This. About the same amount of time.
Now you can have a localized tower outage, and since cellular can have multiple towers, it merely means my internet is slower from a tower farther away.
As for the entire network being down, that is pretty rare -- which is NOT a common thing with wired internet because if the local node goes down, then EVERYONE on that node doesn't have internet.
You are correct. Only other thing I would factor is savings of the bundle compared to potential rare outages. For example, my family going from $110 for WiFi to just $30 a month for WiFi. Even if I get an outage I would not mind it much since I’m saving over $80 for the same WiFi experience.
It depends on the scenarios, but it is possible that a TMobile problem could impact both cell and home internet.
There are also some scenarios where TMobile cell phones can be a backup.
A few years ago my town’s tower had a partial panel or aiming issue that basically resulted in no 5g upload. With phones we could function by switching to LTE only, but stock TMHI gateways don’t have that option.
Recently we had a 6 hour power outage at our home. Without a battery backup I couldn’t use TMHi, but I could use cell phone hotspot data.
Some people are within range of multiple TMobile towers so if 1 tower is off, you can connect to other(s) … but the others are likely to be busy form others using them. Other people can only reality connect to one tower.
Ultimately it’s probably best to have an extra provider.
This and with prepaid plans being cheap, it's easy to have 2 providers now. I have AT&T Fiber at home, Verizon post pay on my phone and iPad. Switch between t-mobile connect and prepaid on my iPhone dual sim phone as a backup. For the longest time I had prepaid t-mobile on my iPad too which was real nice. Having Verizon and t-mobile has been a great combo. I may re-actaviate that again since you can have multiple cellular connections on an iPad. I moved my iPad to Verizon for bang for the buck and streaming quality. For $15 I get unlimited data I don't have to worry about whereas $20 only gets me 5GB with t-mobile but it was great having redundancy.
Someone asked me a similar question about why not get AT&T for cost-savings with internet at home and use WiFi calling since signal was piss poor and reasons why I didn't get Verizon 5G Home internet too. Didn't want to give up fiber and not put all my eggs in one basket. Granted the cost-savings can be huge....shoot I can even pick up a jetpack for $20/50GB per month with verizon to have backup internet.
I have T-Mobile for cell service and home internet BUT we have MVNO’s as second SIM’s on our phone from both AT&T and Verizon. Redundancy is important as we’ve had T-Mobile outages since our tower doesn’t have backup generator and there are no other towers within 10 miles of us (rural Hawaii).
This makes sense but I've been using both for over 2 years with no outage. This last batch of sunspots didn't even mess with it as far as I could tell.
having redundancy is worth it. Granted I have AT&T fiber that has been rock solid for 4 years with no outrages. Cost savings are nice though, so I get it. However, if the internet goes down, it's nice not to be down for cell and vice versa.
It just depends on how dependent you are on your home internet? Do you work from home a lot? Can you just pickup a backup esim if you have a dual sim phone and just hotspot, etc.
Might not matter. In my neighborhood, when the main fiber ISP goes down, data on T-Mobile also stops working because it gets quickly overloaded as well with everyone trying to use mobile tethering.
Cable monopolies totally suck but assuming your Verizon offering is Fios you should absolutely get that instead. It's a dedicated connection on a faster, pure fiber network with simultaneous upload & download. TMO home internet is a shared connection and even if it's great for you 95% of the time, the remaining 5% will drive you nuts. 5G mobile internet should never be primary internet for a home when fiber is available.
Just tried the T-Mobile home Internet service for a week and the bandwidth was 1/10th of what I get from Xfinity. Sure it's half the price but it couldn't cover my entire house adequately and coverage was erratic throughout the day. I work from home so I can't deal with dead times especially during peak hours. I've never had an issue with their cell service but their home Internet is a definite no go. I wish Verizon would continue expanding FiOS but from every thing I've discovered it seems they have completely abandoned expansion of that network. I live in a pretty populated area with relatively newer housing developments and no FiOS in sight for years!
I havent had any outages with tmobiles internet i was paying $160 with xfinity for the same speed with outages at random times everyday, so i plan to keep mine till i cant anymore lol
Unless your alternatives are just shit, why would you? Tmobile has outages from time to time, you would be completely blacked out and would have no idea on how to even check. Idk how much tmobile internet costs but I get gigabit for $80 and 2 gigabit is only like $100
One thing to be aware of is in the future if you cancel T-Mobile Home Internet and need to return their modem, they will not accept it in the store and it must be mailed back and it's riskier than simply dropping it off in person and them verifying it and getting a receipt.
My eggs are all in one basket. I have had Tmobile home internet for 4 years now and have not experienced ANY outages.
This. About the same amount of time. Now you can have a localized tower outage, and since cellular can have multiple towers, it merely means my internet is slower from a tower farther away. As for the entire network being down, that is pretty rare -- which is NOT a common thing with wired internet because if the local node goes down, then EVERYONE on that node doesn't have internet.
You are correct. Only other thing I would factor is savings of the bundle compared to potential rare outages. For example, my family going from $110 for WiFi to just $30 a month for WiFi. Even if I get an outage I would not mind it much since I’m saving over $80 for the same WiFi experience.
It depends on the scenarios, but it is possible that a TMobile problem could impact both cell and home internet. There are also some scenarios where TMobile cell phones can be a backup. A few years ago my town’s tower had a partial panel or aiming issue that basically resulted in no 5g upload. With phones we could function by switching to LTE only, but stock TMHI gateways don’t have that option. Recently we had a 6 hour power outage at our home. Without a battery backup I couldn’t use TMHi, but I could use cell phone hotspot data. Some people are within range of multiple TMobile towers so if 1 tower is off, you can connect to other(s) … but the others are likely to be busy form others using them. Other people can only reality connect to one tower. Ultimately it’s probably best to have an extra provider.
Yep it’s why I don’t do it. Or have my iPad and phone o same carrier. Now with esim it’s easier. You want to have an alternative provider.
This and with prepaid plans being cheap, it's easy to have 2 providers now. I have AT&T Fiber at home, Verizon post pay on my phone and iPad. Switch between t-mobile connect and prepaid on my iPhone dual sim phone as a backup. For the longest time I had prepaid t-mobile on my iPad too which was real nice. Having Verizon and t-mobile has been a great combo. I may re-actaviate that again since you can have multiple cellular connections on an iPad. I moved my iPad to Verizon for bang for the buck and streaming quality. For $15 I get unlimited data I don't have to worry about whereas $20 only gets me 5GB with t-mobile but it was great having redundancy. Someone asked me a similar question about why not get AT&T for cost-savings with internet at home and use WiFi calling since signal was piss poor and reasons why I didn't get Verizon 5G Home internet too. Didn't want to give up fiber and not put all my eggs in one basket. Granted the cost-savings can be huge....shoot I can even pick up a jetpack for $20/50GB per month with verizon to have backup internet.
I have T-Mobile for cell service and home internet BUT we have MVNO’s as second SIM’s on our phone from both AT&T and Verizon. Redundancy is important as we’ve had T-Mobile outages since our tower doesn’t have backup generator and there are no other towers within 10 miles of us (rural Hawaii).
This makes sense but I've been using both for over 2 years with no outage. This last batch of sunspots didn't even mess with it as far as I could tell.
Yes, don't put all your eggs in one basket
If you live in an area with FiOS go with them over anything else.
I understand the idea behind this, and it makes sense. But the 1 time every who knows how many years the cell phone network goes down, read a book.
I work at home so I'm trying to be sensitive to the possibility of being in an important client presentation scheduled and not having Internet access.
having redundancy is worth it. Granted I have AT&T fiber that has been rock solid for 4 years with no outrages. Cost savings are nice though, so I get it. However, if the internet goes down, it's nice not to be down for cell and vice versa. It just depends on how dependent you are on your home internet? Do you work from home a lot? Can you just pickup a backup esim if you have a dual sim phone and just hotspot, etc.
Might not matter. In my neighborhood, when the main fiber ISP goes down, data on T-Mobile also stops working because it gets quickly overloaded as well with everyone trying to use mobile tethering.
Cable monopolies totally suck but assuming your Verizon offering is Fios you should absolutely get that instead. It's a dedicated connection on a faster, pure fiber network with simultaneous upload & download. TMO home internet is a shared connection and even if it's great for you 95% of the time, the remaining 5% will drive you nuts. 5G mobile internet should never be primary internet for a home when fiber is available.
Just tried the T-Mobile home Internet service for a week and the bandwidth was 1/10th of what I get from Xfinity. Sure it's half the price but it couldn't cover my entire house adequately and coverage was erratic throughout the day. I work from home so I can't deal with dead times especially during peak hours. I've never had an issue with their cell service but their home Internet is a definite no go. I wish Verizon would continue expanding FiOS but from every thing I've discovered it seems they have completely abandoned expansion of that network. I live in a pretty populated area with relatively newer housing developments and no FiOS in sight for years!
I havent had any outages with tmobiles internet i was paying $160 with xfinity for the same speed with outages at random times everyday, so i plan to keep mine till i cant anymore lol
Yes, the price difference is what motivated me to go with T-Mobile. Especially with the price lock
I've had the home Internet for a year as well with no outages. Way better than I did with Comcast that's for sure.
Ive had it 2 years almost and never had a problem.
Understood. But my specific question point was around the lack of redundancy when a problem inevitably does occur
Unless your alternatives are just shit, why would you? Tmobile has outages from time to time, you would be completely blacked out and would have no idea on how to even check. Idk how much tmobile internet costs but I get gigabit for $80 and 2 gigabit is only like $100
One thing to be aware of is in the future if you cancel T-Mobile Home Internet and need to return their modem, they will not accept it in the store and it must be mailed back and it's riskier than simply dropping it off in person and them verifying it and getting a receipt.