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Brynn0823 Member Level: 3G EVDO

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I have not been here long enough to check out the entire strip. But the excaliber-tropicania area was bad yesterday. Going to travel some other areas on foot today along the strip. Out of the strip area, I did find some very good areas yesterday. Is it possible that we only have one carrier for band 41 here? I only see #40072 in the debug screen. How many thousands of tourists can be packed in the 6 or so hotels within range of this site that is running so slow.

 

 

I've pulled 80-110 Mbps all across the strip so no they don't have just one carrier band 41.

 

 

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First, a big thanks to orangeblue for the find.   Second, here are some pictures of the 1st confirmed Band 41 LTE ALU 8T8R equipment in the Las Vegas Market!     All the links below are the oth

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itsrobert Member Level: 1x Advanced

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I had problems in Vegas about 2 monts ago at the Orleans. The LTE signal was strong, but slow. The hotel was packed with teen and preteens for cheer event. I put my phone on 3G only and got decent data for 3G. Once the cheer event was over 4G had excellent speeds. Teen and preteen girls can use their phones alot.

 

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MacinJosh Member Level: LTE Advanced

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I had problems in Vegas about 2 monts ago at the Orleans. The LTE signal was strong, but slow. The hotel was packed with teen and preteens for cheer event. I put my phone on 3G only and got decent data for 3G. Once the cheer event was over 4G had excellent speeds. Teen and preteen girls can use their phones alot.

 

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The Orleans has one of the best Bowling Alleys in the west, so I'm sure when all the professional bowlers are around, it slows down too.

 

 

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MacinJosh Member Level: LTE Advanced

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I have not been here long enough to check out the entire strip. But the excaliber-tropicania area was bad yesterday. Going to travel some other areas on foot today along the strip. Out of the strip area, I did find some very good areas yesterday. Is it possible that we only have one carrier for band 41 here? I only see #40072 in the debug screen. How many thousands of tourists can be packed in the 6 or so hotels within range of this site that is running so slow.

There is definitely 2 Band 41 carriers in Vegas. I have seen other phones connected to it. I forgot to check when I was at Best Buy in Summerlin last Thursday night to see how speeds were. (Too busy putting my 7 Plus in its new Otterbox Defender.)

 

 

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greenbastard Member Level: 4G WiMax

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Looks like if Mobilitie doesn't get the small cells it needs in certain major cities, it will legally buy politicians in order to get it done.

 

http://m.reviewjournal.com/local/north-las-vegas/north-las-vegas-mayor-lee-s-re-election-chances-helped-big-campaign-donations

 

Mayor John Lee raised significantly more cash than the two political newcomers trying to upset his quest for a second term.

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Lee’s largest contribution was $10,000 from Mobilitie Services in Newport Beach, California.

I honestly don't like it, but everyone does it so I won't criticize Mobilitie for it. They seem to have kicked their expansion into high gear and aren't fooling around anymore.
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RAvirani Member Level: LTE Advanced

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I get decent signal and speed outside on the strip when I'm in Vegas. But in the casinos is a whole different story. Mostly 3G then.

 

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Have you been to Vegas since 800 was fired up?

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http://m.pvtimes.com/news/utility-company-provide-service-underserved-nye-communities

 

Looks like Mobilitie is looking to serve underserved areas of Nye County. That could accelerate Small Cells in Pahrump, especially the outlying areas.

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nickj1399 Member Level: iDEN *chirp*

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Well here's an update to my post on Thursday... I've been on the strip since Thursday and not very impressed with the "new network" from sprint. Many areas of non-existent data (overloaded) LTE.

 

 

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chamb Member Level: 4G WiMax

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From cosmopolitan all the way down to harrahs on the strip, the data is pretty much non existent

 

 

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I was there for 4 days.  I had LTE on the street, but in many cases it was SLOW, SLOW, SLOW.  Like under 1 mbs.  I was rarely able to look at my security cameras at home.  Not enough bandwidth.  I get an e-mail when something moves in front of my security cameras. The e-mail contains a snapshot.  Not really a big file, but the photo did not snap up on the screen very fast like it does elsewhere.

I can also go into my APP for the security system and pull a live video from a camera or a 20 second recording of what has happened to trigger the alarm.  This was most often totally useless.  It works other places, but not very well in Vegas on the strip.

I was on Band 41 quite often, but there was practically no usable service.  Speedtest would not even run much of the time.

I did see a second B-41 carrier sometimes but I never saw carrier aggregation.  I was not really there to diagnose the Sprint network, but I could not ever see aggregation on B-41 with my Galaxy S-7 using the debug screen(LTE engineering).

As I was leaving and at McCarren airport, I did see 2xCA but even that was a little slow. It varied, but at about a 3mbs download average.

McCarren has good Wi-Fi and people should connect to it, but the American population does not impress me with their intelligence.

Hard to tell how many people were on Wi-Fi and how many on the Sprint B-41.  I can not believe that a 2xCA site can be overwhelmed like it appeared to be.  I have to wonder if they are activating the sites with insufficient backhaul.

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Nextel49 Member Level: 3G EVDO

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Will be in Vegas this weekend and will check it out. Never had issues when visiting Vegas.

I was there last month with the same issue of slow data to nonexistent even in the building'swas it bad & was in Santa Monica lat sunday with the sam issue of barly any speeds

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Nextel49 Member Level: 3G EVDO

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I was there for 4 days.  I had LTE on the street, but in many cases it was SLOW, SLOW, SLOW.  Like under 1 mbs.  I was rarely able to look at my security cameras at home.  Not enough bandwidth.  I get an e-mail when something moves in front of my security cameras. The e-mail contains a snapshot.  Not really a big file, but the photo did not snap up on the screen very fast like it does elsewhere.

I can also go into my APP for the security system and pull a live video from a camera or a 20 second recording of what has happened to trigger the alarm.  This was most often totally useless.  It works other places, but not very well in Vegas on the strip.

I was on Band 41 quite often, but there was practically no usable service.  Speedtest would not even run much of the time.

I did see a second B-41 carrier sometimes but I never saw carrier aggregation.  I was not really there to diagnose the Sprint network, but I could not ever see aggregation on B-41 with my Galaxy S-7 using the debug screen(LTE engineering).

As I was leaving and at McCarren airport, I did see 2xCA but even that was a little slow. It varied, but at about a 3mbs download average.

McCarren has good Wi-Fi and people should connect to it, but the American population does not impress me with their intelligence.

Hard to tell how many people were on Wi-Fi and how many on the Sprint B-41.  I can not believe that a 2xCA site can be overwhelmed like it appeared to be.  I have to wonder if they are activating the sites with insufficient backhaul.

 

Remeber that some site use AT&T as the backhaul & when I was at Bally's last month service showed strong yet the reality was bad could not do much live streaming on facebook nor snapchats were failing to upload I have an HTC 10 

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I have lived in Vegas for the last year and have never had any issue with Sprint other than Inside the Planet Hollywood hotel. In Henderson where I live I get a consistent 60mb-100mb Download speed and use 60gb-80gb alone each month. Sprint LTE has been so good out this way that we have cancelled our cable internet service

 

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MacinJosh Member Level: LTE Advanced

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Remeber that some site use AT&T as the backhaul & when I was at Bally's last month service showed strong yet the reality was bad could not do much live streaming on facebook nor snapchats were failing to upload I have an HTC 10

AT&T had no backhaul service or wireline ISP services in Vegas that I've ever been aware of.

 

 

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mnjeepmale Member Level: 3G EVDO

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Every time I come to Vegas I have mixed results. Some areas have decent and good speeds and other areas on the strip suck. Like tonight on B41 speeds are horrible in an area. Why? Can't they fix this?Screenshot_20170511-214416.pngScreenshot_20170511-214152.png

 

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chamb Member Level: 4G WiMax

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Every time I come to Vegas I have mixed results. Some areas have decent and good speeds and other areas on the strip suck. Like tonight on B41 speeds are horrible in an area. Why? Can't they fix this?attachicon.gifScreenshot_20170511-214416.pngattachicon.gifScreenshot_20170511-214152.png

 

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Yep, I had the same experience in March.  Extremely bad speed and bad pings on the strip near Excalibur in particular. Even outside on the strip.  Practically unusable.   WHY??   Some other places too.  WHY?    Horrible.  It ain't  a moving target.  Grab it and fix it.

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Rawvega Member Level: 4G LTE

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Sprint's service in Las Vegas is generally good, but of course I don't spend very much time on the Strip (which technically isn't in Las Vegas ????). Hopefully they'll get whatever capacity issues they're having on the Strip sorted out soon or at least by the time that the Golden Knights start playing.

 

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Rawvega Member Level: 4G LTE

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Lol the network had better be flawless by the time that the Raiders get here! That's more than enough time to work any kinks out.

 

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Welcome to the Sprint Dome, home of Las Vegas Raiders. Put your cell phones on mute. Except for Sprint phones, you dont have to worry about getting a call here.

 

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Rawvega Member Level: 4G LTE

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Lol that would be terrible, though if Sprint didn't buy the naming rights to Arrowhead Stadium right in their backyard, I doubt that they'd be willing to spend even more and do so here. T-Mobile pays ~$6M/year for the naming rights to the arena here. I'd have to imagine that the bill would be significantly higher for a brand new NFL stadium.

 

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      Totally agree.  In my county and surrounding counties, TM did not place n-41 on every site.  When I look at the sites in question, I probably would have not placed it there either.  I can find just a few with n-71 only and in most of those cases if you live there and know the probable usage of the residents, you would not do a full upgrade on those sites.  One site in particular is set up to force feed n-71 through a long tunnel on the Turnpike.  No stopping allowed in the tunnel. No stores, movie theaters, bathrooms, so n41 would be a waste.    n25 is not really needed either, so it is not there.  The tunnel is going through & under a mountain with more black bears than people.  TM was smart.  Get good coverage in the tunnel but do not waste many many thousands of dollars with extra unused spectrum. I also see sites with only n71 & n25.  Again this makes sense to me.  Depending on what county we are talking about, they moved much of their b25 from LTE to nr.  Some counties have more n25 than a neighboring county, but luckily, it is plenty everywhere.   When you are in a very rural area, n41 can run up the bills and then be barely used.  I am NOT finding sites that should have had n41 but TM failed to provide it.  They may have to come back later in a few years and upgrade the site to n41.  However, we just may eventually see the last little piece on Band 25 leave LTE and move to n25. I am not sure if the satellite to phone service is using band 25 G block as LTE or nr. We also can possibly have at least some AWS move from LTE to nr at some point.  Yes, everybody wants n41. it is not justified in some cases.  When I travel, I desire some decent service along the entire route but it does not have to be 1 or 2 gig download.   If I can get 50/5 on a speedtest with data that will flow and not stutter, I am very happy. Yes, they will swap out the USC gear.  TM needs to match their existing network. The USCC equipment did the job for years, but it is time to retire it.

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