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T-Mobile 5g 4 1/2 years later + road trip(s)
Summer road trip season, and I’ve posted in the past some trips from NC through ME, MA through to Canada, a loop in FL This is part 1 - SoCal/SLO Cal, FL and HI SoCal/SLO Cal from north of the San ...
Chicago (ORD) is decent, as is the road up through Milwaukee on i94. 5g/5guc all the way to West Bend, WI.
Service was decent north on US41 (device would stay on lte unless forced to 5g)up through to Michigan border.
Service was.mostly non-existent between Marinette and Escanaba, and no roaming.
Escanaba throuugh Manistique was weak and patchy, and similar to Newberry on m117, and No Service east on m28 to i75.
Service was decent in Sault MI, and Sault Canada, keeping service often on TMobile in Canada, and dropping to Bell 4g/5g indoors.
Going south on i75 to Mackinaw is solid (added new site a few years back between Kinross and St. Ignace).
On m31 from Mackinaw to Pellston, service was good. Taking Robinson Rd west to m119 was effectively no service most of the trip. Harbor Springs is weak (better than in 2020 though), and Petoskey hasn't changed much, with the exception on n41 (tower at Starbucks/TMobile store).
Charlevoix itself is better after cutting 2g/3g, and moving bands to lte/5g. It is a bit weak in the area due to tower location and lack of towers (only 1).
South of Charlevoix, i have picked up service on 5g nr from a long ways. Capable of +800Mbps at 15 miles
