T-mobile@home question

[Nwahs]

So I know very little about both UMA and Wifi internet. The thing is, my entire city (along with the adjacent city) is going completely wireless (first city in the U.S. to have fully solar powered wireless internet) and if I were to buy a UMA phone...would this mean I could use the city's wireless internet (assuming I paid for it) and just have 5 bars all around where I live? It is nice to think about, but I am guessing there are many complications that would make this hard. What do you guys think?

[chokaay]

So I know very little about both UMA and Wifi internet. The thing is, my entire city (along with the adjacent city) is going completely wireless (first city in the U.S. to have fully solar powered wireless internet) and if I were to buy a UMA phone...would this mean I could use the city's wireless internet (assuming I paid for it) and just have 5 bars all around where I live? It is nice to think about, but I am guessing there are many complications that would make this hard. What do you guys think?


That's a very good question. The only "official" source I found from T-mo USA on how @Home works is here:

T-Mobile HotSpot @Home (http://www.theonlyphoneyouneed.com/)
(www.TheOnlyPhoneYouNeed.com)

I don't know if this tells you what you need to know, but there might be some BETA testers on this forum that may shed a little more light on this matter (without disclosing any sensitive information, of course! ;)).

[greenblood]

So I know very little about both UMA and Wifi internet. The thing is, my entire city (along with the adjacent city) is going completely wireless (first city in the U.S. to have fully solar powered wireless internet) and if I were to buy a UMA phone...would this mean I could use the city's wireless internet (assuming I paid for it) and just have 5 bars all around where I live? It is nice to think about, but I am guessing there are many complications that would make this hard. What do you guys think?

I can tell
the reason why I call T-Mobile @Home as voip is you can use it on your existing LAN!!!
however, the router is said has special power save mode, that helps saving phone power in voip mode
you can configure the router as wifi access point by setting (disable DHCP, provide fixed IP)