurate from the coverage map?Re: T-Mobile and being "SO MUCH better than when we had it last
Now at Midway campground in the middle of Big Cypress swamp… Visible (Verizon) has 1 bar - it's functional but low data - less than 1MB - adequate for email. AT&T hotspot - 26Mbps for the high and it hasn't been lower than 9. T-Mobile - dead. ZERO bars, no 5G, no 4G, no ANY Gs.Re: T-Mobile and being "SO MUCH better than when we had it last
Bought from T-Mobile. This whole topic is just anecdotal - of the "this is what I'm using, this is where I've been for the last X weeks, this is how well T-Mobile has worked" - variety. YMMV. The chances are pretty slim that I'm going to run into someone and have a conversation about how their T-Mobile phone does with data… Isn't that what the COVERAGE MAP is for? To show a detailed view of where you SHOULD be able to expect various levels of performance? Or is that marketing hype too? The favorite excuse with Visible has always been that "you're in a micro-dead spot and that's why performance is poor". And it wouldn't matter anyhow - if they said it was "great", it still wouldn't tell me it actually WAS great - there are people that think Visible is "great"… If they told me it sucked, it would just further confirm that T-Mobile service doesn't match what you should be able to expect from their coverage map. It'll be interesting once I get into Big Cypress and/or the Everglades to see which, if any of the services still works.Re: T-Mobile and being "SO MUCH better than when we had it last
Not that I've noticed. There are lots of people walking around with cell phones, but I have no idea what network they're on. I know the AT&T hotspot works FINE. Visible sucks, but Visible sucks most of the time 'cause it's Verizon's left-over garbage. Even so, at least Visible, on the OLD, cheapest possible ZTE Blade A7, will run the TV on SD, which the T-Mobile phone hotspot won't do. I figure it's either the phone or T-Mobile. It's a Samsung Galaxy S22, and we've had Samsung devices several times in the past - they've all been more than adequate, so I suspect the problem ISN'T the phone. That leaves T-Mobile. I figure it MIGHT be acceptable if the phone doesn't work in the middle of Monument Valley or the middle of Death Valley, but jeez, I'm in the middle of urban sprawl in Fort Myers, with the most major highway on the Gulf side of Florida nearby, and this thing is a data paperweight. Give or take 100 feet, the black dot is where the RV is. The huge, pink road about a quarter mile away is Hwy 75. Anyhow, I'm just whining… It made sense to move the phones (except for the data phone) from Visible to T-Mobile for a couple reasons. I less than half believed the BS about the drastically improved coverage when we went to T-Mobile this time, so I'm disappointed, but not surprised that the marketing hype was BS.Re: Brand new to home Internet and hoping to improve speed
Interesting…….. Things had not changed… Here's what the graph looked like a couple days ago. A normal day here - higher and wildly fluctuating at 5 a.m., slowly degrading. Then, about 2 p.m., it falls on it's face and only gets above 10 Mbps 4 or 5 times for the next EIGHT hours. It GRADUALLY improves after 10 pm. Tuesday, had another conversation with t-Mobile support Tuesday morning, where THIS person essentially contradicted everything thing the person from LAST week said, except for stating clearly and repeatedly that this was NOT the performance to be expected. And that MINIMUM download speed should not be below 37 Mbps and max out around 130 Mbps. Which numbers would make me happy. OK... But, he created another ticket, and THIS time he stated repeatedly that HE would call me back Thursday to see how things had improved… Continued monitoring yesterday. This morning, after the normal overnight series of points around 60 with a few falling on their face, THIS happened… Between the 6:26 and 6:36 points (I suspect at 6:30), a jump to numbers in the mid 400 Mbps range. Which seemed odd given the mediocre performance to date, but I DIDN'T look the gift horse in the mouth. Unfortunately, it only lasted 'til about 8 a.m. when it fell back on it's face to 7 Mbps. I confirmed the high speed with speedtest on the computer AND on a cell phone. Somebody remove the throttling and/or deprioritization for 90 minutes? Any idea what's going on?Re: Is there anything "special" about Home Internet? Data care? device? T-Mobile?
Just got off a chat with Visible (the subsidiary of Verizon we were with), and they insist the phone is unlocked… I haven't found a list anywhere on T-Mobile that tells me whether a 2020 (or maybe 2019) Motorola G7 Power would be compatible with T-Mobile or not. But if it's actually unlocked, it doesn't work.
