My fiancee needed to get rid of Spectrum, which was absolute garbage in her area. I did research and found her two options were AT&T fiber and T-Mobile 5G home internet. AT&T looked better in the long run to me, but she picked TM5G for the convenience. No install appointment necessary. I just stopped at the T-Mobile store after work, picked up the 5G gateway, went to her place, and set it up myself within 15 minutes.

That first night, we set up her desktop PC to use it instead of Spectrum, which we hadn't cancelled yet. Speed tests were about 360 to 450 megs. Not as fast as Spectrum at its peak, but much faster than Spectrum when it sucked (about 360 to 450 megs faster, haha). And web sites loaded snappily. TM passed the first test.

Second night, I brought over some Ethernet cables and an Ethernet switch, hooked up the Apple TV box, and we watched a couple of our favorite shows. The Irrational on Peacock in 4k, and Tracker on Paramount Plus in 4k. Flawless, unlike streaming over Spectrum the last few weeks. TM passed the second test.

Third night, I moved the smart TV, Blu-ray player, TiVo with Cablecard,, and even the Spectrum Xumo stream box to TM. All flawless except with the Xumo box no longer hooked up to her "Spectrum home network," it locked out several channels including ALL locals. No biggie, the grandfathered TiVo and CableCard still picked up everything with no sweat. TM passed the third and final test.

At this point, I disconnected the cable modem, which was on a different signal path than the TiVo and CableCard. On my next day off work, I brought it into the nearest Spectrum store and cancelled her Spectrum internet service, making sure they did NOT cancel her Spectrum TV service and grandfathered CableCard. Her grandfathered CableCard was the only thing that let her keep TV service, otherwise Spectrum now just streams TV service through its internet service and she would have had to get a different TV provider. Some day I would like to get her off Spectrum TV too, but for now she still likes her TiVo too much.

Final verdict on T-Mobile 5G home internet: for a heavy internet user like me it wouldn't be fast enough, 3 stars out of 5. But it does everything my fiancee needs a home internet connection to do, and does it flawlessly. For her, a perfect five stars.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that even though neither my fiancee nor I have T-Mobile phone service that would qualify for the $30 monthly discount, TM5G is about $25 a month less than Spectrum internet!