I’ve had this service for a few months now but knew before I got it that it wouldn’t be the best for gaming. Any wireless internet solution will have more variables to cause issues to the signal. While 5G is an improvement, jitter has always been an issue with mobile internet because it is wireless. I’ve used my Xbox a handful of times with it but it’s not the best. Your latency will jump around all over the place with this service but that's just the nature of the type of service you have.
I’m also in Phoenix, and there’s a 5G tower 1000 ft from my house, which is where my HI router usually connects. When they were setting up the tower, I’d see it bounce between a Phx IP and an LA IP. I was told that once the 5G service was fully operational, then I’d see a Phx IP all the time. As far as I can tell, the 5G has been steady for months, but I haven’t seen a Phx IP since last summer. Why did T-Mobile decide to break the internet? Geo-IP simply does not work with T-Mo Home Internet connections, and it does not even register with them that it’s a problem. I can see their argument about “privacy” in certain circumstances, but I’d prefer it if they’d let me choose rather than forcing things to look like I live in Compton, California. Is there a way I can run a VPN that gets me a Phx-based public IP address that won’t slow down my service noticeably? They didn’t break the internet. That’s just how ISPs work sometimes. With the crippling CGNAT that they use, the endpoint of that
I had to figure out what direction was the closest tower to improve mine. Cellmapper was helpful and was able to find the window for that direction and it made a massive difference.
I agree TMobile could have made this much easier by providing an internet facing IP address, as well as IP scope control and other things. But there are easy ways to get your setup working if you have another router. To start, just have another router and connect either of the yellow ports of the TMobile gateway connected to the internet port (WAN) of your router. Now you have complete control over your internal network with DHCP, Scope, Static IPs if you want, Firewall rules for the internet, etc. The next thing is to use something like the free version of TeamViewer, which will create the path through the internet to your computer for remote access and you can remote into your computer from outside the network whenever you want. For security system viewing, just setup the viewing app on your home computer (which you probably already have) and remote into your computer and view your cameras that way. TeamViewer has a version for Windows computers, phones, tablets, Linux, MacOS, Raspb
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