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They turned on the carrier aggregation today ???? I can't post the screen shot but I got 115mbps down!

Seems to be working normally now and is Connecting to B41 on all 3 sectors. woohoo. Getting around 20mbps down on B41 and about 5mbps on B25, much improved from the unusable B25 before. Has taken load off a neighboring B25 only tower as well so it is also somewhat useable. Still no Carrier aggregation though. Idk why they wouldn't just turn everything on at the same time. We still have several towers (in dense areas) that don't even have B41, and I only know of 2 that have Carrier aggregation turned on.

No band 26 for us : (. Maybe it is not fully launched yet on this tower because I don't know why it would only broadcast from 1 sector. I cannot pick up any B41 on the other 2 sectors. I guess I will just wait a bit and see if it is resolved.

I am using a galaxy note 5 in Buffalo, NY market. It seems that band 41 was recently added to my home tower. I used to only get extremely slow band 25. Now however I have been picking up band 41 from the tower (I can tell because signal check reports the sAme pci) but it doesn't seem to be preferred. How does this phone decide what band to go to? Is it based on snr? Oddly enough when I am outside the phone stays on band 25 (which is still <1mb), it only switches to 41 if I go INSIDE. I am baffled by this so I have been watching signal check closely. When outside I get -70dbm on band 25, the SNR is also very high, >20. As I travel inside my apartment then signal and Snr get worse on b25, the phone then switches randomly between b25 and b41, and I have noticed the SNR will be better than the b25 was when the phone decides to switch to 41(as I travelled inside and the signal worsened). When I go from inside to outside, the phone switches from b41 to b25 permanently. As I watch the numbers on signal check, I notice that the snr does not exceed 15 or so on b41, even when I get outaide, right before the phone switches to b25. Outside the b25 snr is >20. I have watched the phone for almost 10 minutes and even with airplane mode toggles it will NOT connect to b41 at all outside. Is it possible the phone is choosing b25 due to the better snr? I have never seen this happen before. It is frustrating because the b25 is so slow! While the 41 is giving me 40mbps +. Yet the phone still does not seem to prefer b41 the way it usually does everywhere else. Again the pci remains the same between the band switches and I know there's only 1 tower that would provide this kind of signal to me so I believe I am on the same sector. It is also strange because only this 1 sector is broadcasting b41 at all and the other sides of the tower are not... Has anyone seen anything like this happen before? Should I report it?

I was having problems yesterday in the area of Main and Delevan. I kept getting "Data session could not be established" error. It seems to have resolved now. If they could only turn on more band 41 and 26 here...

Must be then I guess, although this is my second phone so it must be the towers. B41 chugs along perfectly fine to much lower RSRP, but b25 definitely falls apart for me after 105.

Right, I know the RSRP is a different value that is always lower. But in terms of comparing 3g and LTE coming from the same site, my point was that on B25, the signal starts to become unusable past -105 (my experience). Since -105 LTE (b25) seems to correlate with -75 to -80 on evdo (1900mhz) from the same tower, this leads to large areas with poor or no LTE even when 3G is very strong. Basically any area where I was used to -80 to -100 evdo (perfectly useable) has marginal or nonexistant LTE coming from the same tower. This creates a lot of gaps in the LTE coverage that will hopefully be resolved by B26. We do have B41 here, which oddly enough seems provide more/better coverage than B25. B41 seems to hold on to much lower RSRP values (down to -120 or -125), which actually seems to provide a better experience than the B25 at -110dbm. Again this is just my experience.

In my experience, per signal check, the LTE (B25) signal is always 25-30dbm weaker than EVDO. I find that unless your EVDO signal is -75 or better you are at risk of dropping LTE. For example, if the evdo signal is -80dbm, the LTE signal will be -105 to -110 and will sometimes drop out completely. And I know for sure it is coming from the same tower. Places where I have almost full bars of 3G can have only 1 bar LTE. I don't know why it is so weak but I hope it improves.. Maybe something is wrong with my phone. No B26 here either so it is almost impossible to get LTE inside buildings at all.