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Cannot Reliably Connect Devices Home Internet
I just got T-Mobile Home Internet and while the speeds are great and very consistent, the internet service is not very robust. I have the 5G Grey Cylindrical router. If I try and connect Samsung TVs or my Directv box to the network, either by Wifi or wired ethernet, it often won't connect. When the devices do connect they are unreliable. Most streaming services won't work. The connection to the router is fine, but the connection from the T-Mobile end to the internet often just hangs. The same is true on my PC or Tablets. It all appears to work well but it's very prone to just hanging one process as if its trying to open a connection that will never open. A good example of this is uploading videos to facebook, this almost always hangs. It never begins the upload although other processes can use the internet fine at the same time. It can USUALLY upload ok to Vimeo or Youtube but these also periodically just stall. It's very flakey and unreliable internet. This is with wired or wifi connections, and while one program is stuck trying to open a data connection, another program on the SAME PC at the SAME time can open a data connection. It makes the entire internet unuseable and frustrating. While it generally works it's not reliable enough to play games etc. You can be playing a game, or updating software, and all of a sudden that program will hang with 0 bytes going in or out. But if you open the browser or start a different program that uses the internet, that new program can connect and download fine while the old one is still hung. It's all inter-related. The reason a lot of devices can't connect very reliably is because they are doing some sort of test that shows this internet is flakey. Usually they will say something like the auto settings didn't work and to configure the network manually. It's very frustrating because my speeds and latency are fantastic, the connection to the T-Mobile network from the router never wavers it's always solid. The connection via wifi never wavers its always solid. But data ports from programs often just hang and won't open. I still have Verizon Home Internet and I switch back and forth. Verizon is MUCH slower but its reliable, I never have any issues like this with them. Even right now. Can anyone help? Is there something that T-Mobile can do on their end to make data connections work more reliably. The only thing that is really always reproduceable that demonstrates this is uploading video to Facebook, that pretty much never starts although once in every 20 or 30 tries it will start and when it does it works fine for that file. -Roger Uzun San Diego, CA7.5KViews2likes21ComentariosRe: Home internet service IPv6 traffic is all filtered even when using a Netgear LTE router. No port forwarding. Plz fix!
I've had nothing but problems with T-Mobile and the new cylindrical router since I got it. It works on most websites but for gaming services its really hit or miss. Sometimes it works sometimes it does not. I think it's due to lack of port forwarding. I keep T-Mobile because it is so fast in my area, 200-400mbps typical. But I just use it for uploads and downloads really. I have Verizon for any real internet use even though its limited to 50 Mbps. T-Mobile does not work with most set top boxes or streaming internet devices, it does not work for most gaming sites via pc or console most of the time. It's fast for uploads and downloads on sites that are compatible with it. I wish they would fix it to be a general purpose internet but I have no idea who to contact to get anything done. I have spoken to the advanced tech support people and they say limitations of the network mean it won't really work as general purpose home internet unless major changes are made to the T-Mobile network itself on their end, and that they have no plans to do it in the near future.11Visto2likes0ComentariosRe: Cannot Reliably Connect Devices Home Internet
I got a call from Tech Support today regarding this issue. The new 5G Cylinder routed is ipv6 ONLY, it does NOT have ipv4 enabled. The hardware allows it but they are not yet legally able to expose those settings to the users. So for now this is an ipv6 ONLY router, which means MOST devices will NOT connect reliably to the internet using this router. PC's work but are flakey as a PC can sometimes get ipv6 connnections to a certain site or operation and sometimes they get ipv4. So that is the source of these issues, they are working on allowing users to be able to change the settings or changing them on their end.5Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Cannot Reliably Connect Devices Home Internet
I changed browsers to Mozilla Firefox and it allows me to upload video to facebook with T-Mobile. Neither Chrome nor Edge would allow video uploads to facebook over T-Mobile, although it all worked fine under Verizon Home Internet. I think this points to a greater issue with T-Mobile home internet. Apps that don't account for the fact that t-mobile acts more like a cellphone and a real internet service provider fail a lot. Steam for example. It's just not very reliable over T-Mobile saying you've lost connection frequently. But apps that are designed to work in a tablet or cellphone environment know to retry more or do things somewhat differently that accounts for T-Mobiles little momentary rejections. I see this on certain websites with Edge or Chrome on T-Mobile. The NOAA weather site for example. If you type a new zip code to look at the weather forecast in a different area, sometimes on T-Mobile it will briefly flash a "You are not connected to the internet page" before it refreshes and gives you the forecast. If you use Verizon Home internet this never happens. Hopefully they will address this but t-mobile home internet has to be more like real internet for it to work well with PC's/Macs. This rejection or just hanging and not opening data ports confuses a lot of PC programs/apps and they are not handling it well in general. Making T-Mobile home internet somewhat impractical for regular use on Macs/PCs.3Visto1like0Comentarios