stanleywinthrop

I wanted to give an update on the Columbia/Lexington area. Since this summer the B41 rollout has been impressive. In Lexington, it has made it all the way out to my neighborhood which I was not expecting for quite some time as I live a ways out. Overall, I am very pleased and impressed with the rollout in the Lexington area. Downtown columbia has also seen a pretty good rollout of Band 41. The USC campus is pretty well covered and although spotty, you can find it down assembly and up towards main street as well. However as we all know B41 does not penetrate buildings well and does not make it into mine past about 10 feet of a south/west facing window. The bad news is that I had expected Band 41's presence to relieve pressure on the way over congested B25 in downtown, but alas B25 is as slow and congested as ever.

Affirmative. Check out my previous posts.

Forgive my enthusiasm, but I've suffered on Sprint far too long. Just pulled this beauty in Lexington. Lat and Long included for the curious.

I would call it central, but to be more specific, it starts in downtown lexington and goes east out 378 towards the main shopping areas including wal mart. I haven't fully tested how far, but it could be all the way to Target.

Exciting news (at least for me lol) picked up Band 41 for the first time in central Lexington area. Was able to pull a 47 Mbps download which is light years ahead of anything I've seen in this area. Unfortunately downtown Columbia remains a B25 wasteland with terrible speeds.

nope.

Check out the Harbison area. Definitely some Band 41 active in that area.

Next time you're transiting I-26, stop for lunch in the harbison area. Solid band 41. I've been getting 30-50 Mbps speeds, which blows anything I've ever seen on Bands 25 or 26 away.

Ah ok. It just sucks that the network consistantly selects the wrong network at my office.

Yes, assuming both you and the recipient are on a carrier that has RCS enabled.

So I've had RCS enabled for 4 months now. My wife uses an iPhone and I don't know a single person who has a sprint android. Is there a group chat i can join? Or at least someone willing to let me send a RCS message so i can at least say I've used RCS?

Nope. 12 was the only non-Sprint band listed in my phone, which is interesting because the phone itself is compatible with every LTE band currently used in the US. And while on that thought, I don't think I've ever roamed in LTE for some reason. I do head out into the boondocks occasionally and usually I roam on 3G only.

Thanks for the suggestion RAV. I set my priority to 26-1, 41-2, 25-3, 12-4. (I assume 12 is in there for roaming purposes?) We'll see if this makes much of a difference.

Bandwidth, Throughput, Billput, whatever you call it, my point is that Band 25 in my office in downtown Columbia is glacial which seems needless considering Band 26 is available and offers better performance at this particular location. Currently I have a Moto G5 plus, but have gotten similar results with a Moto G4 plus and HTC Bolt.

Yep. I've been getting solid B41 in the Harbison area for the last 3 weeks. I also got some downtown for the first time this morning! Hopefully B41 will be expanded more downtown via the densification plans. My biggest gripe now with sprint is that in my office building downtown I get solid B25 coverage, but the bandwidth is horrid, usually below 1Mbps. I know B26 is present, because when I go a little bit deeper into the building, B25 drops out and the phone grabs B26. The funny thing is B26 has better bandwidth, usually 3-5 Mbps. I wish there was some way to force the phone to prefer B26.