I had the same problem with a Linksys router. My router was 4 years old and had never had a firmware update. After I went through the tedious process of updating the firmware, the phone would connect. I eventually went and bought the T-mobile Router because it’s basically free. You pay 50 bucks for the router and there is a 50 buck rebate. If you are interested in using hotspot at home, i would suggest getting the t-mobile supplied router. It will solve all of your problems and it’s free!!

Disappointed in T-Mobile. Help me solve this problem. btw, T-Mobile tech support was not able to solve it. Jesse

Frank

I just returned a T-Mobile phone because there was no coverage at my house, or generally around my small town. (the T-mobile coverage map hanging in the store is criminally inaccurate).

But I’m likely to have wi-fi most places I would want to use the phone, so I’ll give this a try. It would be a backup to another cell phone anyway. It will also solve my problem of no coverage in my office (it’s in the basement).

Does anyone know if SMS text messages will come thru the wifi connection?

Curious if there is a potential marriage here of Vonage’s VOIP customers and T-Mobile’s mobile customers.

i am using it at home. and it worked well – with and without t-mobile router. i could not detect any quality issues.

secondly, at starbucks it worked without a hiccup. now in the office it is the same situation, and we don’t have t-mobile router there.

i guess the cellular quality is so bad in many places that i don’t know if there is any difference we can detect.

Are you saying that it will work with any wireless network? I thought Glenn said to the contrary in his post yesterday (that since T-mob cannot guarantee the voice quality at public wireless networks and hence it can only be used at your “home” network and at Starbucks). Or maybe I heard it wrong ??

If it can be used at any wifi network, is Hotspot@home an intentional misnomer?

-Rajeev

so far i have three SSIDS. as I travel around in different locations, i will see how it works out.

Apple support told me about an undocumented shortcut to one of the reduced levels of security – which I put in place while he was here.

Lots of firms – unsurprising – just test and design for a lower common denominator of wi-fi security. Whether they’re aimed at Windows products only or broader markets.

In addition UMA is very slow and uses a lot of processor time in the phone. Meaning nothing else works. — I would stay away from any UMA phones and go with the long established standard of existing WiFi standards.

Installed truphone 6 months ago and love it!!! It is certainly the best applicatioin I have used on my phone! If you couple it with a MIMO WiFi routers like Ruckus Wireless, MediaFlex/ MetroFlex the Voice Quality is going to be better than 3G or GSM. At least in my home and my office I have the best mobile VoIP call quality! All my employees are on truphone

Why doesn’t T-Mobile start this services in their home country Germany? Because it would take away minutes from Germany’s biggest cell phone operator, T-Mobile Germany.

That reminds me of Telefónica. They attack in Germany with cheap broadband and VoIP. But most of their money they make in Latin America where they keep the broadband prices high, making use of their infrastructure monopoly, and charge exorbitantly for phone calls, because there is nearly no VoIP or alternative phone companies.