I’m fairly confident that this device (Nokia) is able to handle all of these things. I think what has happened here is T-Mobile threw a very locked down firmware on the device to make setup easy. The following things need to happen.Provide settings to place the gateway in bridge mode. This will allow customers to keep their existing setups and NAT fine.Provide settings to turn off the wifi in the gateway COMPLETELY. Turning off broadcast and reducing power to minimal is not sufficient.Make all of these settings accessible only through the web admin page. The average consumer doesn’t need this stuff, but the power user who is smart enough to know how to login to the admin web page should be able to modify these settings. Ultimately, I just want “a dumb modem” just like I get with the cable co. I don’t want or need T-Mobile helping me by dumbing down the device.
The Nokia 5G 3.1 is the newer device. That's why I was very specific in the model I was discussing. I don't want hackery 3rd party services, I need this functionality in the hardware. Noip and dyndns solve this anyways, my current router supports this natively.
I can't use noip with t-mobile because it doesn't support it, but if it was just bridging I could. I'm not willing to wait around for another device when the speeds I get right now are just fine and the device I have is capable of the functions I need.
Holy sh* man you are saying exactly what I’m stating! The right thing to do would be instead of trying to work against me, work WITH me to pressure T-Mobile to get this deivce more functional and then we can ALL do whatever we want with it. All T-mobile has to do is enable the device to bridge. That’s it. I know this because that’s how my cable modem worked and I was able to do everything else I wanted from there. So if you want to sit there and tell me the networking configuration I used for YEARS was ‘incorrect’ and didn’t work, go right ahead…..but you are not helping. You can be an apologist for why they don’t enable these things, but this device is for HOME INTERNET. I do not sit at home on my phone and nothing else. If that is T-mobile’s position then I’ll be returning it and wait until they grow up.
I took mine back and canceled the service. I could stand inconsistent service or hobbled device but not both at the same time. I'll try this again in a few years when maybe Tmobile has figured all of this out. Definitely beta service.
Got that the first week or so, then pings got higher, speeds started dropping to right around 100 down, and at times during FPS games it would lag and stutter really bad. Also watched the signal go from good in the beginning to weak even though I never moved the device.
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