Originally Posted by
ajGoes
I got a
T-mobile home internet gateway a few days ago when my wife noticed her hotspot suddenly had four bars rather than the zero to one it used to get at home. The new device is free with the no-contract, no throttles, no caps $50/month service. Of course, "no contract" is a two-way street and they can change the terms at any time.
The gateway worked beautifully out of the box, but I wanted to connect it to my home network. A little Googling found the trick, and today devices in the house and the apartment over the barn connect the same as they did before. We've been paying $150/month for a local microwave broadband service plus $30 for a backup DSL line. I can definitely drop the microwave and will also drop the DSL if this keeps working. It's like joining the 21st century.
T-Mobile ISP has a "trash can" like Nokia 5G capable home internet modem gateway. It currently has some issues with IPv4 VPN's but well priced offer if you get decent service and don't need huge bandwidth/extremely low latency.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobileisp/ This is probably the one you got as a new subscriber? They're allowing some trade-ins for the 4G Askey modem but that works a bit better for IPv4 VPN.
Some people have hooked it up to an external antenna
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobileisp/...n_the_tmobile/
I've been keeping my eye on this one, hoping that my area isn't too over provisioned on 4G (Don't have 5G T-Mobile on phone or near the neighborhood, yet, to test).