Why? Obstructions maybe, or intense area traffic, although 5G is supposed to handle more connections better than 4G could per tower. This probably won’t work with everyone, and may not work at all for those of you who know you have never connected at a good speed, and are probably stuck most off the time on the 4G single primary signal. Why does it do that? When there is a weaker signal, the gateway sometimes seeks out a better signal at the tower, maybe to compensate for a 2 bar signal? So if you are in a situation where you usually get a good signal, but sometimes get that really slow connection, then you should consider trying to put your gateway in a location where it gets one less bar. By simply placing the gateway a few feet from the window, to a place where it gets only 2 bars instead of 3, I was able to connect right away to my fastest speed and remain there for the rest of the day. What did I do to solve it?Īlthough it is counterintuitive, because usually higher bars means better connections and faster speeds, but it turns out sometimes not. However, today, I got stuck on that slow, halting connection, and rebooted six times and was still on it. I rebooted the gateway and got a faster connection right away. That means 5G basically, the non stand-alone pairing of 4G and 5G working together, which is the current state of 5G.įor the first five days as a new user of T mobile home internet, being switched to the slow speed was not a problem. The good speeds are both from Primary Signal and Secondary Signal, combos in my case of B2/n41 or B66/n41. I’ll speak of download speeds only, but the upload speeds are good on the two combinations, and bad on the single.Įxamining the GUI for the gateway at 192.168.12.1 (URL address), which shows more than the app, I know that my slow connection is a Primary signal only, which means 4G only. However, I connect at three different band combinations, one which is great (over 100 a lot and rarely below 45 or so), one which is fine, (over 100 a lot and never below 30), and one which stinks, with connections between 4 and 20. I used a free tower mapper app to know I connect to only one tower and find out exactly where it is located so I could better orient the gateway. In my rural area I am 5 miles from the only tower I connect to regularly, and have a signal strength of either 2 bars or 3 bars, depending where I place the gateway. I was also on the internet starting in 1992. Although I’m not new to computers, and have been doing that for 50 years, starting with programming mainframes in college, but not as a profession. So I’ve been reading a lot about this issue of how cellular connections work, since I just got a smartphone only last month. I often get download speeds of over 100 for long stretches of time, but for me, anything over 50 is great. I’ve had the T mobile home internet 5G gateway for 6 days now and it has been generally thrilling to get such high speeds after being stuck on a single-digit overpriced DSL connection for 9 years.
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