✅ Tips & Tricks – T-Mobile's External Antenna – 5G Home Internet Arcadyan G4AR vs Waveform Bank Lock
Can’t get the external antenna to connect? Want to band lock to N71? Here’s some tips and tricks with the T-Mobile 5G Home Internet G4AR and G4SE gateway. -Mobile releases a $99 external 4×4 MIMO Antenna for their G4AR and G4SE gateways with external SMA ports. Antennas can greatly improve signal and internet speed. Lets test out this new antenna vs my tried and true Waveform 4×4 MIMO panel, their 2×2 MIMO panel and the stock T-Mobile 5G Home Internet Arcadyan G4AR gateway. Internet speed tests with ping compared. Lets show you how to band lock and the speed change. See this and more in the video. T-Mobile just release a new gateway with a KEY feature, external antenna ports for easy install. This is the Arcadyan TMOG4AR gateway with a MediaTek T750 modem chipset. It supports numerous 5G and 4G bands including Carrier Aggregation for the potential for huge speeds. Note customers typically don’t have a say in which gateway they receive, all 4 are currently being sent to customers. Consider subscribing to the channel or looking below for more content!
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Be sure to see my other Verizon and T-Mobile Home Internet Videos:
T-mobile: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d9FovK2dNQHp0KWk8gG8XXvaKzaoSB3
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Peplink cellular devices: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d9FovK2dNTZR2vUJWyd6kmmDD6ediym
5G Cellular Modem Routers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELZNPu38r70&list=PL8d9FovK2dNS2ihT56gySpU49V4kRHn_U
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Thanks for all your info,,I have t mobile had it about a year,I got good downloads when i first hooked it up about 150 down,but as time has went buy I’m down to about 30ish downloads,dose T-Mobile throttle me ,why don’t I get the same as when I first signed up,,thnaks
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Nate: I just wanted to thank you for all your work comparing and testing these home internet units. You are providing a real public service to those who depend on these units for the necessity that is internet access. You explain this sometimes complicated subject calmly and thoroughly so that anyone interested can follow along. I know you reach out to your subscribers who help with testing and my thanks goes out to those people as well. As someone who lives in a rural area, this information is invaluable. I have since moved on to Starlink but my parents are still at the mercy of TMHI and I check in on your videos to see if some aspect of their setup can be improved. Please continue to help more people and know that many are very thankful for your time and research on this. I hope you have a Happy Holiday and a productive and Happy New Year. Thanks for all you do.
Good information have t mobil home internet thinking about going with Chester cheetah and waveform 4×4 . Do you think t mobil could cut you off if you do this or have you known anyone that has lost service buy doing this. THANKS BIG HELP KEEP PUTTING OUT GOOD INFORMATION!!!
I got the Waveform 4×4 and was wondering if i should get a shorter cable? The kit comes with a pretty long one and im not sure if im losing speeds with that. If so do i contact waveform directly to get custom smaller cables?
What's the best mobile antenna I can get for my truck? Using T Mobile G4SE gateway.
Set mine up today. Tried swaping 2 and 3 antenna leads and found the recommended 1 2 3 4 sequence works the best as I got 240 down vrs 100 down with the swapped 2 and 3 cables
nate the waveform 4×4 will work with the Chester cheetah also do you need special adapters
Nate can you use the Chester cheetah with a regular home internet SIM card and not the business card also can you order the cheetah program for t mobile and just put your sim card into it. Thanks so much for all the information big help.
Wow, not excited about the thought of having an Antenna plastered on my Window, especially, a Big white Antenna, lol, lol…
I asked for the new G4AR Gateway since I have the Arcadyan and T-Mobile Customer Service said they are not available in my area of Southwest North Carolina. Bummer. My Chester Cheetah Gateway vacillates between N71 and N25 Bands depending on time of day. I keep it on NR5G SA. My uploads are pretty terrible on N25 and a bit better (still single digits) on N71. I find if I block N25, it automatically switches to N71 with better ping, download and upload speeds. I use the Waveform 4 x 4. It's one of the best in the business IMHO.
I greatly appreciate your continued testing and sharing this info with those of us who need info like this.
Got my 4×4 for my Chester Cheetah and will be testing it out at our new, rural properties next weekend. These videos are a great time saver for me. Keep up the awesome work!
Why not suction that T-Mobile antenna to the outside of that window?
Wow that's crazy, maybe even stupid that you can't choose an external antenna without the signal first. Good that you found a workaround.
Great info!!! Have you and anyone else tested the peplink/pepwave MIMO with the TMO-G4AR gateway router? Thanks Jim
You’ve been super helpful. I’ve been wanting to do the cheetah unit, but we already have a T-Mobile gateway. And didn’t want to spend 1000$ on the router and antenna. I finally was able to get tmobile to send me the G4AR. So we will only really have to pick up the antenna. Always had decent up/down speeds. I’d love to see some better ping. Speed tests always show 30’s, but gaming always shows it in the 70-100 range.
You’ve been super helpful. I’ve been wanting to do the cheetah unit, but we already have a T-Mobile gateway. And didn’t want to spend 1000$ on the router and antenna. I finally was able to get tmobile to send me the G4AR. So we will only really have to pick up the antenna. Always had decent up/down speeds. I’d love to see some better ping. Speed tests always show 30’s, but gaming always shows it in the 70-100 range.
@anyone… Which port should Antenna #3 go to on the Arcadian (D, M, M1, M2)? I would guess M1.? Going on B41 has been giving me problems for years.. B71 is OK at ~80 down. I gave up on the external antenna because it kept going on 41 and making the Internet unusable. But I still have the external antenna in storage, and if I can get locked on N71, I will use it again.
Why do you promote waveform so much?
Waveform is over priced and the lack of quality of the components in the kits was shocking.
Many more 4×4 antennas available for half the price and they perform so much better.
I recently lost the N71 band and when I called T-Mobile support, I was told that I couldn"t recieve 5G in my area.
I told the person that I have been receiving 5g for a couple of years and have just recently lost it.
After some trouble shooting on " special equipment I did not have access to" I was informed that I couldn't get 5G.
I still get a very good signal 5g on my iPhone 12 Pro and my other Apple phones I am unable to get any cellular metrics on my Arcadyn router.
Any idea of what may be occurring ?
Can you do a review of the inseego fx3100 tmobile business gateway