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zplugger
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Not sure where to begin but been with T-Mobile for couple years using internet service. I have the silver trash can router. When I first got the modem it worked pretty good, I'm about 4 miles from tower, I live in a rural area with a lot of summer vacation homes, problem is people bring their T-Mobile routers from another area and use the tower near me for service. T-Mobile should lock modems to the area they are assign too. But that will probably not happen, so I want to get a new modem with the antenna ports and get a external antenna for better signal. Is this possible or would I have to buy a new one? I pay my bill early every month and don’t use a lot of data. At 70 not much for me to do except stream a little tv. Verizon is coming to my area soon or just try and work this out with T-Mobile. In the two years never had a problem with billing or other support, its hard to find service like that these days. Any suggestions on getting a modem with external antenna ports apricated.Solved184Views0likes2CommentsRe: Band B12
Morning Henry51 Did a little test today, rehooked up internal antennas on my trashcan and headed for the tower 2.5 miles away. With tower insight all I could get was B12 with 5 bars. Did a reboot and the same. Drove the block around the tower and did reboot every time I stopped and B12 is only connection I could get. Thinking T Mobile is only sending B12 from my tower for internet users, could this be? I did hook to different antenna numbers from the tower but only got B12. Should Icontact T Mobile on my finding because maybe there is a problem. I used to always get 27215423 signal. Maybe they over sold my rural area.15Views0likes0CommentsRe: Band B12
Thanks Henry51 I did do the reset and no luck, I have external antenna Waveform 2x2 on it. I tried moving the antenna and no luck, stuck on B12, I used to get B71 and it worked ok for me. Streaming now buffers so I might have to change provider. T Mobile has been great for the last two years, not sure what happened. Was thinking about taking the gateway closer to the tower and see if it will switch,I guess I should hook enternal antennas back up first. Getting 3 bars but it will not move off B12.19Views0likes0Comments