T-Mobile Home Internet Nokia modem took a dump on me. No internet for three hours and then very slow speeds.

T-Mobile recently announced price cuts to $50 a month (down from $60) for their Home Internet plan.

If you want to know why, here’s why. This is the best signal I can get.

Not that Deutsche Telekom would ever lie (HAH!), but they claimed that they made sure that nobody who signed up for T-Mobile Home Internet would get less than 25 Mbps, and then also claimed that many customers saw more than that.

To be fair, sometimes out of the blue, I’ll speed test at 50-80 Mbps, but then it’ll just go back down to this, or the modem will start crashing again. Today it crashed three times, and then the third time, it wouldn’t even connect to the internet again for 3 hours.

The only modem they allow you to have on their network is a well known piece of shit called the Nokia Trash Can (at least on Reddit).

The support agent said they’re shipping me a new one to see if it’s a defective modem, but I doubt it. Many, many other people have been having bad experiences on T-Mobile and the new firmwares are just making the problems worse.

T-Mobile is just cheap with their network and instead of expanding it and ordering decent equipment, they just pack several times as many people as should be using a tower on it and send out junk hardware that crashes and glitches and freezes up. In fact, I doubt the price cut would have been necessary at all if they were really capable of fast internet speeds.