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VoLTE will NOT improve coverage and penetration.  It will WORSEN it!  The LTE signal is far more fragile and no amount of tinkering with the standard will both reverse that and maintain compatibility with other LTE devices!

It might, however, make WiFi calling a possibility due to the full-data nature of VoLTE. Transition back and forth between WiFi and LTE for your voice calls seamlessly? Maybe it's just a dream, but it's a nice-sounding one.

I just bought SignalCheck Pro. Is there any way to correlate the GCI to a specific tower on the sponsors' map?

I got the email that said "in the coming weeks." That was a while ago.

Yes, I believe that is what the Pac-12 told the officiating crew after they worked the recent ASU game.

 

I suppose I should, but honestly, I do not care. RSSI, Ec/Io, SINR, RSRP, and RSRQ are more than enough for me.

 

One thing to add to this thread, though, is a brief definition of "ASU" for the uninformed. If I recall correctly, the acronym stands for Absolute Signal Units.  That runs in contrast to most/all other signal metrics, which are relative measurements.

 

Basically, it boils down to the difference between having your audio preamp or receiver display 0 dB vs 100 as the highest volume setting.

 

AJ

Huh. I thought it had something to do with signal attenuation.

Just a thought, but would it be feasible for your FTTH customers to have small sites installed at their residences for a discount to service in order to help propagate your service in more densely-populated areas?

I thought the LG customizations were particularly atrocious myself. I was seriously considering dumping my HTC One for this when it hits, but unless the bootloader is easily unlocked and CyanogenMod is working well on it, I'll be passing.

I'm a network security engineer, mostly dealing with firewalls and IPS devices. Is there any room for a guy like me to fit into cellular networks? The RF engineering interests me, but I have a feeling that would be starting from scratch in a new career.

What happens when you get to over 9000?

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Nonsense.  That is a made up statistic if I have ever heard one.  Substantiate it with solid evidence.

 

AJ

48.7% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Was looking at the sponsor PRL to see if there is 800SMR in my area, but I'm on 55015. If it's based on 25015 would I be downgrading or is there not a significant difference other than the 800SMR sites?

**edit** Nevermind. Forgot I had the XDA post open in another tab. Looked at it and see that the difference is that the 55xxx PRLs are for world phones and the 25xxx PRLs are for...not world phones.

Which backs up my point. I cannot connect to any antennas beyond 2 miles away. Most of the time I do not connect until I'm less than a mile away. I can occasionally hold an already established connection beyond 2 miles (driving away from tower), but it is rare and almost never usable. If you were complaining about a panel 1/2 mile away that you can see clear as day and still not connect to I would have sympathy, since that's what I have in some places. You should be bragging about connecting to a tower 3 miles away. I'll have to wait for 800 MHz LTE before I can even hope for that to happen to me.

Meh. I'm not worried as much about the LTE as I am the voice service downstairs. The EVDO signal is just as bad as the LTE upstairs and almost nonexistent downstairs.

Also, Sprint has my neighborhood listed as having a really great signal here. It just isn't. I think it's tower problems more than anything.

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LTE almost 4 miles from a tower and you're complaining? That's far better than any tower around here. Most get about 1 to 1 1/2 miles before the signal disappears. Some get about 1/2 a mile. Only the narrow bandwidth panels ever go beyond 2 miles, and that's only on a straight stretch of highway.

Less than 4 miles. 1 tower is 3 miles by road. I'm not sure how far as a bird flies. I'm have a feeling that I'm connected to the farther one.

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I've got 2 towers within 4 miles that are both LTE/3G accepted, and my service at home is crap. All flat land with houses. If I walk about 50 yards away from my front door, I can even see one of the towers.

Upstairs I get a flaky LTE signal of -109 to -117 dBm with RSRQ around -15 dBm and great 1x signal. Downstairs it's all flaky and no LTE. Same goes for out in the front yard. Yesterday I walked 50 yards in the opposite direction than mentioned above and had a big fat X on my signal indicator.

NV doesn't seem to be going too well in my part of the DFW market.

I just flashed that as well. Seems to have made a bit of a difference. Went from -110 - -117 to -105 - -110. RSRQ at -13

I'd be glad to give all the data I can. I'm listed on Sprint's coverage map as "Best" coverage for 4G LTE, and there are two towers near less than 5 miles from me that are NV accepted 3G/4G. Flat lands all around, and not a lot of tree coverage.

If you have LTE on 1900mhz at your doorstep, but not inside your home LTE on 800 will solve your problem.

And what if you have LTE when you're upstairs, but not downstairs or in your front yard?

So just for experimenting, is there a way to adjust how long it will hold onto a low LTE signal? I remember toying with values in my OG Evo's WiMax engineering menus and having some success, but I haven't seen anything like this with my HTC One.