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Downloading Public Beta 4 which must be a cousin of the GM you

refer to above...Beta 3 was very stale

I'm going to GVR today; I'll be at Whole Foods which is at the intersection of GV Pkw & 215;

my Zing should see B41 there if what you say is true that B41 goes all the way from the GV exit to

the fiesta...this must have just been fired up as I was at the District 2 days ago and did not pick

up any B41....and the Zing has better reach than any smartphone IMHO

Thanx alot for the info...there appears to be a glimmer of hope here..

8T8R is under field testing and all deployments are covered under strict NDAs to prevent leakage of deployment details to the general public. Strict penalties are in place for those who speak of the deployment, take pictures, and / or activate the equipment which is strictly against the rules of the deployment until the testing in the vendor FITs are complete. 

 

Las Vegas is one of the regions ALcatel-Lucent started on back in March / April alongside many other regions. The very fact you don't see new antennas installed or B41 live on your devices in your local area does not mean they are not deploying elsewhere in the region. 

 

Also with Re: to maps and tracking. You can ask Josh about that.

That's certainly better than "you are completely wrong"  thanx for the info; I just don't get it;

I have an engineering background; if LV MSA is delayed getting B26 because of interference issues

stemming from San Bernadino County how can Sprint possibly integrate B41 into their B25

coverage w/o doing the optimizations all over again a year later when B26 comes along; this

along with the wimax issues; I guess I should be happy to have any 4G LTE at all here..

Las Vegas is one of the target cities... they're going gangbusters on 8T8R installs. Once FIT testing wraps up you should see quite a bit of B41 coverage. 

I hope so..I remain skeptical..I know of only tower south of 215 equipped with the new panels;

it is not broadcasting

Nope. You're completely wrong.

 

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Sorry...I live here...I can't be completely wrong (with all due

respect to your knowledge & position) ; orangeblues latest trip

and evidence suggests we are a long ways from total integration;

I've NEVER connected to B41 with my Zing anywhere in the valley

here!! I've also not seen any evidence on the Premier Sponsor

maps for B41...You need source and backup information that

"I'm completely wrong" "..I hope I am..

Sadly, my sense, Josh is that the LV MSA is way behind other MSAs for B41 install

and integration: behind San Diego, SLC, Denver, LA/OC, SF/San Jose..you name it..

my additional sense is the old non-upgradeable Wimax gear enters into this equation

of LV not being in the top 5 or 6 Sprint Spark hubs talked about in the other thread..Son

may be waiting to decommission most of the Wimax towers to get the B41 coverage model

we all want...this being an economic/cost decision..if this is true we won't have a true

B41 coverage model integrated with B25/26 for a couple more years...just my $.2

Raise the price on FCPX and stop dumbing it down; bring back Aperture at the Pro

Level; I guess these are more "Apple" wishlists than just OS X 10.10..

Downloading OS X Yosemite Beta 3 as I write this on my 2013 MBA 11;

this is the third iteration of OS X 10.10 for me..something tells me this

might be a release to coincide with the new release of IOS for the

iPhone 6; Gold master for Yosemite and public release is Oct 22 from

two or three sources that I have read..

Yup..I'd bet on B41 (aka NV 2.5) and/or B26; both of which I await patiently for

here in Southern Nevada ...good luck ..keep us or me posted on your progress..

Ouch..two weeks of downtime; cannot even fathom that in this day & age!

I'm keeping my Zing on Ting for the exact same reason->emergency & travel wifi;

I'm not even sure what I would do with 100 mbit downloads let alone 500 mbit or more;

guess everybody expects streaming content to replace ownership or cable

subscriptions at some point in the future..OK..bring it on..

Here in Austin we have 3 companies "offering" gigabit speeds.

 

Grande Communications offers it downtown in a small area but elsewhere the speeds have not even gone up.

 

AT&T currently maxes at 300 down and the advertised price also includes a $20 rebate for letting them spy on you and requires a 2 year contract.

 

Google Fiber is still building out and I only know of a few downtown apartment buildings and a couple libraries.

 

 

TWC on the other hand is offering 300 down BUT they have doubled everyone's speeds for free and their free wifi across town is actually really nice and fast.

Yeah Cox here has also doubled for "free" their upper two tiers of internet speeds and rolling out "free"

wifi in spots for its customers...something tells me these cable monopolies are starting to run scarrrred!!

Cable companies giving out freebees...never believed I'd live long enough to see it...good old

capitalistic competition at work here....

What is the process for GVI?  Does Sprint have to be involved or just on the

Google side of things?  BTW, I love how hangouts is working so far..hands down

best wifi calling (so far that is) that I've experienced...

Yeah...we beat Denver to the launch party!!!  I just wish to hale that we could get some B41

love going here and rid this place of all the Wimax gear...

Good questions, Knarf...it's a lithium battery but I'm sure the Zing does not have the

battery /power related circuitry that say a modern Macbook Air does...I leave power on one

of my Macbook's 24/7 and once or twice a month I drain it down to

"calibrate" the battery; after 25 months I still have 6100 out of 6700 mAh on the older

Macbook by following this maintenance;  lithium batts don't like going to "zero" either;

I guess if I had your dilemma I'd pull the battery for your daily use but then ever so often

put it back and let it

drain down to 10 or 15 % and then fully recharge; this way when you need your battery on a trip or

something you'll have it..

Anyone heard whether or not the Hydro Vibe is going to get

Android 4.4 KitKat?  The Sprint product page claims it runs

4.4 but my Vibe runs 4.3 Jelly Bean

Josh...all of this is understood and has been explained here many times..my post

implicitly was pointing to the fact that 32 million + folks fly here every year to be

entertained and to deposit their hard earned monies into our local economy..one would

have thought that Vegas would be a tier 1 market for that reason alone..it's the

Sprint decision-making logic that I find hard to comprehend...with my thimble full

of knowledge I would have imagined the Sprint rollout of LTE and NV to go:  New York

msa, LA  msa,  Las Vegas msa, SF-San Jose msa...these are the areas of highest

economic dynamics and output...sitting here scratching my head

I'm certain that it's been posted before but it is worth stating again how

ironic it is that the entetainment & gambling center of all the MSAs iinthe

whole country will be one of the very last markets to be launched!

The logic of this to me is nothing less than stupefying and defies even

a modicum of common sense for Sprint..

Just curious..how does the Clearwire antenna (presumably 2.5 Ghz) handle B25

which is at 1900Mhz?  Does this antenna handle multiple bands of RF?

Hot stuff with the antenna; I'd like to get some specs for your outdoor setup if it's not

too much of a problem; your RS-SINR value went from -5 to 16...remarkable improvement in

signal quality;  your RSRP value improvement really amazes going from -110 to -77; AJ might

weigh in here but I've never seen such a signal improvement with just an antenna; does the Clearwire

gear amplify the signal somehow?

 

Just got my Sprint Zing HOTSPOT so some questions from a Newbie

 

-- QUESTION 1 --

 

I see information about different channels, i.e. B25, B41 used to connect to LTE.  I know during my initial connecting of my hotspot is saw the channel I was connecting through displayed, but for the life of me I cannot remember where I saw the channel display.  I was looking around and checking things out so fast, I didn't pay attention. Now I can't seem to remember where I saw the channel information displayed?

 

--- Was it on the Hotspot screen?

--- Was it on the Netgear APP for my IPAD?

--- Was it on my browswer when connected to http://192.168.1.1/ which lets you view the HOTSPOT SETUP

 

Where do I go to check which LTE channel I am connecting through?  For the life of me, I can't seem to find the channel indicator, but I am certain I saw it once!

 

 

-- QUESTION 2 --

 

On my old Clearwire Express Hub, they gave you hints on how to orient the Hub to get the best signal.  Can you orient the ZING HOTSPOT to optimize your signal when you know the location of your tower to get the BEST signal?  Or does it make any difference?  This is mostly for home use where I will probably use my HOTSPOT the most.

 

 

-- QUESTION 3 --

 

Same question as QUESTION 2, but this involves the  ZING HOTSPOT CRADLE.  Is there a way to position the crade (if you know the tower location) that improves signal reception?

 

-- QUESTION 4 --

 

I am in a fringe area (both for CLEARWIRE and SPRINT LTE), i.e. semi-rural.  I had an outdoor omni-directional antenna that improved my CLEARWIRE signal greatly.  My area was so marginal with CLEARWIRE that a bump of the EXPRESS HUB might send me up or down a SIGNAL BAR.  LOL.  Once I got the outdoor antenna, everything was fixed.

 

I see I can purchase a pigtail that allows me to hookup my external antenna to my ZING HOTSPOT to my external antenna.  Does this type of antenna work regardless of which channel you are receiving your signal on?  Say B25 or B41?

 

Any thoughts at all on a good antenna in case my current antenna is not suitable?

 

-- QUESTION 5 --

 

Back to the NETGEAR CRADLE for the ZING HOTSPOT.  In my opinion, I am not sure if the cradle is adding any value to my setup.  Connected or disconnected, it doesn't seem to add a lot of improvement.  But, I have only had it a few days so not sure if I know what I should be looking for?  I do know the number of bars of signal remains the same.  Any general thoughts about the crade?

 

#5: I tried the cradle and sent it back; too hard to connect; little to no signal

improvement; cheaply made and not worth the expense

#2: Trial & error for me locating my "hot spot" in my house; I've located a

spot about 8 ft off the ground level pointing the wide direction of the Zing

directly at a known location of a radio head on a tower 2 miles from me;

I get B25 at an RSRP level of between -87 and -92; not LOS to the tower;

I typicvally get 15 to 19 mbps down; I send the Zing RF to a Pepwave SOHO

Surf router which is across the house and make ethernet & wireless connections

off of the pepwave; I DO NOT use the Zing,however, to stream videos as I'm

on a budget and it's caps are small; (the one exception is about once a month

I use it to Skype with my granddaughter (which can eat 1/4 of my cap in 30-35

minutes) otherwise its web browsing; right now my pings are in the 50 ms range

and I'm a happy camper with this setup; yet to see B26 or 41 in the LV MSA so

don't have any experience with how this device hands off to the other bands;

I will say that it is very fast to lock to LTE from 3G and has exceptional RF

permormance relative to a smartphone

It's like your toaster..an appliance..it's just there when you are ready..you just have to have

a modicum of networking savvy to get working with it..

Downloading the update now!

Also downloaded the Beta 2 update; Beta 1 was very stable and I noticed

significant battery life improvement over Mavericks with my 2013 MBA 11;

Beta 2 so far has been great and fixed a couple of pesky problems I was

having with Safari & iBank5

Showing my ignorance here but with a sim unlock I potentially could use the Sprint

Zing on the Verizon network??  I wonder why I would incur that expense?

I've had the Vibe now for some time and continue to like it very much;

for me it is a wifi device--data only phone..no cellular contract..

great second phone for our family

Spent first two weeks in Oceanside (zips 92057 & 92056); Sprint LTE AND 3G were

absent totally; was on roaming 3G most of the time; so some parts of SoCal not so much;

East SD county rocks well with LTE but North SD county not nearly as good as MOST of

the LV Valley and LV is not even a launched market!!

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Thank goodness I will be back hom in SoCal tonight, were LTE works