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2022-Feb-15 7:44 pm

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Re: Cable Broadband Has a Target on Its Back

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said by tc1uscg:

T-Mobile needs to deploy more 5G sites before they even become any kind of threat to big cable. Based on my experience with their home broadband (which I've already canceled). I really didn't have any high hopes it was going to blow my 500/50 services away at the home front, but wanted to try it out. So, been there, done that. At my home, it would work as a backup, and so would my phone's hotspot, but the home broadband device just needs more towers to connect to IMO.

^^ This. I cancelled my trial too after only two weeks. Even in the attic, I can only get two bars, even though I'm 1.0 miles LOS from the tower. It just crippled when more than one person tried anything, and the speeds were abysmal. They need to drastically improve their tower penetration, especially since they don't have any around metro Atlanta subdivisions. (You have maybe a main road, a handful of subdivisions, and then another main road... what they need is a tower or some kind of repeater in the middle point to get to the subdivisions.)


I was tempted to try this but after thinking about it, I would bet my experience would be the same, it just isn't worth bothering, and
with fixed wireless you still have congestion issues and latency concerns as well, and the speeds? LOL T Mobile won't even really tell you a specific number, or even a ballpark number for speeds ..

They are a joke.
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