645824 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Ever since the August 1st Sprint/TMobile transition I have had poor service with my three HTC 5G Hubs. They were always on 4G LTE b41 (the towers never made it to 5G). My three units go through my load-balancing router, with fault-tolerant roll-over, in an attempt to keep at least one of them up. This is my only internet connection since I live in "the country". Sigh... 2 miles outside of city limits. No cable. No DSL. Yes, I'm in one of the FCC Auction 904 zones. The problem that I had was that the units would have 3-5 bars on the units, but some would have internet connectivity and some would not. If I power cycle one of the units, then it starts working again. Then stops minutes/hours later. Since my sons are doing school through Zoom, the Internet must work so it was a constant game of reset-reset-reset throughout the day to keep at least one of the three boxes up. I was finally able to get in touch with Maxim in the sprint Devices center: Quote Maxim H.: Thank you so much. I really appreciate your time. Rest, be assured that you will never have this issue again on any of the devices phone lines. I bet. 👍 ... I have refresh the services with OMDMA. It has to do with the technical side for data services. ... Now, you will never have any data or internet connectivity issue. I've never heard of OMDMA; I had pressed him but didn't get any more details. Googling didn't uncover anything either. But everything has worked fine for awhile now and I'm getting the same speeds (10-30 of Mbps) that I was getting on July 31 before the Sprint/TMobile transition. Scott 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belusnecropolis Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 1 hour ago, 645824 said: The problem Let me know when you want a 5G router. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAvirani Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 I came across my first Sprint/T-Mobile combined site today. You can take a look here here: https://imgur.com/a/J3y0xN9 You can see the T-Mobile quadband 8-port Commscope panel (for 600/700/1900/2100), the T-Mobile massive MIMO Nokia panel (for 2500), the Sprint dualband 8-port RFS panel (for 800/1900) and the Sprint Commscope 8T8R (for 2500). 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belusnecropolis Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 1 hour ago, RAvirani said: I came across my first Sprint/T-Mobile combined site today. You can take a look here here: https://imgur.com/a/J3y0xN9 You can see the T-Mobile quadband 8-port Commscope panel (for 600/700/1900/2100), the T-Mobile massive MIMO Nokia panel (for 2500), the Sprint dualband 8-port RFS panel (for 800/1900) and the Sprint Commscope 8T8R (for 2500). So what is live on each for 2.5? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 On 10/3/2020 at 11:25 AM, Paynefanbro said: Looks like if you turn off the 5G layer on T-Mobile's coverage map, it shows you n41 coverage. https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/coverage-map Nice. I'll have o take a drive a few miles down the road from work to check out some B41 on T-Mobile! I didn't realize it was there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickie546 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 12 hours ago, RAvirani said: I came across my first Sprint/T-Mobile combined site today. You can take a look here here: https://imgur.com/a/J3y0xN9 You can see the T-Mobile quadband 8-port Commscope panel (for 600/700/1900/2100), the T-Mobile massive MIMO Nokia panel (for 2500), the Sprint dualband 8-port RFS panel (for 800/1900) and the Sprint Commscope 8T8R (for 2500). Where is this at?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAvirani Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 11 hours ago, belusnecropolis said: So what is live on each for 2.5? The 8T8R has 3 L2500 carriers (live at EARFCNs 41094, 41292 and 41490). The Nokia massive MIMO panel has 3 L2500 carriers (live at EARFCNs 39874, 40072, 40270), and NR is sitting in the middle. 28 minutes ago, Rickie546 said: Where is this at?? Redmond, WA. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dkoellerwx Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 On 10/3/2020 at 10:25 AM, Paynefanbro said: Looks like if you turn off the 5G layer on T-Mobile's coverage map, it shows you n41 coverage. https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/coverage-map It looks like they "fixed" this. No longer seeing that when I go to the map. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belusnecropolis Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 The map is no longer granular when zooming in. That was an easy way to see if a new tower went up or if one was serviced by T-Mobile. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javon23 Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 (edited) On 10/2/2020 at 2:40 PM, floorguy said: go look in the phones section here... I posted a few things I have stumbled across... There is a problem.. as to how many phones... meh thats the question... As to issues outside that.. I dunno.. But go look in the sammy section of phones here, I put so lins to go read.. On 10/2/2020 at 2:43 PM, jreuschl said: Try setting your network mode from Automatic to LTE/CDMA. This even fixed my S10, non 5G issues I commented on earlier in the thread. Discussion there. So the internet went out in my area and has been out all day. I been using my Note 20 Ultra as a hot spot for my Macbook and IPTV. My speeds start to decrease as I believe Sprint/Tmobile is throttling me. I play around with my hotspot settings and come across an option to change the Band to 5Ghz. The moment I change it, my 5G reception comes back. WTF? Somehow the software update I guess changed that setting. All is well now. Edited October 6, 2020 by javon23 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnygATL Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 5 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said: It looks like they "fixed" this. No longer seeing that when I go to the map. Drats. Seems you're correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWMaloney Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 Billing question for you. I have three lines on Framily. Two of the lines have the unlimited data add-on; the third line has the base 1 GB allotment. However, when viewing usage on the My Sprint website, all 3 lines show usage out of Unlimited. Has anyone else seen this? Was there any announcement about converting limited data plans to unlimited? Nothing has changed on the bill. I'm curious if I could just drop the $15 unlimited data add-on from the other 2 lines but actually still keep unlimited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacinJosh Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 5 hours ago, JWMaloney said: Billing question for you. I have three lines on Framily. Two of the lines have the unlimited data add-on; the third line has the base 1 GB allotment. However, when viewing usage on the My Sprint website, all 3 lines show usage out of Unlimited. Has anyone else seen this? Was there any announcement about converting limited data plans to unlimited? Nothing has changed on the bill. I'm curious if I could just drop the $15 unlimited data add-on from the other 2 lines but actually still keep unlimited. My friend is on the same plan on her 2 lines, and they are both still showing unlimited data since the pandemic started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jreuschl Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 14 hours ago, belusnecropolis said: The map is no longer granular when zooming in. That was an easy way to see if a new tower went up or if one was serviced by T-Mobile. Wow, that's really disappointing. At least the no roam map hasn't changed (for now). If you click on a spot, you can see the bands and signal strength. N41 has never been showing on here however. https://maps.t-mobile.com/pcc.html?map=mvno-noroam-34l Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansltx Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 T-Mobile just demo'd NR-NR CA on the LG Velvet...there's a benefit to their variant using the Dimensity 1000 vs. a Snapdragon, which doesn't support NR-NR CA. Nice thing about this advancement is now the limiting factor for 2.5 coverage will basically be how far the 2.5 downlink signal can go, vs. how far a mid-band uplink can go...and there's definitely a difference there because a base station is more powerful than a phone. In the press release T-Mobile focused on higher download speeds (increased by 20% over n41 alone) and better coverage, but maybe we'll get an upload capacity improvement here as well, particularly in markets that don't have 20 MHz LTE channels to bond to. Guessing top-line upload speeds won't change much though, unless TMo can get n71 online at 20 MHz in some market. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesinclair Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 I went into NYC this weekend and every time I lost data service (subway), the only way to get it back was to airplane mode cycle. Not sure if this is a "feature" of the transition. I was also in Phlly and had zero usable service at 30th Street Station, which is a major transport hub. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr8nuguy Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 5g is live in fremont, ne 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dkoellerwx Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 16 minutes ago, gr8nuguy said: 5g is live in fremont, ne N71 I assume? Edit... just saw your other post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javon23 Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 (edited) My reception after getting 5G to work again on my Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Columbia Maryland Edited October 6, 2020 by javon23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jreuschl Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Supposedly the T-Mobile Network Experience is available nationwide now at stores. Anyone jumping primary networks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardsfan96 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 I’ve heard that the US Cellular roaming agreements for sprint and or T-Mobile are expiring in December. Any truth to this? Will they be extended with the same type of access as now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1dante Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 2 hours ago, jreuschl said: Supposedly the T-Mobile Network Experience is available nationwide now at stores. Anyone jumping primary networks? It’s available in Gainesville, fl. I’m going by after work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSpark Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 3 hours ago, jreuschl said: Supposedly the T-Mobile Network Experience is available nationwide now at stores. Anyone jumping primary networks? I'm curious what this means for the iPhone 12 announcement coming up next week: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewbertdc Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 5 minutes ago, RedSpark said: I'm curious what this means for the iPhone 12 announcement coming up next week: Given that they're all supposed to be 5G devices, I would not be surprised if they were homed to T-Mobile by default if the user's plan and area are eligible for the T-Mobile Network Experience. It's an easy opportunity for T-Mo to migrate customers without requiring another interaction later. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radem Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 25 minutes ago, RedSpark said: I'm curious what this means for the iPhone 12 announcement coming up next week: T-Mobile is not about to put the newest Apple flagship 5G devices on a network that does not have 5G. No way they allow these to use the Sprint network as their home network where they would be stuck on LTE and almost never see a 5G icon. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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