I got Tmobile Home Internet December 2022, it was advertised and sold as 1 Gig service, here in South West corner of Kalamazoo, Michigan. The first three months I averaged 800 Mbps download speeds. Then Tmobile started Throttling my speed down to 500-600 Mbps. And now after 14 months they have my speed Throttled all the way down to 200-300 Mbps.
I was a salesman in a tmobile store and we had to push these out like crazy. In general, if you were already using tmobile service and bundled with a newer plan, it was a pretty good deal at 30-40... if it worked. We had a map where we put in your address and could not sell it to you if your address wouldn't have good speeds. Seems like a good system until you realize that for every one person in a good location, 20 werent. and despite this, we were still expected to sign someone up to the 30 day trail every 3 interactions, and your numbers would tank if you didnt. So my manager found an address that worked and so many people were sent home with internet that we knew wouldnt work, and was irritating and tedious to cancel. Really left a bad taste in my mouth.
@@SaneOGMUDBONE if the network in an area does not have the capacity for TMHI, the address will say not supported. A single TMHI user can cause huge issue to the entire network in an unsupported area. Tmobile will soon geofence TMHI users. Those who singed up using a different area will lose the connection. And I fully support it.
@@SaneOGMUDBONEsoon they’ll enforce a geo lock and disable your service. If you knowingly took the device after doing a coverage check and confirming that your address wasn’t qualified for the service, you’re violating terms of service.
I have T-Mobile home Internet and I am happy for the most part. One time I was having connection and speed problems also and was told by a customer service representative that he suggested I get my SIM card replaced. It did seem to help quite a bit for me. You might want to look into that Drew.
I've had TMobile home internet from release day. I already had my home set up on a eero mesh wifi6 system with three routers. When the tmo router arrived, I set it up, plugged in my eero main router to the TMO router via ethernet cable, and everything has worked perfectly ever since. Last month, I just updated to the newer eero wifi6E system, leaving the older routers on the network and adding the additional 3 wifi6E routers. I have a tri level home and get full coverage inside the home and outside on my property. What's even better is that our cell tower appears to have generator backup. Whenever the power goes out, our cell tower is still active. I have a home generator, and when the power goes out at our nieghborhood its like everything is normal at our home :-)
T-Mobile wanting you to hook your bank account info through them is wild considering how poor their network security is. Seems like they get data breached annually now.
This issue is why it's important to talk to your local representatives about a municipal internet. For $35/mo I'm getting a symmetric 500mbps connection (real speeds are up to 550 up/ 547 down at low load times).
Most companies seem to be dropping autopay discounts that aren't using bank accounts. That is due to being charged approximately a 2% credit card processing fee by Visa/MC even for a debit card
I’m grateful we’ve been able to get fiber optic in our area. After at little over 4 years of Viasat and before that several years of other ISPs. We are paying for $49.95 a month for 200 Mbps upload and download. 4 MS latency. Our actual upload is around 195 Mbps and upload is around 205 Mbps. And we’re paying for the slowest speeds. Our ISP has 500 Mbps and 1 Gbps options as well for more money. No complains and it’s been 2 months. No data caps either.
I've learned something just in the past two days. My external router was causing micro to 60 second dropouts in the gateway. Unhook everything and went back to the internal router and the connection rarely drops now..
We switched from Comcast to t-mobile and I would say it’s fine. Nothing to be crazy about but if you’re just doing streaming and smart home stuff it’s no problem. It’s nice to be able to take it ware ever and have internet. However I have a Mac mini M2 chip and watching UA-cam on it is questionable. The videos play fine but opening windows and moving to a different video it is very laggy almost freezing. I have no idea if it’s my computer or internet or UA-cam. I am using google chrome. You may have a unique perspective as you are in a simpler boat but also work with UA-cam. Thanks for the videos! Would love to know your thoughts. Edit: I updated my computer and it seems to of fixed it, looks like it was the computer not the internet.
Yeah, I thought it was just me. I've been having T-Mobile home internet since January 22. Since the middle of last year. I started seeing my internet speed go up and down. Even disconnect at times. Thanks for the update review.
When you say that T-Mobile's Home Internet customer service number can help with "a bunch of different stuff", does that include issues that don't involve Home Internet?
7:41 the way Comcast works is if there is no competition the prices are high. If there is competition the prices are lower. And then the HOUSES that have AT&T Fiber the prices are lowest to compete with them (but they literally will only do that if the house has AT&T Finer availability).
When I lived in San Jose I had fiber Internet, man It was freaking amazing. Just 24/7 consistent and amazingly fast upload and download speeds. I wish I still had fiber but we moved a while back.
I just signed up the week before last, and I am still waiting for my router. But of course they already started charging me. They partially charged me for last period and all for this period. But still haven't received any service. The I am also supposed to get a 15 day trial period. So I called them about all this and they adjusted my bill. But in concerns to the trial period, they said if you keep it after 15 days, then they charge you the whole month and you pay the whole month. If you return before the 15th day, then they return your money. So, the 15 day trial is only for people that cancel the service.
I live in a rural area in SW Washington. I currently have Century Link DSL 10mbs internet, but regular speed checks show 1.2mbs download about the best I can get. 0.8 to 0.9 upload on a good day. T-Mobile website says I have good coverage for 4g LTE internet modem. Would this better than my current setup? I believe it will be, but the devil I know, versus the devil I don't know is my biggest concern. Both prices would be equal. Please advise if possible, Thank you
i switched to t mobile 5g from spectrum and havent looked back since i live next to a cell tower, i get 400-600 down and 100 up. check if youre close to a verizon tower
I had Comcast and they SUCKED! The random disconnects & slowdowns were ridiculous for the $115 they were charging. Not to mention the MANY outages due to “maintenance”. 🤦🏿♂️ I now have Verizon Fios and outside of a faulty modem/router in the beginning, I’ve had EXCELLENT service with decent speeds for $89/mo
I’m enjoying my T-Mobile 5G Home Internet so far this month. Had spectrum before because ATT and Verizon weren’t offered at my address and even though I never had connection issues they wouldn’t come down on the $100 price for internet only until after I left. Too late then. I work from home so usually on a VPN. I’m a cord cutter so I only stream videos, digital antenna on the TV, and no longer game anymore. Only issue I had was the VPN connection being finicky with disconnects but I read another reviewer that talked about T-Mobile 5G internet MTU size was 1420. They recommended using an external router and setting it manually there. I’m no expert just following the recommended steps. So I threw on my TP-Link Archer and manually set the MTU to 1420 and moved all my devices to the external TP-Link router. VPN connection has been solid and beautiful ever since. Don’t know why it works but it works and I’m happy.
We had Cox for a few years and they were incredibly expensive for the quality of internet we had. Our house had a T-Mobile connection, so when we switched to T-Mobile as our phone carriers we got $30 a month internet. It’s worked extremely well at our house. However, when I moved to an apartment, I tried to have T-mobile there and it sucked.
Currently on Gen 3 Starlink here, and seeing as though I cannot get cable, fiber, or T mobile or even Verizon AT ALL, I'm pretty happy with what Starling has. Not sure how older generations perform but gen3 is very stable and I rarely have outages more than 0.5 secs,, download never drops below 75 at the lowest, upload never drops below 13 at the lowest but I get way higher generally.
I started after seeing your first video. So far it has been great. I did have to replace the box because 6 months ago because it was stuck in a restart cycle. Other then that it's been great. Thinking about buying a second one to take on camping trips.
@@BaconFaceMcGeeit does and they do, but you don’t need to go with the T-Mobile specific antenna. There are plenty out there a simple search could have told you this..
Many electric cooperative utilities are installing fiber on their distribution electric lines around the USA. If you have an electric utility that is a cooperative check with them. Their rates are generally fantastic as well.
I like it only problem I have is the router it's gen one and I don't know how to upgrade it to a newer one. Iv been using it for about 3 years I think and the router is my only problem.
I had to cancel my T-Mobile home internet service about 6 for 7 months ago because it would just stop working for days on end and I'm not gonna pay for that. It was working fine and then no signal. 1 day, 2 days, 4 day. Then it would come back for a couple hours and then go on again.
I got it about two years ago myself. Living in a remote location means crap landline speeds and only one provider. It pretty much made being online possible, and even though speed ain't perfect, the 38 megabytes a second download isn't awful. The one provider who does kick internet out here capped speed at about...1.2 megabytes a second down. I had that same weird speed drop on both this and my phone no matter where I was at the same time you did. It was weird. Oh heck yeah, you're on Mint too? Mint is great for now. I do wish there were more buy-in-bulk carriers like Mint, though.
It’s the gateway they provide , a third party gateway with “magic” will most likely outperform TMHI’s gateways , mine has been great with a 3rd party and 5G SA (only NSA is available on the stock gateways)
i can't get more than 20-50mb, after deep diving into youtube I purchased a $150 antenna which only boosted me to 50-100mb. It's frustrating can't say it's worth it, T mobile also locks your router options for some dumb reason so you can't add old devices like a printer to the wireless router
i myself use t-mobile money banking. and although i do have the option of getting $30 t-mobile 5g internet, i myself have starry for free thanks to the affordable connectivity program, and it's also a part of the building i live at. and speaking of t-mobile money and banking, paying rent if you're using t-mobile money requires a bank transfer they will not take a debit card or credit card transfer. but then again, doing it the card way is a $7.41 charge. or as they call it a convenience fee.
Where I used to live almost a year ago the t-mobile got 750-800 down and 100 up. Now where I am it’s like 200 down 20 up so I switched to Verizon home and get around 400 down and 50 up.. also have starlink
I live in an apartment and fiber,dsl and cable sucks! I dumped Spectrum and went with T-Mobile Home internet! My apartment is 750 from tower my speeds 24/7 are 400-500 down and 60-140 up
3 years. My nokia the trash cash took a shit after year. Got and arcaydan unit and have not had any issues. I added the pc fan under it and have a tplink wifi router running everything and have a pc fan cooling that as well. With the tplink my speeds are 1000% more consistent. Occasionally game with it it's OK. Streaming 4 TVs no issues. Overall I can't bitch as before my option was dsl, which sucked. For the price overall I'm happy. The biggest thing is no data cap. I also have 7 security cameras. I'm Not close to a towers. The only complaint I have is I swear when you blow it up and down load hundreds of gigs of data they go well we're gonna throttle you big time. Which can last from 3-4 hours. It's not a deal breaker for me. My main thing was cheap internet to stream my TVs run my cameras. I Avg 180-220 down and 40-50 up. When they put the smack down on the throttle it a cool 30-40 down and 20 up. It's more than fine to stream and surf the net. But if had cable internet fiber. Your NOT going to be happy. I have xfinity at another house and we'll there no compassion. You have to weigh what you need and what you want it for. I use this service at a vacation home and knock on wood tmobile has been pretty solid. I'll be curious to see with the new model units that have the external antenna if they will perform better. Mine always say excellent to very good on single 3 or 4 bars regardless my speed are near the 200 download. Its not for everyone.
Worst internet provider ever, AOL was more consistent! Lucky if speeds stay above 15MB. Power cycling the model to give a speed kick for an hour is rediculous, can't wait to drop them, just waiting for a better promotion and going back to cable.
Mint is (or at least was) a special case as it was the first mvno deal T-Mobile agreed to and they specifically agreed NOT to de prioritize mint customers
@@TheHEROFamily perhaps so. I would be happy with reasonable speed that was consistent over higher speeds with hiccups. Seems no matter what internet venue is selected, sooner or later there are problems.
I know people who are happy with Verizon home wireless, but if you're not a Verizon customer it's like $100 a month. With Verizon cell phone it's only $35, but I'd be paying an extra $120 for 2 cell lines
T-Mobile Home Internet is the lowest priority on T-Mobile's network. Even lower than MVNO lines like Mint Mobile. You'll always get better speeds on mint.
My T Mobile service has been WONDERFUL!!!! The only thing I can assume that people may complain about is if they live in a fringe area! For payment, I use a debit card, and it's also been flawless. I feel privileged to have this service, especially when I listen to other people whine when they have to give up there hard earned money to pay SPECTRUM, and to those people I say, your PAYING for the EVERYDAY endless amount of mail promotions sent to me even after the many attempts I have made through phone calls and visits to store location trying to stop this. I swear I could heat my house by burning the huge amount of paper sent to my home. Oh well, I guess it just serves to prop up our ever failing Postal Service, LOL!
Literally the worst thing I’ve ever had to deal with. Customer service sucks. The internet sucks. It goes out multiple times every day. Speeds are drastically different all the time. You have to be lucky enough to live in a decent area for anything to work well and even that’s not guaranteed
Wow… what’s up with isps in your area? Im in the New Orleans area, I was with Verizon home internet, but switched back to AT&T fiber for the higher speeds, 500 Mb down symmetrical for only $15 more than Verizon, and I could go to $5 more than Verizon for 300. Verizon was capped at 100 and was asymmetrical. I’d think even California boonies would be better than anywhere here in Hell, I mean Louisiana.
I'm glad you have a decent time with them. Personally, after almost a year I think I'll be going back to Xfinity, sadly. I wanted to love the T-Mobile internet, I really did because it's awesome. But man, the drop offs just can't be okay for my work.
I am getting as low as 2Mbps at times, off hours I get as high as 80Mbps. I can't even stream on TV when I am getting slow speed. T mobile said it is due to a down tower but that was 2 months ago and nothing has changed. I am very dissatisfied with my t mobile internet speed.
Yes its the QCI your on the Data level Home internet is below the NVMO's yes I can confirm that I had a NVMO business line I had great service when it was up but when it was crap took 2 weeks not surprised at that so yes that's why I never bothered with home internet from them after I had my issue on the towers here
I just got T-Mobile only because Spectrum refused to give me a retention offer to stay since the intro pricing expired (49.99 to 79.99). I called back to cancel and Spectrum instantly caved. I am returuning T-Mobile only because I noticed it's not ideal for intensive gaming (Fortnight, Call of Duty, Apex, etc...) even directly wired to the box. I think for simple internet browsing and streaming it's good, especially for less tech savy people. It's a good price if you don't have other options, other ISPs were charging $80 for only 10mbps speeds (not a lot of options in my area) while Spectrum is providing 300mbps for $49.99. But yeah I hate that calling to complain just to lower the price. Spectrum tried gas lighting me as if I couldn't read basic English (oh its a contract, oh there is data caps, etc...). Like if they want to lock me into a contract to lock in the price for longer I'm down for a contract.
I have on my best day two bars on my cell. And forget about the internet connection. Without wifi calling with satellite internet I can't call 911. Before that my net was 111kbps down and 2 my up
seems c/s is better than xfinity its almost impossible to speak to person . only after around 9-10 pm to chat its ai is 100% worthless i think it runs on a 386 sx
For the past 2 years T-Mobiles download speed was slowing down 5 mbps Humboldt county California Rio Dell, Eureka, Fortuna, Arcata Vally West area. Horrible. Magenta max priority plan for $95 they slowed us down and we promised priority data speed unlimited. No cap limit. Lied. Count me in for a complaint..
I would love to see you give Comcast another go since you would be a new customer now and since they been doing upgrades so in a lot of areas you can now get 200mbps upload
I will NEVER deal with Comcast again. A few years ago our business need temporary internet service for just under a year. I was very clear when I signed up that we only needed one year. When I went to cancel the service I was told that I had signed a two year contract and that I still needed to pay the monthly fees for the remaining year! I called back several times and even talked to a number of "managers" but they wouldn't budge. When I asked to see the contract I had signed they emailed a page that looked like someone had written my name at the bottom with a pencil!! Their response was, "Well, you didn't actually sign it. I was an electronic signature." By the way, it often really does matter who you happen to get when you call a company. I called about two months before the second year was over just to make sure there would be no more surprises. I explained everything to the guy I was talking to and he said, "That's terrible! I am going to close your account today so don't worry about paying the last two months."
Used to be decent but not anymore. The service on my end has been awful. Almost every night I lose service. Contemplating on canceling them. They have over sold the capability of there system.
it's so stupid that tmobile 5G phone speed (600M down) is so much faster than tmobile home internet (150M down). i guess tmobile can't figure that one out
Weird. I’ve been with T-Mobile now for 16 years primarily because it has the best customer service I’ve pretty much any other company I ever have to deal with. 😂
The fact that you have an option to have broadband and actively chose not to is wild. Comcast/xfinity is quality compared to T-Mobile. I mean look at the speed test ya showed us, that alone is a reason to switch back
Xfinity is about 20% faster upload speeds for 3x the price. Also their customer service is absolutely terrible. Don’t want to give them a penny after the crap they gave us. They had outages too
I am surprised drew dies carrier hop. I am sure he can get a better rate for some deal for a year or two and then go back to T-Mobile. That is what everyone does. Just call and cancel before his billing cycle ends and then bam. I work for spectrum and new customers get gig internet in some areas for 59.99 for two years or $500 down for $39.99. Depends on your area. Tmobile and Verizon internet is hot garbage, but for areas makes sense to use them to save money. I don’t know if this is true, but a guy from tmobile came in to work for a while and he said the internet was a scam and that after 8GB of use they will lower your speed and if there are 8 other customers on your street it lowers you speed in rotation. Not sure if that is true, but I believe it. Spectrum does it.
@@danielton9577 110% but they all do it. They are killing spectrum because people get caught up in the pricing and then come running back to spectrum cause it is so bad. At least where I live. I heard T-Mobile is good in big cities. But spectrum is the best out of the original big three
@@TailosiveTech most places big three will always be more expensive. The customers that leave for T-Mobile will only ever see those prices as a come back offer. Then your area also depends on ACP as well. Tmobile lies about the $20 a month because it is only if you get ACP, but these ISP providers are going to hurt if it does not get renewed this year.
You actually made me check what resolution youtube was on 😂
I thought it was my own wifi! Orbi 😂😂😂
Lol me too.
I got Tmobile Home Internet December 2022, it was advertised and sold as 1 Gig service, here in South West corner of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
The first three months I averaged 800 Mbps download speeds. Then Tmobile started Throttling my speed down to 500-600 Mbps.
And now after 14 months they have my speed Throttled all the way down to 200-300 Mbps.
That's not them throttling you. That's more people in the area utilizing their network and them not being able to keep up.
just cancel it not using crap T-Mobile 5G Home Internet
I was a salesman in a tmobile store and we had to push these out like crazy. In general, if you were already using tmobile service and bundled with a newer plan, it was a pretty good deal at 30-40... if it worked. We had a map where we put in your address and could not sell it to you if your address wouldn't have good speeds. Seems like a good system until you realize that for every one person in a good location, 20 werent. and despite this, we were still expected to sign someone up to the 30 day trail every 3 interactions, and your numbers would tank if you didnt. So my manager found an address that worked and so many people were sent home with internet that we knew wouldnt work, and was irritating and tedious to cancel. Really left a bad taste in my mouth.
Most of been awful to sell someone awful internet service and be forced to lie how good it is.
Life in America now😊
We have one. The map says it won't work, but it works great. We've got 2 gaming pcs and 3 tvs hooked up to it. It works great.
@@SaneOGMUDBONE if the network in an area does not have the capacity for TMHI, the address will say not supported. A single TMHI user can cause huge issue to the entire network in an unsupported area. Tmobile will soon geofence TMHI users. Those who singed up using a different area will lose the connection. And I fully support it.
@@SaneOGMUDBONEsoon they’ll enforce a geo lock and disable your service. If you knowingly took the device after doing a coverage check and confirming that your address wasn’t qualified for the service, you’re violating terms of service.
I have T-Mobile home Internet and I am happy for the most part. One time I was having connection and speed problems also and was told by a customer service representative that he suggested I get my SIM card replaced. It did seem to help quite a bit for me. You might want to look into that Drew.
I've had TMobile home internet from release day. I already had my home set up on a eero mesh wifi6 system with three routers. When the tmo router arrived, I set it up, plugged in my eero main router to the TMO router via ethernet cable, and everything has worked perfectly ever since. Last month, I just updated to the newer eero wifi6E system, leaving the older routers on the network and adding the additional 3 wifi6E routers. I have a tri level home and get full coverage inside the home and outside on my property. What's even better is that our cell tower appears to have generator backup. Whenever the power goes out, our cell tower is still active. I have a home generator, and when the power goes out at our nieghborhood its like everything is normal at our home :-)
wait can you explain to me how you hooked up and mesh router to the tmobile home internet ? would love to know
T-Mobile wanting you to hook your bank account info through them is wild considering how poor their network security is. Seems like they get data breached annually now.
I was shocked. But I've had T-Mobile home internet for over a year. I've had no problems. So far.🤞
This issue is why it's important to talk to your local representatives about a municipal internet. For $35/mo I'm getting a symmetric 500mbps connection (real speeds are up to 550 up/ 547 down at low load times).
I think that plan is for existing tmobile customer, he has mint mobile already
How in more detail plz
Most companies seem to be dropping autopay discounts that aren't using bank accounts. That is due to being charged approximately a 2% credit card processing fee by Visa/MC even for a debit card
You got me with the buffering ring I thought I lost connection for a second😂
LOL me too!
I’m grateful we’ve been able to get fiber optic in our area. After at little over 4 years of Viasat and before that several years of other ISPs. We are paying for $49.95 a month for 200 Mbps upload and download. 4 MS latency. Our actual upload is around 195 Mbps and upload is around 205 Mbps. And we’re paying for the slowest speeds. Our ISP has 500 Mbps and 1 Gbps options as well for more money. No complains and it’s been 2 months. No data caps either.
T-Mobile: an introverts nightmare
I've learned something just in the past two days. My external router was causing micro to 60 second dropouts in the gateway. Unhook everything and went back to the internal router and the connection rarely drops now..
Can you do a short video on using mint? I’m thinking about switching just for the cost savings over t mobile.
He has a few videos but yes a new one would be cool 😊😅
Mint is now owned by TMO, but I still renewed as I have basically the exact same service and quality as when I was with TMO for .. 20 years.
We switched from Comcast to t-mobile and I would say it’s fine. Nothing to be crazy about but if you’re just doing streaming and smart home stuff it’s no problem. It’s nice to be able to take it ware ever and have internet. However I have a Mac mini M2 chip and watching UA-cam on it is questionable. The videos play fine but opening windows and moving to a different video it is very laggy almost freezing. I have no idea if it’s my computer or internet or UA-cam. I am using google chrome. You may have a unique perspective as you are in a simpler boat but also work with UA-cam. Thanks for the videos! Would love to know your thoughts. Edit: I updated my computer and it seems to of fixed it, looks like it was the computer not the internet.
I believe T-Mobile is working to have a fiber internet option already submitted my email for notification if it comes to my area
Yeah, I thought it was just me. I've been having T-Mobile home internet since January 22. Since the middle of last year. I started seeing my internet speed go up and down. Even disconnect at times. Thanks for the update review.
You can still get that apple card benefit. Just pay the bill early with Apple Pay.
When you say that T-Mobile's Home Internet customer service number can help with "a bunch of different stuff", does that include issues that don't involve Home Internet?
No just billing issues or tech support
7:41 the way Comcast works is if there is no competition the prices are high. If there is competition the prices are lower. And then the HOUSES that have AT&T Fiber the prices are lowest to compete with them (but they literally will only do that if the house has AT&T Finer availability).
When I lived in San Jose I had fiber Internet, man It was freaking amazing. Just 24/7 consistent and amazingly fast upload and download speeds. I wish I still had fiber but we moved a while back.
I just signed up the week before last, and I am still waiting for my router. But of course they already started charging me. They partially charged me for last period and all for this period. But still haven't received any service. The I am also supposed to get a 15 day trial period. So I called them about all this and they adjusted my bill. But in concerns to the trial period, they said if you keep it after 15 days, then they charge you the whole month and you pay the whole month. If you return before the 15th day, then they return your money. So, the 15 day trial is only for people that cancel the service.
I live in a rural area in SW Washington. I currently have Century Link DSL 10mbs internet, but regular speed checks show 1.2mbs download about the best I can get. 0.8 to 0.9 upload on a good day.
T-Mobile website says I have good coverage for 4g LTE internet modem. Would this better than my current setup?
I believe it will be, but the devil I know, versus the devil I don't know is my biggest concern. Both prices would be equal.
Please advise if possible,
Thank you
I live in Rural hugo Oklahoma 5G ultra wideband my current provider UScellular home internet wouldn't let me upgrade
i switched to t mobile 5g from spectrum and havent looked back since i live next to a cell tower, i get 400-600 down and 100 up. check if youre close to a verizon tower
what streaming service do you use? directv, hulu live, youtubetv, etc?
I had Comcast and they SUCKED! The random disconnects & slowdowns were ridiculous for the $115 they were charging. Not to mention the MANY outages due to “maintenance”. 🤦🏿♂️ I now have Verizon Fios and outside of a faulty modem/router in the beginning, I’ve had EXCELLENT service with decent speeds for $89/mo
Yup. Never going to Comcast again if I can help it
I’m enjoying my T-Mobile 5G Home Internet so far this month. Had spectrum before because ATT and Verizon weren’t offered at my address and even though I never had connection issues they wouldn’t come down on the $100 price for internet only until after I left. Too late then. I work from home so usually on a VPN. I’m a cord cutter so I only stream videos, digital antenna on the TV, and no longer game anymore.
Only issue I had was the VPN connection being finicky with disconnects but I read another reviewer that talked about T-Mobile 5G internet MTU size was 1420. They recommended using an external router and setting it manually there. I’m no expert just following the recommended steps. So I threw on my TP-Link Archer and manually set the MTU to 1420 and moved all my devices to the external TP-Link router. VPN connection has been solid and beautiful ever since. Don’t know why it works but it works and I’m happy.
We had Cox for a few years and they were incredibly expensive for the quality of internet we had. Our house had a T-Mobile connection, so when we switched to T-Mobile as our phone carriers we got $30 a month internet. It’s worked extremely well at our house. However, when I moved to an apartment, I tried to have T-mobile there and it sucked.
Currently on Gen 3 Starlink here, and seeing as though I cannot get cable, fiber, or T mobile or even Verizon AT ALL, I'm pretty happy with what Starling has. Not sure how older generations perform but gen3 is very stable and I rarely have outages more than 0.5 secs,, download never drops below 75 at the lowest, upload never drops below 13 at the lowest but I get way higher generally.
Starlink*
I started after seeing your first video. So far it has been great. I did have to replace the box because 6 months ago because it was stuck in a restart cycle. Other then that it's been great. Thinking about buying a second one to take on camping trips.
I tried this T-mobile 5g Internet. I didnt like it. It wasnt for me i have a ps5 and play online alot i would always lag badly...
have you considered an external antenna?
If the device allows for one, and T-Mobile sells them he could try it.
@@BaconFaceMcGeeit does and they do, but you don’t need to go with the T-Mobile specific antenna. There are plenty out there a simple search could have told you this..
@@mattno9834 Oh well.
Many electric cooperative utilities are installing fiber on their distribution electric lines around the USA. If you have an electric utility that is a cooperative check with them. Their rates are generally fantastic as well.
I like it only problem I have is the router it's gen one and I don't know how to upgrade it to a newer one. Iv been using it for about 3 years I think and the router is my only problem.
I thought it was my internet at the beginning of the video.😂😂
I had to cancel my T-Mobile home internet service about 6 for 7 months ago because it would just stop working for days on end and I'm not gonna pay for that. It was working fine and then no signal. 1 day, 2 days, 4 day. Then it would come back for a couple hours and then go on again.
I got it about two years ago myself. Living in a remote location means crap landline speeds and only one provider. It pretty much made being online possible, and even though speed ain't perfect, the 38 megabytes a second download isn't awful. The one provider who does kick internet out here capped speed at about...1.2 megabytes a second down.
I had that same weird speed drop on both this and my phone no matter where I was at the same time you did. It was weird.
Oh heck yeah, you're on Mint too? Mint is great for now. I do wish there were more buy-in-bulk carriers like Mint, though.
You should see if att Internet air over cellular is available
Had to refresh my page 3 times. Thought that the video was buffering.
I was tricked too.
It’s the gateway they provide , a third party gateway with “magic” will most likely outperform TMHI’s gateways , mine has been great with a 3rd party and 5G SA (only NSA is available on the stock gateways)
i can't get more than 20-50mb, after deep diving into youtube I purchased a $150 antenna which only boosted me to 50-100mb. It's frustrating can't say it's worth it, T mobile also locks your router options for some dumb reason so you can't add old devices like a printer to the wireless router
i myself use t-mobile money banking. and although i do have the option of getting $30 t-mobile 5g internet, i myself have starry for free thanks to the affordable connectivity program, and it's also a part of the building i live at.
and speaking of t-mobile money and banking, paying rent if you're using t-mobile money requires a bank transfer they will not take a debit card or credit card transfer. but then again, doing it the card way is a $7.41 charge. or as they call it a convenience fee.
Charge failed also happened to me with my debit card, multiple times, but for Cell Phone service.
You could use an external antenna.
Do you mean external WiFi antenna? Would it pull in the signal better?
@@nicholasturner3699 External cellular antenna
Where I used to live almost a year ago the t-mobile got 750-800 down and 100 up. Now where I am it’s like 200 down 20 up so I switched to Verizon home and get around 400 down and 50 up.. also have starlink
I particularly enjoy the 100GB data cap. That’s two days of streaming video.. The other 28 days? You’re SOL...
Only if you can't get the unlimited plan.
Yes mine became really bad, I’m about to switch
I live in an apartment and fiber,dsl and cable sucks! I dumped Spectrum and went with T-Mobile Home internet! My apartment is 750 from tower my speeds 24/7 are 400-500 down and 60-140 up
3 years. My nokia the trash cash took a shit after year. Got and arcaydan unit and have not had any issues. I added the pc fan under it and have a tplink wifi router running everything and have a pc fan cooling that as well. With the tplink my speeds are 1000% more consistent. Occasionally game with it it's OK. Streaming 4 TVs no issues. Overall I can't bitch as before my option was dsl, which sucked. For the price overall I'm happy.
The biggest thing is no data cap. I also have 7 security cameras. I'm Not close to a towers. The only complaint I have is I swear when you blow it up and down load hundreds of gigs of data they go well we're gonna throttle you big time. Which can last from 3-4 hours. It's not a deal breaker for me. My main thing was cheap internet to stream my TVs run my cameras.
I Avg 180-220 down and 40-50 up. When they put the smack down on the throttle it a cool 30-40 down and 20 up. It's more than fine to stream and surf the net. But if had cable internet fiber. Your NOT going to be happy. I have xfinity at another house and we'll there no compassion. You have to weigh what you need and what you want it for. I use this service at a vacation home and knock on wood tmobile has been pretty solid. I'll be curious to see with the new model units that have the external antenna if they will perform better. Mine always say excellent to very good on single 3 or 4 bars regardless my speed are near the 200 download. Its not for everyone.
I switched the T-Mobile home internet too and occasionally it’s making my UA-cam videos 240p. Otherwise, it’s good for the price.
Worst internet provider ever, AOL was more consistent! Lucky if speeds stay above 15MB. Power cycling the model to give a speed kick for an hour is rediculous, can't wait to drop them, just waiting for a better promotion and going back to cable.
Is a way to get rid cgnat from T-Mobile ?
Google fiber if in your area get it
I give Google too much money lol
Oh the games they play….i won’t play any more
Mint is (or at least was) a special case as it was the first mvno deal T-Mobile agreed to and they specifically agreed NOT to de prioritize mint customers
U.S. internet speed ranked 34 in the world. It really doesn't match the image of the country.
The sad part is that our Internet providers can actually provide faster speeds but due to "anti-competitive laws" they can only crawl and not run.
@@TheHEROFamily perhaps so. I would be happy with reasonable speed that was consistent over higher speeds with hiccups. Seems no matter what internet venue is selected, sooner or later there are problems.
I know people who are happy with Verizon home wireless, but if you're not a Verizon customer it's like $100 a month. With Verizon cell phone it's only $35, but I'd be paying an extra $120 for 2 cell lines
T-Mobile Home Internet is the lowest priority on T-Mobile's network. Even lower than MVNO lines like Mint Mobile. You'll always get better speeds on mint.
Is it unlimited streaming or do they cap it
fcc rules are why uploads are lower on home internet.
My T Mobile service has been WONDERFUL!!!! The only thing I can assume that people may complain about is if they live in a fringe area! For payment, I use a debit card, and it's also been flawless. I feel privileged to have this service, especially when I listen to other people whine when they have to give up there hard earned money to pay SPECTRUM, and to those people I say, your PAYING for the EVERYDAY endless amount of mail promotions sent to me even after the many attempts I have made through phone calls and visits to store location trying to stop this. I swear I could heat my house by burning the huge amount of paper sent to my home. Oh well, I guess it just serves to prop up our ever failing Postal Service, LOL!
Literally the worst thing I’ve ever had to deal with. Customer service sucks. The internet sucks. It goes out multiple times every day. Speeds are drastically different all the time. You have to be lucky enough to live in a decent area for anything to work well and even that’s not guaranteed
7:28 as I’m watching this I’m getting 389mb down and 60mb up with t-mobile home internet.
I can’t get anything over 220, and at night it will drop down to 2-6 mb down
Like you say, it’s okay. I pay $40.00/month. I’m retired. It wouldn’t be good for working from home.
I often get 300 megabits download.
Wow… what’s up with isps in your area? Im in the New Orleans area, I was with Verizon home internet, but switched back to AT&T fiber for the higher speeds, 500 Mb down symmetrical for only $15 more than Verizon, and I could go to $5 more than Verizon for 300. Verizon was capped at 100 and was asymmetrical. I’d think even California boonies would be better than anywhere here in Hell, I mean Louisiana.
I'm glad you have a decent time with them. Personally, after almost a year I think I'll be going back to Xfinity, sadly. I wanted to love the T-Mobile internet, I really did because it's awesome. But man, the drop offs just can't be okay for my work.
Can this legitimately be used as a star link type device ? Anyone tried it ?
I am getting as low as 2Mbps at times, off hours I get as high as 80Mbps. I can't even stream on TV when I am getting slow speed. T mobile said it is due to a down tower but that was 2 months ago and nothing has changed. I am very dissatisfied with my t mobile internet speed.
Tower maintenance is their go to response, which is a lie.
Lets gooo rebrand and new intro time 🔥
Yes its the QCI your on the Data level Home internet is below the NVMO's yes I can confirm that I had a NVMO business line I had great service when it was up but when it was crap took 2 weeks not surprised at that so yes that's why I never bothered with home internet from them after I had my issue on the towers here
What is NVMO? I’ve heard of MNO and MVNO, but never NVMO.
I just got T-Mobile only because Spectrum refused to give me a retention offer to stay since the intro pricing expired (49.99 to 79.99). I called back to cancel and Spectrum instantly caved. I am returuning T-Mobile only because I noticed it's not ideal for intensive gaming (Fortnight, Call of Duty, Apex, etc...) even directly wired to the box. I think for simple internet browsing and streaming it's good, especially for less tech savy people. It's a good price if you don't have other options, other ISPs were charging $80 for only 10mbps speeds (not a lot of options in my area) while Spectrum is providing 300mbps for $49.99.
But yeah I hate that calling to complain just to lower the price. Spectrum tried gas lighting me as if I couldn't read basic English (oh its a contract, oh there is data caps, etc...). Like if they want to lock me into a contract to lock in the price for longer I'm down for a contract.
My Comcast’s autopay failed twice.
I have on my best day two bars on my cell. And forget about the internet connection. Without wifi calling with satellite internet I can't call 911. Before that my net was 111kbps down and 2 my up
How does someone not have fiber in America 😮
Omg the time it takes to download Disney plus or the terrible ping in online gaming.
seems c/s is better than xfinity its almost impossible to speak to person . only after around 9-10 pm to chat its ai is 100% worthless i think it runs on a 386 sx
I ended up getting a third-party router instead of using the T-Mobile home Internet router night and day difference way better
I thought I just did that😂
How and which router?
I’m looking for a good home internet cause this Tbolile it’s sad
For the past 2 years T-Mobiles download speed was slowing down 5 mbps Humboldt county California Rio Dell, Eureka, Fortuna, Arcata Vally West area. Horrible. Magenta max priority plan for $95 they slowed us down and we promised priority data speed unlimited. No cap limit. Lied. Count me in for a complaint..
Hey Drew, using a debit card should give you the $5 autopay discount
I agree, but it didn’t
I would love to see you give Comcast another go since you would be a new customer now and since they been doing upgrades so in a lot of areas you can now get 200mbps upload
Not here
Doubt he got midsplit
I will NEVER deal with Comcast again. A few years ago our business need temporary internet service for just under a year. I was very clear when I signed up that we only needed one year. When I went to cancel the service I was told that I had signed a two year contract and that I still needed to pay the monthly fees for the remaining year! I called back several times and even talked to a number of "managers" but they wouldn't budge. When I asked to see the contract I had signed they emailed a page that looked like someone had written my name at the bottom with a pencil!! Their response was, "Well, you didn't actually sign it. I was an electronic signature."
By the way, it often really does matter who you happen to get when you call a company. I called about two months before the second year was over just to make sure there would be no more surprises. I explained everything to the guy I was talking to and he said, "That's terrible! I am going to close your account today so don't worry about paying the last two months."
Well... it sounds like T-Mobile Home Internet has left you feeling WHELMED. :)
Used to be decent but not anymore. The service on my end has been awful. Almost every night I lose service. Contemplating on canceling them. They have over sold the capability of there system.
Just do an auto pay with your banking number, but before they bill it to your account, just pay the amount with your credit card 😂
I work for an ISP & for $49.95 you can get 250/250. Fiber.
Where, though?
I’ve had so many problems with them back in 2020 after a few months I dropped them like a hot potato and I will never deal with them again.
it's so stupid that tmobile 5G phone speed (600M down) is so much faster than tmobile home internet (150M down). i guess tmobile can't figure that one out
Weird. I’ve been with T-Mobile now for 16 years primarily because it has the best customer service I’ve pretty much any other company I ever have to deal with. 😂
Have had the same billing issue with tmobiles phone service. Ticked me off
THERE BILLING IS A RIP OFF THEY SEND NO BILL AND IF YOU GOT AUTO PAY THEY WILL MISS A PAYMENT TO JACK YOU FOR MORE MONEY ITS A CRIME
I had it for almost a year and it’s just to slow for me
Xfinity is comcast
I forgot you ditched starlink
The fact that you have an option to have broadband and actively chose not to is wild. Comcast/xfinity is quality compared to T-Mobile. I mean look at the speed test ya showed us, that alone is a reason to switch back
Xfinity is about 20% faster upload speeds for 3x the price. Also their customer service is absolutely terrible. Don’t want to give them a penny after the crap they gave us. They had outages too
I am surprised drew dies carrier hop. I am sure he can get a better rate for some deal for a year or two and then go back to T-Mobile. That is what everyone does. Just call and cancel before his billing cycle ends and then bam. I work for spectrum and new customers get gig internet in some areas for 59.99 for two years or $500 down for $39.99. Depends on your area. Tmobile and Verizon internet is hot garbage, but for areas makes sense to use them to save money. I don’t know if this is true, but a guy from tmobile came in to work for a while and he said the internet was a scam and that after 8GB of use they will lower your speed and if there are 8 other customers on your street it lowers you speed in rotation. Not sure if that is true, but I believe it. Spectrum does it.
Spectrum's marketing strategy is to tell everybody T-Mobile is bad.
@@danielton9577 110% but they all do it. They are killing spectrum because people get caught up in the pricing and then come running back to spectrum cause it is so bad. At least where I live. I heard T-Mobile is good in big cities. But spectrum is the best out of the original big three
In some areas it costs even more than T-Mobile? 😂 you’re not selling me on it
@@TailosiveTech most places big three will always be more expensive. The customers that leave for T-Mobile will only ever see those prices as a come back offer. Then your area also depends on ACP as well. Tmobile lies about the $20 a month because it is only if you get ACP, but these ISP providers are going to hurt if it does not get renewed this year.
I used to work for a T-Mobile call center, it’s a shit show there
This is literally one of the only tech channels that has not grown any at all in like 5 years
In 5 years I’ve gained over 109K subscribers. How have you grown?
It went up it’s $60 a month now the same as other internet providers so it’s not longer a good choice
Not for me
T-Mobile Home Internet is the lowest priority. So yes, your Mint service in higher priority.
If you hit like 1tb tmobile home will throttle your speeds. Mint mobile was probably fast, because no-one uses it lol
Disagree. It is dreadful. It is awful