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12 hours ago, nexgencpu said:

Bottom line: You NEED 5G phone for Tmobile in the Bronx, with it the performance is night and day, I average 50-150mbs and upto 50mb up in the Bx. Even with only 20mhz of N41 and 10Mhz of N71 it performs admirably. 

Good to know... I think I'm going to switch back to Sprint if I can.  I know that near my job near 3rd/Tremont, Sprint finally has great service with the installation and configuration of all of the small cells in the area.  Last night after I posted I was getting 6 down on B2, instead of the usual 150 on B41.

Does anyone know if I *can* switch back?  I'm going to hound Sprint, but you all might have quicker more real answers than the random reps I will get.

So I haven't posted in a minute, but today I decided to swap out my Sprint SIM for T-Mobile.  They sent me an email saying to go and get the best out of T-Mobile's network.  Boy, do I regret it.  My speeds dropped from 120 down and 10 up to 30 down and 0.5 up, and I'm on band 2 sometimes with band 4 for CA.  I'm hoping areas of the Bronx are better, but part of me wants to run back and grab my Sprint SIM even though I feel it's too late.  Anyone else having similar frustrations?  Non-5G device here... Note 10+ (not sure what my profile says anymore lol).  I mean at the end of the day, for what I do online, 30 is fine, but still, it'd be nice to see more.

Edit: I live near Dyckman.

On 6/26/2019 at 8:38 AM, Paynefanbro said:

Speaking just for NYC, Sprint will never get the citywide root score award because of a combination of slower upload speeds than other carriers and poorer performance in the suburbs. It doesn't matter if Sprint is the fastest carrier in the city if they're still in last place in the suburbs. That's not to say they're bad in there but their network is not up to the same standard as it is within the city. Sprint seems to recognize that now and is doing a lot of upgrades in Long Island with the help of Altice to improve density and speeds in the area.

The good news is, Altice is currently building out a FTTH network across its entire footprint including pretty much all of the NYC suburbs so we'll probably see a backhaul increase at sites across the market and after Sprint brings Long Island up to par, they'll likely tackle northern New Jersey, Downstate NY, and much of western Connecticut next.

I just looked at the 2019 first-half awards and scores. It appears that Sprint is faring quite well in NYC relative to some other markets; Sprint's performance (by their metrics) is pretty shabby in some other areas of the country.

Well, after literal years of reporting nearly unusable LTE from small sites in the vicinity of 3rd Ave and the Cross Bronx, I returned from vacation to discover that I'm getting about 25mbps down from the small cell that I used to get frequently unusable data from. I noticed a few more small cells going in the area too. Regardless of what happened, I can finally go outside of my school, off the WiFi, in 4GLTE mode and not 3G mode and use my phone. Just wanted to share the (very) happy and exciting news from my small neck of the woods.

On quick usage I'm liking the OneUI especially the ability to pull menus lower. Lots to explore now. 

I'm very disappointed though that we don't have VoLTE with this... still Calling Plus

Pie is available for the Note 8! Downloadong the OTA update now. 

So I'm having an interesting problem in Inwood. I get off the train and my phone suddenly goes to the date of 2/23/18 at 10am. I turn off network time and set it right since WhatsApp wouldn't work due to the date time error. Turned network time back on and back to 2/23/18. Restart, same thing. So I'm off network time right now. Anyone else experiencing a similar issue? Good thing I discovered this before I went to bed and relied on alarms set by day of week. 

3 hours ago, jonathanm1978 said:

By the way...I was told newer devices have an MSL of zeros. Both of my note 8 phones have the MSL of 000000

 

Just got my Note8 today. 000000 as well.

If you plan on frequently using the phone and need the Internet connection while on the phone, you'll want to get something separate from using your phone as a hotspot.  That will change if ever VoLTE becomes reality.

this sounds like you're issue..

 

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/08/25/google-voice-users-arent-receiving-sms-messages-google-investigating/

Yeah I found the issue on repl.it reddit as well... glad it wasn't just my account.

(Lesson planning at 10:30pm using repl.it and my brain defaulted there)

Is anyone having Google Voice issues?  Not sure if it's a NYC area problem so that's why I'm posting it here.  I'm not getting any texts.  I can send and I can make/receive calls, but nothing inbound.

The Park Ave tunnel for Metro North appears to finally be wired and online.  I'm writing this from the train now.  I was using my Hotspot for work and noticed my Google Spreadsheet was auto saving even underground... ran a speed test and got about 10 down.  Not too bad at all and it's about time!  I wonder if GCT lower level (inside the terminal) is wired... I'll know soon enough.

I did. You must have gotten lucky.

 

 

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To the 100MB roaming limit, last time I was visiting my parents, I am pretty sure I went way over the 100MB of roaming and didn't get cut off or even a notice.  (Their Internet was down and I was really bored, so I tethered my laptop via US Cellular LTE roaming.)

 

- Trip

I moved to a plan three years ago that supposedly has 100MB limits on data roaming.  I have two lines, one for work and one personal, and both allowed me up to the 300MB limit, not 100MB, without overage charges.  I too, however, was on US Cellular LTE in Maine, so maybe it's a USC thing.

EDIT: When I hit 300MB on my work phone, it most certainly cut me off.  A Sprint web page would show I hit the limit.

There is a small cell right where Wendys is on 3rd avenue, it could be coming from that location.

Good to know. I'll look tomorrow when I get to work if you don't beat me to it.

I'm definitely getting a small cell in the Bronx near 176th and 3rd Ave. It's hard to pinpoint; my school is 4 stories tall across the street from Tremont Park, which has a huge hill that the 4th floor can look over. The lower floors of the building, and the hill, form a tunnel along 3rd Ave. The reason I'm stating this is that when I'm on the 4th floor I can pick up signals I can't on lower floors or the street, and it's hard to pinpoint where it's coming from without going for long walks... But, for the goodies...

GCI: 012B7831

EARFCN: 40072

It seems pretty much every station has service and WiFi now. http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/transit/2016/12/30/all-underground-subway-stations-expected-to-be-wi-fi-ready-on-saturday.html

And New Yorkers who regularly claim "subway delay, couldn't call because I was underground" due to perpetual lateness cry in agony... 

The universal profile officially launches November 17th. Google and Sprint have already implemented it and are launching early.

 

From the release announcement: 

"Today, we’re excited to announce the next step in this initiative with our first carrier launch supporting the new universal RCS profile."

 

They are using Google's Jibe infrastructure to support RCS communications with the universal profile.

 

More about the jibe platform here: https://jibe.google.com/jibe-platform/

My phone did a profile update this morning out of the blue.  Possibly linked?

Anyone get the interface download from samsung? My signal bars changed, now it says 4g not lte and many other things

How did the download come through?  There's no updates through the typical update screen.

I've started having some intermittent nasty battery issues myself.  Cell Standby will sometimes towards the top of the list of apps consuming the most battery.  Right now it's above the screen.  This happened after the last OTA update.  I've just re-provisioned the network settings using ##72786# so hopefully that will help.

Also my battery will drain to zero, only to reboot it and it will be at 5%, or plug it in with the power off and it will show 9% already.  I did the GoDaddy protection when I bought it at Best Buy and I get a free battery replacement over the two-year life of the device and I'm about to cash in on that.  That will hopefully solve my percentage issues when I get around to it.

Looks like second carrier B25 is finally in swing in Manhattan. Went to the heartland brewery had dinner in the lower level (which happens to be below ground floor) and connected to B25 second carrier and it balanced between first and second carrier pretty well.

 

Speeds were good, between 8-15mb. Very nice to see this working well deep indoors.

 

Edit: this one was located under the Empire State Building.

Forgot to post that I've noticed the second carrier in the Bronx.  I was on the 15 bus near 180th and 3rd Ave and got the second B25 carrier, if only briefly.

Fortunately? SCP does not detect the band (and GCI starts with 012x) on small cells so when you are connected to a site without band identity, and you can verify in your engineering screen that your connected to B41 chances are it's small cell.

 

Also super low ping (below 20) and speeds over 20mbs are also dead giveaways.

Thanks for the clarification. So then I am deducing that 42nd Street between the library and 7th is all small cell.  I noticed that every other light pole has a box on them (similar to other pictures), SCP is not reporting a band, and according to my LTE engineering screens I'm on band 41 with 40072 as the EARFCN and GCI 012A4431.  I'm also getting 40 down at Bryant Park when a month ago I was only getting 5 down.  This is pretty awesome.  Park is relatively packed tonight too with something going on on the lawn.

Forgive the questions that I'm sure have been answered before, but how do you use the GCI to detect if you're connected to a small cell or not?  

(Note that I've been searching for 30 minutes in this topic and can't find it, so I promise I tried to do my research first!)

So I got my MSL and disabled band 41 and was able to connect to the site again without any issues. I also want to know that this was on University and 181st which is about two stops away from the macro side itself, if following how long 4 line

Just disabled B41 and B26 myself now, and tomorrow I'll be going up the 3rd Ave corridor.  I'll see if my phone picks up anything and screen-shot the engineering screens.  I'm really interested as to what PCS block the additional carrier is on.

I wonder why we haven't had a security update in a few months, I know Verizon and AT&T are all caught up. Maybe they are fixing some software issues and that's why they haven't released one lately.

 

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I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday... let's hope.

Anyone else having an outage right now?  I'm in East Harlem, surrounded by a few macro sites, and have zero service.  Not even 1X.  Not even roaming.  Power cycled my phone and nothing.

Edit: 1X is back after five minutes of no service.  No LTE or eHRPD still.  Just weird.  Oh and as I'm typing this 1X data has disappeared.

Edit edit: it's interesting to watch... LTE appears for about 10 seconds and then everything goes out again, even 1X is gone.  Down Detector shows lots some issues in the NYC area (and other areas nationally).