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Can somebody around Harrisburg Please download "Sensorly" and use it. It is a battery killer to some extent, but use a car charger when traveling around with Sensorly turned on. You would not want to have it turned on all day in an office building while using your internal battery. No need for that anyway. Go to Sensorly web site and look at Sprint 4 G. (The first one in the list). I am mapping the site in Hagerstown. Just started so it is not complete. I do it whern I can find the time and the LTE is active. It takes awhile to figure out all the little tricks to using Sensory.

I had LTE in Hagerstown today at least for awhile. Looks like it was coming from a cell site at 937 Commonwealth ave. I took a quick look at the site and could see some radios on top of the tower. No technicians were at the site. Stopped on the street and did a speed test, 26-27 Meg down and 10-12 meg up. That was the best reading I got anywhere. As it moved away from the site, the speeds slowed to 14-16 down and 9 up. I did eventually lose the 4g and did not have enough time to head back toward the site to see if I could get it again. I did not find LTE in any other part of Hagerstown yet. Using a brand new HTC EVO LTE. It did pick up the LTE with out any special action on my part.

Yes, Yes, Yes, Very important. Currently, the phones hold onto a 1900 PCS signal until the receive level drops to -105 and then the call drops. But after the signal gets below -100 , you start to notice missing words or partial words in a conversation. With the 800 meg being available, Sprint needs to allow the call to switch to 800 when the receive level of the 1900 meg goes below about -100. Yes, allow it to switch back if suddenly the 1900 level gets very good again. Walking into a basement or building interior while using 1900 will quite often drop the call now. Sprint needs to NOT allow that to happen. When the 1900 signal goes to crap status, they need to switch to 800 BEFORE the customer has issues. This is very important and failure to get this right is not an option.

I am in a one story home with a drywall type celing with loads of insulation on top of it. Then a standard plywood and shingle roof. My Airave will sit in the middle of the home and stay locked onto the GPS about 99.99% of the time. It a bad thunderstorm with lots of clouds, it may lose the GPS for a few minutes, but the Airave countinues to work OK. I do not know what happens if the Airave loses GPS for hours. I never experienced that.

I personally have an Airave and can verify that this is about correct. Depends on the construction type of the home or business, but the figures are about right. Put one in the center of your home and it will cover the entire home unless you have a very big mansion.

When you put radios up high behind the antennas, the received signal from the handset is fed to the receiver with little or no loss. This makes things work very very well. With Radios on the ground, you could crank up the transmitter and feed a very strong signal to the transmitting antenna. But the handset can not do the same on that end. One of the thngs that makes RRU's work so good is the ability to receive the signal from the handset with no loss in the coax before it gets to the radio receiver. The signal received at the cell site from the little tiny transmitters in a cell phone is normally very weak. Being able to capture this signal and process it with little or no loss is what makes things work so well.

Yep, I steer clear of Samsung. When you happen to be in a low signal area, they fail to work properly. Samsung has had the problem for years. I am not positive the problem is there on the latest Samsung phones, but I sure am not going to buy one to find out. I have dropped more calls on a Samsung phone than all other brands combined.