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egonadrian Member Level: 1x Advanced

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Lol, do you live inside the tower? Is your phone making contact with the panel or something? That is amazing, the fastest speedtest I have ever seen! I did not know it went faster than that.

 

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They are upgrading the entire network, not just cities. So they upgrade each site the moment it is ready. It is typically faster to have a rural site ready to upgrade than an urban site. Backhaul i

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Your complaints are rather pathetic. To complain right in the middle of active deployment is ridiculous. The speed in which Sprint and Samsung have converted sites in Puerto Rico is unprecedented. E

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Guys. Sprint is better than ever. No more drop calls for me from UPR to Toa Baja and vice versa. Very good LTE speed. UPR Río Piedras Campus have LTE everywhere and usable 3g if LTE isnt available. I'

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Jejejejeje!!!

Lol, do you live inside the tower? Is your phone making contact with the panel or something? That is amazing, the fastest speedtest I have ever seen! I did not know it went faster than that.

 

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The one with >37 mbps seems to be a lil mess up with the speedtest server since the airlink itself can in no way transfer over 37 with the 5x5 configuration. But it seems you have an amazing connection to the tower anyways so it shouldn't matter. Looks like the panel is directly pointed at u :P! lucky you...

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Austrie Member Level: 1x Advanced

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Been lurking this site and thread for a while. I'm using Virgin Mobile, Sprint's prepaid company. Have we got any reading of LTE coming to the vi, more specifically St.Thomas? This site's main thread said LTE should be in in by march 2013, February is just about to finish and I don't think Sprint have even started; though I have noticed my 3G has been going in and out since late January.

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No, hence why I have to shut it down in order to test LTE inside the house, otherwise the phone prioritizes it over any outside signal.

 

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I should've added that it doesn't make a difference whether the Airave transmits EVDO or LTE since it's just feeding your broadband's connection to the phone via either interface, if you have a great broadband connection I guess EVDO would turn into a bottleneck of sorts but if you pay for broadband you can surely afford a Wifi router anyway.

 

What's curious is that the phone prioritizes the Airave's "3G" connection over LTE, tho I guess it's not surprising since relieving network congestion is one of the reasons the Airave exists... It just turns into a hassle when you have downright mediocre broadband.

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To those that are in St. Thomas, I can confirm That at least one tower that has been upgraded to nv(3g). I am out in the field at the moment, I will post some speedtest results as soon as I can. I been averaging well over 2 megs down on 3g which is unheard of.

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To those that are in St. Thomas, I can confirm That at least one tower that has been upgraded to nv(3g). I am out in the field at the moment, I will post some speedtest results as soon as I can. I been averaging well over 2 megs down on 3g which is unheard of.

 

If you can figure out which site it is and maybe take some pics, I'd be grateful. However, I know the sites in USVI are pretty inaccessible. Most are on mountaintops far behind locked gates.

 

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If you can figure out which site it is and maybe take some pics, I'd be grateful. However, I know the sites in USVI are pretty inaccessible. Most are on mountaintops far behind locked gates.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

 

I know which tower it is, it's actually sitting on top of a house, lol. I took pics as well but given the distance, it's hard to see the smaller details. I should be back at my office in about 30 minutes or so. I will pm you the site info.

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Here are a couple of speedtests I ran while I was out and about.

 

There has probably never been speeds like that on Sprint on St. Thomas, ever.

 

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There has probably never been speeds like that on Sprint on St. Thomas, ever.

 

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Its been a while thats for sure but I do remember when I had my touch pro 2 that I would get decent speeds when I visited(around1.5 consistently).

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Oh and I also noticed that as of this afternoon my evo is showing eHRPD but my nexus is still showing evdo. I also noticed a crew working on another tower in the main part of town.

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Site PR03XC078 in El Señorial, San Juan. It's been a while. The photo to the left was taken around October. The one on the right last week. Still the site isn't NV complete. I guess it's a couple of weeks till done. Worth the wait.

 

 

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Oh and I also noticed that as of this afternoon my evo is showing eHRPD but my nexus is still showing evdo. I also noticed a crew working on another tower in the main part of town.

 

8 of the 9 sites on St. Thomas and St. John showed up as 3G signed off on the acceptance report today for this market. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1120-comments-related-to-nv-sites-complete-thread/page__view__findpost__p__110977

 

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8 of the 9 sites on St. Thomas and St. John showed up as 3G signed off on the acceptance report today for this market. http://s4gru.com/ind...post__p__110977

 

Robert

 

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That link is asking for a passwordhttp://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1120-comments-related-to-nv-sites-complete-thread/page__view__findpost__p__110977

 

Is these sites close to smithbay? And what about LTE?

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