JohnHovah

hmmmm.. I sense a future wherein the community membership becomes invitation only with moderator/staff approval.

HAHAHAHAHA

Same boat here..... daddy has the itch to replace all the devices

LOL, maybe there were some cat videos in there since she breeds exotic cats, but mostly japanese comedy shows; Arashi (As she is japanese) The hotspot was only a temporary fix. Right now they have been hanging out in my folks' 40ft RV awaiting their new house to be built. Moving her onto a Smartphone with all of the bells and whistles (wireless keyboard/mouse and hdmi cables) has allowed her to get her youtube fix in the interim, without any surprise expenses or worries of data overages. Everything will work out for them, but I do want to make sure that everyone knows that the Sprint Hotspot data cap is nothing to joke with if you are tight on finances whatsoever.

It certainly isn't worth it in its present condition, but I have purchased the services many times in the past

CAVEAT EMPTOR I believe I posted on another thread but my grandparents hit their 12gb hotspot cap in less than 2 weeks of service and were charged about $600 in overage fees because my grandmother wanted to watch videos on youtube. For the average user, buyer beware, as there are presently no higher tiers for Sprint's hotspot plans to upgrade over 12GB. It seems that other services provide you with the option to cut it off when you hit the threshold (my experience with Verizon) and decide whether or not to move to a higher tier or wait until the next billing cycle.

OK, I suppose it is screenshot time. It seems that the device calculates the date range differently. Here is a typical month for me on one of my devices. Clearly I would never want to have this on a Verizon account (unless on a grandfathered plan)

As far as why he would be worried about LTE in his basement consider this fact: LTE signal propagation is less effective than present CDMA range. Whether you live in the boonies or not, having a non-existent or spotty signal while in your home makes a mobile device much less mobile and defeats the purpose of its primary use, as a phone. I live in a huge suburban area in a large market and can only get a usable signal in 25% of my home and it is not necessarily on the perimeters of property or building as one would expect (and we do not have basements in SoCal). So yes, moving to any voLTE type carrier will need to address many issues, which for the most part are alleviated at the lower end of radio frequencies.

Many areas of California are now like this. I believe there must be some give in the lines (that are not copper) considering that we are in earthquake territory and armageddon does not fall upon us every time we have a moderate earthquake.

Let me know when the "genital waving contest" begins. It will bring a whole new meaning to the term viral video.

And here is Maximus again??? given the decline of feature phones and how adamant Masayoshi (and us enthusiasts are) about "in with the new, out with the old" I could forsee them just issuing low-mid range smartphones to those that want to hold on to legacy phones that may be a 5 years to decade out of EOL, that are holding up the migration of the network as a whole. That is what I would do if I were Son, throw $200M at compatible smartphones and issue them to the holdovers and cancel the olds device. I stand corrected, it appears they went and did that anyway. QUOTE FROM http://www.lte-tdd.org/second/index.aspx?nodeid=88&page=ContentPage&contentid=781 REFERENCED EARLIER "....Immediately after closing, Sprint modified the terms of its user agreement to let Sprint WiMAX users upgrade early to LTE right away (by giving them a free LTE phone without forcing a contract renewal)" This is huge news indeed! I think we are all for the new Sprint that is coming out of "the new Sprint." I'm all butterflies, rainbows and unicorn farts myself with anticipation I'm happy that the WIFI thread has been moved, but yes the AC66U (or "R" variant for those who purchased at a retailer) is certainly a beast especially when your devices can use the higher 5GHZ bandwidth. I'm saturating my neighborhood with 240MHZ of overamped WIFI on 2 AC66R's myself now. You really need a place where members can donate "skymiles" and their ilk for such excursions Just be careful on the hotspot usage. My grandparents just got hit with $600+ in overages (above the 12gb plan limit) because my grandma likes to watch japanese videos on Youtube. To be fair being as a non-techy she did not understand the T&C but Sprint has made it difficult to enable a cap on their "limited" data plans and she also is in between moving to a new house as the old one has been sold and the new one is still being built. I ended up going with my grandfather to get her a smartphone (Note 2) so that she could make use of the "unlimited" data feature of the smartphone without having the problems associated with the Hotspot plan. We also got her some media adapters and cables so that she could watch said videos on her tv (or any other big screen) still Are you on an Asus AC66 as well? There is certainly a difference in whether or not the device can support the 5ghz band for wifi and what bandwidth it will support as well.

I like being a bad neighbor. But we already discussed routers in another thread and how I am eating up 240mhz of local spectrum for my home configuration.

Seeing as we have some rather large ALU rollouts on the west coast (where there are in fact people, and a lot at that) I would welcome a new player to handle this rollout

ROFLMFAO!!!! Ask them if they want to lease/buy a bridge while you're at it.

That may be the case, but much like the term "irregardless", I still find it to be a bastardization of the language.

Interesting thing is that you can still see the "normal" old plans although the site does its damnedest to minimize exposure to them. I tried to see what would happen if I altered my plann (while logged in) and also as a new customer. It seems that unless you are paying close attention you may miss the link for "other plans" In any event, I still hate that retail/marketing term plan-o-gram! seriously???! can we not come up with something better in this day an age?

I'm not saying it's ideal and I understand how hard moderation is, I was more referring to the ability for user moderated abuse fixes or to push a comment into irrelevancy. Here on S4gru it is much easier than larger sites inasmuch as moderation is concerned and much less tolerance for abuse of the t&c. I wouldn't discount an algorithm though that could focus on some sort "user generated" negativity that could essentially embolden non-staff members to push irrelevant, spammy, rude etc. violators out into obscurity. Kind of like a hybrid weighted trust meter.

That would certainly hit Ergen in a lowblow, but hopefully even if that is an additional focus it does not detract from the primary telecom aspect. although I can see telecom referring to the nickel and diming of ATT and VZ with variable data, text, minute packages vs. unlimited on the AFTER-NOW network. Masayoshi could be alluding more to the fact that the future is much more datacentric and less "telecom status-quo" and he plans to leave them in the dust.

I agree for the most part although I think what would be best in this case would be allowing negatives or positives to cancel each other out. The extremely high or extremely low ratings could/should then be immediately flagged and available to the moderators to determine the validity in either case.