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[latinoboi30]

Thanks Robert,
I appreciate the response.I was thinking the same thing about the threshold needing to be adjusted. Even when I had one bar of 4g lte, I had very decent speeds. Attached link to image of screenshot

http://imgur.com/tBGhz.png

[big_redneck]

Im very anxious to get to test the 4G in my area and around Houston. The couple of times I did connect, it was very very slow, so Im not sure if my phone is defective or what. Maybe I should have went with the S3 lmao.

[danielholt]

big_redneck, on 18 July 2012 - 12:51 PM, said:

Im very anxious to get to test the 4G in my area and around Houston. The couple of times I did connect, it was very very slow, so Im not sure if my phone is defective or what. Maybe I should have went with the S3 lmao.

PEBPAC

[big_redneck]

danielholt, on 18 July 2012 - 07:54 PM, said:

PEBPAC

Ya lost me boss.....I'm confused now haha

[danielholt]

dont mind me, i am the village idiot.

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[big_redneck]

danielholt, on 18 July 2012 - 08:15 PM, said:

dont mind me, i am the village idiot.

Ouch man....funny, but ouch lol. Im not trying to rant or be demanding, Im just wondering if its the actual device that has issues due to the short connects to 4G. I spoke with Sprint today and the rep was actually helpful. He educated me to the fact that there were a few issues here in Houston with the lite up of LTE and that they were working diligently to fix it. He also stated that Sprint jumped the gun on the coverage map and that he has had a lot of calls on customers complaining that the "map shows coverage, but I have nothing". Its the articles that Robert posts that help us get educated on the workings of all this stuff. I love technology, but do not know enough about the whole "network thing" to be able to post useful information, be it speculative, objective or otherwise. Now, gimme a vehicle and I'll build you a race car...gimme a Harley, and I'll make you a custom.

[danielholt]

big_redneck, on 18 July 2012 - 08:30 PM, said:

Now, gimme a vehicle and I'll build you a race car

Now Cole, the pace car is about ready to duck on off, I don't have much time to tell you this.... if you goto the outsideee, you CAN HOLD.

[big_redneck]

danielholt, on 18 July 2012 - 08:34 PM, said:

Now Cole, the pace car is about ready to duck on off, I don't have much time to tell you this.... if you goto the outsideee, you CAN HOLD.

SHAKE N BAKE BABY!!!!! Woooooo!!!!!

[danielholt]

i grew up in daytona beach area, and now live in NC... theres no way i wouldnt know some nascar stuff, lol

[pyroscott]

Maybe I am overly tired but I have no idea what happened here in the last 7 posts.

Although I do know the movie quotes.

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[danielholt]

pyroscott, on 18 July 2012 - 08:47 PM, said:

Maybe I am overly tired but I have no idea what happened here in the last 7 posts.

Although I do know the movie quotes.

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Robert is gunna delete me, its just a matter of time.

[themuffinman]

danielholt, on 18 July 2012 - 08:15 PM, said:

dont mind me, i am the village idiot.

I am not gonna lie, was funny as hell!!!!!!!


Pebpac

[pyroscott]

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Robert is gunna delete me, its just a matter of time.

Why would he delete his court jester?

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[S4GRU]

Daniel...I would never delete you. But ban you, that's a whole 'nother story.

You are like the annoying little brother I never wanted. You almost feel like family.

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[Josh]

S4GRU, on 17 July 2012 - 10:24 AM, said:

Sprint and their OEM's need to adjust LTE thresholds. They are too high. Once you get to a midrange or weak signal, it will move over to EVDO if it is stronger. However, this is faulty logic. Even a weak LTE signal is better than most EVDO signals. I hope that Sprint has them lower the LTE threshold so LTE devices can keep a connection to weak signals, instead of being shunted to EVDO. In a WiMax device, this was easy to modify. But we have not been able to find a way on a LTE device yet to adjust the threshold. It most likely will need to happen via OTA.

Robert

Do you think its to keep their quoted 6-8Mb/s data rate? I was thinking while reading several posts that you had said that the rates drop off proportional with distance for LTE, then others saying it would not connect with weak signal... so if sprint thought people would see LTE speeds under 6Mb/s and assume that it was a network issue and not an issue with signal strength, and say that sprint's new network is just like WiMax... They don't want to deal with that kind of bad publicity. The spotty coverage is something more expected from a less than half completed roll-out, but if people were only seeing 2Mb/s, most would assume the worst and jump ship.

I am not saying that the thresholds are at a good level, but it would stand to reason that this could be affecting their reasoning to set a high threshold in the first place.

[Josh]

danielholt, on 18 July 2012 - 08:51 PM, said:

Robert is gunna delete me, its just a matter of time.

And I just can't believe you went through the trouble of adding an acronym to the urban dictionary... and I've been reading these forums for months and have never seen anyone use it! lol

[danielholt]

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And I just can't believe you went through the trouble of adding an acronym to the urban dictionary... and I've been reading these forums for months and have never seen anyone use it! lol

I submitted it for review, crossing fingers

[S4GRU]

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Do you think its to keep their quoted 6-8Mb/s data rate? I was thinking while reading several posts that you had said that the rates drop off proportional with distance for LTE, then others saying it would not connect with weak signal... so if sprint thought people would see LTE speeds under 6Mb/s and assume that it was a network issue and not an issue with signal strength, and say that sprint's new network is just like WiMax... They don't want to deal with that kind of bad publicity. The spotty coverage is something more expected from a less than half completed roll-out, but if people were only seeing 2Mb/s, most would assume the worst and jump ship.

I am not saying that the thresholds are at a good level, but it would stand to reason that this could be affecting their reasoning to set a high threshold in the first place.

Its possible, and I had not considered that. And that would do it. But if so, its not a good move, IMO. They need to adjust it down some more. Especially if they are going to claim the coverage areas that they are.

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[big_redneck]

Josh, on 19 July 2012 - 12:47 AM, said:

And I just can't believe you went through the trouble of adding an acronym to the urban dictionary... and I've been reading these forums for months and have never seen anyone use it! lol

I'll take one for the team in the name of judgeship (if that's even a word)

[boomerbubba]

S4GRU, on 19 July 2012 - 04:59 AM, said:

Josh, on 19 July 2012 - 12:44 AM, said:

Do you think its to keep their quoted 6-8Mb/s data rate? I was thinking while reading several posts that you had said that the rates drop off proportional with distance for LTE, then others saying it would not connect with weak signal... so if sprint thought people would see LTE speeds under 6Mb/s and assume that it was a network issue and not an issue with signal strength, and say that sprint's new network is just like WiMax... They don't want to deal with that kind of bad publicity. The spotty coverage is something more expected from a less than half completed roll-out, but if people were only seeing 2Mb/s, most would assume the worst and jump ship.

I am not saying that the thresholds are at a good level, but it would stand to reason that this could be affecting their reasoning to set a high threshold in the first place.

Its possible, and I had not considered that. And that would do it. But if so, its not a good move, IMO. They need to adjust it down some more. Especially if they are going to claim the coverage areas that they are.

Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

If this threshold was set deliberately by Sprint marketers rather than engineers, they deserve to eat their own dogfood because this rollout has generated some bad PR.