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    WiMax Protection Site Operation Confirmation

    in WiMax

    Posted

    McAlester' date=' OK is confirmed not selling services. I suspect most sites in Oklahoma are not really in service![/quote']

     

    Not selling, yes. Clear doesn't sell service in Protection Site areas. However, does the service work there with your Sprint WiMax devices? If so, what kind of performance did you encounter?

     

    Robert, Roberto, Admin, Hey You! Its all good! But this was posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

    What's your speed like RIGHT NOW?

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

     

    I'm starting to see a lot of holes in Verizon's coverage in my travels. There are several places that I drop down to 1xRTT for miles on major highways. I have had dropped calls. I never had this with Sprint unless I was off Sprint's grid. I used to have 3G the entire drive to work with Sprint. Now with Verizon it is a mix of 4G 3G 1X and no coverage. It seems like they spaced the towers out as far as they possibly could and still barely provide coverage.

     

    I have the same issue with Verizon coverage here. However, its the same for me with Sprint. In my area, Sprint and Verizon are co-located together at most sites. At least until I get north of Espanola. Then they aren't colocated any more, because Sprint doesn't have coverage.

     

    Robert, Roberto, Admin, Hey You! Its all good! But this was posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

    What's your speed like RIGHT NOW?

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    I have never' date=' before my iPhone and troubles never have gotten service...always 1x extended for 1 and a half years here...this is the first or second time ive ever seen Sprint here...(all the other times on 3g it was 0.00 - 0.05 down)...now look at these speeds (im in here everyday at the same time)...now i can use 3G...the wifi here is also slow and half of the www is blocked

     

    Sent from my awesome iPhone 4S using Tapatalk![/quote']

     

    800k is a usable speed. I only need 500k-600k for most of the things I do. Congrats.

     

    Robert, Roberto, Admin, Hey You! Its all good! But this was posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

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    Tower locations

    in Markets

    Posted

    How do I find the Sprint towers that are in my area? I know it will be awhile before NV even starts here but figured I could still watch for any work(backhaul) being done. Zip code is 73130.

     

    There is no real public source. But S4GRU has them. I will post the OK market for you in S4GRU Sponsors area of the forums tonight. Watch out for them!

     

    Robert

    What's your speed like RIGHT NOW?

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    So I ran 2 separate speed/dBm tests. One from the couch and one from the deck (12 feet away from the couch) and here are the results.

     

    Yeah, the second result was still LTE... as I said before, better building penetration my eye.

    Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

     

    Although we cannot see the LTE dBm there, we are seeing an illustration how LTE is much more affected by a reduction in signal than EVDO is. Although the 700MHz signal is certainly penetrating your home, there is significant loss of signal that is occurring. And subsequently your speeds drop significantly. This is something that is also happening to Sprint LTE in FIT testing.

     

    I saw one map where they super imposed speed test results over a site map over a FIT area. It was done in a "heat map." Lighter colors were faster speeds and darker colors, slower speeds. You could easily pick out the towers because the area around them was an island of super fast LTE speeds. Around 20Mbps - 30Mbps. Then in between sites they changed to various shades of darker colors.

     

    At urban spacing, in between towers it would drop to 6Mbps. That's probably where Sprint will advertise LTE speeds, because of that. However, in rural areas that can be much farther from the site, given LTE steady drop in speed across signal degradation, the speeds can be much lower.

     

    So even though 700MHz gets a lot of praise for propagation characteristics, especially distance, there will be no substitute for being close to that tower for screaming LTE. Kind of like how you need to be near the tower for good 2500 service.

     

    Robert

    What's your speed like RIGHT NOW?

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    My speeds are usually in the 0 to 300kbs range down and 0 to 150 up from home, even with a good signal level.

     

    Yesterday afternoon I tried to check something while in the parking lot near City Hall in Lakewood, WA 98499 and got this:

     

    Yesterday, at another location 3 miles away from that I got 1.3Mbs down and 0.85mbs up.

     

    As you can see, it varies. ;)

     

    Ouch!

    What's your speed like RIGHT NOW?

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    Could be so-- I always get in upper 20s to 40 down at my office with a -63dBm LTE signal. The LTE signal here is pretty steady, but the eHRPD/CDMA signal starts at -58 dBm early in the morning and drops to -75 dBm in rush hour afternoons, but the 3G speeds stay around 2 mbps. Right now, I have -68 CDMA / -63 LTE-- no worries.

     

    Yeah, EVDO stays relatively steady into the nineties, then halves between -100dBm and -104dBm. Then -106dBm and beyond is no mans land. Sometimes it works OK, sometimes its worthless. Of course, these are in FITs, which have ideal backhaul, etc.

     

    Robert

    Sprint's response to the "bankruptcy risk" remarks by Bernstein

    in General Topics

    Posted

    There are some areas in the country where Sprint is downright poor. I think that they will have some problems keeping subscribers in those places.

     

    However, performance at Network Vision sites is sounding very good. I just got two reports from S4GRU readers that a site in New Bedford Mass that used to be poor is now humming above 1.6Mbps since NV completed on it a few weeks ago and sub 100ms pings. :fingers:

     

    I do think Q1 subscriber numbers could be an issue, as not many people want WiMax units at this point and we are in the middle of device famine. But this ends on 4/15. 2Q will probably shift that.

     

    Robert, Roberto, Admin, Hey You! Its all good! But this was posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

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    No Google Play Movies for rooted phones

    in General Topics

    Posted

     

    Its been shown countless times task killers do more harm than good most of the time since the huge advancement in Android's task management...

    If you have your things set to sync right there is no need for task killers at all really...Having them run constantly in the background eats more battery than they save MOST of the time.....

     

    im not going to continue this debate here though b/c itll derail the thread...

     

    I swore by taskillers even through Gingerbread. However, I have been on ICS for three weeks now and it has been pointless on it. I just uninstalled yesterday. I'm now taskiller free!

     

    Robert, Roberto, Admin, Hey You! Its all good! But this was posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

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    GSlll rumored specs

    in Samsung

    Posted

    Granted I'm a UF Engineering School dropout, but I'm having a tough time wrapping my mind around how remote charging 3 - 6 feet away from a device. My physics knowledge would say that is impossible. Sounds like a fantastical rumor.

     

    Robert, Roberto, Admin, Hey You! Its all good! But this was posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

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    What's your speed like RIGHT NOW?

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

     

    I'd call Verizon to check the tower ASAP. Lte is always 12-15 mbps upload from my experience-- I've never seen an upload that slow.

     

    You must have some serious load in your area. I've never seen the Lte speeds below about 15/12 mbps nor the pings above 70 ms. I know that Verizon plans 3 passes over areas to progressively thicken and enhance coverage after the initial market rollouts.

     

    You probably have better spacing. LTE speeds are much more dependent on signal strength. Based on FIT testing reports I've been reading LTE top speeds halve between -80dBm and -90dBm. And they halve again between -90dBm and -100dBm. And then they fall off a cliff above -100dBm.

     

    And even though it sounds horrible, all this halving of speeds, the throughout is so greatly improved that the speeds are still really fantastic.

     

    For instance, in Sprint 5x5 LTE testing, signals better than -80dBm are between 12Mbps to 30Mbps in testing. But between -80dBm and -90dBm, speeds are between 6Mbps and 12Mbps, and between -90dBm and -100dBm speeds are between 3Mbps and 6Mbps.

     

    Once you get worse than -100dBm, results are highly variable to non existent. Depending on other factors, most specifically other users, the system may shed you completely to save performance for everyone else. You may get handed off to EVDO. But if the Mac Index is low, it may allow you to keep a paltry 1Mbps to 2Mbps speeds.

     

    After saying all that, Scott may not have the signal that you do where he is at. Scott, what is your LTE dBm?

     

    Robert

     

    Robert, Roberto, Admin, Hey You! Its all good! But this was posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

    Comments related to the NV Running List Thread

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

     

    I think it sucks. You can't see your voice coverage anymore. You can't see whether you are roaming when using number display. You can't see everything you used to at glance. Hell if you go to roaming on 1x in rural towns where you have 4g coverage you would never know you are roaming.

     

    The grass is always greener I suppose.

     

    Robert, Roberto, Admin, Hey You! Its all good! But this was posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

    Lightsquared's LTE network doomed

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    Unfortunately, the general reporting on the LightSquared/Sprint deal was flawed in expressing the true nature of the relationship. Also, many people jumped to conclusions that the deal with LightSquared was exactly the same as Clearwire, just with LTE.

     

    As was noted above, Sprint was not using LightSquared for LTE. Sprint was hosting LS's LTE, not the other way around. With losing LS, Sprint is losing revenue, not LTE. Sprint is still deploying its own LTE network and that plan is completely unaffected by LightSquared's failures to get FCC approval.

     

    It is true that Sprint did negotiate a deal to use LightSquared for additional LTE capacity when needed. However, Sprint said they would not likely use it before 2015. Sprint would only use LS when and where it was absolutely necessary, because it would have to pay per GB charges for it. And there wouldn't have been Sprint devices that supported LS frequencies for a long time.

     

    As I always say, stay tuned to S4GRU.com for all the latest on Sprint's LTE deployment. It is going to be two years of non-stop announcements!

     

    Robert

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