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Reading and following links recently while looking at available options brought me to this site. Sprint user for about a decade, hoping that 4G will hurry up and get to Las Vegas soon :0)

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Reading and following links recently while looking at available options brought me to this site. Sprint user for about a decade' date=' hoping that 4G will hurry up and get to Las Vegas soon :0)[/quote']

 

Welcome to S4GRU. I live in pahrump and am waiting also. Sprint's contractors have been pulling permits to start working on bringing Network Vision, so hopefully it'll start any day.

 

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How are the speeds in vegas? I will be in vegas next week for work

 

When I was in there in December speeds were running around 400k down/up. Hopefully work will start soon before it gets slower.

 

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When I was in there in December speeds were running around 400k down/up. Hopefully work will start soon before it gets slower.

 

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Well, 400kbps up/down is fine for most applications, regardless. However, I was in Vegas just before Christmas, and I was impressed with the Sprints data performance. I stayed at the Venetian, and on the casino floor I was able to get around 1400kbps Down. Another speedtest was on the casino floor of Harrah's and got over 1300kbps down. I only did two or three tests while I was there, so my assessment is far from conclusive however, I did use data on my phone all the time and it performed admirably. Now, I don't know if these casino's had Sprint repeaters or not, but the data was great.

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I'm in Vegas this weekend and the 4g was better than I thought. I had it from the near strip east to close to the Hoover Dam.

 

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