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I would be interested to see if someone could do a test to see how the signal drop off and speed drop off at certain distances from the tower... like every quarter mile do a speed test and measure the signal strength. I am sure I am not the only one that would like to see this.

Looks like they're pretty close to eachother that after a certain distance, you'd be connected to another tower. lol

Not my pictures, but I found them interesting. All of them are in Conroe, TX.

From what I've been reading on other forums, the Galaxy S3 and the EVO 4G LTE should not experience any battery drain with LTE on because the LTE modem is integrated onto the Snapdragon S4 processor instead of being a seperate chip. I am not too sure about the Viper and the Galaxy Nexus though...

That sounds promising. Can't wait for LTE to hit my area!

I didn't mind when people made fun of Sprint when they had the worst network and continued to let it be. But now that they have very competitive lte markets and are aggressively rolling out network vision at an expensive cost, my respect for then has jumped tremendously. It touches me the wrong way when people belittle sprints efforts when they're doing things right now.

My connection...good or bad?

 

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kinda low. -68 dBm is really good. You're LTE connection speeds don't dive until you get lower than -101 dBm, according to Robert.

Black Russian

It wouldn't have made a difference with Sprint in the past if they did implement EVDO RevB or anything else if they kept feeding their towers with T1s. Look at what they did with Rev0/A, you can't even get max EVDO speeds right now...

 

It is the same as me installing 802.11ac in my house and only having 1.5 Mbps DSL..... I still have 1.5 Mbps DSL.

Well, I am getting 2.65 mbps on 3G, which I have never seen a faster Sprint 3G speed yet.

 

Wimax was more established at the time, I don't think EV-DO Rev. B had launched anywhere in the world by the time Sprint needed to have WiMax launched because of the conditions placed on their 2500mhz spectrum. In addition, it was apparent that for WiMax there was going to be an evolution of some sort - EV-DO Rev. B was recognized as being a sort of dead-end, especially considering it also needed a hardware upgrade. In addition, at the time WiMax was chosen, it was far ahead of LTE in its development and availability... the World GSM Association also hadn't chosen to endorse LTE at the time, if I remember correctly... if WiMax had been chosen by the GSMA, WiMax would have been an incredibly good decision. There was also the fact that Intel was a huge backer of WiMax at the time and it just plain looked like a really good decision at the time...

Thank you for explaining that. RevC is coming out soon, do you think Sprint will jump on that or just focus 100% on LTE?

 

Two possible explanations: WiMAX and economy of scale.

 

Had Sprint not gone with WiMAX in 2008 as its 4G solution, then Sprint potentially would have deployed EV-DO Rev B as an interim solution prior to UMB or LTE. But WiMAX precluded the need for EV-DO Rev B.

 

That said, no major carrier that I can think of has pursued EV-DO Rev B enhancements. So, the economy of scale for EV-DO Rev B infrastructure would be small.

 

AJ

But was wimax really better than RevB? It looks like wimax was a bad choice, just basing it on what's happened since it's release.

The competitors went with hspa+, which is the game counterpart of evdo RevB. Anyone know why Sprint went the route of avoiding implementation?

Evdo RevB allows for

Higher rates per carrier (up to 4.9 Mbit/s on the downlink per carrier). Typical deployments are expected to include 2 or 3 carriers for a peak rate of 14.7 Mbit/s. Higher rates by bundling multiple channels together enhance the user experience and enables new services such as high definition video streaming.Reduced latency by using statistical multiplexing across channels—enhances the experience for latency sensitive services such as gaming, video telephony, remote console sessions and web browsing.Increased talk-time and standby timeReduced interference from the adjacent sectors especially to users at the edge of the cell signal which improves the rates that can be offered by using Hybrid frequency re-use.Efficient support for services that have asymmetric download and upload requirements (i.e. different data rates required in each direction) such as file transfers, web browsing, and broadband multimedia content delivery.

July July July!!!

Some people already have LTE connection.

I honestly haven't seen a faster speed ever. (Even from other people.) On my GS2, I maxed at about 2.2mbps. The GS3 shows much stronger signal (probably PRL related, aswel.)

But the stars are the towers in my area and the circle is my house.

The Sprint tower to the southeast of my house is the one that's getting LTE first. I'm really hoping I'm inside range.

EDIT: reason behind me making this thread is because if I go down the street (literally, about a football field), my speeds are .5 mbps. LOL I'm fortunate that my house is really good, I was just curious if the towers would be adjusted in any way that may hinder my house performance.

2.6 Mbs download oh my god. What kind of pings are getting over there.

I really do love my sprint gs3.

And thanks Rob for the confirmation.

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Now I noticed Jax, FL is getting NV/LTE rollout at the same time. I thought the entire time they were doing "minor upgrades" in my area that it was network vision. Am I wrong? And if I'm pulling 2.6Mbps DL at my house, is it possible that when they put the new towers in that my speeds might go down if they tilt the panels a different angle?

Is Sprint adding eHRPD anytime soon??? Is it the CDMA version of HSPAplus?

I'm just assuming it's "3.5g", rather than 3G/4G?

Upload speeds aren't that big of a problem to me. I get away with 1mbps all the time. It's all about DL speeds, and if Sprint's is really higher than Verizons, then I'll be excited.

Really cool!