I have been a T-Mobile home internet customer for nearly five months. Things were fine, but recently internet speeds have been slow -- this might be due to living in a college town that adds 10-15,000+ more cell phone users from September-May.
I re-set my internet speed to 5G (from the “recommended” variable 2.4G/5G). I re-started the Gateway, and my laptop connected wirelessly to the internet, but my desktop and cellphone cannot connect. In fact, when trying to reconnect those two devices, my T-Mobile internet name does not even show up on the list of available networks -- there are 20 or more other names listed but not my T-Mobile internet name. I have tried to re-enter my T-Mobile internet name and password manually on my desktop and cellphone, but I cannot connect to the internet, and my T-Mobile internet name does not even show up on the list of available networks.
Why would these two devices no longer be able to connect to my T-Mobile internet, although my laptop re-connected? These other two devices were able to connect to my T-Mobile internet previously.
I have tried to re-set the Gateway -- switching it off, as well as switching off and unplugging. This was not successful. I re-booted my desktop, and my T-Mobile internet name is showing as “saved” but it is not listed as an available network to which I can connect. (My desktop is within the same room as the Gateway -- 10-12 feet away from the Gateway.)
I contacted technical support but they were not able to provide any helpful information.
Does anyone know why this might have happened, and how I might be able to reconnect my desktop and cellphone? Why is my T-Mobile internet name not even listed as an available option to connect to for my desktop, even though I was able to reconnect my laptop?