mozamcrew

I agree.  I think Sprint should offer a rural home ISP service.  One 20MHz carrier on rural sites can carry bootloads of rural customers.  The site next to my home in New Mexico would be greatly under utilized with a 20MHz TDD carrier.  At worst, it would probably run 10% of capacity.  However, the only terra-based ISP you can get in that area is Windstream DSL limited to 3-12Mbps, depending on how far you are from the DSLAM.  Sprint could sell a great service to those people without sacrificing performance to the mobile customers.

 

Robert

As long as they limit this to customers on sites like this that have low utililzation (and thus plenty of spare band 41 spectrum to spare), I think this would be great. I'd suggest a price simlar to what Wildblue or Dish charge(and thus higher than most DSL/Cable plans) to encourage those that HAVE access to a wired connection to opt for that instead.

Sprint gets additional revenue, and since the costs of running a site like this are mostly fixed, this is good for the bottom line. Also, it puts the screws to ol' Charlie since TD-LTE will be much better than the crappy Dish internet service.

Anyone who is experiencing LTE connection difficulties in a live B41 area? My LTE connects fine again at home.

 

For those of you that are unaware, when I was at work tonight I had no LTE connection at all. Usually I have at least B25. The whole way back home there was nothing until I got on my exit. Then boom there it was. It stayed connected during the 20 min drive from there to home.

 

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I think the problem is that the APNs in the phones won't let you connect to band 41 LTE, so if you enable band 41 before the Sprint "update" and you are in an area with active band 41 LTE, your phone will see the band 41 LTE and keep trying to stay on a "broken" band 41 connection, rather than dropping back to band 25.

This is true...in rural and tertiary markets.  It is not true in primary and most secondary markets.  Sprint could deploy a home ISP in rural areas no problem with their current spectrum without impacting their mobile plans the next few years.  But not in places like New York City or Las Vegas.

 

Robert

In some ways this is perfect, because the areas that DON'T have cable and/or DSL are usually rural or edge areas anyhow. Areas where there isn't dense enough population to justify wiring up a whole neighborhood.

Just wanted to be sure.  With the embedded battery I'd rather not take any chances, but I know you guys know your stuff so I completely trust your judgement.

All of the usb chargers convert from ~120V AC from the wall outlet, to 5V DC. The amperage on them is the MAXIMUM amperage they can provide. The charging circutry on the phone/battery is what determines how much current it draws, limited by the Amp rating on the charger of course. The only downside to using a charger with excessive headroom in the amperage department might be that it's less efficient than a smaller charger since it is likely to be running at a lower current draw than it was designed for.

Yes, its the airave but I dont know why.  It keeps connecting and dropping the signal...

Do you know which version of the airrave you have? Version 1, 2, or 2.5?

I know most of them need to be able to get a GPS fix, so if you put them in a place where they cannot, then you have trouble

What happens if you just shut off the airrave? Do you have any Sprint coverage in the house?

Current: 2009 Subaru Outback

Dream: Fully restored 1976 Camero

Lately my phone or airave have been acting up.  The phone keeps switching form tower to airave full bars no bars, this never happened before.  I tried resetting the airave but the problem still occurs. NV maybe?

Does the phone work fine when you aren't around your airrave? If so my guess would be the airrave.

What PRL is everyone using? I see people in the forums discussing PRLs well above 25000 and after updating my EVO 4G LTE what I get is 24016. I'd really like to be able to access the 800mhz band, but my phone never seems to find any. Maybe they just have not deployed in my area yet. But we're already half LTE deployed, so it would be quite an oversight on their part. 

 

I'm wondering if I'm being given a purposefully outdated PRL due to being on an MVNO. Any chance of that? 

 

I found the Sprint PRL list here in the forums, here is what it says:

24016 24015 SV-LTE and BC10 2012 forward CL Corporate Liable SV-LTE PRL identical to 22xxx and also supports Simultaneous Voice/Data.

 

So, Corporate...I'm going to guess it isn't being updated with the latest 800mhz entries? 

You EVO 4G LTE supports 1x800 on your current PRL. I know cause I'm using that PRL and getting 1x800 (when I'm in areas where it's deployed.) My guess is that you don't have 1x800 deployed there. You might want to become a sponsor and check the completed sites map and the market map. That will give you a better idea what sites sprint has in your market, and where they are with their upgrades.

Can somebody give me directions to SIM City?

 

 

AJ

No dice AJ. Spatula city maybe . . . or you could just look in the Yellow pages under spatulas.

It pains me to have 100Mbps internet service at home, but I have no devices that can support those speeds via WiFi. I have to plug in to get speeds above 35Mbps or so.

 

Robert

Curious, who do you have for your home internet service?

I can think of one reason to buy from google instead of Sprint.  If you get the one up plan it's only $65 for unlimited data and you don't and your not paying the extra $18.75 a month for the phone till you pay off the higher sprint price tag.

 If you are on one up though, you only get the $15 a month discount while you are still paying off your phone. Right? So this wouldn't help you.

Not exactly.  The LTE airlink is so relatively fragile that even LTE 750 will not usably cover as much footprint as you might think.

 

AJ

I think the map IS an exaggeration of their LTE coverage. I think they are assuming usable LTE 700 where they have usable CDMA 800 on the same site. I'm just saying you'd be surprised how much terrirory you can cover with both CDMA 800 and LTE on 700 with just a handful of towers. When you have a flat area with few people and low band spectrum, you can cover quite a bit of territory.

If I had the time and money I would independently audit the Verizon coverage in the Dakotas and Nebraska and Kansas.  I mean, the population density is so low in those states, how could they possibly afford to cover them edge to edge with LTE?  Methinks their map is showing licensed areas in those states rather than actual coverage.

 

Hopefully if/when Sprint activates their 800 LTE, there will be a lot more green on their map.

Because these areas are FLAT FLAT FLAT with low population density (Maybe not the blackhills, but much of ND, SD and NE is) . A well situated cell site with CDMA 800 and LTE on 700 can cover a huge area.

I see there are several 800MHz sites online about 20 miles from where I live.  I've been thinking about taking a shopping trip to the area covered by one of these sites.  Will my phone automatically switch to the 800MHz band or just keep sitting on the 1900MHz band?  If it keeps sitting on 1900, will making a VOICE call cause it to switch to 800?

 

(Actually, I just want to hear the cute notification tone from Signalcheck)  

In my experience it will continue to stay on 1900 unless it loses the signal, either cause you go though an area where you lose signal, or because you put it in airplane mode. Once that happens it will use the PRL list to decide what channels to scan for first. Most newer Sprint phone will scan for Sprint 1x800 before Sprint 1x 1900, but 800 and 1900 have the same priority (once it finds either one it won't keep scanning for the other). Unlike when it's roaming and it will keep trying to find a native Sprint signal.

If Robert is going to put it in his driveway or yard, I would probably recommend one of these...

 

 

We have plenty of them in Kansas City, maybe because Sprint is headquartered in Overland Park.

 

 

AJ

I'm with you in spirit AJ, but I don't think cows are going to fix this problem. Anyone who's been watching the news knows there is a cow shortage in SD right now due to the number of cows that were killed during the blizzard. I have a solution to this problem though.

Maybe it's one of those "data centers in a box" things I heard about a few years back?

BAH, the HTC one MAX is nothing special the MAX is just a bigger screen that is all and they made half of the phone out of plastic they lost one of the HTC One's most defining features you know ALL ALUMINUM!

Worse, they also removed OIS from the camera.

Unix Time.

Only if it's a 64 bit value, you've got to think long term! I mean if you are still using a 32 bit value you might as well be expressing it in . . . Hammer Time! 

Your kidding right? In other parts of the world, they put the day first, followed by the month and year. In this case it would be 5 November 2013. You are too used to it being done the American way of month, day and year. Therefore, the date in the pic would be correct :-D

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Wrong! All of you are wrong! Any math nerd will tell you to use the YYYYMMDD format . . .

I think it's a lowercase L, as in Lynchburg, Not "iburg"

Ahh, I was thinking it was an uppercase "i". But given that he lives in Lynchburg . . . that would make much more sense.

Hey Everyone!

 

Long Time lurker here finally got around to registering for an account.

 

Sadly, I am in nTelos Territory and and currently am enjoying the blazing 3G speeds of 50k-100k day in and day out. 

 

While my market is no where near an NV improvements, the forum is fascinating for Columbus OH updates (where I used to live and where my parents live currently).

 

If nTelos ever gets around to upgrading their towers, I will happily report from my neck of the woods however until that happens... Thanks everyone for all the info!

 I know how you feel iburg, I'm in a market (Dakotas) where we are 67% NV completed right now, but since nothing has any backhaul yet (gee thanks Centurylink) we have ZERO LTE here and no real speed improvements on 3G yet. I'm looking forward to its arrival though!

Yeah, I knew they had a good chunk of it but I couldn't remember and didn't really care enough to look it up. Besides as far as LTE goes, It's kinda pointless because it's going to be a LONG time before they start to refarm the A-F blocks.

In markets where they only have 10x10 of PCS A-F I'd agree, they need that all for CMDA. But where they still have 15x15 I can see them splitting off a 5x5 for LTE in the next few years. Even more so in markets like Chicago where they now have a 15x15 AND another 5x5 in PCS A-F.

14MHz of 26 (total, not all will be used on LTE) 10 MHz on 25 (like every other market) and 41, who knows but more than enough for 20 MHz TDD, I'm guessing.

Nickel, you aren't including Sprint's existing PCS spectrum currently allocated for it's legacy 3G network. Sprint controls the 15x15 B block in NYC.

I'm finally getting LTE inside my house in White Bear.  I've been getting LTE outside for many months, but the moment I step inside it would switch back to 3g.  Does this mean 800mhz has been engaged on my tower?  Is there a way I can check what frequency my phone is connected to?

I would say that a site closer to your house has recently acquired LTE on 1900. You were probably getting a signal from a more distant site before.

My understanding is that no technology, nor frequency will travel further than another. The only difference is that lower frequencies are capable of delivering higher power at a further distance. Also, 1X as a technology requires less power to function than LTE.

 

Do I have that correct? 

Ok, this is my understanding, Feel free to correct me here AJ.

The reason that lower frequencies are percieved as having longer range is because they are attenuated less by obstructions than higher frequencies as a general rule. Thus they are able to achieve greater coverage (distance and building penetration) from a single site compared to higher frequencies. The downside to lower frequency spectrum is that in dense urban areas, since it has such low attenuation, it creates more interferance issues with neighboring cell sites than higher frequency spectrum.

As far as technologies and coverage go, my understanding is that the LTE signal is more "complex" than CDMA/EV-DO. This allows LTE to pack more data into a given slice of spectrum than EV-DO. It also allows LTE to handle cell edge interferance issues better than CDMA. The downside is that the signal is more "fragile" than CMDA/EV-DO, and thus requires greater signal strength to achive a working connection. Thus there will be places where you have a working CDMA connection where you won't be able to get a working LTE signal from the same cell site on the same frequency.