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At my apt, I pretty much never see above 3 Mbps anymore, and 75% of the time see below 2 Mbps.  Not much better anywhere else in the city, minus a select few spots.  Just tested at 1.7/4

Judging from the sponsor maps, I think they are still working on the upgrades in Lafayette.  I see a bunch of yellow and red markers.  It's definitely nowhere near as solid as Indy, but hopefully when they turn on 800 1x/ LTE it'll be better.

 

At this point I'd be happy if they would just hurry up and upgrade the sites between Crown Point and Remington along I-65.  The 3G along that stretch of road is horrible.

Yeah, LTE first arrived here well over a year ago.  There's only one tower left to be upgraded on the map (one farthest south in Laf.) that will ease the strain on the tower I ran those tests on, so when that happens, hopefully things will improve.  None of those towers are marked on the map for 800 voice, but they are broadcasting (so at least some of them should be green).  My phone switches to band 10 when I drop down into my basement IT office at work.

 - Tears of sadness or tears of laughter, I don't know.  This is what I see most of the time near my apt now. This sector can't handle anymore. lol

Went to Joliet for the NASCAR race on Sunday. Last year there was only a sniff of LTE in one corner of the track. This year, I had a very strong signal everywhere, but as soon as the place got busy, it became *completely* unusable. It took a solid 10 minutes to load a weather map. I gave up trying to check Facebook, Twitter, etc and didn't even bother with a speedtest. It was painful...and very disappointing.

Extra capacity is coming. Addional capacity via LTE 800, LTE 2600 and additional LTE 1900 carriers if necessary.

 

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Yes, that'll be nice when there are enough devices on the market and enough users migrated to them to see the benefits.

LTE in Lafayette, IN has slowed down drastically lately.  At my apartment, I used to routinely see over 12 Mb down (no, I don't use it as my primary internet).  For the last couple weeks, though, it's probably averaging 4-5, often times below 3 Mbps.  I guess I sorta expected a drop, but not quite that severe.

I have a basement office (IT), and i'm close enough to a tower that my GS3 could still grab a very weak 4G signal (pulled a max of around 2 meg down). The One seems to have no trouble grabbing a decent 3G signal, but haven't coaxed 4G out of it down here like I could with the GS3. Of course, the GS3 spent most of it's time on 3G, but if I cycled airplane mode and held it up a bit higher I could grab LTE most of the time.

So many people get this wrong. CDMA1X voice/data is 3G. EV-DO data is also 3G.

 

AJ

Point noted, however, just tack the word "data" or "EVDO" on the end of my post, unless they've begun deploying 800 for EVDO? I didn't figure anyone would be using the term "3G" by itself in reference to voice coverage here. My bad

If its 800mhz tower its giving away 3g 800 not lte. Like buddy said no sites at this time has 800 lte.

 

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I thought that Sprint only used 800Mhz for voice. Is it used for 3G as well?

800 mhz is CDMA/voice only, no 3G.

http://www.anandtech.../htc-one-review

 

This, folks, is why AnandTech kills it with reviews. Brian Klug might be the most through reviewer for these kinds of devices anywhere.

Yep, that's why Anandtech has been one of my favorite tech news & reviews site for years.

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/03/21/htc-one-release-date-details-emerge-for-u-s/

Here's some news. Who knows how reliable of a source they have. Mid-April is about what I was expecting though.

It's all polycabronate, no aluminum.

It's thinner (7.7mm vs 8.6mm) and only slightly taller (by a few mm) while the bezel has been cut to incorporate the bigger screen.

Slightly taller? From the specs I've seen, it's the exact same height (136.6mm).

GS3: 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm

GS4: 136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9 mm

The One is another awesome contender, but unibody device and no SD slot.

Unibody is a plus for me, and the absence of a microSD slot (or removable battery) doesn't bother me.

That's the only thing I'm impressed with really. Larger/better screen than the S3 but smaller in height, length and width.

 

It burns when I Tapatalk...

Yeah I agree. Really surprised they fit that screen in a smaller phone. I'm still leaning towards the One, but i'm not ruling out the S4.

the only thing that really grabbed me as something I would like, would be the IR remote control feature

HTC One also has an IR blaster. That's at least one thing that both HTC and Samsung did right.

I think marketing is definitely HTC's downfall more than anything. They made it difficult for themselves to market their devices by flooding the market with 500 phones all with different names and designs. They finally learned a lesson from Samsung (and Apple for that matter) that a single device across multiple carriers is the way to go. The bootloader deal is really unfortunate. I'm sure the devs will hack it open, but who knows how long that'll be. I remember dealing with that with the Evo 3D.

Not sure if this has been posted here:

 

http://bbs.52samsung...695291-1-1.html

Saw that. Honestly, if that's it, I think i'll pass. I own a GS3, and have never really been fan of the shape and feel of it. I'm definitely leaning towards the One if that is indeed the GS4 in the pics. We'll see tomorrow though.

I find it excruciatingly difficult to locate the current LTE map every time I come.

I am a sponsor. Is it moved every now and then to discourage direct linking or what?

Not sure what you're talking about, it's always in the same place. You may consider bookmarking it?

Seriously considering it just for the IR blaster, but will wait for the GS4 before making a decision.

800 mhz is back up here after not seeing it for a couple weeks. Went over to a relatives house this evening where I usually roam on Verizon on 1900, but had a nice -98ish dbm signal on 800. This would be an 8.34 mile link according to Google Earth. Before, I could sometimes coax a 1900 signal from that same tower (only tower in range), but it'd be too weak to hold for more than a minute or so.

Unless you setup specific rules in your router to direct the traffic to the AirRave, you need to hook the airrave to your cable modem first, then your router to the airrave.

Never had to do anything with my router (i'm guessing you're referring to opening and forwarding ports?). Hooked the Airave up the first time, and has worked fine ever since. Might need to enable UPnP on the router. Should work fine this way, even though they recommend it to be connected directly to the modem. I would definitely connect it directly to the modem just to test it though. Some routers could be finicky.. I've used mine behind 2 different routers running DD-WRT and another couple stock Netgears with no changes needed.

edit: You might want to make sure UPnP is enabled in your router. I just checked my router and noticed that the Airave automatically creates port forwarding rules via UPnP. If that doesn't work, then you might have to setup the port forwarding manually.

That is pretty fast alright. There is a site near me that has had panels up for more than 35 days now without broadcasting LTE lol.

A few towers out in the sticks here have had new panels and RRUs since December 2011, haha. It's taken that long to get backhaul installed. Still waiting for those towers to be lit up, as it looks like microwave backhaul was installed a couple weeks ago.

So the Broadband, GPS, and Network LEDs are solid green, but the Mobile LED is blinking red? Sounds like it's having some sort of issue authenticating with Sprint. Have you tried resetting it (small reset hole on the back with a paperclip - hold for at least 10 sec)?

Look under the logo on every page.

Yes

I was wrong that you are not affiliated with Sprint but apparently you are knowledgable about the NV rollout.

Which is no justification to demand answers. You're barking up the wrong tree, basically.