Morningside78
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thanks for the info. Yeah, profile is correct. I don't believe there's any way to even know which band I'm connected to with the 5S, but my friends are using Galaxy S4s and having similar problems when LTE is extremely slow and seems to only work quickly in very very small pockets. I haven't seen any firsthand proof of LTE being reliably anywhere near the speeds Sprint has claimed.
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been noticing pretty lousy LTE speeds in most places depending on the time of day. in fact, down around Union Square and SoHo it's actually slower than 3G from the other carriers. very seldom can I get a LTE connection that holds consistent speeds higher than 2 or 3 Mbps, and this tends to be completely erratic depending on one's movement. and for what it's worth, I've not seen any increase in 3G speeds - granted, I've not really kept up on talk from a few years about the upgrade the 3G service was supposedly undergoing but it's basically unusable in Manhattan. to the folks boasting blazing face speeds and mentioning band numbers, I'd love to know what you're doing because for my wife and I, and my best friend and his wife, all of whom work in NYC and use new LTE devices, we're just not seeing anything that could even be described as very good.
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I've been away for a long time but this band-forcing thing you guys speak of, is it possible for those of us with iPhones to do it? and, is Band 26 actually active yet?
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and I'd highly recommend waiting awhile before upgrading to 7 btw.
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LTE coverage in Manhattan has certainly improved, but in most locations it's fairly slow, and in some cases only marginally better than the 3G data of competing carriers. In addition, 4G WiMax is noticeably faster in Mahattan than is LTE. In my neighborhood, 3G seems to be better than it was but now that the school year has resumed and traffic in the neighborhood is far denser than it is in the summer months, I'll get a better idea of whether what I was seeing is the result of upgrades or simply a lack of users. LTE up here is a bit better but still spotty and not particularly reliable for streaming or anything of the sort.
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drove along Queens Boulevard last night and had LTE most of the way to the RFK bridge I am also noticing LTE is now connectable in my neighborhood on Claremont Avenue and other cross streets - so no longer confined exclusively to a narrow strip of Broadway. Ran some speed tests yesterday that ranged from 6.62-10.55 down and 4.44-4.72 up. Not too bad.
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none of that information bothers me. what troubles me is Sprint's open-ended work schedule.
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for what it's worth I've yet to see any really good LTE speeds during daytime hours in Manhattan - and by that I mean speeds that are considerably faster than Verizon and AT&T 3G speeds. and my neighborhood is as horrid as ever for both 3G and LTE
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so what it is the benefit to people who don't own 800Mhz phones
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so that means everyone has to buy new phones?
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still no improvement in Morningside Heights. LTE is confined to a relatively narrow stretch of Broadway more or less cuts out at 116th and is unreliable. 3G is as bad as it's ever been for most of Riverside from the GWB down to the 100s. also, can say that 3G on the west side highway is still pretty spotty and speeds are slower around Union Square than they used to be. perhaps all the improvements are occuring in parts of Manhattan I don't spend much time in but I can't see I've yet to see any considerably improvement to speak of.
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was talking about LTE.
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Sprint Airave
Morningside78 replied to Samanthabrynn's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
in all probability the problem is entirely on their end. I've been dealing with the various iterations of Sprint's Airave for about three years now so I'm something of an expert in this field. as is the problem with all other areas of Sprint's employee base, the vast majority of Airave tech support know absolutely nothing about the devices they're paid to "support." if you're talking a with Sprint tech who are telling you that because you have no Sprint service in your area the Airave won't work, you're talking to a total moron. (And just so you know, I've spoken with people who think the Airave needs to get Sprint service OTA in order to work.) about the only thing you can do with Sprint is tolerate their seemingly limitless strata of ignorance and hope to get someone competent. more often than not if you've got everything hooked up properly (and no, you absolutely don't need to connect to the Airave ahead of the router) and you've got a solid GPS light, the problem is becaus one of their "techs" didn't do something right. the other possibility is that there's something wrong with the Airave itself but the chances of that are pretty slim - Sprint's favorite response when you say your service is lackluster is that your device is broken and should be replaced. One out of every 100 times is this actually the case, though. Instead it's down to poor service and outright incomptence from Sprint. so yeah, either try to be patient or go to another carrier. Sprint's not really worth that much of your time, trust me. -
absolutely no 3G improvement up here and LTE is still confined to a strip of Broadway and very tempermental rapidly losing patience also, very curious who mapped 4G on sensorly for the Henry Hudson and Riverside between here and the bridge since the likelihood of getting LTE in those areas is a total crap shoot
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in terms of Manhattan, LTE is available now in a few very small pockets of the city. there's a bit of LTE coverage up here (Morningside Heights) but it's extremely flaky and will cut out if you stray a block east or west of Broadway. I've experienced similar up around 5&6th in the 40s. When it does work, it's very fast but it's nowhere near reliable right now and the footprint is practically nonexistent. Remains to be seen how much longer it'll be before the coverage is wide enough to matter. Sprint's used that party line of "in the next few weeks" about Network Vision for the last several months so I don't really believe anything they say. Whenever it happens it happens and that's about it. Their timetables are meaningless.
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the iPhone shows a different icon when it is connected to 1X. so yes, the signal meter doesn't apply to 3G signal strength, but if you're dropped to 1X, you will know it. granted you can be in areas where you're connected to abysmal 3G and the speeds will be as bad as (or worse than) 1X but that's another story.
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wow. wish we could get some of that here. though we've got somewhat spotty LTE service on Broadway, the 3G here is now even worse than it used to be.
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is it accurate that Sprint sustained far less damage in the storm than did Verizon and AT&T?
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did a bit more extensive testing in Morningside Heights this afternoon, between 116 and 125th on Broadway. basically it seems to be pretty reliable once you start moving north on Broadway. here's a result from Broadway and about 118th: what I'm noticing is that it's a bit flaky by 116th street and drops off entirely as soon as you turn down Broadway. I was in a building on 120th just off the corner of Broadway and couldn't connect to LTE but when I came out of that building and stepped on to Broadway, I connected to LTE immediately. the speeds seem to be fastest for me between 118th and 120th. here are some speed tests from earlier today:
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Ok so here's the proof that I was connected to 4G (for the very first time) in my neighborhood about 15 minutes ago :-) And here are the speed tests I ran - I took this screen shot after I came back inside. Everything from 2:06AM on was 4G. There seemed to be a bit of a ramp-up as the initial tests were a bit slow, then I got quicker downstream but still slow upstream and then pretty nice results up and down. One thing I can report is that the connection was a bit tempermental and dropped me a couple of times while I was standing out there. I'll run a bit more tomorrow morning when I don't feel as conspicuous standing on a street corner holding my phone. And note the 6:23PM speed test which is typical 3G in this neighborhood.
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ok, I'm back. will upload screen caps in a few
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ok I'm going to check. never actually been able to connect to LTE with this phone before so we shall see what happens. wish me luck.
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thanks for that. for some reason I had to zoom way in for the purple band to actually show up. according to this map there should be LTE access on my corner. should I go check?
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not sure what you searched by not a damn thing comes up on Sensorly for 4G in this neighborhood when I check. :-(
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I ask because I'll be walking up from Morningside Heights, so I'm just trying to get an idea of where to start looking. And by the way, the 3G speed at the top of your list, oh boy does that look familiar
