Am a 19 yr. T-Mobile customer and am looking at trying their home Internet service. Has anyone tried it and what do you think? Would like to possibly cut all cords (I also have a long-time landline) with Cox and use YouTube TV as well.

I've had it for about a year now.

Works great for me, but I live alone. I've had family over where a lot of people are using the WIFI at once without issue. There are times it is a bit slow and it will take a few seconds for streaming video to load, but that has been rare.

A bigger issue for me is that sometimes during the day (I'd say about 10 times) the speed becomes slow and hinders my ability to upload images to the OKCTalk server. WIFI slowness seems to affect uploads much more than downloads/stream/web browing.

But generally speaking, I'm very happy. It's $50/month and my price won't go up, I'm completely off Cox (TV and wifi) and using YoutubeTV which is cheap and a million times better. YoutubeTV has pretty much unlimited virtual DVR and I have hundreds of movies, sports and shows sitting in my library and they don't get bumped for months. You can have as many devices using YTV as you'd like, and can watch things no matter your location on your laptop or phone. It's fantastic, although some prefer Sling or one of the other live TV services.

I feel like the wifi is just slightly worse but getting completely rid of Cox is fantastic and the TV service I do have is way better and cheaper.

I should add that I've never had an outage, just some slow times which don't seem to last more than an hour.

Have you ever run a speed test to see what your up and down speeds are? You should run one when it's seems normal and again when it seems slow.

Have you ever run a speed test to see what your up and down speeds are? You should run one when it's seems normal and again when it seems slow.

I've done that but don't remember the numbers off hand.

Overall, I think it's a great service for the money and it's super simple; one cylindrical device with good range inside and outside my house.

I had it as well for my father-in-law to stream video while in a nursing home. Worked great for him (Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.). Biggest issue I found was making sure there is coverage, as when I tried to relocate the unit - both within a mile or so of where my father-in-law had been using it in OKC, and Fort Meyers, FL (on the Florida Gulf Coast University campus) - the requisite coverage was not available. But at least T-Mobile can tell you in advance if there is coverage, and in addition to the great price as commented on by Pete, there is no long term contract so you can cancel anytime without penalty (assuming T-Mobile has not changed their terms).

I've had it for about a year now.

Works great for me, but I live alone. I've had family over where a lot of people are using the WIFI at once without issue. There are times it is a bit slow and it will take a few seconds for streaming video to load, but that has been rare.

A bigger issue for me is that sometimes during the day (I'd say about 10 times) the speed becomes slow and hinders my ability to upload images to the OKCTalk server. WIFI slowness seems to affect uploads much more than downloads/stream/web browing.

But generally speaking, I'm very happy. It's $50/month and my price won't go up, I'm completely off Cox (TV and wifi) and using YoutubeTV which is cheap and a million times better. YoutubeTV has pretty much unlimited virtual DVR and I have hundreds of movies, sports and shows sitting in my library and they don't get bumped for months. You can have as many devices using YTV as you'd like, and can watch things no matter your location on your laptop or phone. It's fantastic, although some prefer Sling or one of the other live TV services.

I feel like the wifi is just slightly worse but getting completely rid of Cox is fantastic and the TV service I do have is way better and cheaper.

I should add that I've never had an outage, just some slow times which don't seem to last more than an hour.

Pete, thank you for such a complete review of BOTH services i am considering. I have read that they allow to hold stuff on the DVR for 9 months. Seems like forever, but I have things on my Cox DVR that have been there over a year that I still want to get to--just not enough hours in the day at my place in life it seems. I may have to just resign myself to setting those adrift and not worry about losing them. Thanks again for your helpful insights.

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With YoutubeTV you can also record what seems to be an unlimited number of broadcasts at the same time.

For example, I have it record all college football games then later decide which ones I want to watch. On a day like yesterday, it will record around 20 games. I do the same with NFL games.

I was an early and long-time adopter of TiVo, but this is lightyears better.

^^^^ YouTube TV also has a sh!t ton of ready to watch movie selections like Netlifx.

We just got the Verizon Home 5G internet and we love it so far. We have our phone plans with them already, so the home internet is only $25 a month. Already a lot faster than Cox and much much cheaper.

Will someone that has this please run a speed test so I can compare up and down times with Cox?

Here you go:

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/speedtest091222a.jpg

Are you kidding me? 11.3 down? DSL is 6 Mbps. And the person that said it is faster than Cox, I currently get 560-570 Mbps down on the PC connected directly to the modem and 275 on my devices connected on Wifi.

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The speed depends on their network traffic, and it's usually at its worst in the mornings.

As I've said, I've had almost no problems streaming or doing heavy-duty work on the internet.

I just ran the test again on my Macbook which is way faster than my PC for some reason..

151/16 then 138/18.

If your PC is consistently slower than the Mac and other things you might want to make sure its set to use the 5 GHz wifi rather than the 2.4 GHz.

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Here are my results with Verizon. Canceled Cox today

The download and upload speeds look fine, but if you were wanting to game or use VOIP the ping is what's going to cause you an issue.

I've had ATT fiber for about 3 years and have had zero issues. Only downtime has been during power outages.

I have nothing directly connected to the modem/router but my wifi averages 300+ up and down and the morning is the fastest sometimes getting over 500 up and down on wifi

the first year was $75 and now it is $100 a month

I have T-Mobile for my cell phone and had no clue they had home internet.

I work at a network operations center and the companies network has two fiber lines, one with ATT and one with COX. My home wifi is faster but like I said I work at a NOC and it is running an entire companies computer network

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Am a 19 yr. T-Mobile customer and am looking at trying their home Internet service. Has anyone tried it and what do you think? Would like to possibly cut all cords (I also have a long-time landline) with Cox and use YouTube TV as well.

I'm pretty happy with T-mobile so far. The speed has been great. We've streamed three 4K movies, played a game, and browsed the web all at the same time with no decrease in speed. Here's the speed I am getting but I have seen it as high as 600 down. It depends on the time of day.

I just switched from ATT to T-Mobile. Seems fine so far. I didn't have fiber w/ ATT, so the speeds are comparable.

I finally had to cancel T-Mobile home internet.

I get a good connection (4 bars) but there are evenings when I can't even load the Google page. Meaning, I'm left completely without internet or TV (I use and love YoutubeTV).

It seems it's all due to high traffic and I've tried everything including moving the cellular modem into a window in all four exposures. I suspect they are just getting too many subscribers in my area, both phones and home.


Reluctantly, I'm heading back to Cox. For some odd reason AT&T is not available on my cul-de-sac but is all around us.

I made the switch a couple months ago. Once I had my router pointed currently, I haven't had an issue.

My T-Mobile service started fine but became progressively worse with time.

I started getting slow-downs on the weekends. Then evenings. I moved the modem around. I reset it many times. I reset my computer many times.


Now, there are big blocks of time I can't get any service at all.

I may try them again or something similar down the road. But for now this doesn't work for me.

I'm guessing it largely depends on the usage in your area and what towers you are using, I'm the only wifi user in my house hold, too.

I'm guessing it largely depends on the usage in your area and what towers you are using, I'm the only wifi user in my house hold, too.

I'm sure you're right.

There are some apartments close by and that's probably why I'm having an issue.

I finally had to cancel T-Mobile home internet.

I get a good connection (4 bars) but there are evenings when I can't even load the Google page. Meaning, I'm left completely without internet or TV (I use and love YoutubeTV).

It seems it's all due to high traffic and I've tried everything including moving the cellular modem into a window in all four exposures. I suspect they are just getting too many subscribers in my area, both phones and home.


Reluctantly, I'm heading back to Cox. For some odd reason AT&T is not available on my cul-de-sac but is all around us.

Have you called ATT and talked to a specialist? Sometimes your address might just not show up
In the system. If they are on the block or within a couple houses, there sometimes is ways to get service.

Have you called ATT and talked to a specialist? Sometimes your address might just not show up
In the system. If they are on the block or within a couple houses, there sometimes is ways to get service.

No, but it's likely due to the fact my cul-de-sac has buried utilities and none of the surrounding neighborhood does.

They probably just never ran the cable to the 6-7 houses.

Bummer, we just switched to T-Mobile about 2 months ago and I am already having much better service and connectivity than Cox. With Cox we were losing connection upto 3 or 4 times daily, sometimes it would be out for over an hour. Whenever I would call into Cox or look online they never could say what the problem was, either system maintenance or downed lines or equipment issues, so the reps always amounted it up to higher than normal usage in my area. We live in one of those acreage neighborhoods, so the houses are not super close. So T-Mobile seems to be just fine for now. I too worry what will happen if more people switch over to 5G home internet plans, though. Something will need to happen to the infrastructure to boost signal strength for high user numbers.

I had to go back to Cox and I have to give them credit... Received a self-install kit the very next day after I placed an online order. Super easy to connect and now I have much faster and more reliable service for the same price I was paying T-Mobile.

I wanted to give T-Mobile my business but it didn't work well enough at my address.

And it looks like the competition has caused Cox to up their game and reduce their prices.

I really wish COX would increase their upload speed. Except for their "gigablast" plan, where their upload speed is 35 Mbps, all their plans have a 10Mbps upload speed. That is crazy slow! When I was in KCMO, I had download/upload speeds of 1,000Mbps.

I really wish COX would increase their upload speed. Except for their "gigablast" plan, where their upload speed is 35 Mbps, all their plans have a 10Mbps upload speed. That is crazy slow! When I was in KCMO, I had download/upload speeds of 1,000Mbps.

Yep. Their upload speeds are a joke and during the pandemic we lost connection a ton. They said our node was overloaded. Didnt do anything about it. Happier with OEC fiber now.

I really wish COX would increase their upload speed. Except for their "gigablast" plan, where their upload speed is 35 Mbps, all their plans have a 10Mbps upload speed. That is crazy slow! When I was in KCMO, I had download/upload speeds of 1,000Mbps.

They can only do so much with the tech. I'm surprise they need to start installing fiber everywhere like ATT. Copper is starting to become a dinosaur like DSL

They can only do so much with the tech. I'm surprise they need to start installing fiber everywhere like ATT. Copper is starting to become a dinosaur like DSL

10 Mbps upload is the Maximum capacity of DOCSIS 1.0 released in 1997. (using 16-QAM)
DOCSIS 3.1 (Which is the minimum version COX suggests for people to use) has a Max upload of 1-2Gbps (depending on OFDM/OFDMA channels) - released nearly a decade ago. To be compliant, the modem has to support 2 OFDMA channels and 8 SC-QAM channels. But instead, you are allotted like 1/3 of your one SC-QAM channel in upload unless you have gigablast, in which case you get to use your whole, one SC-QAM channel of upload. They probably set it to like 16-QAM instead of the max supported modulation scheme of 4096-QAM - or maybe it operates at the higher speed but throttled on their end.
DOCSIS 4.0 has a max upload of 6Gbps - released 5 years ago. (Up to about 16384-QAM).

While it does not seem, at this time, that cable modems would reliably be able to hit the 10Gbps range in both directions, it can definitely compete with current fiber speeds if that was desired.

What seems most likely to me is that COX has aged equipment on the infrastructure side of things and instead of updating their equipment, they are trying to push out FTTH, more as a marketing ploy than anything else. People consider cable to be past its useful life, but the infrastructure and technology exists for it to be competitive with FTTH - and would surely be cheaper than running an all new fiber network.