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Finally got a rainbow sim after about a year of occassionally trying. N70, n71, and n66 working on byod s24 ultra. Speed around 550Mbps down, 40 up during rush hour: https://imgur.com/a/ENhnSI2

NextWave is complaining about interference from T-Mobile's network again. It's super annoying considering the area where T-Mobile operates a full 150MHz of BRS/EBS shrank significantly in late 2023. In a place as dense as NYC, have two operators with such split holdings of this band doesn't make sense. Interference seems nearly inevitable. Next Wave has only submitted permits for 22 sites so far, they honestly should just sell. https://www.lightreading.com/5g/redzone-nextwave-also-complain-of-interference-from-t-mobile-s-5g

Neighbor notes have been available for a long time.. many years. Sorry if my post wasn't clear, I was saying I made improvements to that feature.. fixed some bugs and overhauled how the app looks for notes that may be recorded under a different PLMN (like T-Mobile/Sprint Keep sites/etc). NR sites can be tricky depending on the provider because some use multiple NCIs per site.. and in my area, T-Mobile has changed a lot of them. For T-Mobile, I have not identified a pattern between old and new NCIs, so until you save a note under a new NCI, it's going to be blank. If you long-press on the "Connected to [LTE|NR]" label, it will send diagnostics immediately. There's no ability to add a comment to that report but you can send a few when you're seeing an issue and then send one with a comment referring to the other reports so I know what I'm looking for.

Feel like the performance is snappier with this update. Mine has felt a bit slower a few updates ago.

Worked no problem.

Finally got latest update within the hour. Duplicate GCI updates: Most used s24 ultra: none. S21 ultra #1: 0.3%, s21 ultra #2: 0.1%. Networks: T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T. All have dual sims, but recently disabled second sim given scp issues. All with latest firmware.

April security update is out

Fish Dance

Fish School

Not seeing it on my S24, but the AT&T side of my Dish/Project Genesis Edge+ 2023 is pulling AT&T n77 as of this morning (didn't test yesterday), with 200+ Mbps download speeds outdoors despite being a few miles from the nearest cell site. Maybe someone used the eclipse as an excuse to build out here after all (not VZW, to be clear). Hopefully I'll catch the signal on my S24 as well (swapped in my Boost AT&T SIM to check), I want to see whether they have both 3900-3980 MHz and DoD spectrum online...at which point they'll have the same amount of 5G deployed to T-Mobile (10x10 n5 + 120 MHz C-Band vs. 10x10 n25 + 20x20 n71 + 80 MHz n41), albeit in a config that *should* allow for higher peak speeds. AT&T seems to be aware they have C-Band here, as this location is marked as covered by Internet Air. So...think I'll try setting that up for the family. EDIT 2: T-Mobile actually has 100+80 MHz here, so they've deployed more mid-band than AT&T owns. Still nice to see AT&T turning theirs on.

So, Dish is continuing to build out their network, it seems. Fredericksburg, TX now has n70 strong enough to be usable (100+ Mbps) indoors a few miles outside town, which means that for most of the area they're now the second-fastest network (behind T-Mobile), since neither AT&T nor VZW have C-Band deployed here. I did lose service for a bit earlier this morning, so this coverage may have just come online and is being optimized as a result. But I'll test later with the Edge+ 2023 to see what state things are in.

Mapped a bit of Perth Amboy since it seemed undermapped on Cellmapper. There are no Sprint conversions in the city however I did map a new build and one older site that had never been mapped before. The part that stood out to me while mapping the city is T-Mobile's site density in comparison to AT&T specifically since those are the two networks that I map. T-Mobile has 10 sites within city limits in comparison to AT&T's 4 sites. AT&T still performs great there thanks to their combo of C-band and DoD spectrum. I got max speeds of about 650Mbps right under a site but those speeds quickly drop off the farther you go from the site. In some parts of the city I couldn't get any more than ~40Mbps on AT&T because I was at the edge of the C-band cell and I'm certain most of the throughput was coming from the lowband I was aggregating with. T-Mobile on the other hand couldn't get the peak speeds that AT&T had because of NextWave encumbering them. They only have 40+40 n41 but had much more consistent 300-400Mbps speeds virtually everywhere I went and a much stronger signal. The only area where they struggled in terms of speed was around Five Corners where T-Mobile has a site on top of the Perth Amboy National Bank Building but it hasn't been upgraded just yet. They only have n71 and n25 on that site. I got speeds of about 150-200Mbps under that site which isn't bad but it's also the busiest area of the city so they definitely could use the capacity.

As mentioned on the other thread, this morning (IIRC 9:20a) T-Mobile dropped B41 here, adding the 40 MHz previously allocated to the n41 secondary carrier, bringing that to 80 MHz. Theoretically there's another 10 MHz here but B41 is completely offline from what I can tell so TBD if we'll ever see that.

N41 here has been expanded from 140Mhz to 180Mhz. Speeds seem the same so they just need to work on backhaul