Hi,
We live in a rural area and rarely get over 2 bars of cell service on LTE with download speeds MAYBE as good as 15mbps.
Recently, things got worse and our bars have been dropping to nothing, or 1 bar, with speeds of under 1mbps.
I called T-Mobile and was told that they were doing Modernization of the towers and that it should be done within a few days.
Fast forward to today (a week later) speeds were still bad until this morning when I woke up to 2 bars of 5G with download speeds of over 100mbps! To my delight, I thought we were getting somewhere and that T-Mobile had finally delivered on the promise they made over a year ago that things were being upgraded and improved.
That lasted for approximately 1 hour, then we dropped off the face of the earth again, back down to record low, unusable LTE speeds of less than 1mbps.
My question is, obviously we now know we are capable of receiving 5G and super good speeds, but my worry is that this happened by accident or some fluke and we won’t be getting anywhere near this once modernization is complete.
Any insight into how this modernization works, the technical side of these things, or if we should hold our breath would be great.
As I’m writing this, I now have 1 bar of 5G back and getting 70.5 mbps down! Please Lord, please let this hold!
Hubby and I have been working from home for the last year with terrible speeds, and have been praying for a solution this whole time.
Thanks for any insight!
- McMurray
