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Re: Does anyone else get slower connections on 5G than 4G?
I asked for one of the Askey 4G LTE gateways. My non-expert opinion is that the 5G signals are too strong on too few towers and are constantly congested because of how many users can connect to them. Anyway, any 4G signal performs better than any 5G signal for me at this point so hopefully the Askey gateway works out at least until 5G is fully up and running. A couple of months of crappy internet was enough so I'll be happy if I can get stable 4G.Re: Does anyone else get slower connections on 5G than 4G?
I'd settle for being able to disable the secondary connection in the gateway settings. I'm probably going to literally disconnect the 5G internal antenna at this point. It's really consistent that as soon as I get a 5G connection that's stronger than the 4G my max speed drops 90%.Re: Does anyone else get slower connections on 5G than 4G?
I had to move my router to a location where it would get a WORSE signal on 5G so it wouldn't try to connect with the degraded 5G performance. It this router had some ability to be configured at even a basic level then I could have just disabled the secondary/5G signal. I wouldn't recommend T-Mobile home internet anymore.Does anyone else get slower connections on 5G than 4G?
Initially I received good speeds of up to 200 megabits with my home internet on the primary signal. Unfortunately, as soon as I started getting better 5G signals my speed dropped like a rock. As soon as the secondary/5G signal becomes stronger than the primary/4G signal I get around 15 megabits with manymore latency and connection reliability issues. For some reason, upload speeds are faster than download when I connect to 5G. The bandwidth drop is immediate and consistent whenever the 5G signal becomes stronger than 4G. This is accompanied by problems with streaming videos. If the 4G becomes stronger than bandwidth is faster again until 5G becomes stronger and so on. When I called T-Mobile they said that the issue is due to "modernization" updates they are making that will soon clear up but I've already had the issue for over a month so that just feels like a brush off. Does anyone else have this issue? I'm tempted to open up the router and disconnect the 5G antenna. Moving the router doesn't help me because then I get either the same issue or poor 4G and 5G connections.Re: Home Internet Static IP
I was unable to sign up for Venmo even after sending them a copy of my passport and driver's license because they detected my location as being in Hawaii while my bank account and address were in my actual state of residence. I've also had whitelisting issues for work related projects because of changing IP addresses.Re: Slow 4G connection only, but only sometimes -- SOLVED
I hooked up an external antenna and it helped not one bit. I still just get 2 bars on 5G as a secondary connection to go along with my 3 bars of 4G coverage, Walking around doesn't seem to improve the connection but it's hard to tell since the meter on the cylinder just shows the best 3bar connection and not specifically 5G. I don't have a 5G phone to test with. Looking at the Cellmapper web site I don't see the only 5G connection I can get; N41 / PCI 7. Supposedly my area has "5G Ultra Capacity" coverage but the towers to support that don't show up on cellmapper.net; mostly just along the freeways. I guess it only has what users submit. Maybe I should hook up the external antenna to the 4G line and try to get more than 3 bars. Usually the 4G is much better than what I used to have but sometimes it's spotty with even poorer performance than my old 10 megabit DSL.I suspect that the router doesn't do that great of a job handling the drastically shifting speeds available so I get lots of bufferbloat and whatnot. Upload speeds are often < 1 megabit with tests often failing to even complete when there are slowdowns. Edit: I still get 2 bars on my antenna for 5G even with the antenna disconnected so maybe I didn't get it connected right. The again, it was the same with the internal antenna so perhaps I just can't get a freaking 5G signal at my house despite being in a "5G ultra capacity" zone.:|Re: MIMO antenna for T-Mobile 5G home internet gateway?
It's important to note that these antennas are *large* and generally meant for outdoor mounting like a satellite dish you'd use with DirectTV. The antenna isonly a couple of feet long but certainly not meant to be put on your shelf next to the gateway.Re: I was skeptical, but a fan does seem to help
They probably should have built a fan in to the router for a $300.00+ unit cost device with overheating issues. I ordered this cooling stand because I was afraid the router might get knocked over on a smaller base. My cylinder is perched up on a high shelf. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08ZV6H6MXRe: Slow 4G connection only, but only sometimes -- SOLVED
I tried to post to this thread earlier but it was sent to moderation and never showed. I'm on B66/n41 no matter where I place the router with B66 getting 3 bars at best and n41 getting two. I get ~225Mbps at best although there has been some brief instability in my first week with speeds temporarily dropping. My old internet was so awful that it's still 10-20 times faster with TMobile. I ordered the external antenna and will see what that does for me. My TMobile/Nokia (cylinder) gateway is sitting high up at the top of a cabinet on the north west of my house. I don't use the wireless that comes with the gateway since I have a better one in use already. I hooked the cylinder up to my LAN via Cat-6. I had to switch everything else to the 192.168.12.x subnet which was annoying but had no problems beyond that. I tried seeing if I could move the router and get switched to the n41 band but all I got was a really slow B66 connection. There's probably just one tower I can really reach. In my particular location I have mountains to the East and a valley to the West. I assume that really fake looking tree down the street is the tower 🙂 Local "geographic features" prevented me from using other wireless services. I tried signing up and was told it wouldn't work so was really happy when the 5G router worked. I wish I had known sooner as the older LTE router probably would have been an improvement over my old DSL. I can't get good digital TV signals here for many stations btw. Line of sight actually goes down towards the tower so it has trees and houses and whatnot in the way so I'm good with 3 bars if that's all I ever get. It's still better than the 10Mbps DSL phone lines I had for the previous 10+ years.
