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Re: Static IP with home internet or business internet?
The problem isn't that T-Mobile uses DHCP IP addresses. All the cable companies do the same thing when they provide Internet service. The problem is that T-Mobile doesn't have local pools from which the devices can grab their IP addresses. When I had T-Mobile Home Internet I would get IP addresses that geolocated to Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles. I live in upstate NY. I am currently using my local cable company for internet (Spectrum). My public facing IP geolocates to the town I live in. And it aways has. Without proper geolocation, I have had problems with streaming services thinking I am out of location. Searching for "restaurants near me" in a browser would bring me to restaurants from all over the country. Not much help. For many of us, geolocation is everything. I really wanted TMHE to work. It had great speed, and was cheap. But without a solution for Geolocation, I returned it within 5 days. I spent days on the phone with their tech support going from techs that didn't know it was a problem, didn't understand what geolocation even was, or those that claimed there was no solution. Hours on the phone. It's sad. It could be such a great solution.1.5KViews0likes0CommentsRe: t-mobile Home Internet - Location Issue
Two myths that have been prompted in this thread are absolutely false. “T-Mobile cannot be held responsible for flaws in Operating Systems or that streaming providers use IP address for Geolocation”. That’s tantamount to having the entire industry be the issue, when it’s really only T-Mobile’s model of providing IP addresses Willy Nilly instead of using local IP addresses as all other Internet Providers do (like your local cable company). Using the T-Mo device, I could not see Yankees Baseball in the YES Network app on my Roku TV. Yet in the same house, using my T-Mo cell phone, the app came up perfectly. Stating that “this is the way cell phone geolocation works” is also provably false. When I do a search for Home Depot on my T-Mobile phone, it shows locations for the LOCAL Home Depot locations. I suspect this is because my phone uses GPS for geolocation. It does not show me locations in California as the T-Mo Home Internet device did during my very brief dalliance with it (I live in NY). It can be done. T-Mobile is just not doing it. I must say, I was very disappointed. The T-Mo device gave me twice the bandwidth as my local cable company at half the price. I spent hours on the phone with 5 different agents, only of whom even knew about (or was allowed to discuss) the geolocation issue. After three (3) days, I returned the device to my local store. Employees there also knew nothing of the geolocation issues. T-Mo customer here for years, and I’m going nowhere else for cell service. The company has served me well. However, there refusal to solve this issue is sad. I’d come back in a heartbeat to TMHI.132Views0likes0Comments