Comments on: T-Mobile @Home offers $10 per month unlimited VOIP

By: carmen

carmen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:35:11 +0000

Do you know if in Hawai ,Maui I can have at home T mobile??
Can I use this at home in another country???
Does nationwide means that is free Tmobile to tmobile at home??

By: charmane

charmane — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:27:59 +0000

I have t-mobile at home and Brinks. I had to have Brinks come out and reconfigure my alarm service to get it to work with tmobile.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:43:16 +0000

The service is well worth it if you have a good, stable, quality broadband connection.

If you go to the visualware speed and quality tests (do a google search) and run the Quality of Service test and your Quality of Service test is not consistently above 85% then no VOIP service is going to be good for you.

I used to have Comcast and had constant problems with T-Mobile’s @Home service. I then learned of the QOS test and ran it a few times and saw that my broadband QOS varied between a low of 45% and a high of 83% – not good enough.

I switched to Verizon FIOS and my QOS is never below 85% and I have not experienced any of the previously mentioned issues (dropped calls, blue light goes out, etc.).

By: Neil B

Neil B — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:11:01 +0000

We signed up for this about a year ago. It has been nothing but trouble. I have dropped calls and the reception is poor at times. At times there is no dial tone and incoming calls go striaght to voicemail. I call T-Mobile at least twice a month. They tell me they have never had anyone with my type of problems. Rather hard to believe. They have replaced the router. They have updated the firmware. They tell me I need to unplug the router every two weeks. They just can’t seem to fix whatever problem there is. All they do is apologize and take notes. I turn off the router and power it back up and it work OK for a few days. The service isn’t even worth the $10 per month. It seems that their rationale is that it is only $10 per month so live with the lousy reception. You get what you pay for.

By: Eli

Eli — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:57:00 +0000

Not Worth the change, at least not now. I regret it. Not Faxing IN/out, Does Not Work. Regarding your wall jack. I cut the phone line from comming from outside the house, then i hook a phone cable from the Router/VOIP @home phone jack into the nearest walljack and then since all the phone wires are the same wires inside the house, you will have a dial-tone in every room inside your house(walljack). for your office, remember (NO Possible to fax with @home, after 2hours with tech-support on the phone with epson they told me to call t-mobile) and even t-mobile told me Not You can not use a fax with @home service. don’t even try it, i did yesterday and does not work.

By: Eli

Eli — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:47:53 +0000

With Vonage US and Canada calls are free, even now Spain and other countries, With @home only US are free. With Vonage you can get way more features than @home. ex. Call LOg on website, Simultaneous Ring, Call Fowarding and Do not Disturb, Anonymous Call block. Etc. Not Worth the saving, at least for me. Regret it big time. Maybe in the future theyll get it fix.

By: Eli

Eli — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:42:50 +0000

Dont get T-mobile @home, i regret leaving vonage, Cant fax in/out, and the international rates are crazy high. with Vonage i used to pay $.08 per minute /@home $.99 per minute. found out after 14days had pass.

By: Shaeeb Khan

Shaeeb Khan — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:52:04 +0000

How much does it cost to call Canada?

By: Shaeeb Khan

Shaeeb Khan — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:49:55 +0000

Can you make calls to Canada?

By: bv

bv — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:44:27 +0000

I recently switched from Vonage to T-mobile @Home.

I have a security system–no paid monitoring but the system checks for dialtone everyday–and it worked with Vonage but not T-mobile. I even have a structured wiring panel with a telephone board specifically for security systems.

Does anyone know why the difference with Vonage and T-mobile @Home and security systems? Perhaps an @Home upgrade to enable faxing will also enable security systems to work like Vonage.

By: m pablo

m pablo — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:25:00 +0000

I switched to tmobile@ home on April 10, 2009. Great service and only costs $9.99/month. Tmobile rep stated faxing not supported. I have tried to fax and it does not work.

By: Sean S

Sean S — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:40:08 +0000

EMTA = (Modem)…. not house ;) sorry

By: Sean S

Sean S — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:38:03 +0000

Salina – If you have Cox VoIP right now, then you have what is called an EMTA (House). Your EMTA is connected via Coax cable, then a phone line comes out of your EMTA and connects to the wall jacks, which back feeds your phone service throughout your entire house. As long as that is the way Cox setup your service, then you can just do the same thing with your T-Mobile VoIP box. Check with Cox, and confirm that they did in fact install it that way (The correct way). If they simply connected your phone to the back of your EMTA, then call them back out to your house, and have them fix it properly…. then cancel :D

By: timmy

timmy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:33:03 +0000

correction: test your 911 service

By: timmy

timmy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:31:52 +0000

i lost my 911 service here in palm springs with t-mobile at home service, the engineering dept has been working to repair it now for 72 hrs with no results, if u have this service yest your 911, it may not be working

By: Joy

Joy — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:39:11 +0000

hi,
nay one knows what should I do to connect t-mobile router with dish network receiver?

Thanks

By: salina hall

salina hall — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:52:28 +0000

were you able to fax with tmobile@home?

By: salina hall

salina hall — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:50:56 +0000

How did you plugg your phone line in and run it to your outside box? i don’t understand. Does that mean you can plug your home phones to the phone outlets on the wall? I am currently with Cox cable for telephone service and I am interested in switching to tmobile@home. Unfortunately, the phne needs to be hooked up to the router versus the wall jacks. I need more phones around my house.
salina

By: newuser

newuser — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:15:34 +0000

I asked brinks and they said they can do it. Check with them.

By: Home Security Issues

Home Security Issues — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:40:14 +0000

Has anyone got this service to work with home security systems yet? I have had the T-Mobile at home service for 5 months, the phone service is not bad for the price, since I am not on the phone a lot. I would like to buy a home security system (ADT, Gaurdian) but they are telling me it will not work with T-Mobile, but it will work with Vontage. If that is true what is the difference between Vontage and T-Mobile? Why will Vontage work and not T-Mobile

Thanks