When can I JUST use TM internet modem as ONLY a modem, in BRIDGE mode, with NO NAT, NO firewall, and frankly NO Wifi.
PLEASE let me know when can get a PLAIN modem from T-Mobile, or BUY my own modem, or SET their modem up to DUPLICATE the functionality of Spectrum. I can’t and won’t change, until and unless I can get that kind of service. Frankly, I am shocked that TM didn’t spec that into their design. Instead, based on about a 20 minute search, that is IMPOSSIBLE today… and here are just a few of the problems that will prevent me from even considering TM: There’s NO bridge mode --- This means I CAN NEVER treat TM device like my Spectrum cable modem, and treat it JUST like a modem. Since I can’t treat it as just another modem, I have to REDO and RETHINK, and REDESIGN my whole network, to adopt to their design -- This is NOT going to happen! No Bridge means that I’m limited to whatever they designed into their modem, to provide services like DHCP, NAT, port forwarding, DNS, ETC. Since their software UI is the only way I can provide services I depend on, then unless they perfected their software, their UI, and their firmware, and their firewall software that is better than all the other devices I have, some of which are extremely sophisticated and expensive, their device makes using these devices not only redundant, but also DISABLED services, without a lot of workarounds, assuming I both want to do the work, and I can actually achieve configs that work for me. I’m still using Spectrum, and it appears I won’t have a viable good option ofchanging everything over to T-Mobile, until they somehow figure out how to produce a service that is COMPLETE plug and play with a CABLE MODEM…. By modem, I do NOT mean a firewall, a router, a WiFi, or ANYTHING more than a stable MODEM with ONE IP address, DHCP in order to pass an IP to my firewall, and that’s it. NO, I do NOT even need DNS services, either. I hope I just misunderstand thecurrent TM design. If this is how it works today, it reminds me of when I first put a DSL modem in my company in the early 1990’s. The first thing they gave me was a contract that said I had to PAY EXTRA, for EACH device I connected, I’d have to notifythem in advance, and EACH IP was extra cost. After Irewrote their contract, and informed them I only wanted ONE device connected, and ONE IP, and bought my SonicWall “Internet gateway” “NATFirewall”, and “DHCP server”. Although that one device was about $300-400 at the time, we were able to use that to service over 50 computers at a time for the next 15 years. I guess we were ahead of our time as a small company. Most everyone else was paying 10-15 per user, and we never EVER paid for more than ONE user. But then, we had 20 or more engineers working for us at the time as well. C’mon T-Mobile --- Get a real great network designer involved so it only takes plugging my EXISTING 1,000-T WIRED internet cable and then everything works, out of the box. Then, also provide the means to MANAGE and MONITOR that modem remotely. That’s all I need or want, and suspect that is all most all users want today..
Are You Kidding?
I've had Tmobile internet for nearly two years and made the switch and addedphone lines a couple weeks ago. My question is: Am I the only one who feels like it was HUGE mistake leaving Verizon to come to Tmobile?I've lost so many troubling amounts oftime and money in the last two months because of Tmobile that it makes my head spin. After wasting more than a day while they tried to figure out how to port my home and business phone numbers over. Now, even though I've been complaining to tech support and a handful of Tmobile team members and supervisors that my modem is broken, they've continued to blown me off (never a decision to replace the modem) as a result I just lost $1000 (add it to the list) while trading on the market only to have the modem freeze up (literally for the hundredth time) rightwhile my stock was tanking. So Ithought I'd see who else is getting the cold shoulder from Tmobile besides me. This financial loss was completely avoidable had one of the 5 people I complained about my modem to had cared enough to do anything about it. Add that to the losses due to my businesses bottom line by not having a phone system that fully worked for a couple of days AND having to close my doors to drive to multiple Tmobile stores to try to get a working phone number,it adds up to one big pile of.. regret. What have I done? Anyone have the phone number for Verizon? Yep Crickets... They could even tell me hiw to do a return so Im not holdong my bresth for getting the modem back to them. Then again its pretty.much a boat anchor now. Just to be clear for when they want to say I don't have a good enoughsignal for my modem, it worked great for more than a yearuntil it didn't. And now I'm paying the price once again for what seems to be a lack of responsibility totheir customers. A novel concdpt I admit. I need a new modem by tomorrowor anexit strategy to end this madness because this isn't world class customer support as expected by any stretch. To be fair some of the folks I spoke with did seem to want to help but they just didn't know how. Somehow keeping me on the phone for 5 hours was supposed to do something to fix the issues? It took a smart young man at the Covington Tmobile store (that I drove to) to do what a team of others could not. Provide a functioning phone line. I wonder what he knows about modems? Guess I'll be shutting down the shop again to try to fix this thing on my own.
Solving CGNAT problems?
AFAICT my T-Mobile Internet router connects to a CGNAT DMZ, and every time I connect to a networkservice I do so from what appears to that service to be a different IP4 address. There seem to be exceptions, however, for some known protocols - I’ve had an SSH session up for several consecutive days. So one CAN obtain a static IP address for things like VPNs and SSH, but the protocol has to be well-known. Therefore, questions: Is there an IPV4 packet flag that says “this session needs a static IP address” to routers along the way? Routers are already reading the port assignments in order to determine “oh, that’s SSH, better make this static.” Is there a packet flag one can set? If I turned off IPV4 and just used IPV6 would the CGNAT DMZ provide a static address, since I wouldn’t need to be sharing IPV4 addresses any more?
High-Speed Internet Gateway does not work with some apps on T-mobile Home Wifi Internet
I don’t know if anybody can help. Encountered a few deal breaking moments with T-mobile Home Wifi internet. I get a whopping 100-235mbps with my High-Speed Internet Gateway but it prevents full access to apps causing extreme lag spikes, pages not loading and video not playing with Amazon Prime Video (on PS4 and on Amazon Fire Stick 4k), TD Ameritrade trading platform for Windows 10, and to a lesser extent apps like Epic Games on PC I also have T-vision TV package, that works fine. So does Netflix. Epic games was able to be fixed once telling PC to use Google DNS 8.8.8.8. and 8.8.4.4. respectively. I had to use Nord VPN to get TD Ameritrade to function correctly without freezing at times, DNS change did not work here. Amazon prime video is still a no go, constantly stops and takes a long time to load again only to stop again. DNS change also did not resolve the issue. It should still work with Nord VPN because it bypasses all T-Mobile filters, but I did not buy T-mobile Home WiFi internet to need the VPN all the time, so I did not bother trying VPN with Prime Video. Is that something we can possibly fix in firmware? And soon please? Speaking of firmware. There is no place to get a new Firmware update which the High-Speed Internet Gateway critically needs. It lacks too many features. One the most needed features is to allow the High-Speed Internet Gateway to turn in just a modem and turn off all routing features so that users can bring their own independent routers to handle DHCP and other advanced functions. High-Speed Internet Gateway also has a bug where I can not fully disable all of the WiFi Signals. You can stop broadcast and SSID from being announced and reduce the radio power for 2.4ghz and 5ghz from 100% down to 12% but it is still not entirely off. I can still see a 5ghz band displaying a signal and allows me to connect when WiFi is supposed to be disabled. Apparently there is a 5Ghz low and 5Ghz high antenna mode. And the 5ghz high is the one that remains visible and usable. Can not be turned off. I don’t want to use the hub for wifi, just want to use hard wired internet. I hope to see these issues addressed in the next firmware update with a resources on where we can obtain the new firmware update file as right now there is no information on that anywhere for the new High-Speed Internet Gateway. At the very least I want to see the simple feature of turning the gateway into a modem all by itself and I can handle all the routing on my end instead and if it comes to it I can do a whole house VPN that way and bypass all the problems. Older gateways had the expert mode from what I could see, please bring that back too if you can. Thank you for reading! And for the help! Mike P.S. I have already tried turning it off and back on again, obviously does not work. VPN seems to be the only way to bypass all the problems, but since the unit can not disable routing to act solely as a modem, I can not use a separate router for DHCP and to run VPN for the whole house.My tmobile cell tower is overloading my router settings to make it worse
I just got this tmobile home internet last monday and for two days it was amazing and then someone started messing with the settings to make it worse by alot. One thing they did was change the TCP so any new connection starts out with a very slow download and then it ramps up to better speeds, i can only get full speeds on a download service like steam now,webpages use next to no download speed and if you have auto quality enabled or you can’t choose a video quality for a video, all videos on computer and TV start out at like 160p and then go up to 720p or more after a while. Next they keep overloading my router settings to force me on to other bands and to slow down my speeds the speed test pings are in the 180s, and they over amplify the sinr it was normaly 12-15 for days and they overload it to 40to make it slower i was getting 168 mbps downloads maxed with a 70 ping, now its around 100mbps but the pings and the TCP ramp up change really degrade quality of the internet the cell tower on cellmapper.net iseNB ID 102529 - LTE i have included a image of the signal quality changed by someone before and after a reboot
