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iansltx

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  1. The spectrum swap in Gillespie County is very much live; T-Mobile now has 20x20 contiguous PCS, as does AT&T. AT&T is running theirs as LTE, while T-Mobile is splitting theirs between B2 and n25. This is actually a net *loss* for capacity on T-Mobile short-term; they previously has 10x10+15x15 all in PCS A-F; they were running n25 on the former and B2 on the latter. Now they have two orphaned 5x5 blocks. But long-term they'll have 20x20 n25, so I guess that works. Or T-Mobile could be planning to trade away the 5x5 PCS A-F block to VZW in exchange for either some AWS (plus moving blocks around for better continuity) or maybe 5-10 MHz paired of B12 that VZW will get from the West Central Wireless acquisition (with the remainder going to AT&T in exchange for...something).
  2. T-Mobile in Chicago is now running the top 20x20 of PCS as n25 (including G), in addition to the usual 100+40 MHz n41. No VoNR yet but my phone is definitely camping on NR. B2 LTE appears to be 10x10.
  3. Found mmW at the Austin airport at Gate 15. It's a bit shaky, as mmW is wont to be, but I can live with 700+ Mbps speeds while tethered. Sure beats the heck out of the free airport WiFi at this point.
  4. 1. $350+tax, minus some Amazon gift card and credit card points that I had. Since it's unlocked, I can pop in my Boost/AT&T SIM and that one actually works fine (incl. n5 and n77). 2. Project Genesis Rainbow SIM (which normally sits in my M6 Pro). If I throw the SIM in my S22 it works on roaming; it locks to the XAA CSC there, which doesn't include and SA NR bands. Apparently I can avoid the CSC switch by doing some finagling with adb, but I don't exactly get any new info if I go that route, as I already know n71 and n66 SDL are live here from my experiences on my M6 Pro, so the only thing I gain is being able to map (which I might do in a few weeks anyway). The Edge 2022 definitely works well enough to throw at Cellmapper at this point. You just won't be able to actually pass traffic with the rainbow SIM, it seems. Maybe once they have VoNR live here that changes.
  5. Welp, grabbed the Moto Edge 2022 because it actually has all Dish NR bands, and while it can connect to the network and definitely sees n70 (and n71), it won't actually pass traffic, and eventually falls off the network. I'll probably keep the phone until toward the end of the return period to see if I can get anything sorted out on it.
  6. n25 + n41 makes a fair amount of sense for UL CA, particularly near-term, since otherwise n25 uplink would be basically unused, and right now even 10x10 n25 should provide comparable uplink capacity vs. 40-50 MHz of n41. AT&T just did a NR UL CA field test as well, but they only hit ~120 Mbps. Narrower channels and 850 as the FD band, i guess.
  7. Why would you wait for "out of beta"? The network isn't gonna magically get better by removing the label heh
  8. Posting this connected to DishNet in Austin. n66 SDL is definitely working hear, as I'm seeing speeds above 100 Mbps. n71 is 10x10 so uploads are getting close to 30 Mbps (of course they do...I'm probably the only one on the network). Having to SSH tunnel to my Google Fiber connection to get reliable connectivity for the normal DishNet reasons...direct connectivity is a bit shaky. Looks like sites closer to downtown don't exist yet, as I've dropped to n71 on the way back from the airport. But I'm pretty sure there's a site closer to where I live, so I'll be able to test from a stationary location later this evening.
  9. n5 10x10 is live in ABQ but the S22 with a VZW SIM doesn't do SA, and VZW doesn't do n5 + n77 + LTE.
  10. Reporting in from Albuquerque, a lot of the city now has n77 at 100 MHz (though I've seen 60 in some places), and there's a fair amount of CBRS live. On top of that, I got mmW downtown, with 3.4+ Gbps down and around 450 Mbps up. There's still some inconsistency, where things will drop all the way down to LTE, as n77 isn't exactly the most robust band (T-Mobile rarely drops to LTE), but enough traffic is on 5G now that the areas with LTE are fine connectivity-wise.
  11. Another voice note: at least on the VoNR call I made earlier today, connectivity to Verizon now uses EVS, at least when there's a Pixel 7 on the other end of the call (guessing any reasonably modern phone would behave the same, since EVS has been around since at least the S20). It's nice seeing cross-carrier HD Voice working, particularly given that the extra bandwidth requirements are negligible (I think the call from earlier today was running at 13.2 kbps).
  12. Albuquerque now has only 10x10 B2 LTE, with 15x15 thrown at n25. I'm seeing 3x CA on 80 MHz n41 + 15x15 n71 + 15x15 n25. LTE still has plenty of bandwidth, with 20x20 + 10x10 AWS and some B41. In bigger news, I just placed a VoNR call there (forced n25-only). I'll force NR-only for the next bit and see if that's the case elsewhere in town.
  13. Seems like Dish is slowly dialing things in in some markets; Albuquerque indoor coverage seems to be improved at 170+ Mbps down, 15 Mbps up on my Netgear. I also saw 313-340 in Austin last night/this morning, so maybe when I'm back in a week it'll actually be live. As it stands, roaming service in Austin on T-Mobile is excellent; I hit 600 Mbps down, 100 Mbps up last night (my S22 exceeded 800 Mbps in the same spot, but 600 ain't shabby).
  14. I definitely noticed more interesting CA combos in Samsung markets than in Ericsson ones, though I was late to that party. 25+41 (that was a thing, right?)/25+26 weren't a thing in Ericsson markets.
  15. That'll be super helpful. If it's a tall tower running at least n71 + B12 that should go a *long* way toward filling that coverage hole.
  16. Were further south, I think. Shark Valley, Anhinga Trail, and down to the Flamingo visitor center.
  17. Was in South Florida and the Keys until earlier this evening. Saw some sites with 100+50 MHz n41, with reasonable amounts of 10x10 n25...not contiguous, but enough to ensure consistent performance. One big coverage hole: the Everglades. VZW had spots of coverage, including n77, but was a bit hit or miss. AT&T was a bit better, including my first sighting of 10x10 n2 DSS. T-Mobile should throw 600 MHz on whatever sites AT&T and VZW have because otherwise their customers will be sitting on Starlink once that finally launches.
  18. Speed topped out at 113/28 or so on the n25 channel. It's definitely not on every site, but in town there are enough sites including it to provide contiguous coverage at this point. Outside town, doesn't look like sites have it as much.
  19. Now that my S22 can do n25 SA, I can 100% confirm that the top 10x10 of band 25 is deployed as NR here now. Have CellMappter turned on so maybe I'll be able to paint the map a bit today as I'm bouncing between downtown and further north.
  20. Got the March security update this morning, which made me look in *#2263# again to see if they had enabled SA n25 finally. Sounds like it may have been an earlier carrier update, but either way I now have n25. Got it single-band locked now and might throw CellMapper on to track how many sites have it enabled in Austin. Only 10x10 here (PCS-G and adjacent 5x5) but low enough traffic I guess as I'm getting ~80 down ~22 up, so plenty enough for tethered connectivity.
  21. Impressive that they're already at 20x20 n25 when phone support is as spotty as it is tbh. Not that I'm complaining...
  22. Additional math: VZW customers consumed on average 760 MB on Sunday, though my guess is that the number was actually lower because VZW probably had some non-fan macro traffic in there. Wonder what the breakdown on customer count was between AT&T and T-Mobile. In order for AT&T to have used less data per person, T-Mobile market share would need to have been pretty small.
  23. In San Antonio and Austin, VZW doesn't have 850, so they've been running n2 DSS for awhile now, though increasingly phones don't use it because n2 coverage is poor enough to be subsumed by C-Band. I've seen AT&T n2 and n66 DSS here, but hadn't seen any n30. Can you point to proof of the latter? Seems like 2300 would be an ideal band to not bother with DSS and switch entirely over to NR, as it's only 10x10 anyway and there's plenty of spectrum below 2300 for phones to connect to.
  24. Welp, TNX international roaming is still borked for me. I can get the low-speed roaming, but can't log into T-Mobile to get day/week passes, nor can I buy Sprint day passes. Which is all the more awkward because the TMB CSC on my S22 allows n78, so I can get EE 5G...throttled to a near standstill. The US Mobile eSIM I grabbed and the 3 physical SIM both use XAA so n78 isn't available. Girlfriend's Pixel 7 seems to be getting 5G on 3 at least...
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