<![CDATA[A bit of the blush is already off my nascent love affair with T-Mobile.]]>A bit of the blush is already off my nascent love affair with T-Mobile.

Their 5G Home Internet service has worked FLAWLESSLY (within the limits of LTE) and at a reasonable price for the year or so I've used it as a backup for Spectrum coax, and this week, I pulled the trigger on T-Mobile fiber.

The installer was a pro, they installed only two days later, yay. Unfortunately, while the modem is connected and SOME routes work, every major DC refuses to talk to me.

So no YouTube, Prime, etc.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/ba572eab-5d57-496e-9751-271bdf762a11/a-bit-of-the-blush-is-already-off-my-nascent-love-affair-with-t-mobile.RSS for NodeFri, 05 Jun 2026 14:06:08 GMTThu, 28 May 2026 16:57:19 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to A bit of the blush is already off my nascent love affair with T-Mobile. on Thu, 28 May 2026 19:48:59 GMT]]>@_calmdowndear @sunsetmountains I can observe the behavior by interacting directly with raw IPv4 addresses. Not a v6 issue, unless it's trying to forcibly 4to6 all my content on the other side of the demarc (which seems... unlikely).

Hell, I'm not even getting a v6 *lease* from them.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/jimsalter/statuses/116653931872164966https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/jimsalter/statuses/116653931872164966Thu, 28 May 2026 19:48:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A bit of the blush is already off my nascent love affair with T-Mobile. on Thu, 28 May 2026 19:46:49 GMT]]>@pauldoo yeah, let me know how nice that is after you spend a week with it.

If you wanted to blackhole nearly every consumer-facing service, it's not that hard to do. Just do it. You don't need a major ISP to ACCIDENTALLY do it for you.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/jimsalter/statuses/116653923325414154https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/jimsalter/statuses/116653923325414154Thu, 28 May 2026 19:46:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A bit of the blush is already off my nascent love affair with T-Mobile. on Thu, 28 May 2026 19:23:05 GMT]]>@jimsalter @sunsetmountains as someone who’s seen similar behaviour in the past…is your website IPv6 enabled? Cos most of the things you listed are, and a bodged IPv6 implementation/change still feels pretty likely as it cruises through its third decade of being “a thing”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/_calmdowndear/statuses/116653830003674653https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/_calmdowndear/statuses/116653830003674653Thu, 28 May 2026 19:23:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A bit of the blush is already off my nascent love affair with T-Mobile. on Thu, 28 May 2026 19:03:47 GMT]]>@sunsetmountains the problem goes FAR beyond just a handful of streaming services, but what I'm seeing is essentially "anything that is consumer-facing and likely to be protected by eg CloudFlare ain't gonna work."

So add the likes of Meta to that list of things that won't work. Like I said, damn near anything that expects to be 100% real-human-facing. It's almost like their ASNs got flagged as being datacenter instead of last-mile, not that I'm saying definitively "that's what happened."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/jimsalter/statuses/116653754096214917https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/jimsalter/statuses/116653754096214917Thu, 28 May 2026 19:03:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A bit of the blush is already off my nascent love affair with T-Mobile. on Thu, 28 May 2026 19:02:09 GMT]]>@sunsetmountains I had lunch with a convention founder earlier this afternoon, and he told me he'd received multiple T-mobile fiber reports from the kinds of folks who give presentations.

All who observed in detail observed the same thing I did: it shit the bed at roughly 1AM ET last night, and many routes are functional but most are not.

For example, when connected to the fiber, I can connect to jrs-s.net flawlessly, and even pass most internet speed tests.

But YouTube, Prime, Disney+? Nope.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/jimsalter/statuses/116653747685900013https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/jimsalter/statuses/116653747685900013Thu, 28 May 2026 19:02:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A bit of the blush is already off my nascent love affair with T-Mobile. on Thu, 28 May 2026 17:23:26 GMT]]>@jimsalter woke up in Virginia with no internet from T-Mobile. Got an email to let me know that the service is experiencing outages. Based on research, it seems it’s at least a multiple state outage.

This coming from someone whose reliable, fiber internet service was bought by T-Mobile last year…

I wish you luck.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/ap/users/115741768276766266/statuses/116653359514912336https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/ap/users/115741768276766266/statuses/116653359514912336Thu, 28 May 2026 17:23:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A bit of the blush is already off my nascent love affair with T-Mobile. on Thu, 28 May 2026 17:15:26 GMT]]>@jimsalter I'm not looking forward to you having to troubleshoot it, but I do appreciate you talking about it - technical hands-on experience with how ISPs treat folks is valuable.

If you wind up asking them for a public IP address, fingers crossed there - it looks like it might be a $10/month charge..?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://yip.vulpine.engineer/users/digitalfox/statuses/116653328048932164https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://yip.vulpine.engineer/users/digitalfox/statuses/116653328048932164Thu, 28 May 2026 17:15:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A bit of the blush is already off my nascent love affair with T-Mobile. on Thu, 28 May 2026 16:57:55 GMT]]>Meanwhile, connections to my own website work flawlessly, as do most Internet speed test sites.

I am NOT looking forward to discussing this with whatever the hell they're using for Tier 1 support later.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/jimsalter/statuses/116653259193207359https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/jimsalter/statuses/116653259193207359Thu, 28 May 2026 16:57:55 GMT