Comments on: T-Mobile @ Home http://devin.reams.me/t-mobile-home/ Thoughts on life, business, and technology. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:32:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: cooliojones http://devin.reams.me/t-mobile-home/comment-page-1/#comment-1323 cooliojones Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:10:13 +0000 http://devinreams.com/2007/07/05/t-mobile-home/#comment-1323 I have this service because I won the promotion from T-Mobile on July 3. I wrote about everything that I won in a post that can be seen here: http://www.mynewhustle.com/index.php/pictures-from-the-t-mobile-home-promo/ Here are my issues: The switching from router to cell tower of course My phone will spontaneously reboot for no reason, and has done this at least 4 times. The router almost constantly drops calls, and there was a point where I had to reboot it everyday! This past Sunday, my router decides to all of the sudden block port 80, even after I rebooted the thing twice! I ended up having to reset it and re-enter all the credentials. Wired versus wireless connection. Check this out: If my desktop and another computer are both connected via wired connection, I can browse both computers by name with no problem. But I can't browse by name when going from wired to wireless connection, I HAVE to use the IP address. Again, no rhyme, no reason. I use a Linksys WRT54g-TM router, and this surprises me because I always recommend Linksys products. Add to this that my 'free' plan seemingly isn't free, because T-Mobile doesn't want to give contest winners the full benefit of using the @Home service. My minutes are all being pulled from my Whenever minutes instead of being free when I'm on the home network! This is so unfair, and I will go and talk to them about this tomorrow. Are there any other contest winners out there? I really want to get into contact with you please! I have this service because I won the promotion from T-Mobile on July 3. I wrote about everything that I won in a post that can be seen here:
http://www.mynewhustle.com/index.php/pictures-from-the-t-mobile-home-promo/

Here are my issues:

The switching from router to cell tower of course

My phone will spontaneously reboot for no reason, and has done this at least 4 times.

The router almost constantly drops calls, and there was a point where I had to reboot it everyday!

This past Sunday, my router decides to all of the sudden block port 80, even after I rebooted the thing twice! I ended up having to reset it and re-enter all the credentials.

Wired versus wireless connection. Check this out: If my desktop and another computer are both connected via wired connection, I can browse both computers by name with no problem. But I can’t browse by name when going from wired to wireless connection, I HAVE to use the IP address. Again, no rhyme, no reason.

I use a Linksys WRT54g-TM router, and this surprises me because I always recommend Linksys products. Add to this that my ‘free’ plan seemingly isn’t free, because T-Mobile doesn’t want to give contest winners the full benefit of using the @Home service. My minutes are all being pulled from my Whenever minutes instead of being free when I’m on the home network! This is so unfair, and I will go and talk to them about this tomorrow. Are there any other contest winners out there? I really want to get into contact with you please!

]]> By: Devin http://devin.reams.me/t-mobile-home/comment-page-1/#comment-1321 Devin Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:34:37 +0000 http://devinreams.com/2007/07/05/t-mobile-home/#comment-1321 Yeah, it's darn good. And they're definitely the first carrier to preemptively tackle the VOIP issue. Yeah, it’s darn good. And they’re definitely the first carrier to preemptively tackle the VOIP issue.

]]> By: zzap http://devin.reams.me/t-mobile-home/comment-page-1/#comment-1322 zzap Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:53:01 +0000 http://devinreams.com/2007/07/05/t-mobile-home/#comment-1322 Sounds good... bit of a shame I don't like in the U.S. -- or anywhere T-Mobile is, for that matter. Sounds good… bit of a shame I don’t like in the U.S. — or anywhere T-Mobile is, for that matter.

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