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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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Thanks Robert.

Well I currently live in front of the ocean in Manati. I have noticed a dramatic increase in signal strength in the past week or so. I can sometimes see full bars for up to an hour but then intermittently it drops to 1 or 2 bars or just grayed out altogether! In the past if I got 2 bars I considered that a good day!! Last night I ran a speed test late at night with full bars and got the following:

Ping: 245ms / 1298kbps download / 460kbps upload (I had selected a server in Manati).

 

Is the signal dropping to 1 or 2 bars indicative that work continues on the towers, and should that stabilize at some point or will I just have to live with it?

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Thanks Robert.

Well I currently live in front of the ocean in Manati. I have noticed a dramatic increase in signal strength in the past week or so. I can sometimes see full bars for up to an hour but then intermittently it drops to 1 or 2 bars or just grayed out altogether! In the past if I got 2 bars I considered that a good day!! Last night I ran a speed test late at night with full bars and got the following:

Ping: 245ms / 1298kbps download / 460kbps upload (I had selected a server in Manati).

 

Is the signal dropping to 1 or 2 bars indicative that work continues on the towers' date=' and should that stabilize at some point or will I just have to live with it?[/quote']

 

Usually if your signal drops suddenly it is because your device switched towers, to a further site. If the closer site is being worked on is having traffic issues, that can happen.

 

But note that your signal indicator only shows you your voice signal strength, not data. It is possible that your phone changed towers for voice but stayed on the same site for 3G data. Your phone can connect to two different sites at once and as many as 3 when connected to LTE. All would have different signal strengths.

 

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I took this on various areas in Ponce. As you can see, the results are quite nice but there were some spots where it just went downhill.

 

The 3 mps were with 4g on.

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jarm Member Level: Digital

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Does this happens to you when connected to nv sites?

Network id 200

 

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in all nv towers that i see in PR it says network id 200

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Well then the tower in Carolina has real problems.. I cannot get anything above 100kbps..

 

Thanks

mabe the tower is with the new panels activated but the backhaul isnt ready yet

 

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digiblur Member Level: LTE Advanced

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in all nv towers that i see in PR it says network id 200

 

NIDs are a way to break up SIDs. So they can apply different PRL rules to each NID. It's not done too often though.

 

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NIDs are a way to break up SIDs. So they can apply different PRL rules to each NID. It's not done too often though.

 

Sent from my C64 w/Epyx FastLoad cartridge

 

Talking on PRL, i'm using the one you send me, still no EHRDP on nv sites, i will let you know as soon I catch something.

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Talking on PRL, i'm using the one you send me, still no EHRDP on nv sites, i will let you know as soon I catch something.

 

Ehrpd works even on non lte prls.

 

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egonadrian Member Level: 1x Advanced

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Wow still absolutely NOTHING in the metro area -_-

 

They are deliberately doing every site in PR before they hit the metro area.

 

Wouldnt it be smart for them to do the

most heavily populated areas first and then the rural zones?

 

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Wow still absolutely NOTHING in the metro area -_-

 

They are deliberately doing every site in PR before they hit the metro area.

 

Wouldnt it be smart for them to do the

most heavily populated areas first and then the rural zones?

 

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It doesn't surprise me, as this has been the pattern in other markets. Chicago and Boston, for example. In PR, its close to 50% the sites that are in the metro area and 50% in the rest of the island. Almost all of the Western part (North and South) of the island except Mayaguez is complete. Once everything outside of the metro area is completed, all those crews can concentrate on it. It would not surprise me that the PR markets is fully completed ahead of schedule.

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It doesn't surprise me, as this has been the pattern in other markets. Chicago and Boston, for example. In PR, its close to 50% the sites that are in the metro area and 50% in the rest of the island. Almost all of the Western part (North and South) of the island except Mayaguez is complete. Once everything outside of the metro area is completed, all those crews can concentrate on it. It would not surprise me that the PR markets is fully completed ahead of schedule.

 

Why are they leaving Mayagûez for last....? :huh: :mellow: :(

 

posted using my super FK'N htcEVO4gLTE

 

 

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miguelfp1 Member Level: 1x Advanced

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by my count, and the data in this site, 105 of 252 (42%) sites in Puerto Rico have been upgraded/accepted by Sprint over the past two months, 58% of the sites left.

 

that rate is not bad, almost half of all the sites in the island in two months!

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Robert7 Member Level: 1x Advanced

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Wouldnt it be smart for them to do the

most heavily populated areas first and then the rural zones? On the contrary that was the others( att and openmobile)did. They started lte in san juan, ponce and mayaguez .Would be wise to change that pattern

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