nexgencpu

Haven't posted in ages. But just noticed what was a Tmobile dead spot for me (since i switched sim cards) has now been filled by B26 no less. . I thought B26 was not part of the deal.  But seeing this gives me hope that this will fill in some gaps nicely. 

On 2/19/2021 at 7:22 AM, transitwatch889 said:

As of today they have expanded to 40mhz of band 41 nr, up from the 20 prior, in upper Manhattan and the BX at least in my hood. 

I can confirm the extra 20mhz on N41 are live all over the Bronx, hit speeds in excess of 300mbs! Very happy to finally see this.

On 2/19/2021 at 7:22 AM, transitwatch889 said:

As of today they have expanded to 40mhz of band 41 nr, up from the 20 prior, in upper Manhattan and the BX at least in my hood. 

That's awesome! 

3 hours ago, jaybiz81 said:

So I haven't posted in a minute, but today I decided to swap out my Sprint SIM for T-Mobile.  They sent me an email saying to go and get the best out of T-Mobile's network.  Boy, do I regret it.  My speeds dropped from 120 down and 10 up to 30 down and 0.5 up, and I'm on band 2 sometimes with band 4 for CA.  I'm hoping areas of the Bronx are better, but part of me wants to run back and grab my Sprint SIM even though I feel it's too late.  Anyone else having similar frustrations?  Non-5G device here... Note 10+ (not sure what my profile says anymore lol).  I mean at the end of the day, for what I do online, 30 is fine, but still, it'd be nice to see more.

Edit: I live near Dyckman.

Bottom line: You NEED 5G phone for Tmobile in the Bronx, with it the performance is night and day, I average 50-150mbs and upto 50mb up in the Bx. Even with only 20mhz of N41 and 10Mhz of N71 it performs admirably. 

4 hours ago, transitwatch889 said:

No it drops off to just straight LTE single carrier!

Thanks,

Funny, I meant N41+B41(autocorrect switches N to B for some reason) but you still understood what I meant. lol

6 hours ago, transitwatch889 said:

I am now connecting to 15 megahertz of T-Mobile band 41! In addition to the 20 MHz of NR 41. From what I can tell the Sprint site is still transmitting three carriers of two band 41, 20 wide channels and a 10 wide channel. For total 50 MHz there 

B41+B41 in CA? 

Just now, nexgencpu said:

Looks like my local site was increased back up to 10Mhz as well! Good catch.

3 hours ago, transitwatch889 said:

So I've noticed in my roundabout travels that the 5 megahertz frequency on band 71 had been increased in certain areas to around the 10 . It just increased in my area as well. Is this due to that spectrum lease agreement I read about in the news from capital?

Looks like mine was increased back up to 10Mhz as well! Good catch.

Finally got the fold in hand, and it's just phenomenal as I'd imagined. It truly is "next generation" 

Btw, the radio performance on Sprint/TMobile has been quite good, beating out my GS20U+

8 hours ago, transitwatch889 said:

On my s20 ultra I'm switching onto band 41 in my neighborhood. No CA though

N41 or B41?

Placed my pre-order on this monster. I got an awesome deal!

Got $650 for my Galaxy S20 Ultra

$100 pre-order discount/bundle

$100 student discount

https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-z-fold2-5g/

Joshua Vergara does a good job of showcases some of its features..

7 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

n41 is officially in my neighborhood! It's not on my home site just yet but it's getting closer. This site was about a 5 minute drive from my house. Still 40MHz according to engineering screens.

The site it was on didn't even have 600MHz antennas on it so T-Mobile clearly sees Band 41 as priority number 1 right now. 

 

 

 

DUDE! Im here to post the same thing but my actual home site!!! SUPER SURPRISED! I was wondering why all of a sudden, my phone calls were not breaking up! YAY to N41! only 20Mhz of it, but with CA on other bands its performing solidly, (20mbs-60mbs) 
I'm happy with the service now!

Best experience I've had post-merger. 

N41 live on riverside park by 165th street with bonus pic of the spot. Beautiful day to spend with friends and family plus some Speedtesting+Macro finds.

N41 on tmobile Riverside Park

Riverside Park nyc

Found a couple more N41 sites in midtown, btwn 35th and 38th St and sixth ave..

Speeds were between 100 and 150mbs..

1 minute ago, Tengen31 said:

That mean it's 15x15 up from 10x10?

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Correct.

Surprise surprise! Finally got the extra 5mhz of B2 on my home site (and probably neighboring sites). It definitely helps since B2 is involved in all CA combinations.

5 minutes ago, transitwatch889 said:

It was CA with LTE anchor band. https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/3HeBg2rlsOwN

This would effectively make it the first n41 deployed north of 167th street in NYC found.

2 hours ago, transitwatch889 said:

So randomly decided to check my engineering screen and I saw that I was connected to n41 tower on 215 and Inwood Manhattan 20 megahertz worth of bandwidth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally! Was it on any sort of CA config? Only 20Mhz, I'm assuming it wasn't Standalone since I don't think 5G SA is quite ready.

1 hour ago, Paynefanbro said:

Yesterday I drove to the Bronx from Brooklyn by taking the Jackie Robinson to the Van Wyck to the Whitestone Expwy, and then the Bruckner. Somewhere along that ride I connected to n41. I don't know where but when I got to my destination in the Bronx I was connected to n71 and the NR bandwidth field on my phone said 40MHz. This indicates to me that my phone connected to in41at some point and the bandwidth data for n71 was stale. Hopefully this means that T-Mobile has already started n41 deployments deep into the outer boroughs.

 

More likely that you were connected to n41 in Queens(I have connected to n41 in Queens)I have yet to see any n41 in the Bronx, and unfortunately after 600Mhz was reduced, speeds have taken a nose-dive. Still on 10Mhz B2, no more Sprint n41, plus that 600Mhz reduction causing the perfect storm here. Congestion is so bad on 700mhz, my calls constantly cut and drop, only thing that's keeping my situation manageable is the hack to force Wi-Fi calling as primary, since by default, wireless gets priority over Wi-Fi calling. Which in theory makes sense since my signal is fine, but the congestion has completely made it unusable. 😒

2 hours ago, Tengen31 said:

Is that a 2nd carrier?

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No, they expanded from 10mhz to 15mhz.

5mhz+ B2 is live all over Queens. Also hit a couple N41 sites.

1 hour ago, Paynefanbro said:

I can confirm that 15MHz PCS is live across all of northern Brooklyn at the very least. I went to Red Hook, Williamsburg, Park Slope, Sunset Park, and everywhere in between today and encountered 15MHz PCS everywhere.

That's encouraging to see, especially since B2 is used in CA on almost all configurations.

2 hours ago, RAvirani said:

A full deployment has never been T-Mobile's strategy, and that's why they've never been the best in Seattle. Despite having the best site density (by a lot), their network experience falls far short of AT&T, Sprint and even Verizon now, who I would have claimed was in last place a year ago. 

The trend for the last 4 years has been that AT&T and Verizon never climb a tower without deploying every LTE technology available at that time. Even today, the same cannot be said for T-Mobile. 

I would estimate that more than 35% of T-Mobile sites in Seattle are still midband only. And some are still B2-only whereas others are B4-only. That makes coverage/capacity inconsistent between sites and handovers at the edge of cell sloppy, to say the least.

To really compete with the big two, they're going to have to rethink the way they're deploying their RAN and stop deploying the minimum needed to get by. Hopefully we see those changes going forward, because they definitely have the economies of scale necessary to do so now. 

I'm surprised TMobile is so inconsistent with bands deployed per site. Some sites have full on builds some are two or three bands and others host single bands. While Sprint might have been weak off the beaten path, they consistently deployed full builds on almost all macro sites in NYC.

9 minutes ago, PhillipJames89 said:

is it possible to turn off 5G? if so, what are the speeds like on LTE? I would assume you will be connected to B41 LTE....

If you notice on the speed test it says LTE, that means despite of what the icon is indicating, he is connected to LTE and not N71 or N41. Speed test is more reliable than the carrier icon on the top. Also, I fully expect(ed) T-Mobile to be worse than Sprint in NY for quite a while.

14 minutes ago, RaigekiNYC said:

Not yet in LES here. I disabled band 25, 26 and 41 on Note 9 to force roaming to T-mobile. Still 10MHz on B2 for T mobile, 20Mhz on Band 66 and 5 Mhz on Band 12. When roaming at peak hour, speed drop to 50 Mbps down and 35 Mbps up. Off peak 200 down and 60 up vs. 260 down and 10 up on band 41. Still have band 41 LTE. And no band 71 around here.

Same in the Bronx unchanged..