streger

I know, you kid because you care. Seriously, I have looked into EVERYTHING GPS. The thing is, though I don't work in a Silo - I do have an office inside a very thick concrete and steel builiding built in the early 1960's I am 2 floors below street level and roughly 100 feet from an exit.... so as you can see extending an antennae, or even running any wires for a repeater of any kind woudl require involving Facilities. The Airave 1.0 in a gym bag witha UPS wasn't bad, except tfor the time sync slippage I planning to wait about another week before calling Sprint to see if anything can be done.

I recieved a letter in the mail notifying my Airave 1.0 device will no longer be supported on August 1, 2013 (got the letter about June 15th). I also have two airaves on my account, or accounts actually becuase we have 7 phones total. My home is in the shadows of coverage so we initially got the Airave 1.0 for there. In the 10 years since moving in both my wife and I have changed jobs and our offices get terrible (eg: none) cellular service. For me, I am located underground, with no windows. I can do Wi-Fi, and older phones allowed me to force the roaming mode so I could use Verizon's signal - can't do that with newer phones unless rooted. The samsung is the 1.0 model, white antennae. I think the other Airave is the airvana 2.0. I orignally brought the airvana 2.0 to my office - but obviously cannot get a GPS signal. I took it outisde on a UPS to get a GPS lock and then brought it inside. It synced up and worked for 1 day. Apparently is resets everyday. So I took it home where it has worked well. We occasionally get the duplciate text issue. Brought the Samsung Airave 1.0 to my work. Same thing, can't get a GPS lock. Too it home, let it get a GPS lock and initialize then in the morning tossed it and the UPS in the car, drove to work took it inside and plugged in the ethernet. Works great. Time drift on it is an issue, so every month or so I have to take it home overnight and repeat the process above. ( I keep the whole mess in a small duffel. But now with the 1.0 not being supported I am once again "screwed". The 2.0 reboots nightly, and since it can't maintain a GPS fix it disconnects. I am not going to lug that stuff back and forth daily just to have cell service in my cubicle. I'll call Sprint and plead with them again, but I am sure they will claim there is nothing they can do and any femtocell on their network requires a GPS lock. If anyone knows of their Airvana (2.0 or 2.5) running after losing the GPs lock PLEASE let me know.