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

[kenn10]

I can't say I miss Comcast at all. Moving away from Atlanta metro was a blessing.

 

[krzykat]

@wardmundy and others who have this service, have you done any speed tests lately? My area must have gotten a service upgrade recently, because previously we were around 150Mbps. Now nearly 450Mbps. Wow!

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What's the latency and jitter like?

 

[ostridge]

T-Mobile is blocking SIP;

What about using a high sip port#

 

[atsak]

Can't wait for expansion. Being gypsies, we have multiple locations where we'd love to give Comcast the .

Across all of the ISP's I use across North America, they are consistently the hardest to deal with. The reliability is good, but ugh if you have any kind of problem or are trying to create better business arrangements. And the SPAM for "fiber in my area" is incredible across 140 different markets.

 

[KNERD]

Can't wait for expansion. Being gypsies, we have multiple locations where we'd love to give Comcast the .

Uh oh..

Wrong Think Alert

BBC: Gypsy Is A Racist Word

BBC: Gypsy Is A Racist Word

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haha

 

[ext-104]

Received my T-Mobile 5G Business Internet modem/service.

Had issues getting the service running. Wouldn't stay connected for more than
5 minutes at a time.

Several hours and 5 levels of escalated tech support with final being opening a ticket
with engineering and a promised 72hr follow up.

Following day service was up solid.

inseego FX-2000 modem This is the modem you have to have for static ip assignments.
pretty basic modem, but has decent standard configuration adjustability.

Some quick testing......

5G - Band n41
-100 dbm
SNR 12

Static IP was in place.
Avg. 200mbps down / 50mpbs up

Some testing and I noticed I could NOT
stream Netflex, Prime, etc.

Could not even browse to netflix.com website, connection would time out.
Web browsing was fine, but streaming would not work.

That had me puzzled.

Tech called me back to see how service was running, I said great, except
that I couldn't stream or even browse to netflix.com or any other streaming site.

He explained that business account configurations are defaulted
for content filtering to like the top 15 streaming services.
What....Well I don't want that. He said no problem and turned it off and
streaming/sites where back up and running.

Quick test, opened a couple of ports on the firewall to test and looks like it
is not going be a problem forwarding ports.



So far very cool service. Seems stable. More set up and testing to do.

 

[kenn10]

Looks like its running on the old Sprint midband channel T-Mobile got in the merger. You've got great speeds.

 

[edlentz]

I just got one of these. Best signal I can get is "Good" I may not keep it. It dropped out several times within the first hour. Reading through this thread it appears that it isn't ready to replace other types of connections that have SIP devices behind them. I have a customer that is having to use a data T1 with a 8 port Grandstream ATA. He can only get the T1 for data. Costing him an arm and a leg. I thought about this option for him IF we could get a signal. His phones are remote to a FPBX system on Vultr.

 

[dicko]

Presumably you will need an AAAA record added to get back to you, as long as your ipv6 address is 'static' . Is it ?

 

[ext-104]

I only have a static IPV4 address assigned to the modem/router
The router config is set to dual stack, but only has a IPV4 assigned

Wouldn't you only need a AAAA record if you where trying to resolve a domain record?
IPV6 addresses are directly routable right to the actual IPV6 device.

I guess if you wanted to set up a sub/domain record for either IPV4/6 you could.

 

[krzykat]

This is great news. I've typically had to have clients that mandate uptime to using both Comcast and ATT with router with dual WAN and failover. ... now one of the WAN carriers could actually be a mobile carrier which eliminates the issue where a pole gets knocked down that has both ATT and Comcast on it. Can't wait to set this up with a client.

 

[edlentz]

I sent back the Home Internet Gateway today. After two upper level techs told me that VoIP is blocked and not goint to be open for the forseeable future I said seeya.

 

[billsimon]

I sent back the Home Internet Gateway today. After two upper level techs told me that VoIP is blocked and not goint to be open for the forseeable future I said seeya.

I guess I should quit using VoIP on my T-Mobile Home Internet then since the techs say it's blocked!

 

[dicko]

Just waiting for them to consistently honor my not so static ipv6 address, are the running out of them already maybe?

 

[KNERD]

I sent back the Home Internet Gateway today. After two upper level techs told me that VoIP is blocked and not goint to be open for the forseeable future I said seeya.

Not that hard to put OpenVPN on the PBX and put the telephones on it.

 

[KNERD]

Just waiting for them to consistently honor my not so static ipv6 address, are the running out of them already maybe?

Probably so since many providers are handing them out like candy on Halloween

 

[dallas]

Probably so since many providers are handing them out like candy on Halloween

Does it really matter? IPv6 uses 128-bit (2128) addresses, allowing 3.4 x 1038 unique IP addresses. This is equal to 340 trillion trillion trillion IP addresses. Although I imagine that ISPs would have to buy ranges of addresses.

 

[dicko]

Does it really matter? IPv6 uses 128-bit (2128) addresses, allowing 3.4 x 1038 unique IP addresses. This is equal to 340 trillion trillion trillion IP addresses. Although I imagine that ISPs would have to buy ranges of addresses.

It matters because if an AAAA record is not honored then there is no easy ingress

 

[KNERD]

Does it really matter? IPv6 uses 128-bit (2128) addresses, allowing 3.4 x 1038 unique IP addresses. This is equal to 340 trillion trillion trillion IP addresses. Although I imagine that ISPs would have to buy ranges of addresses.

</facetious>

 

[ext-104]

As I understand it you can only get a static ip if you get the FX-2000 router and pay the additional
$3.00 per month and that gets you a static ipv4 address. I've got a static ip and it's working fine.

I also hooked up a ATA and have it registering with BulkVS and works great. I don't see any
issues with having VOIP service.

So far not to many issues, but I'm still tweaking.

Every now and then randomly, maybe once a week will drop the internet connection,
not the 5G signal, just the internet link and requires a reboot. So I added a "Keep Connect"
device that detects if internet is down if no connection reboots the modem. Nice little
gadget $50.00

Also have a external antenna on the way for shits and giggles.

At first I was able to open/forward all ports. Now I can only open/forward
the lower ports. The higher ports (5060,5061) I can't open anymore. Not sure
if I want to mess with more support calls, it takes hours to get to someone
that actually knows what they are doing or has access to actually do anything.
Not really needed anyway unless you are trying to connect inbound.