joshuam

Yes, it only takes a few minutes over the phone.

When I tried last summer when I got a N66u, Verizon told me my ONT didn't have Ethernet, so I hung up and tried again...this person said they needed to send someone out to do it. So I gave up...and just used the N66u as an AP.

Have your ONT provisioned for ethernet, and you can bypass that router completely.

Have you ever called Verizon CS? I own the Actiontec and it only took a few mins to put it in bridge mode, which gives the Asus WAN a public IP. Maybe one day I'll take the time to do Ethernet from the ONT...lol

Got mine today! Side note...I have an Airave 2.5+ on my account as well. Wifi Connect router is working great!

I re-setup the whole home network, put my Fios Actiontec in bridge mode so I'm not using it for anything but passing the WAN IP directly to the sprint asus router. Things are much faster now!

I don't think they will let you keep both the airave and the router. They told me I had to pick one or the other when I called in yesterday. It's always worth a try though.

I have both. Make sure the Airave is tied to a different than the primary line and it's fine it seems. My Airave is used by my parents and their home, wifi connect used at my house.

Sprint is practically giving away free routers.

 

Tmobile owns the router no matter what unless you pay for it and you have to give it back to tmobile if you leave tmobile service.

 

 

 

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Excellent point I hadn't thought of!

I was on a Sprint account through my church a few years ago (long story...left church, had to assume liability of lines to keep numbers). It was pretty painless, and no new contracts were required. I did it all over the phone. Sprint took care of contacting the existing account owner, and then called me back. They really made it smooth, and this was a few years ago, when all Sprint CS was awful.

I was told its based off the account. I may try to purchase my Airave and then see if I can get the router. My ISP provided router is already better in every way except for the WiFi calling qos stuff which is the only reason I was interested in it. I suspect a lot of people are calling about it because they want a free router, not because they actually need it. I have one phone other than my nexus 5 that doesn't support WiFi calling, I may just upgrade that and send back the airave for the router. I can deal with using hangouts VoIP, but I don't want my family having issues.

 

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Yeah, the QOS for wifi calling improvement is much needed. I have 50/50Mbps FiOS, but since we don't have cable, there is sometimes 2-3 streams going, amongst other things...so the wifi calling was getting choppy. Hoping this improves the experience.

I noticed I hadn't gotten email for the WiFi Connect. I called support back and was told the router got declined because I had an Airave, and the offer was one or the other but not both. Looks like until Android gets native Sprint WiFi calling built in I won't be able to get one of these. I was also told that I was not even able to purchase one.

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That's weird...I got shipping confirmation for mine. I have an Airave 2.5+ on my account (not used for primary line and also used at a different than primary address, which Sprint was ok with). So maybe since it's for different lines, they are ok with me having both?

On a side note...I wonder why Sprint went with the AC66U instead of the AC68U. The difference between the two models is minimal (I like the design for cables of the AC68U better, but that isn't a deal breaker by any means). Seems like a good opportunity for John Leger and his Twitter entourage to blast Sprint again. lol

One phone on my account is in a dead spot area, so they have an Airave at their house. Would Sprint still send me the wifi router for my house and let me keep the Airave for a different location?

I honestly could probably ditch the Airave, but it works really well in the house and the 3G speeds over it are usually around 2.5Mbps. I guess I should go over there and get them (parents) with wifi calling and just ditch the Airave. The problem is the iPhone still needs to be connected to Sprint for SMS/MMS, so it might drain the battery if its searching for a signal.

EDIT: Decided to just call...they have no issue with you keeping an Airave on one line, and a wifi connect for other lines. Took literally 3 minutes to call and have it ordered...super easy! A person answered the phone as well, no hold/wait queue.

Finally the black hole that is BWI is fixed!!

Awesome! I contacted Boingo and Sprint about which devices are capable...Boingo emailed me very quick with the list! This is great news!

Dear Joshua,

 

Thanks for contacting us!

 

Sprint customers with Passpoint-enabled devices can be connected to Boingos Passpoint Secure networks at airports nationwide. By utilizing Boingos Passpoint Secure networks, customers can enjoy a simpler mobile experience with seamless Wi-Fi authentication and WPA2 enterprise-grade encryption technology.

 

Here is a list of eligible devices:

 

iOS7 and iOS8

iPhone 5

iPhone 5c

iPhone 5s

iPad 3rd Generation

iPad 4th Genration

iPad Air

iPad Air 2

iPad minis (ALL)

OSX Mavericks and OSX Yosemite

Any Mac device

Android not available

Windows not available

 

 

If there's anything more we can do to help, please let us know. We're available 24/7/365 to assist you.

 

Kyleigh,

Boingo Customer Care Available 24/7

From North America: 1-800-880-4117

From locations outside of North America: 00.800.2646.4646

 

This link is to Airave...but CS on Twitter gave me this link for new wifi router...?

Edit: link... http://www.sprint.com/inhomecoverage

Has anyone given Sprint a call yet to see if they could order the router or get some info on it? 

I just got off the phone with CS...they had absolutely no clue what I was talking about. I directed them to the press release, and said she said she had heard absolutely nothing. She almost didn't believe they would be providing wifi routers.

So I guess we will need to wait a little more...maybe I will tweet Marcelo and ask him.

So sprint is joining the home wifi router club.  From new Stephen Bye blog post.

 

http://newsroom.sprint.com/blogs/sprint-perspectives/connecting-customers-to-the-best-available-network.htm

 

So where do we signup? Lol. (I wonder if Framilies are excluded from being "qualified").

A lot of good stuff going on for Sprint right now. Between the wifi router with Sprint QOS, wifi calling at airports, Canada data/calling...this new Sprint continues to impress me.

I've hit 20GB once...usually around 10GB. I find it hard to go above that, because I spend so much time on 3G in central Maryland still...lol.

Audio quality improvement is quite noticeable in my car. Don't care for the slight lag it has between channel. Doesn't work in the tunnels in Baltimore, and more overall interference which is more noticeable with HD radio. But overall...I love it!

All this talk about droughts and no water...and I'm over here just waiting for my back yard to dry up so I can just cut the grass...

Did anyone who added "Direct Connect" get a Sprint order status email? I talked to them and they said its related to the Direct Connect feature add-on...weird.

I was dropping calls on wifi calling yesterday on my iPhone. I'll turn it off for now, don't need it at home anyways. I have FiOS 50/50 tier, which consistently has pings below 20ms...so I'm sure my home wifi can handle it.

Yeah, when I had a GS5, if you did wifi calling, it would completely drop the Sprint signal and SMS would send over wifi just fine.

Anyone else glad they fixed this? I was tired of my URL bar looking like "why.didnt.apple.fix.this.sooner."

 

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Yes! I am so glad that is finally fixed. It was super annoying.

I downloaded the last couple carrier bundles from an Apple manifest file. The value for "LTE Band Pref" in the carrier.pri file is unchanged from Sprint 18.1 to 19.1. It DID change from 17.1 to 18.1 though. Not sure what to think of that.

 

 

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That's unfortunate.

Seriously...Russia and no Canada? Lol

Claure and Legere had some back and forth on twitter last night about the new "Unlimited+" plans.

Just posted this same thing in the Galasy s6 thread.  What isn't exactly clear is whether the offer is only for those that sign up for this specific plan.  I would take this in a heartbeat if they offered it on framily plan lines, but I doubt it.  

Seems pretty clear that it's only for those new plans, not just a general "free" phone offer. This really is just a play with numbers. Regular unlimited plan is $60, plus $20 phone lease. Or get an $80 unlimited plan with added perks of annual upgrade and free data roaming in 15 countries.

If you are on the cheapest Framily plan ($25/line), with unlimited data, it's still slightly cheaper to just lease the Galaxy S6 than get the new plan at $80.