Anyone else using the 5G home internet? I just hooked it up today to see if it’s a viable solution since my Xfinity bill went up to $200/mo.
I’ve only used it for a few hours, but it seems pretty decent. Anyone have some decent run time that can provide feedback on long term usage?
I used it for a bit, but I wasn’t able to do my job because my work requires IPv4 to IPv4 direct connections (e.g. SSH between Linux servers over IPv4).
As I understand, 5G mobile networks are IPv6 native, there is an IPv4 compatibility layer but it’s limited and not useful for my needs.
Outside of that though, I didn’t have any other problems and seemed fine, was able to watch HD movies while browsing the internet etc.
As I understand, 5G mobile networks are IPv6 native, there is an IPv4 compatibility layer but it’s limited and not useful for my needs.
A few slight nitpicks:
First of all, 5G networks can support both IPv4 and IPv6, it’s just certain carriers (such as T-Mobile) that are IPv6-only.
Secondly, T-Mobile uses a more advanced IPv4 compatibility layer than most other IPv6-only ISPs that avoids most of the normal issues of IPv4 compatibility layers.
I suspect that the cause of your problems is likely T-Mobile’s restrictive, non-configurable, network side firewall. The IPv4 compatibility layer may have contributed to it being implemented this way as the compatibility layer does make other firewall setups more complicated but still possible (with PCP), however I suspect that the main reason it is setup this way is because this setup is fine with cell phones (what T-Mobile’s network was originally designed for) so T-Mobile didn’t see any reason to do anything differently.
It is possible to bypass this firewall using a VPN. In fact T-Mobile Business Internet even offers a VPN that integrates with T-Mobile ISP pretty seamlessly and with minimal latency penalty. Or you can just use a different VPN, but first look into the firewall setup of that VPN. IIRC some users have used the free virtual private servers that Oracle offers to setup their own VPN for this for free, although that’s a bit more advanced.
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How can your bill be 200, is that including Phone and TV? You could drop everything and only keep the internet plus buy your own modem, that would drop your bill under a $100. With TM internet you still have to purchase TV from YouTube TV or something similar then at the end of the day your total bill is back up around 200.
I replaced spectrum with T-Mobile Home Internet and it mostly works pretty well. Far cheaper than spectrum, even after spectrum offered a temporary better price when we canceled.
I’ve been getting around triple the download bandwidth and eight times the upload bandwidth with lower latency to IPv6 services (IPv4 services have slightly higher latency because T-Mobile’s network is IPv6-only and uses a translation layer to enable IPv4 to work).
I have been using it for around 10 months now. The first couple months were great, but now it loses connection multiple times per week and that is only resolved after rebooting the modem. There was also a two week period that they were working on the tower and resulted in me having no internet during that time. It’s definitely annoying, but the only other option I have is CenturyLink DSL. If I had fiber or cable internet available, I would use that instead, but the slow DSL speeds make it worth putting up with T-Mobile’s unreliability.