Bob Newhart

I don't want to pay a monthly fee to MSFT to be able to use the Netflix app either.

There is satellite available across the country. Granted the speeds are not that great and it its usually capped, but it is available.

 

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True, that is available most places. I didn't consider that broadband, high latency, low caps, not reliable in all weathers.

Do you notice any signal improvement in buildings yet?

I think you live in the wrong country as this one does not have 100% broadband coverage. My cell phone doesn't work at the camp where I use the four wheeler I referenced but that is my choice to vacation there. Much like you choose to live where you do. I for one wouldn't sit on my hands and wait for someone to bring me broadband. I would go get it. Many possible ways short of moving.

 

Not always possible to get it. Most of the US can not get it, not most people, just most of the land area. People who live in the cities assume everyone can get it. And when people can get, they have no choices, served by monopoly telephone companies like CenturyLink, that don't offer speeds over 1.5 Mbps. Lie about their services, where it can be down for days at a time, or where a 1.5 Mbps service only achieves 0.2 Mbps.

http://www.connectify.me - connectify dispatch.

Looks the same as sharedband.com , where you use a router solution, so any device on your network can use it.

Sharedband?

When Sprint 800 Mhz CDMA is launched for us to use, will the voice calls change from 800 to 1900 to 800 on the fly?

You nailed it. Once SignalCheck gets valid coordinates from a site, it queries a Google reverse geocoding server that translates the latitude/longitude into a street address. If you are switching sectors very quickly, you could be switching before the query results are returned. SignalCheck only sends the query if the BID has changed.

Is this why the street address is sometimes way off in your app, as some rural sites might not have a real street address?

I have seen it where the app reports an address of the tower location about half a mile away of where it really is.

ATT is also already active there with LTE, right?

 

I always wondered: are ATT+VZW building LTE in AK for ROI or for advertising points?

AT&T is there with LTE in a few cities.

ACS and GCI are working together now.

Verizon is working with local rural operators, like they have done in the lower 48.

http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20130423/carriers/verizon-wireless-expands-lte-rural-america-program-alaska/

The cell companies make money from providing subsidised cell service to low income or rural households. I know Sprint makes a lot from providing services in Hawaii, it could be the same in Alaska, I don't know, just a guess.

Verizon is building out in Alaska now, very rural there. The two local overpriced companies there have joined up to compete. Good news up there.

I've had that too on occasion.

Drove through Black Diamond tonight, added that on Sensorly. Looks like LTE is up and running for SE33XC138.

The Galaxy Nexus I'll agree with you on that, but I disagree with your stance on the Nexus S 4G. That phone rocked!

Naaa, I had two of those, one Wifi worked ok, one Wifi hardly worked.

Once they updated the firmware to 4.0, the phone crawled to a halt.

A non-GSM Nexus? I'll pass.

I've had the two previous devices on Sprint, both terrible.

How big is a block?

I use Ubiquity UniFi APs.

They have support forums here: http://community.ubnt.com/t5/custom/page/page-id/Forums

For places like NYC, what is considered 'close' together cell cites? Are they closer than 1000 ft sometimes?

Sounds good, if you do try it and need help, let me know.

Try out the pfsense option, free software, it'll load balance for you.

People do run pfsense on a virtual machine, you just need three ethernet ports on your pc.

Before you look into bonding the lines, you need to make sure that the DSLAM that you are connected to is capable of the combined throughput of both lines.

Because you can get 6 Mbps on a line, means that your DSLAM is most likely fibre fed.

I have two DSL lines, Century(un)Link doesn't offer bonded DSL in my area, so I have to use a third party ISP.

The ISP needs to offer MLPPP.

I have used Sharedband.com , it works, not as good as MLPPP.

To use MLPPP you need a good router, I don't know of any commercial offered ones that support it. I have tried several versions of OpenWRT/TomatoMLPPP and pfsense. Pfsense works, always works, the best choice.

If you need any help configuring both lines with pfsense, let me know.

If you don't want bonding (combining both lines into a single connection, combined 2 x 6 Mbps = 12 Mbps), look into load balancing which a lot of higher priced routers offer. To get all your devices and connections could be a challenge unless you are pretty handy with network rules. Pfsense can do load balancing too.

I have a Nexus4, I have selected for the app to run on startup, but it doesn't, I have to manually start it.

It does run on startup on the Sprint s3 though.

What makes a grey trace instead of purple? I assume it means no signal.

What's the reason of towers being placed in trees???????? I can understand on top of building structures..

It isn't in a tree, it is the pretend tree.

It makes the area look nicer.

Use this site in the browser.

http://speedof.me/