> By checking this box you agree that T-Mobile can contact you about purchasing T-Mobile Home Internet, including future Home Internet offers, via autodialed call, email, or text to the number provided above. Consent is not a condition of purchase; you may also call 1-844-839-5057 to get started. (required)<p>"Check Availability" does nothing useful. The landing page is an opt-in lead generation tool.
> During congestion, Home Internet customers may notice speeds lower than other customers due to data prioritization.<p>> Video streaming resolution depends on available speeds. For best performance, leave video streaming applications at their default resolution setting<p>Food for thought in their terms.
We were able to be included in the test roll out for this, but we didn’t end up sticking with it. Our biggest problem was the reception in our house was pretty bad. The box also doesn’t lend itself to being mounted somewhere like a window very well. Also setting it up with our existing wifi equipment and not using the built in mediocre WiFi router wasn’t super easy.
This is pretty wild, $50/month for unlimited data. It looks like between new cell tech and low orbit satellites we're finally going to see real competition between ISPs in the coming years.
This is interesting. Most of cell towers are on battery backup for at least 24 hours. As long as you have a battery backup for your device it should allow for Internet Service even during power outages.<p>It will all be interesting when Elon finally gets Starlink up and running. If there was a way for a mobile phone to connect directly via sat chip, you could do voice over IP and do away with cellular service all together. It could serve as your connection for everything. What a disruption for the Telco's.
We got this last week. I just called Spectrum to cancel our service. It’s good enough for the price, especially since Spectrum raised the price of Internet to $69.99 this month.<p>- Speeds vary, but we seem to average around 100/20. The highest I’ve seen is 150/50. The lowest is 50 down. I have (separately) seen some awful upstreams—around 2 Mbps up.<p>- Latency is server-dependent but worse than cable. It’s probably not good for latency-sensitive applications (like some games).<p>There is one important caveat: T-Mobile uses CGN. Their network is IPv6 with 464XLAT bridging to non-IPv6 sites.
T-mobile should be doing a home broadband push sometime soon. Their merger deal with sprint requires it[1]:<p>> The deal is contingent on the two companies agreeing to stipulations on the development of next-generation 5G technology and the expansion of broadband internet access to rural areas.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/sprint-t-mobile-strike-deal-fcc-merger-n1007661" rel="nofollow">https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/sprint-t-mobile-strik...</a>
Well heck. I have to actually consider this. Most of the time I am at home I use my cell's LTE since it's better than my cable. Will it be just as good when I'm playing LOL and the rest of my family has 3 video streams running is the question. Also MediaCom has a cap of 200GB a month which I hit every month making their plan even more expensive.
Signed up this morning for the service. I should have the gateway next week. A few things to note<p>1) The gateway has built in wifi (and is provided free)
2) It provides 2 ethernet ports
3) You use an app to see most of it (how much data you've used, etc).
4) They say when 5g is in the area, it will be upgraded to it.
Kudos to T-Mobile. Seems like technology changes before government can get its act together to come up with regulation (often ill-considered and ineffective, with the possibility of just being regulatory capture anyway).
Wish the UK had something like this.<p>I'm paying approx 30usd/mo for unlimited 4G in Sweden. The coverage is fantastic. Middle of nowhere, still getting 1MB/s symmetric or so.