NEW T-Mobile 5G Home Internet Service & Home Automation

[hawk#1]

@billsimon

Do you know if they are blocking any of the common ports?

 

[billsimon]

@billsimon

Do you know if they are blocking any of the common ports?

I don’t know. Be more specific and I will test it.

 

[hawk#1]

port 21, 23, 25, and 30 if it is not too much trouble

 

[billsimon]

port 21, 23, 25, and 30 if it is not too much trouble

All of those are allowed.

 

[hawk#1]

Thanks for checking them for me

 

[dicko]

Yes, appears to rely on SLAAC to assign from a /64 prefix.

Good info.
So, given that, does the device's 'firewall' block also services offered by such ipv6 local hosts, given a legitimate and resolvable AAAA record ?

 

[hawk#1]

I like and use these for lights switches and plugs and cameras, no internet or alexa needed, home automation integration easy though.

After further research I also found that several of my smart devices do not even need any app to setup. It is called Standalone Mode and the setup instructions are included in the manuals.

 

[krzykat]

All of those are allowed.

5060/SIP works? If so, then this is the failover for VoIP clients I've been waiting for.

 

[billsimon]

So, given that, does the device's 'firewall' block also services offered by such ipv6 local hosts, given a legitimate and resolvable AAAA record ?

I am not sure I understand what you're asking. It doesn't block any communications on the LAN. It just blocks any inbound attempts from the WAN side.

5060/SIP works? If so, then this is the failover for VoIP clients I've been waiting for.

No, Ward already noted this. 5060 appears to be filtered. I get no replies back when I try to send traffic on 5060. I tried on a high-numbered alternate port, 65060, and made a plain SIP call. Also as I noted before SIP-TLS works fine on its standard port of 5061.

 

[Brianmac]

Interested to see if this will work in a car? Not even talking about while driving. An AT&T hotspot is around $50\month. This would be head and shoulders over that for similar price....

 

[kenn10]

I've never paid for the in-vehicle hot spot on my vehicles due to the excessive cost. I just use the hotspot on my phone if I need to share the internet with others in the car.

 

[Bob Helbush]

Doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to the rollout. We've got excellent 4G and 5G service in Asheville, Charleston, and Jacksonville but only Asheville has qualified thus far. But, once you get the device, it apparently will work anywhere there's T-Mobile service. Will let you know. We're about to do lots of traveling.

Signed up Monday in the Atlanta burbs. Router arrived on Wednesday. I think their signal is marginal in my neighborhood. It took several tries to find a good spot. It's now on the night stand in the guest room. My speed varies between 100 and 300, but so far it's been solid. Got it for a backup but it might become my primary if it remains stable. Happy so far.

 

[Brianmac]

I've never paid for the in-vehicle hot spot on my vehicles due to the excessive cost. I just use the hotspot on my phone if I need to share the internet with others in the car.

@kenn10 - I use my cell for that(visible baby, yeah!!!!), but I am an I.T. consultant and there are times I need to be away from home office, in car for 2-3 hours and my clients need immediate response\help. So instead of finding a near by "free" wifi this could be replacement for non-cell hotspot....

 

[hawk#1]

I prefer to pay half the monthly price and use two visible join the party accounts. One for cell calls and the other provides hotspot.

 

[wardmundy]

I prefer to pay half the monthly price and use two visible join the party accounts. One for cell calls and the other provides hotspot.

The difference is this provides unlimited data unlike the hot spot on your phone.

 

[wardmundy]

One weird "feature" is there's a battery backup in the unit that lasts for days; however, when power goes out, the unit immediately drops all connections. And you can no longer see the SSID from other devices. So it's unclear whether this is a future feature or simply a worthless addition.

 

[billsimon]

Interested to see if this will work in a car

It takes 12VDC @ 41W peak. You could probably use a cigarette-lighter-to-DC-barrel adapter fused for 4A. I see some on Amazon.

 

[hawk#1]

The difference is this provides unlimited data unlike the hot spot on your phone.

I realize the data may be limitless, but when I am in a vehicle and need to get online to help get someone back online, I have not been able to reach the maximum data limits on my hotspot phone. All I need is little data for a remote connection. Then any other data needed will will be provided from the 200/20 MB line connected to the server. Need to download diagnostic software, have server download and run it directly on the server. I'm just a one minded person. I can't multitask and use multiple connections at the same time like @wardmundy. Lol

 

[kenn10]

While traveling from New England back to NC in June, I pulled off I-81 into a rest area and used my Visible to tie my laptop in while talking with a coworker. I was able to talk and access my servers and my office computer for a couple of hours while I resolved the issue. I don't know what the limitation is for hotspot on Visible but I apparently did not hit it. I was close enough to DC that I had 5G service as well.

 

[wardmundy]

Finally got to try it out in Asheville NC over the weekend. 590 Mb downloads, 150 Mb uploads. WOW!