Everything 800mhz (1xA, LTE, coverage, timeline, etc)

[duddys31]

Cool so it doesn't seem to matter if a market is spark or not wether b26 is getting deployed first in those areas. Another question I am guessing that places where b26 is showing up 1x800 has been on in those places for awhile? I sure do wish I had the extra money to go ahead and donate to premier status so that I wouldn't have to ask so many questions, maybe I can get my ol'lady to do it for me for my birthday cause it's not to far off. Thanks for all the answers and information everyone on this site contributes to I have to say this one of the most informative and my favorite site to be on ????

[Soupcan]

Ok can someone confirm that these signals are coming from the same tower? One is band 26 and the other is band 25. These were taken in the exact same spot. Why is the band 25 signal stronger than the band 26 signal? Is this just a strange anomaly?

 

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[Dkoellerwx]

Ok can someone confirm that these signals are coming from the same tower? One is band 26 and the other is band 25. These were taken in the exact same spot. Why is the band 25 signal stronger than the band 26 signal? Is this just a strange anomaly?

 

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The Band 26 is coming from a different site. The first 6 digits of the GCI will be the same if it's the same site. The last two digits tell you the band. 00, 01, 02, 03 at the end indicates B25. 0F, 10, 11 at the end indicates B26.

 

[For Samung markets. Other markets have slightly different patterns.]

[Soupcan]

The Band 26 is coming from a different site. The first 6 digits of the GCI will be the same if it's the same site. The last two digits tell you the band. 00, 01, 02, 03 at the end indicates B25. 0F, 10, 11 at the end indicates B26.

 

[For Samung markets. Other markets have slightly different patterns.]

Thank You! That makes much more sense!

[TyrellCorpse]

Sitting in KC airport getting weak Band 26/800mhz LTE at the moment and then it goes to 3G once in a while in some spots.  Nice to see 800LTE alive but surprising the airport in Sprint's home market doesn't have solid enough LTE coverage.

[gusherb]

 

Band 26 still humming along around 33rd and Halsted in Chicago. I forgot how well an empty LTE carrier can perform even with weaker signal.

[travismheim]

Looks like the nexus thread got locked but it might also be relevant here. My Nexus 5 no longer indicates roaming anymore when connected to 1x800. I don't know what changed, but maybe Syracuse is having 800 officially launched. No 800 shows up on any acceptance reports in the entire market so far. Looks like its about time to send back the Airave.

 

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[burnout8488]

Looks like the nexus thread got locked but it might also be relevant here. My Nexus 5 no longer indicates roaming anymore when connected to 1x800. I don't know what changed, but maybe Syracuse is having 800 officially launched. No 800 shows up on any acceptance reports in the entire market so far. Looks like its about time to send back the Airave.

 

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I hope all of Upstate NY gets lit up with 1x800 in a single acceptance report. It's been so spotty down here in Binghamton, just get it over with already Sprint! Fringe 1x is getting old  

[anthony.spina97]

I was up in Pilot Mountain, NC this weekend and was getting this a lot:

Is this 1x800? I believe it may be, since it shows the Band Class as 10. Whenever I roamed on Verizon, it would go to Band Class 0, which is what leads me to believe this was 1x800.

 

-Anthony

 

 

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[gusherb]

I was up in Pilot Mountain, NC this weekend and was getting this a lot:

Is this 1x800? I believe it may be, since it shows the Band Class as 10. Whenever I roamed on Verizon, it would go to Band Class 0, which is what leads me to believe this was 1x800.

 

-Anthony

 

 

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Yes that was most definitely sprints 1x800. Did you find it preferring that over roaming?

[anthony.spina97]

Yes that was most definitely sprints 1x800. Did you find it preferring that over roaming?

Yup! It would rather go to 1x800 for a couple secs, then back to 1900, then to No Service rather than go to roaming. It won't sit on 800 for long; my iPhone really seems to want to avoid it like the plague.

 

-Anthony

[Deval]

Yup! It would rather go to 1x800 for a couple secs, then back to 1900, then to No Service rather than go to roaming. It won't sit on 800 for long; my iPhone really seems to want to avoid it like the plague.

 

-Anthony

Yeah unfortunately the iPhone is weird like that

 

I picked up BC10 in Queens, NY over the weekend, but my personal iPhone kept jumping, while my work HTC One (M7) stayed pretty on 800mhz.

[gusherb]

Yup! It would rather go to 1x800 for a couple secs, then back to 1900, then to No Service rather than go to roaming. It won't sit on 800 for long; my iPhone really seems to want to avoid it like the plague.

 

-Anthony

It would be nice if Sprint would finally allow the iPhone to park on 1x800, but I guess we've seen some progress. I think I remember hearing initially it would even roam before going to 1x800.

 

I didn't have any issues when I absolutely needed 1x800, it stayed on it, but PCS was absolutely nonexistent when it did, even 1x800 was fading in and out.

[johnrockets]

I've been getting 800Mhz B26 LTE here at my home just outside of Chicago since yesterday with my G2. I'm definitely seeing better indoor reception.  Places inside the house that it used to fallback to 1x/ehrpd it now connects to the B26 LTE.  Seems to generally be +10db to +15 signal relative to B25.  Just as advertised for indoor signal propagation.

 

Speed tests early this morning and last night showed an average of 8Mbps with the highest score being 11Mbps.  Pretty much the same figures for both ingress/egress.  This with signal hovering around -96.  I'm a little less than a half mile from the tower.

 

Anyway, just thought this would be good info for the thread.

Edited April 22, 2014 by johnrockets

[Vince]

I've been getting 800Mhz B26 LTE here at my home just outside of Chicago since yesterday with my G2.

Where at?

 

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[johnrockets]

Where at?

 

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Here (general area).  Tower is about 1/3 mile down the road from this spot. :

https://www.google.com/maps/place/W+Pershing+Rd+%26+Oak+Park+Ave/@41.8213173,-87.7924789,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x880e341e5ef622c1:0xe97d8020ed06b783

 

This was in the deeper parts of my house and basement that I was seeing the connection.

 

I messed with the band priorities yesterday afternoon (set B26 to highest priority) and now it seems to be falling back to ehrpd again where it was doing B26 LTE Monday and Tuesday.  Even after I changed it back to default this morning.  It seems the priority settings don't really work, imho.  I noticed the same sort of behavior when trying to prioritize B41.

 

So either I messed something up with changing the prio's or for some other reason seems to not be connecting today.

 

Sprint testing the waters ?  Fixing something ?  B26 spectrum already overloaded by iPhone'ers ?!

 

Who knows?, but I did see it as I described.  Using SignalCheck Pro.

Edited April 23, 2014 by johnrockets

[kineticman]

MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA

Request for Extension of Time

 

Denied Sheriff Joe!

 

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db0410/DA-14-482A1.pdf

[KD8JBF]

MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA

Request for Extension of Time

 

Denied Sheriff Joe!

 

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db0410/DA-14-482A1.pdf

To busy running around tent city...lol

 

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[ghostkilla1388]

Picked up some band 26 earlier this morning for a few seconds.

 

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[transitwatch889]

So I picked up band 26 working on my client at his apartment in lower Manhattan not t far from the new freedom tower where world trade use to be.https://www.dropbox.com/sc/b3j9xott36t9471/mqCVLAbUeS

[Vince]

So I picked up band 26 working on my client at his apartment in lower Manhattan not t far from the new freedom tower where world trade use to be.https://www.dropbox.com/sc/b3j9xott36t9471/mqCVLAbUeS

What phone is that?

[transitwatch889]

What phone is that?

the HTC one max

[Deval]

I'm picking up 800mhz 1x now, awesome for inbuilding coverage! 

 

My fiancee's apartment used to get a -99, -105db signal for 1x, now on 800mhz, it is sitting pretty at -83db!

[Deval]

I'm picking up 800mhz 1x now, awesome for inbuilding coverage! 

 

My fiancee's apartment used to get a -99, -105db signal for 1x, now on 800mhz, it is sitting pretty at -83db!

 

 

Mikejeep, I'm now spreading your app to everyone on my team. I have a whole bunch of Spark devices that I'm testing, and all of them have SignalCheck on them. Comes in handy when testing hand offs!

 

[mikejeep]

Mikejeep, I'm now spreading your app to everyone on my team. I have a whole bunch of Spark devices that I'm testing, and all of them have SignalCheck on them. Comes in handy when testing hand offs!

Awesome! Humbled and happy to hear it is so useful for so many people

 

-Mike