Re: cutting off my Cox; the DVR that died

On 2025-07-23 04:09:44 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
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So my first step will be to try T-Mobile wireless home Internet.  I’ve
heard nothing but good things about it (until quite recently where people
are saying that it’s going out and slowing down a lot as they get
overextended for the current infrastructure). My big problem is figuring
out all the stuff I have connected and what my new set up will be. The
T-Mobile modem needs to be in a window and things connected to it
wirelessly.  So I guess I need a router that will connect to it wirelessly
that I can plug the hardwire equipment into and hopefully let the Wi-Fi
equipment go straight to the modem.

Since I'm not in America, I don't know about T-mobile in particular, but we have been using a home mobile phone internet connection for a few years now. First with Vodafone NZ when I had to replace my dead computer and could no longer use the dial-up modem, and then switched to Spark (previously Telecom NZ) when the copper line service was stopped for for our home phone.
Both were using their supplied modem-routers and they worked / work fine. The modem-router sits on a low cabinet beside my work desk roughly in the middle of the house the house. It is near to a window (about 2-3 metres away), but not actually in the window nor direct line of sight to the window because of the desk. The modem-router is facing away from an internal wall, on the other side of which is the house's main entrance hallway. My Mac is plugged into the modem-router via ethernet and the iPad connects wirelessly. Our home phone line is via a main base cordless phone plugged into the modem-router and there is another cordless phone in the kitchen that wirelessly connects to that base phone. Someone else has a Samsung mobile phone that also connects wirelessly to the modem-router for internet when at home. The two wireless devices and the two cordless home phones work fine from any room in the house or in the garden. (Being a suburban area, I can see many other wirelss networks in use in other surrounding houses, plus no doubt there are some hidden ones like ours.)
T-mobile has three different modem-routers on their website, but they all have two ethernet ports on the back, so you should be able to plug in any devices that you want to have a wired connection. You would only need a separate router / switch / hub box if you've got more than two wired devices. All three modem-routers do have a USB port too, so you might be able to use a USB hub and some USB-Ethernet adaptors to connect more wired devices, although the USB ports on modem-routers usually aren't designed for that usage.
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