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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Admiral2145:
From my understanding the wifi to volte(and vice versa) is going live tomorrow but, it's not only on this wireless router. It's something tmo has to switch on their side(like how volte was)....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] jazzmachine:
My overall impression as well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Y314K:
Own for $99+Tax or Rent for $25 deposit... Or even FREE rental!

Called in today to get more info... T-Mobile is selling this router for $99+Tax to prepaid account holders or to postpaid account holders that wan to own it. But you can rent it for a $25 deposit if you have a postpaid account. If the router is not returned then they will try to collect on your last bill the difference till you have paid $99+Tax. I was told that they will be waiving the $25 deposit, possibly for the rest of Sept. So that is a very good incentive to rent it.. FREE rental.. As long as we don't brick it or fry it we should be good...

Also not sure how strict they will be about making sure at least one phone on the accounts actually comes with TMobile Wifi calling... But I guess they can always try to up sale you a phone..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] redhatter:
Ok..this is looking like a hell of a deal.

At first i was asking "why".. ive been using tmo wifi calling from day one.. its my number on reason to be with tmo..im in a bad cell area and wifi calling is the way to go.

I also travel overseas a lot ..

using tmobile wifi calling while in a foreign country is absolutely unbelievable cool..to be in a foreign country and to be on network calling and texting at domestic cost is just great.

I was once was in Japan making tmo wifi calls while connected to one of my colleagues japan sim cell wifi hotspot phone..( with his permission)

I was making calls to the US for free that it was costing him a fortune to do on the phone i was wifiing over

So having used wifi calling for years so what does this give you?..well in one way not much.. but in other ways a lot.

What your geting is a $200+ wifi router for a $25 deposit for the first one and $99 for the rest... this is a top qualty dual band router with near best in class range ..so that means greater range for your in house wifi call... plus the qos for your call has been preconfigures... this means your call will alway have first dib on the bandwidth it needs (not much for a call but it gets the priority needed)... plus there is supposedly some some tweek for better hand off from wifi to volte while in call....

So the deal is that in the past tmo wifi calling... no matter what tmo did .... still had to go over what in many cases was the customers crappy home network.. so the fix is there going to upgrade the customer home wifi network to remove a variable in the overall wifi call quality and get customer to use wifi calling

So bottom line great deal for a great wifi router optimized for tmo wifi calling.

Now question .. why are people thinking they lte boost in there home in they already have a Internet broadband connection with wifi?... the only reason would be if your broadband connection is slower then your lte... and you really want lte to be your primary Internet connection.

Well in that the case..tmo does have an lte signal booster for the same $25 deposit deal as the wifi router

the only thing that you can get one or the other not both

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I was really afraid the T Mobile with all the talk of the sales of the company ...was going to go like the other carriers and get away or eliminate wifi calling

Instead tmo is doubling down on my favorite tmo feature ..wifi calling... debuging and improving it......

...

Outstanding!!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Beast84:
Where do you order one from? I looked on the website but it wasn't there. The stores are saying they won't get them till around the 24th
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danon.brown:
Its on the website for $99 under accessories. If you call you will probably get the $25 fee waived.

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There are 2 new devices one is the router the other device is a cell phone signal booster made by Nextivity. Here is the write up.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/...-launches-new-cel-fi-duo-smart-signal-booster
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] jir591:
If you want the cellspot you have to call tmobile. I did it yesterday and they FedEx ship
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] redhatter:
Damm... i just called and order one.. this first month there giving it free!...no deposit..no renew contract crap.. just call and ask and free shipping to... so a great wifi router for zip, nada, no cost.. that a deal you cant beat.

And you can but another one even if your not a tmo customer for $99.. these router not tmo branded run around $200.

Truth is i set up other peoples wifi networks for them.. this may be the bargin router i recommend.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] inick73376:
I picked up mine from T-Mobile yesterday and boy it's a awesome upgrade from my older router :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] redhatter:
You found a store that had them in stock?.. i order over the phone.. eta the 29th
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gregcapps:
If you are gonna get one, get one now while there is no deposit or upfront cost. Just $6.99 for shipping added to my bill is what I got. Just ordered today.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] rolling56:
Shipping Should have been waved and free also. Was for me when i ordered a few days ago. I looked online at my order and no shipping charges there.

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Tmobile is sending me both when i called them with no cost at all. If they get stolen i have to pay $400 they told me. You sure they are not including both devices for all the Cellspot orders? I guess i will find out when i get my box. That's what they told me anyway.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gregcapps:
All I know is they said $6.99 for shipping. Which I don't mind for a good router.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] suzook:
Called 2 days ago to order. Free shipping and no deposit. I just got an email with tracking. Gonna be here on tuesday the 23rd!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] billwinkle:
I just got back from my local T mobile store. The rep went to the back and brought a router out. Then she told me she was talking with her supervisor and had updated info. They can't give me the router until the 24th. She said the signal booster can only be ordered online or by calling. Then she said that we are only allowed to use it for 30 days and have to return it or we will be charged the full amount of the equipment

She printed out some data that these are there new orders from t-mobile.

I am calling to see if I here a different story

Update: I am on the phone to Tmobile and they are sending out the Router for free including shipping. And the girl at the Tmobile store was completely wrong. You do not have to return the devices back after 30 days. I could not get them to give me the signal booster as the rep said only one or the other. But I am not complaining at all. He said that the cost of the signal booster is only $40 online. I need to see if it has good reviews and really works before I would buy one. Cheers all.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] aznmode:
Just got off the phone with level 3 rep and they're sending me one for free and no shipping charge. I was torn between it and a new signal Booster but hopefully I made the right choice. The cell spot is only as good as your Internet reliability.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] USBhost:
Dose it gives like a 3g/lte cell service

or its just like any other router

and you use t Mobile wifi calling
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danon.brown:
Just a decent router that prioritizes wifi calling over the rest of the traffic.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] redhatter:
Wifi calling is Voip traffic (Voice over IP).. Voip traffic works best with particular QOS setting for the voice data packs ( Quality of Service) voice is low bandwidth but very time sensitive and bursty.. the router besides being long range coverage has the voice QOS precofigured
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Admiral2145:
Yes... You can flash merlins firmware to use 3/4g dongle for Internet with router
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ROADKING17:
So do I have to have a contract with them in order to get one? I'm on a prepaid
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] bipoler:
I'm paying a monthly fee with my home provider for my wireless router, will t-mobile fr33 offer give me Internet access for my other wifi devices?0 _o
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gregcapps:
Yes. It's a very good wireless router.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] JFizDaWiz:
Mine is on the UPS truck for delivery today. Excited since my ISP router is junk, has 2.4/5ghz but is not dual band. I have to flip it every night for bedroom Netflix
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] redhatter:
Lets clarify. . This is a wifi router.. in and of itself it does NOT provide internet access. .

Normal config is you have a isp providing internet via dsl or cable modem to your house.. your paying for that... that dsl or cable modem has one wired Ethernet port and give you one public ip address to access the internet with.

You then also have a home wifi router that all your ip devices connect to via wire or wireless.. this uses private ip (non public ip that does not route on the internet) These allows all you home ip devices to talk to each other and share things.. but it does not provide internet.

Then you connect your home router to the dsl or cable modem.. and now all your home device have a gateway to the internet..when your home device ask to talk to something on the internet.. your home device talks to your home wifi router.. and your home wifi router then forward that request to the internet gateway. .the isp dsl or cable modem

So here the deal... many isp lease you a cable or dsl moden with a built in wifi router..and charge your extra.

What you want from your isp is just a cable or dsl modem with the one connection to the internet.. and then your own wifi router for your home network..

...Then connect the two so your home network has an internet connection.

This is what "internet(work)" means.. connecting one network to another (or many) networks... your isp is connecting your private home network to all the public networks.. but fyi your wifi router has a firewall to let your see out to the public network but the public networks can not see in to your private home network.. unless you want to let them see you

So bottom line this wifi router not provide you internet access but does control that access via your isp modem

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Admiral2145:
Anyone with this router go from volte to wifi without call dropping?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] redhatter:
Do you have smart network switching on?.. i would think if there any hope of a clean handoff beween wifi and lte that is going to need to be on or something like it.. there a lot going on when your traffic has to reroute between the two paths.. lte vs wifi.. this is not like switching between cell towers with predictable handoffs.. your jumping between different ip networks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] knarfies:
so i called tmobile today and got my router ordered. I have to rent the router i have now for internet service so getting this router and not paying a rental fee will actually save me money should it actually work with my service. total win in my book.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] marcomachuca:
I dont have this router but if u are newest baseband nf9 it switches from 2g 3g lte n wifi calling without a hitch and u do not need to have smart network on for it to switch
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danon.brown:
Has anyone gotten the signal booster and router?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] stch7299:
Got mine today. Works great.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ttabbal:
I decided I wanted the booster, but got the router. They said there were blocks in the system to prevent one account from getting both of them. They couldn't even let me buy the router and ship the booster. I ended up just sending the router back to them. When the retail stores get stock they can sell, I'll just pay the $99 for one as it's still a good deal. Sure beats paying $500 for the booster anyway. A couple people on tmonews reported getting both, but I have no idea if they really did.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] sstory792:
I am a T-Mobile business customer and had a cellspot already. I called to order a LTE signal booster and they are sending it. They said no problem business customers can have more then 1 device.

Edit- yes both devices were completely free and no shipping charge.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] rolling56:
I have both. I started with the router and the coverage was the same as my own router. I called them and asked if i can have both and they said no but told me to go to the local TMO store and exchange it with the 4GLTE signal booster. So with the router in hand i headed to the local store and they gave me the 4GLTE signal booster but told me i would have to call them about returning the router as they don't do that. So i have both now lol Will wait to see if they send me an email or text or call me etc about returning one of them.

Still moving the window unit around to get the higher number. I have a 6 right now but they say to try for getting an 8 or 9. I have the window unit upstairs and the coverage unit in my walkout basement where i am most of the time so they are pretty far apart and is what i need but would rather try to get the 8 or 9 and test it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danon.brown:
I may have to try that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] rolling56:
ya i didn't mean to have both and even took the router in the store with me so might work for others.

I can say i have much better 4GLTE signal in my house now with the signal booster :cool:

I used to have 4G and 4GLTE switching back and forth and now i have 4GLTE with 4 bars all the time.

Be sure to go to a private owned TMO store if you want to keep the router. Corporate store will send them back in. You might call the one you go to to see if they are a corp store and avoid it ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Trackfiends:
Got my cell booster yesterday. This thing works great. My signal in my basement was horrible, but you can see the before and after.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gregcapps:
Got my cell spot yesterday. Works great. Turns out my shipping was free too even though the rep on the phone told me it would be $6.99
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Exfex21:
I got mine yesterday. This thing is awesome! I have verizon fios, I simply just connected the asus to the verizon router and thats it. This router is legit.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] sidneyk:
I got my Asus router yesterday and, for now, just swapped it out with the Netgear WNDR4500 I was using (which is a decent router, by the way). I've got slightly faster Internet connection speed and my internal link speeds are much faster over wireless. I haven't had many calls yet to test if they still drop when I go into my garage, like theg were before. So far, seems like a great router.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danon.brown:
It's possible to get both. I ordered the booster on the 17th and the router today.

http://www.tmonews.com/2014/09/t-mo...ers-not-available-today-pushed-back-to-friday
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Admiral2145:
Wifi to volte teade went live today in Chicago..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] USBhost:
Got mine today

it looks nice

lol it came with a defective Lan cable lol but np there I got a bunch of those
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] aznmode:
Got mine today. I'm getting way stronger signal now in my room and router being upstairs on the opposite side of me. Full bars rather than just 2. And I'm getting our max dl speed now. Before it was about 1/3 and it kept disconnecting me.

Also on the bottom of the instruction sheet it says the charge is $99 if item is not returned.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gregcapps:
Has anyone else noticed that the 5ghz light never comes on? I connect my phone in the 5ghz band but only 2.4 ever flashes.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] USBhost:
5g flashes for me

But I turned it off

because I don't use it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gregcapps:
Thats Odd. I can't get it to show activity.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] sidneyk:
My 5G light didn't come back on with others when I switched the LEDs off from the button on the back of router, but when I turned wifi off and back on with the side wifi button it did.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gregcapps:
5 Ghz lihgt works after restarting router. Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Beast84:
Anyone have any luck connecting this with the Comcast wireless router? Or do I need to get just a modem from Comcast? I tried connecting the cellspot to the router. It says it connected but there might not be an Internet connection. Nothing loads on any of my devices
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gregcapps:
How did you connect the two? What ports?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Beast84:
Using the ethernet cable it came with, I plugged that into the Comcast router in Port 1. Connected the other side to the Blue port on the cellspot. Then plugged it in & waited for all the lights to come on. When I connected my phone, I tried going to the http://cellspot.router to configure it but the Web page doesn't load. Just says no data sent with a reload button & details button. But never goes past this
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] USBhost:
Go here 192.168.29.1

that's the ip my router came with
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gregcapps:
Try another cable. One guy reported he got a bad cable.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Beast84:
The cellspot came with this?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] USBhost:
which was me lol

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that's the local ip

not the public ip

So try to go to 192.168.29.1 in your browser
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Admiral2145:
You have to disable the dhcp on the router(tmo router)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Beast84:
Maybe a stupid question but it's asking for a username & password. Is that my tmobile info?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] USBhost:
Hmm

Try

UN admin

PS your wifi pasword or admin
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Beast84:
Got it all straightened out. Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] USBhost:
Np
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Beast84:
New question... How do wired networks work for you guys on this? I usually have my xbox one set up on a wired network for maximum speed but now that it's all set up with this router, it's not working. The Xbox shows its connected to the Internet but it won't connect to xbox live with it. It keep asking me if I wanna set up through wifi
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] USBhost:
Works awesome but

dont have an xbox

somewhere in the router setting there is some settings for the Xbox you may want to find them
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gregcapps:
There's a box somewhere in settings that says "optimize for Xbox" find it and check it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danon.brown:
Is anyone able to connect to the 5ghz and stay connected?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] sidneyk:
Yeah, most of the time, when I'm in range of it. Get WiFi analyzer from app store and check that you're using a channel that's not being stomped on by a neighbor.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] USBhost:
Yep
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danon.brown:
Idk what was wrong with mine. I couldnt get anything to connect on the 5ghz. I ended up flashing the merlin firmware and havent had any issues.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] redhatter:
If your daisy chaining off an existing home router....

You shouldn't need to disable dhcp on the tmo route inless you have a ip conflict with the upstream route. ..

The upstream routes lan will be connected to the tmo wan.. the upstream router dhcp will give the tmo wan port its ip for that link beween the two ...say 192.168.1.10/24.

Then anything connecting on the lan wifi side on the tmo would get and ip from the tmo dhcp pool 192.168.29.x/24..

And the tmo then would route any traffic out side the 192.168.29.x/24 subnet out its wan port to the upstream router

Fyi if you want to know the manager adress of the router your connect to ...on most home router it going to be same as your gateway ip. . So on a pc just do ipconfig/all at a command prompt
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] jazzmachine:
Exactly what I plan on doing with my router (which I received today, gratis, via next-day shipping!), after flashing Merlin's build, so thanks very much for that explanation! Hopefully I'll start digging into it tomorrow, but doubt I'll have it going for a bit. Still can't believe Tmo's (more or lesss) giving these away...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ttabbal:
If you intend to use wifi calling, the TMO one should be connected to your internet connection directly. If not, the QoS stuff won't work as well. That's only an issue if your existing router has other devices connected to it of course. If you just chain this one to the old one and have everything connect to the LAN side of the TMO router, it'll be fine.

If you aren't using wifi calling, it's a complete non-issue.

I got the LTE signal booster in, works great. I now get faster speeds and better signal. Couldn't get signal at all in some spots in my house, now I get full LTE everywhere. Well worth getting as my ISP is flaky sometimes. I'll probably buy the TMO router, it's a great deal for $99. I couldn't talk them into letting me have both, so I took the more expensive one as a loaner.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] rolling56:
To get both you need to go to one of the retail stores and get it. AFAIK they won't "send" you both. That's what i did to get both. I have the best of both WiFi and 4G LTE worlds at my house now :silly: If i was to only be able to keep one it would be the booster. My existing WiFi router does fine so i could give the router up.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ttabbal:
Oh, are they finally doing the retail store thing with them? Took them long enough. :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danon.brown:
You can have both shipped. It's not easy but it is possible. I have gotten both of them shipped. Anyone who is a little tech savvy I would recommend flashing the Merlin firmware.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] aznmode:
I already have the router. Do you know if they have the Booster in store? Worse case I think I'm gonna just buy the router. It's been working great compared to our old one.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] jazzmachine:
Thank you very much for confirming that my plan will be successful! (I actually asked the guy who sent me the router if he thought that would likely work, to which he replied, "...yeah, probably") I had a really hard time deciding which to opt for (I don't use wifi calling and my lte inside is... ok-ish), but since I was on the spot (when I called, I thought that the "no deposit" thing had already ended, and I was just calling to make sure that they were now available from stores. He said it'd still be free if I had him send it), I decided that the router was just too solid hardware to pass up, and ordered that, planning to try to get the lte device w/ deposit from a store).

If it turns out that I can't get the signal booster, the rep I talked to said that you could "trade" devices at any time, so I'll probably end up trading back the router for the booster since I already have an Asus RT66U and the booster really is pretty clearly more practical for me.

In conclusion, I certainly appreciate receiving extremely useful high cost items free of charge :good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] rolling56:
Call the store you are going to and ask. The ones near me did.

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The store i went to was not owned by TMO so they don't send them back.