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T-Mobile gateway alternative - Nighthawk M6?
I have T-Mobile home internet and have had problems using their Nokia 5G21 gateway. I'd like to try a Nighthawk M6. What submodels will work(regular and Pro?). It looks like the MR6500 is ATT only. T...
What issue are you having with that gateway?
The hotspots are nice but that nokia gateway is setup quite extensive for cellular and router and is going to have a better antenna and internal router setup.
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Since they upgraded to 5G here in December(3 months ago), I've had daily outages lasting from seconds to days. Folks on the TM FB group say the cheap TM gateways are inferior. The Nokia doesn't have any antenna ports, either. I generally have 2 or 3 bars of signal.
The built in antenna's on that gateway are pretty extensive if you look at the teardown. A lot of the issue I'm betting is related to 5g not passing through materials well. Do you have it located by a window? or make sure that there isn't much blocking its signal.
Do you find it dropping to 4g quite a bit?
It's up in a window in the tower direction. I have had speeds as high as 585(once). I now have it on a UPS with a cooling fan. Still have problems. I can't tell if 4G is working better than 5G. I have the SSIDs split.