poor_red_neck

They must have done a down tilt adjustment or something in Wendell. I work at Lizard Lick crossroads and used to get usable 4g signal on Hwy 97 except for the dip near little river park. Not so for the past week or two. Sent from my Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk 2

Has anyone seen improved 3g speeds? East cary has always been very bad for me with 3g speeds and I have noticed lately it has gotten better. I can actually stream pandora with no interruptions. I still never see speeds above 300kbps while other markets are seeing closer to 1mbps with the NV upgraded towers. Sent from my Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk 2

Ah gotcha. My apologies no offense intended. I just looked at the huge gaping hole on sensorly from downtown clear up glenwood, I thought ive had signal in that area before but it was closer to pleasant valley. Again no offense intended :-) Sent from my Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk 2

Ahhh, it depends on what you are calling Raleigh. Raleigh itself is pretty well covered except for certain parts of North Hills including Crabtree. Step right outside of Raleigh and things go downhill relatively quickly. Seems like Garner has stalled out and Wake Forest is still a black hole. Negative... I drive from south Raleigh area/garner and through downtown up to just b4 crabtree and get zip 4g once I leave my garner tower.... Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2 Try cycling airplane mode. Thats what really stinks with LTE. The time for the phone to re-search for signal is way too long. I know it does it to save battery but id like the ability to choose that time myself. Its especially painful when you know youre just in a small dead zone but if anything tries to use data during that dead zone youre thrown back to 3g and sometimes in excess of 15 minutes to acquire signal again. Or you can just toggle airplane mode and it will re-search for signal. Sent from my Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk 2

In my experience so far, when the signal is low (using LTE signal test app) I get around 4-5mbps. Any worse signal than that it drops to 3g. The LOWEST ive had was 2.5mbps and that was a very poor signal during peak time. When I have decent signal I get about 7-20mbps. My biggest complaint that will probably be fixed with more lte towers is when 4g signals drop from a usually small dead spot it takes way too long to pick the 4g back up. Only fix is cycling airplane mode. Sent from my Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk 2

Are there any sprint phones with 800mhz LTE chipsets yet ie they planned ahead? I'm sure that will help ALOT with indoor signal strength whiffs is where Sprint has always stunk. I'm looking forward to the 800mhz voice where I frequently drop signal in stores or brick buildings. The "larger" wavelength is supposed to help with that correct? Sent from my Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk 2

Hah! "Double Rainbow!!!! OMG OMG OMG DOUBLE RAINBOW" (hopefully somebody gets that reference ) Awesome pic! Sent from my Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk 2

I've noticed this too. The annoying thing for me so far is while there is a significant amount of LTE coverage in the area, there's enough holes that when dropping signal in the holes it takes a significant amount of time to re acquire signal. Of course I could always toggle airplane mode and it will pop back up. It's still pretty annoying and not safe to do while driving. This isn't really a sprint complaint more of an LTE in general disgruntlement. With WiMax as long as the 4g radio was "turned on" it would re acquire signal quickly. Example: Going from Western Blvd area which has great coverage to the Jones Franklin area. It drops out right at the Jack Daniels store. If I toggle airplane mode at 440/Jones Franklin it will re acquire and hold signal all the way to crossroads. If I dont toggle airplane mode it will often not re acquire for a while. I've tried this with and without an active constant data connection. Maybe this is stuff that can be fixed with final tweaking of down tilts of the panels I don't know. It sure is frustrating though. Especially since I have not noticed 3g improvements at all yet. Still rarely get over 200kbps download with ping times in the 200-400ms range. Many are registering as eHRPD. I'm not sure if that is an indicator that NV has taken place at the site or not. Sent from my Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk 2

Wow. Seems I am really or of the loop with what's going on with gbps services out there. Thanks for the info! Sent from my Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk 2

I thought ATT ceased their expansion of fiber/uverse? Same with Verizon FiOS. Competition will be great but they're still going to charge a ridiculous amount for anything over 50mbps. For whatever reason NC seems to always be behind the curve. Sent from my Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk 2

This was a sprint cell phone (mine) to a Verizon cell phone. Sent from my Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk 2

Ah so it's something on the tel-co side more than likely? Not two phones being assigned the same frequency? (This is where my ignorance of cell technology comes in. Are frequencies shared between devices and encryption keys are given or is each phone assigned a specific frequency during a call?. See with everything being essentially wireless voIP (I'm assuming, since it's "digital" not analog) I don't understand how the error could have taken place. I guess I should mention for the obvious that I was also on my cell, Sprint of course. If it were an analog system, I'd assume the channels were crossed/both in use, or the "physical line" from where the cell tower connected to the tell-co's copper were both connected at the same time. In the digital cell phone world, where phone calls are encrypted digital data transmissions I don't see how this could happen. I could understand maybe getting a bunch of garbled mess instead of understandable audio, or simply a failed call. If it makes any difference, the recordings start the instant I press the call button. Every other phone call recorded starts the ringing about 1.5 to two seconds or so after placing the call button. So essentially with those two phone calls, as soon as I hit the call button, maybe less than a one second pause I start hearing audible background noise.

I have to say I don't think I've ever had this happen, and not sure how it could have happened but luckily I use a call recorder so I can say I'm not crazy I'm a personal assistant for a "celebrity" so all my phone calls get recorded for various reasons (remembering what my boss asks me to do, covering my a** when I try and arrange something and they back out, etc) Any ways I was calling a friend of mine on on his Verizon mobile phone. As soon as I placed the call, I heard background noise. No ring what so ever. There's someone talking in the back ground. Not sure if he was already in a call, or placing a call at the same time, or if his phone rang/picked up when I placed my call. We exchange a few words and he sounds as surprised as me. 3/4 of the way through the call, I hear ringing and someone else connects and answers (as if his phone rang) and starts speaking what I'm guessing is Spanish. I hang up, a little confused. About maybe 20 to 30 seconds after hanging up, I place the call again. Again I'm instantly connected to someone (I'm guessing somebody different) and this time it sounds like it's just background noise, and the person is not placing a call or in the middle of a call. What... In... The.... World... Happened. First Call: http://www.imajonesi...XXXXXXX_Out.3gp Second Call: http://www.imajonesi...XXXXXXX_Out.3gp I'm the "fainter voice" aka Jonathan. Now I'm a nerd, so if this can be explained I would love to understand how/why. Don't dumb it down too much for me Cell phone technology as far as the networking and RF side is something that's just not easily studied or "common knowledge." Thanks S4GRU!!!

Has sprint officially announced a Raleigh market launch yet? Sensorly is looking better and better each week. Ive read here they usually announce the launch at around 50-60% completion. Seems like one or two more towers in Cary and inside the beltline will get us to near complete coverage for the city coverage. Dont knkw how far past 540 they will cover. I was surprised to see 4g all the way out in Wendell the other day. Not much and it didnt last long but nonetheless it was there. Sent from my Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk 2

Looks like another tower went live in the past day or two inside the beltline. Getting ALOT of coverage inside the beltline, west Raleigh. I think the tower at Hillsborough St/Dixie Trail might be the one? I'm pretty sure that was the WiMax tower in the area, and it was the fastest WiMax tower I ever connected to in Raleigh. Consistently got 10+ down 4+ up with my Evo 3D. If it's not that tower possibly the one at Wade Ave/Ridge Rd. Saw some trucks back there Friday afternoon. Did about an hour and a half's worth of logging with Sensorly in the Dixie Trail/Wade Ave/Oberlin/NCSU area. Hope they show up... I have no idea how long between the log is complete and shows on the website. I got a few speed tests in as well. Western Blvd & Blue Ridge Rd: 3.99/0.65 80ms 4.90/1.77 70ms Western Blvd & Gorman St: 23.55/6.35 81ms 32.66/8.18 71ms Western Blvd & Dan Allen: 13.52/5.49 71ms 4.47/0.50 74ms Hillsborough St & Dan Allen: 19.85/8.577 57ms 19.22/6.83 69ms Looking good looking good! I kept consistent signal for the better part of today. Must be "launching" soon! I hope this pace continues.