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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 3956826" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>Check their coverage area for your location. For cell phone service they are pretty good. Pricing for plans is pretty good. Customer service is a damn sight better than any other that I've dealt with ever.</p><p></p><p>All that said, I'm kicking their home internet service to the curb after running it for a year. It was pretty good for a good long while and with autopay and it being a second line I got it for $40 bucks a month with no data caps, equipment fees, or .gov fees, it's all included in the $40. That's pretty good. </p><p></p><p>However I think they've outsold their bandwidth capacity. My service was very reliable as far as connection and wifi, all that was rock solid. But during peak times the speed became atrociously slow. I knew it was a tower load issue when I was being passed around towers like a really cheap hooker at a political convention. Some towers are faster than others, operate on different bands which vary in bandwidth, etc. All of them around me got pretty slow. I have 5 towers that will work acceptably at my location on all sides of me one of which is less than a mile. I got myself educated on how to tell what tower you are on and how to find them. Their software is setup to spread the load around as needed to give you a decent speed and it does work. You never even know when it sends you to another tower. I have a bunch of apartment complexes around me so I suspect that they took advantage of T-Mobile's killer pricing and the infrastructure is just saturated. Tech support alluded to "high loads" several times.</p><p></p><p>They definitely have the tech in place, their 5G is straight up the winner out of all of them, but they have grown too fast, IMO. I'm keeping my phone service with them, at least for now.</p><p></p><p>I just had fibre ran to my house. It's actually fibre too, not UVERSE fibre to the switch and then 7000' of coax to your modem. lol. I was kinda shocked that AT&T put fibre on the telephone poles. I guess that shows how dated my tech experience is, it used to have to be in the ground. They tell me I can get 5gig up and down speeds, but I just went with the cheap 300 plan.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]343470[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 3956826, member: 3099"] Check their coverage area for your location. For cell phone service they are pretty good. Pricing for plans is pretty good. Customer service is a damn sight better than any other that I've dealt with ever. All that said, I'm kicking their home internet service to the curb after running it for a year. It was pretty good for a good long while and with autopay and it being a second line I got it for $40 bucks a month with no data caps, equipment fees, or .gov fees, it's all included in the $40. That's pretty good. However I think they've outsold their bandwidth capacity. My service was very reliable as far as connection and wifi, all that was rock solid. But during peak times the speed became atrociously slow. I knew it was a tower load issue when I was being passed around towers like a really cheap hooker at a political convention. Some towers are faster than others, operate on different bands which vary in bandwidth, etc. All of them around me got pretty slow. I have 5 towers that will work acceptably at my location on all sides of me one of which is less than a mile. I got myself educated on how to tell what tower you are on and how to find them. Their software is setup to spread the load around as needed to give you a decent speed and it does work. You never even know when it sends you to another tower. I have a bunch of apartment complexes around me so I suspect that they took advantage of T-Mobile's killer pricing and the infrastructure is just saturated. Tech support alluded to "high loads" several times. They definitely have the tech in place, their 5G is straight up the winner out of all of them, but they have grown too fast, IMO. I'm keeping my phone service with them, at least for now. I just had fibre ran to my house. It's actually fibre too, not UVERSE fibre to the switch and then 7000' of coax to your modem. lol. I was kinda shocked that AT&T put fibre on the telephone poles. I guess that shows how dated my tech experience is, it used to have to be in the ground. They tell me I can get 5gig up and down speeds, but I just went with the cheap 300 plan. [ATTACH]343470[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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