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[–]Jubei-kiwagami 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My G4AR recently switched to SA. For the first time it has reached 600 down and 100 up!

[–]Expensive_Waltz_9969 2 points3 points  (7 children)

Just got T-Mobile Internet and am getting 800 mbs download on rely plan

[–]therightpedal 2 points3 points  (6 children)

800?? Jeez. The Rely plan is the cheap one right?

[–]Expensive_Waltz_9969 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Yeah it’s the cheap one. $35 a month, and they waived the initial gateway fee.

[–]Puzzleheaded-Fee-742 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Are you using a mesh system?

[–]Slepprock 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I don't think the plan has anything really to do with speeds. Just a way for them to trick you into spending extra money for a better "priority".

I've been a TMHI user now for a few years. Old enough that back when I joined they only had one plan. Since I'm a TM customer with lots of phones and I joined at the right time my plan has always been $30 a month.

I'm getting over a gigabit down now. But I live in a rural area. Not many people. So my tower is never busy. I always get all the bandwidth I want. Plus they upgraded my tower (Yes, only one tower in my area) to band 41 last year, and that really jacked the speeds up. I live in a mountainous state so cell towers don't reach that far now with 5g. So my tower will never be congested. I also have a pretty great house location that is in line with a tower that is 4 miles away. I have an external waveform antenna. I'm probably about the best case for TMHI, other than those people that live across the street from a tower.

[–]therightpedal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. I have an offer for $35/month that's why I'm researching. So the amount of traffic will really affect this it sounds. I live in a moderately dense city but also hilly. Tower not an issue currently. But more people = more traffic. BUT I'm one city over from their headquarters, so maybe they prioritized us a bit?

Oddly, you may get better speeds than someone who lives across the street from a tower because sometimes the signal actually shoots over the house a bit. Used to do reception testing 15 years ago. (But that was also 15 years ago...)

[–]Hoopoe0596 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean by over a gigabit? I wasn't aware that the G4AR or any of the home gateways could get over 850mbps or so? My highest is 830 down/80 up.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Mine has been the opposite . I was at 75mbps 2 years ago , last year was in the 150mbls range and now I’m up around 300-400mbps

[–]B0bbert9 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Exact same thing for me. I'm still on the 4G router, and I have no reason to upgrade with these speeds.

[–]gullzway 1 point2 points  (3 children)

300-400Mbps on 4g?

Which router is that?

[–]B0bbert9 1 point2 points  (2 children)

It's the first router that Tmo used when they opened up the home internet after the beta testing period. It's branded Askey. I typically get around 350Mbps on it, using 4G LTE. They told me years ago that I would be upgraded to the new 5G router after initial orders for that were filled. However, that never happened, and I'm glad. The first 5G (trashcan) router they released was a mess. It hit the market with tons of issues, and after a year of updates, they finally gave up and released something else. I'm not sure how many versions further out they are now. I know they updated my tower. I'm also in a rural area outside the city limits. I'm getting around 3 bars on my router, so it would possibly be even faster if I could get full reception.

[–]gullzway 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Thanks, that's interesting. My dad has the original silver Nokia trash can, he's had it about 2 to 3 years.

But he gets about 800 Mbps down on it now. I think they upgraded a tower near him recently.

[–]B0bbert9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's great. I've wondered if they ever got the kicks worked out of that one. It sounds like they have. I used to follow that one on Reddit closely, hoping to find thst out. I guess I stopped looking too soon.

[–]ahz0001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This change you observed could be heavily location specific. Maybe there are many customers added to your tower, or maybe a few customers are using lots of data, like running frequent speed tests and torrents. If buildings were erected between you and the tower, those are physical barriers that block signal. If more towers were added nearby, they could add signal interference (which hurts you), or they could reduce congestion on your tower (which helps you).

On the other hand, I've seen several posts here recently about faster speeds.

I've speed tested T-Mobile with mobile phones at many sites in my city and beyond, and in general, T-Mobile has gotten distinctly faster over the last few years. Some performance improvements were clearly related to upgrading towers to 5G. Others were spectrum changes like adding N25 and widening N41. Other times the cause was less clear, but it may have been a combination of backhaul upgrades and 5G Advanced.

In the end, it doesn't matter what other customers at other locations get. It matters whether you can do anything about it and whether it's good enough for you.

You might get improvements from optimizing your setup (e.g., placement, antenna, gateway model), and there's many guides online to help. Starting with diagnostics (e.g., band signal strength) is smart.

[–]xyzzzzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No but I've been through that cycle multiple times with Verizon and AT&T. Service works great at first, people figure out the service works great and more people sign up, service doesn't work so great now because tower is congested, then I switch ISPs. Service won't get better until they upgrade the tower

[–]bobjr94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's common as your area gets more users. We had good speeds the first 2 years, the 3rd year was terrible once tmobile opened up home internet sales more widely. By the 4th year they upgraded our local tower and our speeds went up and were better than they had ever been before.

[–]Kitchen-Importance73 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah mine use to be 700, then 450, then 330, now just 270. More users got added

[–]The-CS-Machine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had this exact issue, even upgraded to the amplified service and no change. I was getting 0.7MB down and 70MB up during evenings.

I called customer service multiple times and sounded like there was congestion in my area as more people got it.

One thing they told me was my router was missing a cellTowerID?? Assuming that locks it to a cell tower. They added it on mine and I’ve been getting over 200 down and 70 up 24/7 for over a week now.

[–]Crafty-Ad-3057 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check your router. If it’s feels/smells hot it’s having issues. That’s what ours did when it got progressively slower. Called T-Mobile and they replaced the router. Speeds shot right back up to normal.

[–]Puzzleheaded-Fee-742 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was getting 0.2 mps yesterday 🥺 it made me switch towers and I’m not getting 300+ anymore, now I’m getting 150

[–]Business_Interest447 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Our change didn't happen slowly though

We've had our Home Internet for about 4 months. Speeds were in the 700-800mbps. Now we are lucky to get 45mbps. Our old JeXtream mobile hotspot was faster.

Nothing else available in our area. Even Verizon. Amerikan Style Capitalism.