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Since the thread has been slow for a while, allow me to take this opportunity to say thanks to all of you.  Tomorrow, my contract is up, and I will be leaving Sprint.  I decided long ago that once my contract was up, I would no longer pay for "phone" service, and instead would get a mobile hotspot, and do voip calling.  (I call people on the "phone" like once or twice a month.  Most of my real time conversations take place on Google Hangouts)  While Sprint does offer hotspots, they just aren't as competitive in that area.  But the nice thing about this bright, phone-free future is that my device (a 2013 Nexus 7 tablet, wifi only) is completely carrier independent (obviously) and I won't have a contract, so I'm sure one day I'll come back to Sprint.  (Since my stupid principles narrow my choices down to T-Mobile and Sprint, and it looks like they're about to become the same company anyways) 

Anyways, got slightly off topic.  Thanks to everyone here for what you do.  This thread kept me sane as I was stuck in a contract with service that sucked, though I eventually discovered that in some cases, it wasn't the service that sucked, it was my Evo 4G LTE.  I was afraid when I signed the contract that I would never see LTE at my house until the contract was just about over, and unfortunately, I was right.  For the last couple months, I have had LTE (as well as improved 3G) around most of the town, but I still have never received LTE at home.  Unless it happens today or tomorrow, I will never know the joy of LTE at home.  (My home is serviced by that tower on Lancaster Ave that is strapped to the power line, so I highly doubt it will happen)  

I don't imagine I'll be keeping up with this thread after tomorrow, so I bid you all a fond farewell.  Keep doing what you do!

Help me out... Am I right to be more excited about the "ping" than the download speed?

 

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It is a nice ping...

Haha where is that site that is supposed to look like a tree?  Is that in a park?

With all this LTE that went active this morning, how are y'all so quiet?

Just general social anxiety I suppose.

I have what I'm sure will be a dumb question.  I used to be one of those people that was misinformed about PRLs by Sprint, and I believed they were essentially a list of MAC addresses for towers that told you which ones you could and could not connect to.  I have long since been straightened out on that.  So my question is, if all the PRL is really doing is telling your phone what frequencies to look for and in what order, why does it get updated so frequently?  It seems like I get a new PRL 4-6 times a year.  Their frequency hopping logic can't change THAT often, can it?  Or do I still have an overly simplified idea of what the PRL is doing?  Are Sprint's roaming agreements changing frequently enough to justify all these updates?  I know some of you on here pick apart these PRLs, so I guess you would have an idea of what actually changes in an update.

I have a friend that works on Reyn-NA Rd that has been complaining the past couple days about how bad service has gone non-existent. Has to do with the launching of clusters. You're in range of 800 but low signal. Try to make or answer a call and it's unusable or unstable so your phone will switch back to PCS/1X but because of the handoff issue between 800 and legacy PCS the call will drop. If you can change PRL's, it would be best to use one that doesn't have 800 until the rest of R-burg gets launched.

Cool thanks.  At this point I think I'll just live with it.  I hardly use voice service myself, and the people in my house that are complaining about it would not be open to me doing any tinkering with their phone.  So far the data seems to be fine.  I can still pull the same speeds I always have.

So... When it comes to voice service, the standard PRL will only go to 800 if there's nothing else available, right?  The last few days, the voice service at my house (in the E Broad and Lancaster Ave area) has gone completely down the drain.  It's basically not usable.  Signal Check tells me it's because I am connecting to 1x800, and the signal on it isn't great.  Throughout these few days, I will periodically see the old 1xRTT signal I'm used to pop in, then voice works just fine.  

So anyways, I'm like 99.9% sure this is just an intermittent tower issue like we've had all through this roll out, but in the past I would never pick up the 800.  Just wanting to be sure this isn't a problem by design.  If it is, I need to be calling for an airrave...

Y'all awfully quiet in here today...

Well allow me to jump in and make some noise then... These updates in the last week or two are really starting to bring the whole picture together!  I went running around yesterday and it was like a night and day difference.  Not only did I finally pick up some LTE in Reynoldsburg, but I was picking it up in spots that used to have shoddy 1x at best.  Gotta love it when dead spots disappear!  It's a shame that I only have 4 months of my two years left, but I'm still happier than a pig in s@#$ with a full LTE signal.  I am gonna walk my butt off and enjoy hours and hours of non-skipping Pandora and Google Music.  Spring has sprung early my friends!

That's band 41 LTE and only accessible on a couple devices, yours isn't one of them. Sensorly doesn't differentiate between band 41 and the legacy LTE that your phone accesses that is the main crux of the current phase of Network Vision.

Thanks, that's what I was afraid of.  Hopefully we'll get some 1900 LTE around here soon.  I'd be crushed if my contract ran out in June and I never had any LTE the whole time.  

This may have been covered already and I just missed it, but does anyone know what the story is with the LTE that's showing up in Reynoldsburg, specifically in the Broad and Lancaster area?  (Oh and the Taylor Rd/Firstgate area too)  It's showing up on Sensorly, but I can't connect to it.  (on an EVO 4G LTE)  I kinda remember someone mentioning a while back that Reynoldsburg was getting 2500 Mhz first (or is it 2600 Mhz?  Whatever)  Is that the case?  Or is this just stuff that's in test mode?  I've been waiting since June 2012 for LTE in my area, and now it's showing up, but I can't use it.  I am about to explode with happiness and frustration!

I've made a comment on the Sprint social site that they are more concerned with giving LTE to cows than to people. Sure they have some large metropolitan areas, but if you look at the markets that they hype about, you see that it's mostly rural, sparsely populated areas.

 

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Part of it also has to do with the fact that there are very nice government subsidies for building up internet infrastructure in rural areas.  By doing those areas first, they can offset some of their costs with the perks they get from the government, making their balance sheet look a lot prettier at the end of the year.

I was at the Sprint store on Hamilton, and while trying to show the rep what my phone was doing, we had it on wifi.  Needless to say, it was slow.  The store rep told me that their wifi is actually a Sprint data card and it's connected to the tower on Hamilton and 70.  So, every phone in that store that is connected to WIFI, is actually connected to the same tower that your 3G phone is and the horrible data speeds are due to that.  

So that means that really you'll get worse performance on the wifi than on 3g, since everyone on wifi is sharing one single connection to the 3g instead of getting on their own channel.  How silly.

Where exactly on Brice Rd is this new LTE tower?

So random question.... I know the current 3G seems to top out around 2.5 mbits.  What kind of speeds should we expect on the upgraded 3G?  Or would it be roughly the same, but just have larger capacity?

Do you have SignalCheck Pro?

Nope.  Sorry.

I pre-apologize for not getting any screen shots or relevant data, but I'll report regardless that I was getting 1x800 last night in Reynoldsburg next to Civic Park.  Not sure where that would of been coming from, I just know the normal tower down the street (on Lancaster Ave)  was not giving me a signal as it had been doing on and off all day, so it was something further away.  If I get it again hopefully I can document accordingly.  

Three separate sites.

 

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EXCELLENT!

3 new LTE sites. Check my sponsor thread for details.

 

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Are these in addition to the three accepts you mentioned the other day?  Or are you saying those same 3 are even closer to being turned on?

Never ever ever tweeted them before ;)

Are those supposed to be winking smiley faces?  They kind of look like European electrical outlets...

Currently there's 3-5 guys on the tower at 256 & Livingston. I believe work is currently going on at the tower off tussing as well. Hopefully some good things to come in the area soon...

That area can definitely use some love.  Going to the 256 area is already a frustrating experience even when I don't want to smash my phone on the ground...

Alright, here is my analysis of the Columbus Market.

 

Previously I stated that I thought that if a site isn't 3G accepted by now, that it wouldn't be 4G accepted by the end of the year. I'm changing my stance on this.

 

There are way too many and I mean WAY TOO MANY sites within the outerbelt that have all the equipment they need to be 3G accepted. Only thing holding them back would be fiber Ethernet a.k.a. back-haul.

 

So what's my new stance? Well here we go:

 

There will be 20-30 new LTE sites possibly even 35-40 accepted by the end of 2013 with 65% of them inside the outerbelt. The sites 4G accepted within the outerbelt will not be 3G accepted including 1x800. Once inside the outerbelt is going to be 3G accepted in January 2014, 95% of the sites will be activated within 3 days. This 3 days will include 1x800 being accepted simultaneously.

 

This stance is not supported by any inside source. I've just come to this conclusion by trend and patterns. I also believe there is no other market like ours in the country. There are Moto to Samsung markets, but theirs are not like ours. That can be good and that can be bad.

 

Alright peeps. Enjoy your afternoon.

Dear science I hope you're right

I'm not even sure if Revol exist anymore in Columbus. I guess there network is still active though.

I know from taking my pharmaceutical associate to pay his bill that Revol definitely still exists...  And I know from trying to get a hold of him that their coverage is as shitty as ever...

And you can't wear white shoes after Labor Day, which is coming up...

Oh god I hope so.  I don't know if I can take the anticipation anymore.  This is like every Christmas morning and trip to Cedar Point in my life all rolled up into one.  I MIGHT EXPLODE!!

All this LTE going live in such short time, I'm tingling...   Seems like the near future should only get better...