We do not play video games, so we were not concerned with the NAT issues that gamers have, so we thought based on the speeds we were getting with our 5g phones & with 5G tower in the parking lot behind our house we would give TMHI a shot.
Our Spectrum rates had shot up again to $70 /mo 500 ultra after 1 year promo, so $50/mo guaranteed for life seemed like a great deal until.…
1) While My Brother has the Nokia we were sent an Arkadyan. Everything went well until less than a week on Service (Christmas Eve) our unit was updated to firmware 1.00.18. With this update we lost all 5g, dropped to b12 from b66 & WiFi devices kept going offline
2)With the Christmas Holiday & Bad weather back east it took a week to get another replacement. We requested the Nokia but was told they only replace like for like & Will only get another Arkadyan. BTW, It took me over 2 hours on hold to get through to HI tech support (which is normal occurence)
3)Less than a week later , this replacement also received update 1.00.18 & too was broken afterwards with same issues as my 1st unit.
4) I am now on my 3rd Arkadyan & it still is on 1.00.16 so back to receiving speeds over 600 down & 100 up on N41 (5g)
5) So here our my other issues with Arkadyan unit :
6) Roku Dual Band Devices can not connect to Arkadyan 5ghz band ssid. They can not see it. According to Roku they need to see channel 161 on 5ghz, so evidently the Arkadyan does not broadcast on channel 161. My Brothers Nokia does & he has no issue with Roku devices connecting on Nokia 5ghz ssid.
7) Even though T-Mobile States that TMHI works with VOIP providers that support IPV6, it evidently will not work with MagicJack which needs SIP ALG turned off & UDP ports 5060-5070 open. With No UPNP or Port Forwarding or Firewall settings & CG-NAT there is no way to get MagicJack to work reliably. It was working flawlessly for 25 days until one day it wasn't. While we have no issues making outgoing calls, inbound caller can not hear us, yet we can hear them. We are not out the Cost of 1 years MagicJack Service ($40) plus the $20 port in fee to transfer number from Spectrum.
8) With us being able to make outbound calls with MagicJack, but not inbound calls, we decided to forward our MagicJack number to a digits talk & text line. We installed the digits on 3 phones. When a call comes in all 3 phones ring. However if phone A answers the phone & it's for Phone B we would like to transfer the call from A to B. The Digits app gives you two options: Transfer call to any other phone number or to Switch the call to another Device with Digits. Neither function works.The call will go on hold, the pop up for the function (transfer call or switch device) freezes, and the call will go into perpetual hold and you will not be able to resume the call. So we can not reliable use Digits to manage incoming calls for the family .
9) We signed up for Ooma yesterday being that it is heavily promoted by T-Mobile, so hoping that it works with no issue. Ooma is going to cost 4x the price ($10/mo & $6/mo taxes) annually over MagicJack!
