Anyone else?
It's 30 bucks a month cheaper.
Should work during a power outage, (5g), where my current cable broadband does not.
The mockup they had in the store looks like an orb out of the Woody Allen movie.
Plus, it appears to have a funky looking power supply plug.
If I pursue a backup battery for it, since it's a combined router/modem, power requirements would be greater, etc, etc.
I could not find it on the site anywhere. Is there a monthly data cap or throttling limit? I have looked at Verizon cellular internet before and it all looks awesome until I remember they have a monthly (very low) data cap. I think once you hit that they choke you out with throttling.
Looks like the fixed speeds on ATT are much lower so they might combat extreme usage by having a lower overall speed cap and unlimited data.
Funny you mentioned that.
I did not sign up for it, but I was at AT&T store yesterday looking at it while picking up a different phone.
I was looking at it more as a backup internet provider, not my primary, so it's a bit too pricey for that use I think.
On my att family plan i have two acces pts. Low bandwidth but only 20 a month extra for each. Use as backup to reboot routers modem switches etc. I bought them myself to not get ripped off by their monthly cost.
If same address, it's only 35 a month, the guy said. I'm doing a F&F with a friend, so that's why mine is 55. He said he can stream movies, which I don't currently do.
I don't know.
It has the feel of a work in progress.
Maybe I'm now cutting edge, lol.
Yeah, $35 for people with existing qualifying Mobile plans with AT&T.
There's no way I would consider it for $55 a month, but for $35 I'm thinking about it.
F&F is a pretty good deal for mobile.
My aim is to replace my cable broadband.
I wonder if cable broadband is going to go the was of copper phone lines?
I live in a rural area in Arizona, USA where the phone company DSL runs around 5Mb and is somewhat unreliable. A new company came to the area called TekNet and they offered faster, more reliable internet over radio that they installed. I got 7 - 15Mb with that service, but it died entirely when it rained.
Then, ATT put up a 5G tower in a neighbor's yard. We moved our cell phone service to ATT and 5G worked at home just fine. So several months ago, we went with ATT internet air for our internet service. It works at around 50Mb reliably after a couple of hiccups when we first signed up.
I know that city folk that are used to getting a gig on speedtest see this as the dark ages, but it works for folk out here. Netflix doesn't buffer a third of the time, and we have enough bandwidth for our needs. Going from around 5 to 50 is a huge improvement.
We'll probably never have fiber since the cost is too high and the population is too low to make it worth their while. DSL was too slow and unreliable. Fancy networked radio systems had too many points of failure and is really impacted by weather.
And, as the technology progresses, ATT internet air will probably get better.
you could look at starlink too, at our rural cottage in upper mich we use it.. rates vary from 40meg to 300 meg download (i do an auto speedtest on my router evvery few hours and email me the results).. average is probably around 100-150 , att cell is much slower there not to mention the cap if you do any streaming and dsl just sucked.
it is pricier for us at 90/month plus the higher startup for the dish but has worked well even through the rough winters. we now have had it up 2 winters.
I have thought a few times about dumping Spectrum for starlink. The only thing that stops me from doing that is the upfront cost of the equipment. I really wish they would come up with a better option. Maybe spread the cost out over a year or something. Can you use your own router with starlink?
While waiting on the equipment to arrive, I've been reading about it on the web. Just a little, lol.
It seems that position in the house is important.
I'm hoping I don't have to extend any ethernet cabling.
Even relocating the hub could not prove wise, at least in the short run.
We'll see.
A while ago we tested T Mobile’s 5G home offering and that was critical. The optimal place was window in the front of the house no where near the rest of the equipment. Needless to say it went back shortly after. I'd consider it as a back up, but not for my primary service.
yes but it uses cgnat if you want to look it up .. ie not public ip, so causes issues if you are trying to get into a computer from outside.
That's where CGNAT friendly VPNs like Tailscale come in. 
I'm actually going to enjoy watching T-Mobile lose market share to Verizon (and maybe ATT) in this service offering. They started out simple, offered a lot of promise, increasingly didn't deliver, never have come out with a home box that- a) offered much control, nor b) offered much needed external antenna capability, only offered CGNAT, and now they have made a MESS of the offering & price tiers.
Hope this is a lesson to Verizon & ATT to keep the plans simple & affordable and to not disassemble the model we all know of having a box (router) we can do stuff with that accommodates our own LAN needs. Verizon actually is marketing a new external antenna module which TOTALLY makes sense.
yes but not the best solution as i have found permanently up vpns that funnel all your devices out the one socket severely slow everything down.
i keep my own openvpn socket permanently up so i can reach my router but other devices work normally so as not to slow down.
That's not how Tailscale works, but I do agree with you that always VPNing everything can be way too slow.
not what i found when searching on tailscale .. many many people saying how everything is slowed down.
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