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B41 all over the 49ers new Levi's Stadium. I was there from 9am until the game ended and I held B41 the whole time.   In the morning I peaked at 40 mbps and during the game it was about 6-9 mbps. I

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I added some 4g on 280 today on my way to santa Cruz. Didnt go all the way to 17 but almost. Added like half a mile more to what was already there. I'll see if there's more tomorrow I can do.   Sen

LuisBOSS302
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Held B41 from mission blvd exit on 680 all the way to Almaden expressway exit on 87. Even there I had b41 until best buy.   I was surprised at the range of the B41 signal. Good stuff today in south

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Thomas L. Member Level: eHRPD

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I wish this thread were more active. I'm curious, what are people's experience with Sprint in the South Bay now compared to six months ago? How much time do you spend on LTE? I was in San Jose with my friend last week and his iPhone was on 3G probably around 50% of the time, which is about what it was when I left Sprint at the end of the summer, which seems crazy to me.  

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I wish this thread were more active. I'm curious, what are people's experience with Sprint in the South Bay now compared to six months ago? How much time do you spend on LTE? I was in San Jose with my friend last week and his iPhone was on 3G probably around 50% of the time, which is about what it was when I left Sprint at the end of the summer, which seems crazy to me.

While not the South Bay, in SF and Oakland speeds are good if you're on B41. B25/26 are mostly saturated though and are sub megabit during the day. A lot of our sites have B41 though; 35% confirmed (75% of which have a confirmed 2nd carrier), but that includes the suburbs, the North Bay, and areas that haven't been visited in a while to get recent logs. The immediate bay area is a much much higher percentage, especially when you add in the Clearwire sites.

 

The only time I drop off LTE is underground on BART and when I'm in the Castro. I had assumed the South Bay would be similar and would have improved due to the Super Bowl.

 

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Seem likes much of this site is gone. No map updates from Rob. I need to know what South Bay Market is like now. I left Sprint for magenta pastures back in March of 2015. Would like to see if it would be worth returning. 

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There exists the 3rd Band 41 carrier in the San Jose market but it's not CA enabled so disabling CA or having a non CA triband device is required to access it. Other than that, there's always been a lack of members in San Jose so YMMV. 

 

Test it out and see if you like it. 

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There exists the 3rd Band 41 carrier in the San Jose market but it's not CA enabled so disabling CA or having a non CA triband device is required to access it. Other than that, there's always been a lack of members in San Jose so YMMV. 

 

Test it out and see if you like it. 

 

I noticed that along the 87 in DTSJ single band devices have a hard time staying on LTE while b41 is working overtime. Also noticed that there seems to be work scheduled at several Sprint towers as cherry pickers are parked next to some towers.

 

I hope the Clearwire sites are going to be replaced soon because they can't handle any CA.

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ingenium Member Level: 4G WiMax

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San Jose has had their GCIs revamped. A majority of sites no longer are using the hex 1450 offset between bands 25 & 26 and band 41. All 3 bands are using the same GCI base, with different endings. The old endings no longer can be used to determine the band. I saw at least one site with an "02" ending for band 41. 

My data is from a drive from SF to Santa Cruz, then Santa Cruz to Oakland. So I don't have all 3 sectors and all 3 bands from a single site. From the data that I do have, there doesn't seem to be a consistent pattern to the GCI endings. It is very possible though that there is a pattern (or multiple patterns limited to certain geographic areas). From my logs, I've found the following endings:

B26:
02
10
0F
14

B25 (earfcn):
00    8665
01    8665
02    8665
04    8115
05    8115
09    8665
0A    8115
12    8665
13    8115

B41 (earfcn):
03    40978
04    40072
04    40978
05    40072
05    40978
06    39874
06    41374
07    39874
08    41374
0B    41176
0C    40270
0D    40270
0E    40270

Or grouped by earfcn:

B25:
04    8115
05    8115
0A    8115
13    8115

00    8665
01    8665
02    8665
09    8665
12    8665

B41:

06    39874
07    39874

04    40072
05    40072

0C    40270
0D    40270
0E    40270

03    40978
04    40978
05    40978

0B    41176

06    41374
08    41374

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ingenium Member Level: 4G WiMax

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Just roamed on B4 for T-Mobile in Fremont. Interesting DL vs UL speeds. 
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Looks like congestion. I imagine that roaming is also a lower priority than T-Mobile users

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