T-Mobile hot spot

[370Dancer]

That makes sense that they would offer that as an option if they want to have success in out lying areas. There has to be away of getting one of these by going to the store or possibly they are switching over to these? But if they are going to offer two different types of routers then there has to be a way of getting one.

Watch the video. Nate gives a clue on how he did it. I have the Sagemcomm and devised a mod that lets me use either a 4x4 MIMO, or the internal antennas. Non destructive.

 

[LTD.330]

You normaly want to reduce/set the MTU on your end device (laptop) - not the gateway itself. Reason being, the encrypted packets from your laptop are flagged as DF (dont fragment). Encryption adds a bit of overhead. If the packets that hit the gateway are to large to forward, and set to DF, they are dropped. Most VPN packages should set this for you on windows automatically - known issue for years.

No issues here using Cisco Anyconnect VPN.

Tip of the hat markrsimon.

I have the ethernet port on the T-Mobile Sagecomm 5688W Gateway plugged into the WAN port on the boats TP-Link router.

Instead of changing the MTU on the router, I changed the MTU on my laptop and I was able to establish a L2TP/IPsec VPN through the Gateway. NordVPN started working when I changed from the default NordLynx protocol to OpenVPN.

For whatever reason, the Sagecomm gateway doesn't handle the industry standard 1500 byte packet size. I used the ping command with the -f and -l options to determine a packet size that wouldn't fragment. I started at 1500 and kept decreasing by 10 until I found 1470 wouldn't fragment. I set the MTU to 1450 just for the hell of it.

The command I used in Windows was:

netsh interface ipv4 set subinterface "Ethernet 4" mtu=1450 store=persistent

 

[LTD.330]

I tried buying the "home internet gateway" which is what I think is referred to in this thread. Asks you for address and every address I try it says that 5G is unavailable in my area and to try back in a few months.

Several in my marina have this and are happy with the reception. Somehow they bought it online even with the marina address showing no 5G available....

I'd buy this tonight if I could figure out how.

SeaNile, just walk into a T-Mobile store and ask for a 5G Gateway.

I had the same experience as you when I used the online tool, but I have a couple of friends who say their service is kick-ass. So I went to a T-Mobile store and asked about the 5G Home Internet Gateway and they were more than happy to send me home with one.

 

[Alex F]

My interest is cutting the cord on the whole KVH/DirectTV satellite world.

Wondering if I would have coverage at least moving around FL?

Hey Mark,

It really depends on the local coverage. In general, on the east coast it's pretty good signal. But there are trouble spots with poor signal. In my experience, TMO 5G hotspot produced best results for my location and I've cut the cord to satellite TV long time ago. Firestick or Roku do fine job.

You can always order one and return if it doesn't work to your satisfaction.

 

[Stee6043]

I received my hotspot last night, got it all setup (took 5 minutes).

I'm going to run this thing for a month before ditching cable, but so far I'm optimistic. I was running 50-60Mbps with Spectrum pretty consistently, occasionally dropping into the 20/30's though. So far this T-Mobile is screaming fast. The lowest I saw last night was 150Mbps. I have the spot in the middle of my house, near zero windows, with one bar short of full strength.

 

[Stee6043]

I still haven't cancelled my Spectrum internet but I will in another week or so. I just want to make sure I don't hit some kind of data limit with T-Mobile. But so far, this thing is fast. Wicked fast. Today I upgraded my mesh setup to Nest and dang....she's screaming.

 

[markrsimon]

I still haven't cancelled my Spectrum internet but I will in another week or so. I just want to make sure I don't hit some kind of data limit with T-Mobile. But so far, this thing is fast. Wicked fast. Today I upgraded my mesh setup to Nest and dang....she's screaming.
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As long as you don't have a unique setup, which might require direct inbound access -- the tmobile 5g home internet solution is great. If you haven't noticed -- their 'gateway' does not have any settings. All devices inside your house get a 192.168.12.x address. There is no public IP (that you have access to), no port forwarding, no way to disable the NAT -- all things a lot of us don't need -- but some of us do (or are accustomed to having). Spectrum gives you a dynamic public IP, and doesn't force you to use their gateway.

We haven't hit any type of data limit over here -- downloading, streaming, you name it -- the bits keep flowing.

 

[PlayDate]

So .....you guys inspired me to get my own wifi for the boat. The marina wifi is just a disaster and barely works so I wanted a solution for my GoVee temperature/humidity sensors which transmit on wifi and something better to surf on.

Like most of you.....I am already a T-Mobile customer. If you go to the T-Mobile site, they have 3 data plans $10, $20 and $30. The downside was I had to call them to get the $10 a month plan. It contains 2G of 5G and 4G LTE data.

Next up was the device. I liked the Franklin JEXtream RG2100 5G and T-Mobile wanted $170 for it. I found a new one on Ebay for $79 plus tax. T-Mobile has new Franklin models available now that are free if you add a line and commit for two years. So, I could have saved the $79 if I had waited.

Anyway......I installed it on the boat this past weekend and it is just great. Speeds were 60 mps and the GoVee sensors bark small data packets or information every 10 minutes or so.

The GoVee sensors are located in the Cabin and the Engine Room.

Thanks for the motivation. I like the $120 a year piece of mind.