Guus Bosman

Last year I switched over to T-Mobile 5G after months of back-and-forth with Comcast. They simply couldn’t resolve the reliability issues on our street. I was hesitant at first, but the 5G connection has been excellent. And to state the obvious: reliable internet matters a lot to me given the number of video presentations I do. I’m mostly in the office these days, but for video production, my home studio is still hard to beat.

For the six months I kept the 5G gateway in the basement while testing the signal, and once I was confident in its stability, I decided to give it a permanent (and better) home. Two electricians ran Ethernet to several rooms upstairs — a surprising amount of work, two floors up and across the house — but the result is fantastic.

I moved the modem to the upstairs room that’s closest to the T-Mobile antenna a few streets over — and the visual speaks for itself. The signal strength improved by about 15 decibels, a substantial boost that translates to roughly 30X more received signal power.