NFT: TMobile Home Internet

It's okay. It basically uses their 5g network and is subject to prioritization. At least seemingly. Like speeds tend to be impacted around the 4:30pm-6:30pm time frame when most people tend to come home and start streaming.

I'd say it's a good cheaper alternative if you don't have a lot of bandwidth demands or you don't rely on your internet for work(WFH scenarios). Otherwise, give it some time to work out their issues and build up their network before you make the switch.

PS - the area I'm talking about is the Center City Philly area so your mileage may vary.

Personally, I utilize FiOS for home internet only and pay just $40/mo. Bought my own refurbed Verizon router off eBay so I don't pay the monthly lease fee. And use YouTube TV as my cable provider. Works well for me and my needs. Plus the speeds on FiOS(100 up/100 down) are more than enough for me to be playing Xbox while the wife works from home via her Skype/Teams. Don't let them upsell you on that Gigabit stuff. Unless you're a hardcore streamer/downloader, most families will be fine.

Worked great sometimes and others it went completely out long enough that if you were streaming (I have YouTube TV) or on a Zoom call that things got really bad.

While doing some testing - At certain times I could get as much as 500Mbps, and others barely 10.

That said - I'm sure it depends on your distance to the nearest cell antennae and the overall traffic on that antennae.

whether using your phone as a hotspot or a dedicated hotspot device. what am I missing?

In comment 16077820 markky said:

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whether using your phone as a hotspot or a dedicated hotspot device. what am I missing?

Many times hotspots have limitations in speed, data cap, or both. Like looking at the best T-Mobile plan(the Magenta Max), they have a cap of 40 gigs of high speed mobile hotspot. After that, it drops down to 3g speeds.

The home internet setup from T-Mobile would avoid the cap/throttling associated with a hotspot. Plus it allows you to have a separate internet source in case you leave and someone else wants to use the internet at home.

I really dislike Spectrum, our current internet provider. Tried the T Mobile offering and, despite wanting it to work, it just couldn't handle Streaming adequately - frequent buffering. Disappointed. Good thing I didn't disconnect from Spectrum. Return was hassle free. Maybe they will improve it in the future and I'll try again.

Was my lone internet connectivity and I work from home. Was much better than my previous Optimum 100Mbps cable line and cheaper. I'm consistently seeing 500+ with occasional speeds at about 100Mbps.

I have just recently added Optimum back in with a Gig special (60) balance across both.

But I would recommend TMO as long as you are in a good service area.