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Signal strength is maxed out, 5G UC...but terrible connection
As a trucker, I am pretty much streaming all day off my phone connection (iheart or music) and occasionally it cuts out. I look down, full 5g UC signal…..but can’t maintain the bit rate of a radio s...
Yeah .. devil’s in the details. Mine was cheap enough ($25/month) that I’ll probably dump Spectrum in a bit. I’ve kicked them down to the cheapest plan I can get - keep it for backup for work reasons.
Reps did state that I could ‘try’ my home internet connection at a different address, but I think they have certain network tags set up for routing of traffic (QoS tags for prioritization). This may be what’s killing it.
I had the older 4G LTE home internet (with battery power!) and it worked pretty much like a hot spot.
I-5/10/40 are all down here in SoCal. 5/80/84 are up in Sacramento/Tahoe
As far as using handset .. I haven’t had issues with speed. ~500Mbs to almost 2Gbps, and haven’t been hit with limits. T-Mobile service isn’t consistent speeds especially rural. Even crossing Florida in the spring, it was anything from ‘great’ to buffering on the interstates. Some highways have improved (CA-126)
