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argiulianoFirst activity
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Home Internet Signal Booster?

There’s a WiFi 6 MIMO radio built into your gateway.  That’s about as good as you can get.I did a heatmap of my house (using the WiFi Heat Map from Meter. Inc from the Google Store) with first my old Netgear router and then my new gray gateway and the gray gateway blew the Netgear away.Note that there is some mention of mesh networking in the settings of the gateway, so it is probably coming.You can, as I just did, buy an external 5G antenna and follow the instructions on YouTube for hooking it up.  (The 5G MIMO antenna from WaveForm is $200.) That will allow you to move the gateway from the location where it receives 5G best to the location where it provides the best WiFi coverage for your house.  (The 5G MIMO antenna from WaveForm is $200.)You can also use the Ethernet port to connect the gateway to an “access point” from somebody like Unifi.  Or you could even use an old WiFi router router as an access point if you can tolerate the “double NAT” issues.Finally, I suspect that you can

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I'm cooking555First activity
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Phone Hacked

There is no one way.  Each exploit has its own set of details.  Some are very good at hiding their existance.  So the best advice is to make an assumption. It’s pretty unlikely that your phone is hacked if you only downloaded apps from the Apple or Google stores.  If you have only installed apps from those stores you are probably OK.On the other hand, if there are symptoms, such as lots of ads popping up, unexplained charges on your phone bill or credit card, or a sudden slow down, then you might assume that it has been infected with malware.Fortunately, most malware won’t survive a factory reset.  Follow the procedures for your phone to preserve your data and perform a reset.  Then, you will KNOW that your phone is free of malware (for a while.)OK, let’s roll….and Hey!...Lets be careful out there.

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IP Location issue

There is probably a manageably small group of services that provide IP-to-geographic-location information to a vast majority of websites.  So, step one would be for T-Mobile to contact these web sites and give them the address ranges TMobile uses and a warning that any information about these IP addresses will be invalid.  That right there might be enough for my ROKU to stop showing me ads for Pittsburg, PA.Sonce TMobile does know our locations (based upon what tower we are using),tep two would be for TMobile to give the IP-to-Location services an API they can call to get an up-to-the-minute accurate location.Do you read these threads, TMobile?OK, let’s roll… and, hey...Lets be careful out there. 

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BlindbatFirst activity
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Home Internet & Wifi calling

Rookie,I assume that you turned off the wifi on the T-Mobile router because the limited interface didn’t give you any way to secure it (disable uPnP, etc.)  This does not sound like a rookie to me.PhilEsterhouse

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