🔴 T-Mobile Home Internet Implements a Data Cap 

Same here as far as rural small town. Had a hard wire connection (Kinetic) that didn't deliver near what I get with T-Mobile for more money . My average has been 100-150 down / 10-15 up. Have not had any regrets.

That is a huge improvement. 100/10 is not bad for rural deployments. The number to be is 25/5 which is what you can do with StarLink but then again that costs about $80/mo but if you are in the middle of a national park , its worth it.

Great. The need for the Internet is universal but access is not. The methods I use can help many make the most out of their situation but there are some places it just won't work. Let us know what you find. Prayers for good signal 🙏

Data Caps at $55 but yes the PING is rather good. Just a questionable corporate directional move. We have competition like TMHI to thank for all these lower prices. Before it was price gouge central.

@@PeterC408exactly Perter charter, att , spectrum, optimum etc all were price gouging till tmobile fwa came out

It depends on what you do with it and how long you do it for. If you work from home, you will likely use more but again, it depends on what you do with it. I remote desktop to many different locations all day long. If you work all day and only use the internet for email and streaming 2 hours a day you don't need a lot of bandwidth.

@@PeterC408 We have five people in the household and we stream 1080 and sometimes 4K videos about 4 hours a day for each person plus other stuffs like social medias, video calls, gaming, emails & web browsing.

UNLIMITED until they change it?

​@@PeterC408Everyone in my place uses 350 GB per month streaming only. Which comes to 1050 GB per month.

I'm planning on dropping cable & satellite & going with IPTV. Legally, even. It's cheap! But, I would use this in a month by myself most months & no, I don't live alone. I mean, it looks like I'm grandfathered in but who knows what their next change is gonna be?

Thanks. Good data. Rural Internet is indeed different. You need to get a large external directional antenna to get that 600MHz signal. To be fair, StarLink has an external antenna too. You've got to go outside to get a external signal. I have a new unit coming that might offer a cool solution. Stay tuned. What kind of latency are you seeing?

Hey Earl, Let's wait and see what happens. T-Mobile Home Internet was designed to sell "excess bandwidth" in markets where they have "excess bandwidth". Now when you lovingly take it on the road, you may be travelling to areas that do not have "excess bandwidth". Watching NetFlix Movies, while quite normal puts a large demand on a phone network that is "stressed". Watching a movie requires a constant connection in addition to a "large" amount of data. Sure, its only a movie, but it is the same data as would be used by 1000 phone users trying to lookup the closest Sushi Restaurant. I am hoping that T-Mobile will realize that they could put datacaps in place and allow partner services like NetFlix, Hulu, Disney, GoogleTv to use their network without impacting customer data plans. THEY HAD THIS BEFORE... it was called "Binge-On" and I could stream like blazes with a prepaid $10/mo account. It was great! If TMobile asked me to cancel my Netflix account and re-signup through them to get unlimited steaming, I would do it! They could own a piece of a very large eco-system in a matter of months and it would be a re-occurring revenue stream that would positively impact their stock price valuation with an 8x multiplier. It's what is possible now with the loss of Net-Neutrality.

@@PeterC408 So what would be the best economical cellular router I could get to put a T-Mobile sims card in?

No, not yet. I have the FX2000

I already tired that doesn’t work unless you spend money like 200-400 on a external antenna to mount on top of your home or like he said get a different 5g gateway not a T-mobile one that lets you combine 5GHz with 5GHz and you would probably see a major increase and take out the sims card and put it in the new one obviously to get the internet

Basically all a 3rd party router does is it provides higher signal through out your home so like if you get bad signal in your bedroom because your gateway is in the kitchen window it will provide your bedroom with better signal and up your speed so it doesn’t slow down but a 3rd party router does have a lot of cool features but it’s better if you just buy an better 5g gateway or a 4x4 external antenna

@@TT_LIFTS Oh ok I might try a Third Party Gateway then.

Just to be clear, a 3rd party gateway and a 3rd party router are different. 3rd party gateways can help you get a better signal from T-Mobile, while a 3rd party router (access point) can help you get better WiFi. Personally, I am using both. The location for the best 5G signal and best coverage for WiFi are seldom the same spot.

@@PeterC408 Thanks yeah I meant to say Third Party Gateway not Router I already have a Google Nest Wi-Fi Pro 6E Mesh System hooked up to the main T-Mobile 5G Home Internet Gateway and I disabled the T-Mobile 5G Home Internet Gateway Wi-Fi using the HINT Control App. I'm just trying to find a Third Party Gateway that can give me Band Locking and be able to use two Bands at once for faster and more reliable Speeds.

Yes, we seem to be good.... at least for now.

Yep you sure can. I did it on a spitz GL-X3000, the spitz allows you to change the IEMI to what is your t-mobile gateway. Pop out the SIM card of your TMHI gateway and put it into your own equipment Hop[e this helps .

Yes. I have been successful in moving the SIM on a number of gateways. Lots of videos on those and antenna solutions. New one coming soon!

Interesting... I have received no such notification and I have two T-Mobile Internet accounts. 6TB is a bit much to be believed. Although TV programs represent some data, the are watched over 2 hours. I have to be in heavy download mode to hit 3TB and with help from my kids! but that isn't the issue. As I understand things, T-Mobile is now offering Home Internet for $50/mo (limited to 1.2TB) but if you want UNLIMITED, it is still available but the cost goes up to $60.

Think of any resource and you are trying to build a customer base. You would want to get as many customers as possible without pissing people off. I think they should cap it and create tiers of service, anyone selfish enough to need 3TB a month should pay more but my parents who stream the occasional Netflix show pay the same amount, so it balances out.

At the end of the day, they are all networks...just like the freeway, if you put enough people on it, no one goes anywhere.

Im ATT, not for long too expensive for the router $75 & no channels) throttles me at around 2AM-4AM.Yes Im up and it pisses me off that they do it. Nearly nobody is on the network..I should be rockin' at lightning speed. I have had tons of problems with ATT or any other large provider with administrative issues. Example-I signed on with ATT because they had NO contract. Somewhere buried in an email they 'put me on a contract'. When it was time to cut the cord it was a HUGE fight. I knew if I persued, I would win cuz they did not have ANY documents with a signature that I agreed, but it took 4.5 hours on the phone. It was the principle. And still I had to pay $75 a month just for a router. As I write this my blood is boiling. I just the other day went into a Tmobile store to check out the plans for internet..I should have signed up then, I would be grandfathered in. Had I known of the throttle/cap I would have. Fyi-when I did go into the store they also gave Netflix and Hulu as part of the monthly fee which out the door was going to be around $80. Both Hulu and Netflix just had increases soooo IDK not a huge savings its just I hate large providers, their liers, cheats and thieves.

Holy Smokes. How?!? I have 3 teenagers and even during Covid we didn't hit over 3TB!

@@PeterC408 4 game consoles, about 75 smart home devices, Plex server and more lol. It’s not hard to use a lot lol

Same here. The highest amount of data my wife and i ever used is 635 GB a month.

I have 3 teenagers and even during CoVid we didn't hit over 3TB, and that was with me encouraging them to use as much data a possible. I don't know how these people are consuming 8TB a month.

@@PeterC4084K tv uses a lot of data. Get home from work or school and turn on the tv until 10 pm you’ll use over 100 gb in one day. Most homes have a few tvs so pretty easy to go over a TB.

That would be surprising. Amazon has FreeVee service which is ad supported. Prime Video is supported by Amazon Prime. Maybe they will split it off like the did with Amazon Music.

I agree. I don't know how these guys claim to be hitting 3TB/mo. I have 3 teenagers and we can't even do that.

There no way people use that much data

That is what the agent told me.

I pay 30.00 for tmi because I have their cell service!@@PeterC408

What bands are you getting? What are your RSRP, RSRQ & SINR?

No rate hike but a couple of new fees including a $35 equipment charge.

Yes, just go back though his videos. Plenty of tips.

mine used to cut out and I found it was a packet size issue (MTU). They should have that corrected but perhaps the unit is getting warm. These gateways are better when you treat them as a Modem only. If you have more than 10 WiFi devices, this could be the case but if you only have 2 than it probably is not.

@@PeterC408 that helps unfortunately i have to many people and it’s probably getting hot and i figured out the mtu thing to make my playstation run better

Yes, this is what they are telling me for new customers at $50 but the Unlimited is still available at $60

I've reviewed a number of them. This is the one that I am using now ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_CG5uS1RXNg.html

So far, so good. No throttling yet, but it makes sense that they will want to tier service in the future. Some folks readily offer that they pull 8TB a month, that is 3x me and I am a heavy load on the network.

@@PeterC408 My heaviest usage was 2757GB in one month but I average around 1.8GB because I restrict my RU-vid videos to 720P. I do remember reading that a few people pushed their data as hard as they could to 9TB just to see if T-Mobile would throttle them, but you're saying that some people use 8TB so they must watch a lot of 4K videos.

100GB? on a Home Plan? So getting it back... T-Mobile is trying to sell of "excess bandwidth" in markets that have an excess of bandwidth. That is, they will sell accounts until they run out of bandwidth and can still preserve Quality of Service. If you have TMobile Home Internet, think twice about giving it up because it might not be available when you want to come back. Get back on the waitlist because it is only going to get better!

Did you keep your gateway at the same address that you ordered it? I get deprioritized and it drops me to 240Mbps but no lower. It is still the best deal in town.

No, I had moved but kept the unit. As you say, it IS an unbeatable price, but I'd lose signal everytime a train went by (I live two blocks from some tracks), plus they actually TOLD me during peak times I was being throttled down. I was (and am still) so bummed!

Verizon has always had a data cap at 1TB

Covid changed the Internet forever. Comcast's upstream speed was great before video conference but with 3 kids distant learning and 2 adults remote working, we needed more upstream and Comcast did not have it.

After two years it triples

Oh, my. That's StarLink level thinking!

I have a ton of videos on getting better speeds. Are you just looking for download or upload too? Do you suffer severe slow-downs in the middle of the day?

@@PeterC408 well I’m getting between 350 bad days and 500 good days mbps so I wanna see if there’s a simple way to get it higher I have the same gateways Nokia 5g tower as yours

Yes, if you look at the Terms and Conditions it mentions two obscure taxes that are being imposed.

Yes, it is not in every area yet but it should be coming soon. T-Mobile is working with StarLink to reach even unincorporated areas.

@PeterC408, could you please elaborate more about T-Mobile & StarLink? Maybe a video?

No doubt, it's still a good deal

Verizon is great,,,, if it works for you. My neighbor up the street has it and I am amazed at the speed he gets. They tell me that I am out of range (11 houses away). It's because of the frequencies they bought from the FCC. They are high frequency, which can carry a lot of data, but dies out quickly. Think of your car in traffic and you hear someone's stereo, what do you hear? you hear bass (the low frequencies). They travel further and pernitrate objects like glass and metal. That is the same with radio frequencies. No, I don't work for TM.

That's what a data cap is.

@Bryan-Hensley No, a data cap is a maximum allowed amount of data in a month for an agreed-upon charge, meaning after you reach that limit, you can't use anymore data but tmobiles is just deproitizing your data not stopping you from using more Data for more money

@@theanimeotaku2794 no it doesn't. It means there's a cap on the data usage where something happens, throttled or stopped..

True that.

More throttling lately, like the last ten days or so.

The throttle based on network load and priority. I live near a school and when parents come to pickup their kids at 3pm, my cellular network gets HIT HARD. Luckily for me, it goes away 20 minutes later.

I am glad that they are honoring the deal they struck with existing customers and still offering Unlimited but at a higher price.

I'm still a fan. After hearing the deman that some place on the network, it is clear that there needs to some limit or usage tiers.

I am well aware of the terms and their meanings. 1.2TB/mo is indeed a Cap and they do "Throttle" (even unlimited) performance based on prioritization but not based on usage.

Play nice guys. I think we’re all on the same team here…❤

That's funny. That's what a data cap is and Prioritization is throttling.

The whole company? The service or the new gateway?

@@PeterC408 the new gateway and to a degree T-Mobile

@@PeterC408 I'm also an T-Mobile customer myself speaking on this one. I admit I missed the John spokesperson

Lol. Yes. I have been experimenting with Thumbnails. It is amazing what attracts attention. It doesn't matter how smart you are or how good your videos are if no one clicks. What do you recommend?

They're, indeed.