T-Mobile Home Internet via ethernet connection tip

[David Schwartz]

I guess that I should clarify that my current device is the round Nokia device. It has 2x ethernet ports on it. I’ve had it for around 2 years now.

The new one I got was their newest squarish one, the SAGEMCOM FAST 5688W 5G Gateway. It only has one ethernet port on it and I only got 93 Mbps DL from it.

I sent it back because it has no way to access anything inside of it. (TBH, the Nokia isn’t much better.)

T-Mo is doing all they can to make these simple appliances with “no user-serviceable features” inside. If you like tweaking stuff, their 5G gateways are NOT for you.

They do have another one. Which one do you have?

-David Schwartz




> On Aug 18, 2022, at 10:25 PM, Daniel Stasinski via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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> The device I received from them has a single 1 gig port which I have a 16 port gig switch plugged in and everything is connected with Cat 6.  I've seen up to 800 Mbps.
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> Daniel P. Stasinski
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> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 8:57 PM David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> (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.)
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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. 
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> 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.)
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> -David Schwartz
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