CL fiber was add to my area this spring 70.00 940mbs up and down open ports no bandwith caps there are also 250 and 500 mbs plans I have not had to use support so far so no idea but so far it has no down time the only issue is my custom routers takes a hour to connect after a reboot but I assume it is looking for the supplied router that came with the package On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 7:40 AM JD Austin via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > The Tmobile device is very basic and doesn't have any of the things you'd > expect in a wireless router. > You can't set port forwarding and a lot of other things you can do > normally. > That part and the fact that I had to put it on the other side of my house > near a window to get a decent signal was a deal breaker for me. > JD > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 11:52 PM der.hans via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> Am 19. Aug, 2022 schwätzte David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss so: >> >> moin moin David, >> >> I forgot to ask ( but presume the answer is no ), do the t-mobile devices >> support multiple vlans? >> >> I would like to isolate some devices and presume I would need to provide >> my own devices for network segregation. >> >> ciao, >> >> der.hans >> >> > I dunno if anybody here has T-Mobile Home Internet, but I do and I >> really like it. I only have one beef: the spec sheet for their >> modem/gateway says it has 2x 1 gigabit ethernet ports, but they’re only 100 >> Megs. In case anybody else might want to consider them as an ISP and has a >> 1GB LAN to connect, I’ve solved the speed dilemma. >> > >> > First off, I’ve been round and round with their tech support folks >> lying about it for two years, and was recently told that they were going to >> be releasing a new device soon and it def. WOULD have 1 Gb ports. >> > >> > Well, they announced a new one (two, actually), and I got one and … >> once again the spec sheet SAYS 1 gigabit ethernet but the performance says >> nope — it’s still only 100 megs. WTF? I guess this lets them shave a couple >> of bucks off of the hardware cost. Actually, I’m not even sure why they >> bother to include the slow ethernet ports at all. >> > >> > (In a way this is really quite amusing, because prior to this, most >> modem/gateways have crappy WiFi and speedy ethernet — especially those from >> Cox and CenturyLink.) >> > >> > I don’t know how a big company like T-Mo gets away misrepresenting a >> product like this for so long. Why can’t they just SAY they’re 100 meg >> ethernet ports? >> > >> > Anyway, I finally got fed-up and bought a TP-Link RE550 AC1900 >> WAP/Range Extender and configured it so I can plug my local 1 GB ethernet >> LAN wire into it and connect to the T-Mo gateway via WiFi. >> > >> > To be sure, the T-Mo gateway’s WiFi is FAST! I’ve seen speeds up to 870 >> Mbps. The ethernet, OTOH, never exceeds 93 Mbps. >> > >> > With the RE550 plugged in, my Mac minis connected to the LAN now get >> 750 Mbps DL and 78 Mbps UL. WHOA! That’s 5x DL and 2x UL faster than I got >> via the wired connection. (Actually, the newer 2018 Mac Mini gets that; the >> older one from 2014 only gets 180 Mbps DL and 65 Mbps UL.) >> > >> > And in case anybody is wondering why I use a wired LAN, it’s so the two >> Mac Minis can talk. I have the new one configured so I can access the old >> one via Screen Sharing on a dedicated Space (virtual desktop). When I do >> that over WiFi, the connection is intolerably slow for me; but with the >> wired connection, it’s quite reasonable. >> > >> > BTW, I dropped Cox a couple of years back and cut my monthly TV + >> Internet bill by quite a bit by switching to T-Mo’s Home Internet ($50/mo) >> and a couple of internet channels (Discovery+ and Philo). >> > >> > T-Mo’s Home Internet has been far more stable, consistently faster, and >> has fewer dropouts than any other ISP I’ve ever used. I highly recommend >> it. Just … if you need to connect a wired LAN, get something like a fast >> WAP/Range Extender to act as a LAN-to-WiFi bridge. >> > >> > -David Schwartz >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> -- >> # https://www.LuftHans.com https://www.PhxLinux.org >> # "If it's not a toy you're looking at it wrong." -- >> der.hans--------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Todd Cole Ubuntu Arizona Team 2928 W El Caminito Phoenix AZ 85051-3957 toddc@azloco.com 602-677-9402