I’m an over the road truck driver. I use this on my truck every day nationwide. It works 100% no doubt. It’s an incredible value for truckers. Only places it drops is Nebraska/Wyoming along I-80 for about 3 hours and in northern Kentucky. My “Home Area” is Lexington SC and have never once had any issue using this outside of my area. I have the older silver cylinder Nokia unit. Excellent
I have the trashcan mounted to my grab handle on the A-pillar on my big rig so the AC vent blows right through it. I have a Wilson weboost velcrod to the side of it and it works WAY better than my Verizon. It does die 2/3rds of western Nebraska and Wyoming is spotty. I like this so much, I got another one to replace my home internet. Buy a USB-C fan and plug it into it and set the router on top of the fan. Overheating problem fixed.
Awesome video brother. Thanks for sharing. Keep the content coming. I might look into it. Keep the content coming. Hope you have an incredible weekend. Much love and RESPECT
Very informative review, per the Tmobile Off Shores Representative, you can use while traveling. However, we may encounter challenges if there are No tmobile Towers near by to connect. Also, any additional details on the Inverter would be helpful?
When you first started driving you used an app to show us what tower you were connected too. What app were you using? Great video btw! I was wondering about their jobs service and how it compares to Cox. Thx!
Works perfect on my boat and provides perfect reception on the move for 2 flat screen TVs and a number of tablets. No blue water sailing reception of ciurse. Coastal cruising or intracoastal only.
We have ours on 12v, no inverter required, using a buck converter to provide the 15v 3a it wants. Sips on power along with the rest of our LTE setup in our RV :) Thank you for the video!
You may have a different model, but the one they are delivering now is an Arcadyan KVD21 Gateway. It only requires 12V / 1.2A, so no converter needed at all for this one.
@@YoureBoring I see the tech specs now are 1.2a, if I had a prior hardware version I'm not sure. It would not power on without the right profile of 3a, based on the videos from NaterTater
I thought I recognized thoose locations! Just some side info, T-Mobile is teaming up with the City of Apopka to start heavily saturate the whole area with 5G UC as they are going to bring the whole city (Fire,Police,Parks and rec, etc) from Verizon which is slow as shit to T-Mobile. A new tower is slated to be put up right up near the Home Depot, I believe its near the Coke Plant where the new Amazon warehouses are being built. There has even been talks that they may be dropping some MMWave down in the new City Center.
There is no installation. Plug it in, turn it on the allow the unit to connect to 5 g. Password is on the bottom if I remember correctly. Sign in and you are finished. Extremely simple. I was told up to 10 devices....never tested that.
I got on board early when this was released and it works great. Somewhere I read during setup that the user should not use it for travel. I see it works but will Tmobil cancel you if you are caught? Thanks.
I have one that I’m testing at my house. After talking to a rep a few days ago they made it sound like they didn’t want you traveling with it because they try to limit how many of these connect to towers so they can help keep congestion down. They only sell so many per area.
Yes I just ordered mine yesterday and the lady told me I could use it anywhere because I was originally ordering mobile hotspots for me and my wife and she suggested we get home internet devices. I made it clear I’d need to travel with it and she said yes definitely. Shout out to the lady, Aaliyah, that helped me with the order. I can’t wait to try them out.
Actually Home Depot (as far as I'm aware it's every single location) has an exclusive T-Mobile Wi-Fi network. I wonder if this has anything to do with no cell service (granted it's all 3).
What is specific to your home address is your address for tracking. That’s it. Kind of like a cable modem with telephone capability, if you dial 911 the police will see your home address. Mine works out of my home state and anywhere there is 5G service.
People will have the feeling that Wi-Fi is only relevant to them and their gateway however I have a T-Mobile gateway at home but ever since I've had the Advent of the T-Mobile tower Nokia I can take my phone 5 miles from home and still get450 mbps download sometimes it's reverse I get good upload and poor download sometimes as much as 200 upload versus a 100 download this is just on the phone alone the signal is going crazy where I live
Watching this video using the 5g Business Internet service as I drive across Albuquerque. Travels 18 mile so far. Working flawlessly. Plugged into the AC plug in my F150. Will try it in the RV this week from New Mexico to Missouri and see how it goes.
Omg really you get that much of speed? I live close to a t-mobile 5g tower, and I am wanting to get this internet. How does it work in streaming movies, shows news or cable channels live?
@@jls_385 yes I tested it from my MacBook Pro, my ipad pro, my 3 phones, 2 iPhones and a S22 Ultra, they all work lightning speed, from anywhere I am . I drive my 22 Tahoe, around the ranch areas, and I get all bars on, I have it mounted with tie straps at the rear of the third row window, there is no slow down
No, all the Tmobile towers in the USA have been destroyed forever permanently…yes of course it still currently works lol why would anything change? Cmon now
Thanks for this BUT… on the go violates T-mobile’s ToS and a few reviews warn they may terminate your service without notice… unclear if that’s happened or just a warning.
I wonder what the deal is behind that... You'd think that -Connecting is connecting and service is service. To me, it's not like you're stealing extra service, right?
@@kipdon While T-mo doesn’t loose revenue directly, the rationale is mobile users are "stealing service" from users where travelers go. Until full build-out, T-mo is rationing accounts in every locale so residents have acceptable bandwidth. Otherwise crappy service = unhappy users = churn;oss /revenue.
@@kipdon that is totally and completely false. You are stealing extra service. You pay the lower rate for home internet service. But using it away from your home tower isn't home. They make mobile hotspot devices you can use if you need internet on the go
@@kipdon it’s because certain locations are better developed to handle high internet traffic while other cell towers are not. That way it won’t impact mobile users. Certain locations can handle gigabit tower-backbone, others are probably copper, low bandwidth fiber or microwave hops. Thus they ask for locations, and certain locations are not available for the service.
Low range Starlink on a budget but you could always get an compatible antenna booster! T-Mobile is working with Starlink and SpaceX so this could be expanded!
They are only working with them to offer emergency assistance if you have no service sadly it will not be a true roaming agreement more like a guaranteed SOS. Hopefully this will be expanded into some form of true roaming agreement especially in Nebraska or maybe internationally to give us fully unlimited data in more countries
@@damnimloomin yeah I know, however it would be rather efficient to pair a satellite network with a cell tower network in order to get the best of both the worlds.
It can be true and false that it wont work outside your home tower. The thing is that This is a 5G router. T-Mobile has the largest coverage for 5G, but you might hit that dead spot where the 5G is not reaching your location. You then may or may not be able to access the the lower speeds that can be 2-3 mbps. If so, well streaming would be a bitch and a half, but at least you would be able to be on the web at speeds described to be like dial up internet. With that one being said, don't ask how old I am.
Just another noteworthy feature that may be helpful, you can switch from 5 ghz to 2.4 ghz if necessary A quick google search will give you instructions on how to do so.
Areas of high density (apartments, townhouses, homes side-by-side) are not t-mobile’s target for home internet and guessing their cellphone service will remain just OK, 2nd tier in the most congested areas. But here in suburban (NYC metro) area, t-mobile’s new equipment gives me 2x what cable co (wired copper) delivers at about 1/2 the price.
It would be better to put it into a Powerstation that is charged by the cigarette lighter so that you can turn off the car and still have the Tmobile device powered.
@@Triple_M personal experience as I moved from one address to another and after a few days I could no longer connect to the internet until I updated my address
@@Triple_M Spent 4 hours on the phone today, and went through 18 different reps(no exaggeration) 15 of whom were in the phillipines. I cancelled. With customer service like that, I'd rather go without first.
Opposite experience for me. Customer service agents were great, always get ladies than sound like sweet southern belles lol. Service is as good as Verizon for my phones, and way cheaper with tons of other perks. Going to get the internet when my local ISP jacks my price up next month.
jus to b clear your not suposed to move this aroun other than in your house acording to tmobile policy. but if u are u dont go n tell everybody u can drive this aroun in your car or watever. but o well everyones doin it lol
I’m an over the road truck driver. I use this on my truck every day nationwide. It works 100% no doubt. It’s an incredible value for truckers. Only places it drops is Nebraska/Wyoming along I-80 for about 3 hours and in northern Kentucky. My “Home Area” is Lexington SC and have never once had any issue using this outside of my area. I have the older silver cylinder Nokia unit. Excellent
What would you do if something happened and customer service said they need to replace the unit?
@@schoolruler2 don’t do it. Too risky. I know what I’ve got works.
Hey I'm curious about it. Is it still working even today?
@@No.1Idiot I’m on it now on I-81 in Pennsylvania. Still happy
@@BigJesse579 damn that is a truckers dream
This was the perfect on the "Actual go" example regarding this topic in UA-cam !!! thank you sir!!
Best video about this topic on UA-cam. Thanks buddy!
Dang dude rockin the benzito very nice! 👍🏻
I have the trashcan mounted to my grab handle on the A-pillar on my big rig so the AC vent blows right through it. I have a Wilson weboost velcrod to the side of it and it works WAY better than my Verizon. It does die 2/3rds of western Nebraska and Wyoming is spotty.
I like this so much, I got another one to replace my home internet. Buy a USB-C fan and plug it into it and set the router on top of the fan. Overheating problem fixed.
Awesome video brother. Thanks for sharing. Keep the content coming. I might look into it. Keep the content coming. Hope you have an incredible weekend. Much love and RESPECT
Thanks, I appreciate you sharing. I learn new things with each video.
Very informative review, per the Tmobile Off Shores Representative, you can use while traveling. However, we may encounter challenges if there are No tmobile Towers near by to connect. Also, any additional details on the Inverter would be helpful?
I'll see if i can get the link
When you first started driving you used an app to show us what tower you were connected too. What app were you using? Great video btw! I was wondering about their jobs service and how it compares to Cox. Thx!
Cell mapper
Brilliant Video. Thank you for creating this.
Would love a review of Calyx's Mobile hotspot and tested in the same areas for comparison. Its a more privacy focused version of this.
Do you leave it on or can I turn it off when I go out thanks dude
Works perfect on my boat and provides perfect reception on the move for 2 flat screen TVs and a number of tablets. No blue water sailing reception of ciurse. Coastal cruising or intracoastal only.
exactly the information i was looking for
We have ours on 12v, no inverter required, using a buck converter to provide the 15v 3a it wants. Sips on power along with the rest of our LTE setup in our RV :) Thank you for the video!
aha! I was wondering why bother going through the DC-AC-DC conversion... can you share what buck converter you're using?
You may have a different model, but the one they are delivering now is an Arcadyan KVD21 Gateway. It only requires 12V / 1.2A, so no converter needed at all for this one.
@@YoureBoring I see the tech specs now are 1.2a, if I had a prior hardware version I'm not sure. It would not power on without the right profile of 3a, based on the videos from NaterTater
you can cancel when you want? what is the best way to find a tower near me?
Take this on the road with you along with your Fire Stick. No longer slumming it!
Would rather see the speedtest on a laptop that is connected it.
The Home Depot I usually go to has shit cell phone service too. Must be how the building is built since there are towers nearby.
I am a truck driver and I go all over the U.S. it works better then my Version
Interesting. Thanks as always for sharing brother Triple M!! 👍🏾👊🏾✊🏾🙂💯 You watching the fight tonight?
I thought I recognized thoose locations! Just some side info, T-Mobile is teaming up with the City of Apopka to start heavily saturate the whole area with 5G UC as they are going to bring the whole city (Fire,Police,Parks and rec, etc) from Verizon which is slow as shit to T-Mobile. A new tower is slated to be put up right up near the Home Depot, I believe its near the Coke Plant where the new Amazon warehouses are being built. There has even been talks that they may be dropping some MMWave down in the new City Center.
The need it by the home depot and lowes!! You are off the grid when you go into these either one of thise stores. Thanks for the info
So you can move this router around without penalty or service cancellation?
There is no installation. Plug it in, turn it on the allow the unit to connect to 5 g. Password is on the bottom if I remember correctly. Sign in and you are finished. Extremely simple. I was told up to 10 devices....never tested that.
I got on board early when this was released and it works great. Somewhere I read during setup that the user should not use it for travel. I see it works but will Tmobil cancel you if you are caught? Thanks.
I wouldnt recommend it, but i get that question a lot.
I'd like to know "why" they say that myself. Anyone know?
I have one that I’m testing at my house. After talking to a rep a few days ago they made it sound like they didn’t want you traveling with it because they try to limit how many of these connect to towers so they can help keep congestion down. They only sell so many per area.
I just signed up with tmobile internet and they said you can take it with you.
Yes I just ordered mine yesterday and the lady told me I could use it anywhere because I was originally ordering mobile hotspots for me and my wife and she suggested we get home internet devices. I made it clear I’d need to travel with it and she said yes definitely. Shout out to the lady, Aaliyah, that helped me with the order. I can’t wait to try them out.
Actually Home Depot (as far as I'm aware it's every single location) has an exclusive T-Mobile Wi-Fi network. I wonder if this has anything to do with no cell service (granted it's all 3).
Our Home Depot has WiFi available so I always use that when I'm shopping.
How is this device with gaming on the road?
Would this work in mexico ?
What is specific to your home address is your address for tracking. That’s it. Kind of like a cable modem with telephone capability, if you dial 911 the police will see your home address.
Mine works out of my home state and anywhere there is 5G service.
Unless you reset the APN on your phone it might stop triangulation issue.
How is the download speed for digital games on ps4?
I downloaded a full 70 GB game on my sons PS5 ( I know, not PS4) in about 12-15 mins.
People will have the feeling that Wi-Fi is only relevant to them and their gateway however I have a T-Mobile gateway at home but ever since I've had the Advent of the T-Mobile tower Nokia I can take my phone 5 miles from home and still get450 mbps download sometimes it's reverse I get good upload and poor download sometimes as much as 200 upload versus a 100 download this is just on the phone alone the signal is going crazy where I live
Can I take out the SIM card from the router and put it into my phone? So I don't need to bring the router with me when traveling. Will it work?
No bro
Watching this video using the 5g Business Internet service as I drive across Albuquerque. Travels 18 mile so far. Working flawlessly. Plugged into the AC plug in my F150.
Will try it in the RV this week from New Mexico to Missouri and see how it goes.
Keep us posted
It works perfect when I take it to work , I work near a T-Mobile tower and get 670mps
Nice
Omg really you get that much of speed? I live close to a t-mobile 5g tower, and I am wanting to get this internet. How does it work in streaming movies, shows news or cable channels live?
@@jls_385 to my experience it’s nice , but you gotta know that I run the wifi on my iPad 12.9 M1 version makes it look awesome
@@tonyduran4035 and have you tested your internet with any laptop, tablet of other model or a smart tv?
@@jls_385 yes I tested it from my MacBook Pro, my ipad pro, my 3 phones, 2 iPhones and a S22 Ultra, they all work lightning speed, from anywhere I am . I drive my 22 Tahoe, around the ranch areas, and I get all bars on, I have it mounted with tie straps at the rear of the third row window, there is no slow down
It has been the best decision I have ever made. It’s so freaking fast it’s not even funny.
Does it switch towers itself?
No, you have to manually physically connect invisible Ethernet cables to whichever respected tower you are closest to.
Is this still currently working on the go?
No, all the Tmobile towers in the USA have been destroyed forever permanently…yes of course it still currently works lol why would anything change? Cmon now
Thanks for this BUT… on the go violates T-mobile’s ToS and a few reviews warn they may terminate your service without notice… unclear if that’s happened or just a warning.
I wonder what the deal is behind that... You'd think that -Connecting is connecting and service is service. To me, it's not like you're stealing extra service, right?
@@kipdon While T-mo doesn’t loose revenue directly, the rationale is mobile users are "stealing service" from users where travelers go. Until full build-out, T-mo is rationing accounts in every locale so residents have acceptable bandwidth. Otherwise crappy service = unhappy users = churn;oss /revenue.
@@kipdon that is totally and completely false. You are stealing extra service. You pay the lower rate for home internet service. But using it away from your home tower isn't home. They make mobile hotspot devices you can use if you need internet on the go
@@kipdon it’s because certain locations are better developed to handle high internet traffic while other cell towers are not. That way it won’t impact mobile users. Certain locations can handle gigabit tower-backbone, others are probably copper, low bandwidth fiber or microwave hops.
Thus they ask for locations, and certain locations are not available for the service.
They definitely changed that
Does it allow for a hardwired internet connection?
Yeah it does, I have it in Kansas City and get 1.5 gbs hard wired I also play a lot of video games no issues my ping is great!
@@xetox8487do you game on the road?
Will this work with my ps5 ?
how much is the device?
Free, but the monthly is $50
Low range Starlink on a budget but you could always get an compatible antenna booster!
T-Mobile is working with Starlink and SpaceX so this could be expanded!
They are only working with them to offer emergency assistance if you have no service sadly it will not be a true roaming agreement more like a guaranteed SOS. Hopefully this will be expanded into some form of true roaming agreement especially in Nebraska or maybe internationally to give us fully unlimited data in more countries
@@damnimloomin yeah I know, however it would be rather efficient to pair a satellite network with a cell tower network in order to get the best of both the worlds.
Can’t you just use a regular car charger??? Have you tried it?
It uses a standard 120 plug, so if your car has that, you're good to go.
It can be true and false that it wont work outside your home tower. The thing is that This is a 5G router. T-Mobile has the largest coverage for 5G, but you might hit that dead spot where the 5G is not reaching your location. You then may or may not be able to access the the lower speeds that can be 2-3 mbps. If so, well streaming would be a bitch and a half, but at least you would be able to be on the web at speeds described to be like dial up internet. With that one being said, don't ask how old I am.
Just another noteworthy feature that may be helpful, you can switch from 5 ghz to 2.4 ghz if necessary
A quick google search will give you instructions on how to do so.
I have Verizon's home internet here in Vegas it works fine
@Lyles music I know I was just saying..T-Mobile is not even here in Vegas yet
So far, in NYC, none of these companies can beat Verizon's Internet speeds.
Areas of high density (apartments, townhouses, homes side-by-side) are not t-mobile’s target for home internet and guessing their cellphone service will remain just OK, 2nd tier in the most congested areas. But here in suburban (NYC metro) area, t-mobile’s new equipment gives me 2x what cable co (wired copper) delivers at about 1/2 the price.
Where im at tmobile crushed verizon, I get 700 down-70 up
You can't take verizon home internet with you.
Hummm... you covert 12v to 120 ac and back to 12 v. Why? Hook the 12 v directly, it works.
Because i dont feel like splicing wires. 🙂
@@Triple_M splice wires? It's USB C right?
It would be better to put it into a Powerstation that is charged by the cigarette lighter so that you can turn off the car and still have the Tmobile device powered.
True
I wonder how much power it will use? I’m going to use it with my EcoFlow mini.
Just spoof the gps
😁😁😁👍👍👍
If you stay out of your address for a few days your service will be disconnected
Gotcha!! where did you get that info? Or did you experience yourself?
@@Triple_M personal experience as I moved from one address to another and after a few days I could no longer connect to the internet until I updated my address
Not true for me. I’m an otr truck driver. Use it nationwide no issues with a home area of Lexington SC.
@@Bryan-Hensley cool
@@BigJesse579 thats EXACTLY what I've been wondering... And wondering why they would make a big deal out of it with a paying customer, you know?
40 upload on the go nothing to write home about!? 🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂😂 Gtfoh
Everything about tmobile is horrible, especially the customer service. I wouldn't recommend tmobile to anyone!!
Bad experience?
@@Triple_M Spent 4 hours on the phone today, and went through 18 different reps(no exaggeration) 15 of whom were in the phillipines. I cancelled. With customer service like that, I'd rather go without first.
@@compton733 I’ve had great customer service experience over the years with T-Mobile.
Opposite experience for me. Customer service agents were great, always get ladies than sound like sweet southern belles lol. Service is as good as Verizon for my phones, and way cheaper with tons of other perks. Going to get the internet when my local ISP jacks my price up next month.
jus to b clear your not suposed to move this aroun other than in your house acording to tmobile policy. but if u are u dont go n tell everybody u can drive this aroun in your car or watever. but o well everyones doin it lol