Has anybody used it? Any comments? Complaints? Compliments?

My understanding is they have three versions, basic, amplified and all in. Without including a tmobile line they are 50, 60 and 70 bucks a month. I believe amplified and all in get better speed than the basic.

Regardless, the speeds are relatively similar. However, they do say 25% of customers get below their listed speeds and 25% of customers get above the listed speeds.

Using my phone on tmobile cell sites I'm getting an average 700Mbps down and 20-40Mbps up with a ping below 20. Should I expect similar performance if I dont exceed the 1.2 Terabyte cap?

I recommended a customer use it while they were waiting for AT&T to buildout their service. It seemed to work fine for them, and they were doing video and VOIP calls. But it always comes down to your exact location because RF interference is very particular.

I would still rather have a hardline, but if that's not available, at least it's something.

I'm looking to switch from spectrum cable because this year they are having outages every week, sometimes multiple days, and my cost is going to be more than $100+ monthly for comparable speeds to what my phone is getting from the tmobile tower near me.

Mainly curious about how it is from people who use tmobile internet. I believe home internet is lowest on their priority for bandwidth and would love to know if the download/upload/latency is the same or close between phone and internet

We've got it down at our beach house in Bolivar.

Last time I was there I ran a speed test and it was showing 320mb. Issue is when its a Saturday during the summer the network gets swamped and it doesn't work very well.

Assuming your not in BFE, I don't think you'll have any issues.

Nagler said:

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We've got it down at our beach house in Bolivar.

Last time I was there I ran a speed test and it was showing 320mb. Issue is when its a Saturday during the summer the network gets swamped and it doesn't work very well.

Assuming your not in BFE, I don't think you'll have any issues.

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Just curious...how far away was/is the cellular tower when you ran the speed test?

I've had it for about 4 years. I work from home for a SAS company, so I'm online all day. Video calls, also all of my TVs are on streaming services.

Download speeds are good enough that I never have a problem streaming on 2 TVs plus on a laptop.

Upload speeds are nothing special, but more than enough for my needs.

Honestly I don't know. I believe we're usually sitting at 3 bars in the past. I didn't look at it when I ran it. I was just curious and did one on my phone real quick.

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Using my phone on tmobile cell sites I'm getting an average 700Mbps down and 20-40Mbps up with a ping below 20. Should I expect similar performance if I dont exceed the 1.2 Terabyte cap?

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May not be that fast, but likely would see at least 300 Mbps down 20 up.

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Using my phone on tmobile cell sites I'm getting an average 700Mbps down and 20-40Mbps up with a ping below 20. Should I expect similar performance if I dont exceed the 1.2 Terabyte cap?

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May not be that fast, but likely would see at least 300 Mbps down 20 up.

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I'm getting 670 mbps on cellular and 540 mbps on home internet.

Be prepared to cycle the modem off at night. The longer it stays plugged in, the faster it "burns out" the sim card. If service get consistently spotty, then it needs a new sim card.

We tried it because of the costs. We are close to a tower but still didn't have great signal. It was manageable, though.

The deal breaker is it really didn't like my wife's work vpn (or her vpn really didn't like it). Every time she would use the vpn the internet would kick her off within 5 minutes. She works from home 100%, with the not great signal, and after seeing it being fairly common with no solution after googling I didn't think it was worth troubleshooting so we cancelled.

I could use my vpn no problem, so not an issue for everyone.

I'm getting this through my T-Mobile Home Internet router.



Getting 531 Mbps down, 65 Mbps Up on my GS21.

Despite the data prioritization on mobile, likely seeing higher speeds on the router because of better antennas and possibly the latest carrier aggregation support.

Anything greater than 100 Mbps is more than enough for either device though.

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We tried it because of the costs. We are close to a tower but still didn't have great signal. It was manageable, though.

The deal breaker is it really didn't like my wife's work vpn (or her vpn really didn't like it). Every time she would use the vpn the internet would kick her off within 5 minutes. She works from home 100%, with the not great signal, and after seeing it being fairly common with no solution after googling I didn't think it was worth troubleshooting so we cancelled.

I could use my vpn no problem, so not an issue for everyone.

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Everything I've read indicates that T-Mobile uses CGNAT (carrier grade network address translation) on their wireless network. So then if you have a NAT router in your home setup, you wind up with a double NAT situation which a lot of VPNs don't like. Looks like there are ways to set up manual port forwarding, but of course not ideal.

Nagler said:

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We've got it down at our beach house in Bolivar.

Last time I was there I ran a speed test and it was showing 320mb. Issue is when its a Saturday during the summer the network gets swamped and it doesn't work very well.

Assuming your not in BFE, I don't think you'll have any issues.

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So it's analogous to having a cable modem in the suburbs when everyone in your area gets home from school / work and gets in the internet?

I guess it could be worse since you'd be sharing bandwidth with the everyone connected to the tower.

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htxag09 said:

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We tried it because of the costs. We are close to a tower but still didn't have great signal. It was manageable, though.

The deal breaker is it really didn't like my wife's work vpn (or her vpn really didn't like it). Every time she would use the vpn the internet would kick her off within 5 minutes. She works from home 100%, with the not great signal, and after seeing it being fairly common with no solution after googling I didn't think it was worth troubleshooting so we cancelled.

I could use my vpn no problem, so not an issue for everyone.

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Everything I've read indicates that T-Mobile uses CGNAT (carrier grade network address translation) on their wireless network. So then if you have a NAT router in your home setup, you wind up with a double NAT situation which a lot of VPNs don't like. Looks like there are ways to set up manual port forwarding, but of course not ideal.

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I wonder if you can use T-mobile internet with a Ubiquiti UDM Pro?

Away from home for a bit but I think I will be switching to tmobile home internet once I return in a couple weeks. I believe they have a trial period as well, cant recall the times but one is shorter if you maybe already have a tmobile account and the other is one month? I'll have to double check and see whats what.

I'll love to record and compare download/upload from cellular to their home internet if anybody is interested

This was my experience:
I want to say we got TMo internet either before Covid or soon thereafter, and it was fine with 7 phone lines, TV, and computers during Covid until about sometime in 2021 or early 2022.

Then we got no signal, and our phones weren't able to use the network either.
We called customer service and they said there were not tower outages reported. Most of us were still in the WFH phase.

Our neighbors who had TMo (phones only) were not having any issues, because their phones were using their non TMo wifi. And then we all realized that our phones in our cul de sac were all having issues when not connected to WiFi.

After about a week with customer service saying there were no issues, we switched our Internet to Comcast/XFinity, and then a neighbor said they went to the local TMo store who told them there was a tower issue in the area.


So, I'm not sure we'll ever go back to having Internet and Phone provider be the same because when one goes down for a while, you are kind of screwed if you are counting on it.

I used T-Mobile home internet after the hurricane last year knocked out power everywhere. We were fortunate to be running on generator power, but Xfinity was down for days, so I went and got the router and extender and tried it for a few weeks. Initially it worked great, we couldn't tell much difference performance wise from Xfinity, but had an issue with coverage towards the back of the house with signal strength. I moved the mesh wifi access point closer to the back of the house but couldn't get it to reconnect to the router. After a few days of trouble shooting without success, the power came back on and Xfinity service was restored so I returned the system before the trial period ended. When I returned it, the guy at the store said if the mesh access point wasn't able to work, they could have given me a second router instead, but I never took them up on it. Now I'm waiting on ezfiber to install fiber to our neighborhood so I can ditch Comcast.

I've been using T-mobile home Internet for a while now, and it's been good for my household. I know speeds can vary based on location and network congestion, but I've consistently experienced download speeds ranging from 300 to 700 Mbps, with upload speeds between 20 and 40 Mbps. It's more than sufficient for streaming, gaming, and working from home.

Not familiar with it.

We have Grande.

I started with T-Mobile and their $50/month 50 gb 'Hotspot' plan. Service was good and speedy enough for my home.

{FWIW, the data-only Hotspot sim card also works in an LTE modem like the Netgear LM1200}.

Anyway, we started bumping up against the 50 gb/month limit, so I wanted to switch to the unlimited T-Mobile 5G Home Internet plan for the same price.

But I didn't.

T-Mobile's 5G Home Internet Gateway doesn't permit putting its router section in Bridge/IP Passthrough mode, which means I couldn't use my existing router as anything but a switch. Maybe for some that's no big deal, but not with my particular setup. I imagine I could have made it all work, but didn't want to try.

Instead, Verizon's 5G Home Internet gateway (and the gateway used by the prepaid Verizon companies Total Wireless and Straight Talk (FoxConn FWF100V5L - in the case of TW and ST - Verizon uses a ARC-XCI55AX gateway) do allow Bridge/IP Passthrough mode.

I went with Total Wireless, which required I purchase their $29 gateway, but I will not have it until next week sometime.

I'll see how it does.

Ribeye-Rare said:

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I'll see how it does.

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I set up what Total Wireless (ie - Verizon no-contract prepaid) calls a 'gateway' (modem+router) and put it in bridge/IP passthrough mode so I could use my existing router.

It's speed won't impress some of you guys at 'only' 90 Mbps, but that's fast enough for anything we need at our house.

Given the 5G signal strength is -97 dBm, I suppose my speed could be better were I closer to the tower.

Set this up for my parents about two months ago in rural NE Texas. They are very close to a tower but have always had very poor signal and there are no broadband providers servicing the area despite being down the road a couple of miles from a K-12 & community college.


Setup / install was pretty straight forward. Comes with 1 signal extender. Overall setup time was ~15-20 minutes.

Smoking fast speeds relative to anything else available. Including compared to their 5G iphone speeds. ~500 down. Now they are in the 21st century. But really the main changes for them are that they can actually stream netflix etc., my mom can facebook faster, and my dad can look up DIY videos on youtube.