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OK thanks for the update. I never see it through SCP. Maybe I should just check the LTE engineering menu.

 

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I was in Bay City last weekend and noticed a lot of band 25x2 coverage. I was wondering if it's being turned up in the GR area.

 

 

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Maybe this was covered in this thread. Anyway, not sure if you guys have tried prioritizing/QOS your network traffic for wifi calling. I've had pretty good success with my current Netgear router and my older AC66U, now used as an AP. Simply set UDP port 4500 per device to highest priority traffic. It definitely helped with call quality and drops. We've been using the wifi calling since the Galaxy S4T device.

 

 

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Maybe this was covered in this thread. Anyway, not sure if you guys have tried prioritizing/QOS your network traffic for wifi calling. I've had pretty good success with my current Netgear router and my older AC66U, now used as an AP. Simply set UDP port 4500 per device to highest priority traffic. It definitely helped with call quality and drops. We've been using the wifi calling since the Galaxy S4T device.

 

 

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It does not show 3xCA ... it's just showing you the 3rd carrier. Any B41 device can connect to any B41 carrier that is on air.

. Thanks for the clarification. Is B41 x3 being displayed only as as a dry run, or has it gone live?

LTE B26 in Lansing, couldn't get to debug quick enough before the switch to B41 kicked over

 

 

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. Have you guys noticed that SCP shows B41x3 on non CA 3 devices? Today was the second time I've noticed it on my Galaxy S6. I was near Menards on Clyde Park.

Does anyone have news of small cells being deployed around West Michigan?

 

 

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Pretty sweet stuff. When can we get fill in here in West Michigan. Honestly, where I can get good sprint B41 x2 it's 100 plus mpbs download so we just need to fill in the gaps. I ran a speed test the other day against a friend with AT&T and he was embarrassed about how slow their network was when it died with latency test (GRANDVILLE). We seriously smoked them. Anyway, if sprint fills in with small cells, we will rule the market imo.

 

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Good times coming for Sprint. I have noticed that the Sprint network is continually getting better here in W. Michigan. More B41 coming online as time goes. Let's hope all of the financial problems Sprint faces can be worked out.

I sure hope they get to this sooner rather than later. Has anyone noticed a plan on when they will start with the 9000 tower upgrades?

Ok I am thinking of having faith over frustrating again. When I talked to a friend at Sprint in Overland Park the other day the outlook didn't seem so good, but maybe they can only divulge so much. Fingers crossed on the speed improving in some areas vs. Others with great speed/connectivity.

So basically the 9000 tower plan to fill in the gaps will do it? I will say there is a great difference in Sprint connectivity now vs. a year ago. What does everyone else think?

Does anyone know the status of when the back haul will be complete for the GR area? Many areas I still notice less than 1mbps up/down on the LTE 800.

This morning at the Great Clips in front of Metro Hospital near Byron Center Ave and M6, band 41 is turned up and working nicely. 56MB down and 13MB up. Sprint it getting better all the time.

So far after removing the port priority I've noticed that HD calling and wifi calling will interrupt each other.  Sunday when I was called by a relative, the called started with wifi, and then become choppy and had pauses with no voice. This happened within the first couple minutes of the call. I hung up and called back and noticed the call establish in HD (as it now shows up with 4.4.4 Android).  I wonder if anyone else has run into this, and if it has contributed to the issues I've experienced recently. 

Very nice jreuschl!! :-) Maybe I expect too much from Sprint with a product they added to some of their phones lol

 

 

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I will test for a few days and post results. 

I don’t know if anyone has already posted information about wifi calling, so I thought it would be good to add this.  In the last 2 weeks, I posted on the sprint.com forum and the Sprint reps were unable to answer the simple question of what port does wifi calling use. Previous to posting I called customer service and Airrave support and no one could answer either. I didn’t expect a detailed answer, but they could have called someone who knew the answer.  Anyway, two very knowledgeable users on the forum narrowed things down, and wifi calling uses UDP port 4500. I had already narrowed down the ports to a handful, since I found information on the web about TMobile’s similar wifi calling. Also, I found a netstat option built into my Asus RT-AC66U router that was helpful for looking at ip/ports for our phones. The Sprint server the wifi calling traffic heads to is 68-31-26-1.pools.spcsdns.net  The reason I started asking about the port and connectivity is because we experienced many calls that would either drop or when you called someone it would go silent during the call. This goes along with UDP traffic being connectionless and sensitive to any disruption.  I prioritized traffic for our GS4T and GS5 phones for port 4500 and found there was a firmware updated from Asus for the router that helped.  Also, I skimmed over (on some other android forums) the updates for the GS5 to android 4.4.4 and I noticed something with wifi calling bug fixes.  I am happy to say that the wifi calling is working a lot better now. 

 

 

danny1st  - et al.   I too have the GS5 and can confirm many areas around GR are up and running on B41.  I was in Grandville the other day at Best Buy and picking B41, but haven't checked near 28th and Byron Center or Ivanrest. If I travel around there this weekend I will check. It's nice to see so many sites coming online with B41. Finally, I don't know about anyone else, but sometimes I experience very fast speedtests with B41, and other times slower, around 5 to 10 MB down and 2 to 3 MB up.  Maybe Sprint is still optimizing the network pre B41 launch?  Also, LTE discovery has some pretty good information for the network/band you're connected to.

While I was at Grand Rapids Toyota, near 28th and Breton, this afternoon for an oil change, I saw B41 was present on my GS5 and did a speed test. With only 1 bar of signal it still pulled 44 MB down and 8 MB up, pretty amazing.  I took a screen capture, but couldn't upload with Tapatalk as I received a message of the image size being too large. Great to see more sites coming online with B41 around GR in the in the last couple weeks. 

I've been seeing a lot of B26 as well.

We went downtown GR for lunch today and I picked up B41 LTE 2500 from south of Cutlerville past 28th St. On the way home the tower near M6/131 yielded B41 speedtest of 41 MB down and 8MB up. I wonder when official launch of LTE 2500 will be in GR.

Your free to do that, and it may solve some of your problems. (site density is somewhat better, site placement is *much* better).

 

But AT&T is slowing down a bit here too. We're a B17-only market, and AT&T has halted a lot of upgrade work, so while AT&T has more capacity than Sprint here, it's not tons more by any means.

 

I *really* hate to say this, but Verizon is easily the best option here at the moment. You get triple the speeds of everyone else, along with the more+better coverage. Verizon's really doing some crazy good engineering work in Grand Rapids.

 

For example, they built a brand new tower in Grandville, just a half a mile away from the old site (next to Steak and Shake, that Sprint / AT&T / Metro CDMA all run on), just so that AWS would propagate properly up to the new suburbs south of the hill behind Rivertown Mall.

 

That's crazy attention to detail, that I was certain no carrier had noticed or would ever notice. But Verizon finally did, and did something about it. I don't particularly like the company in any way, but I'm impressed by that attention to detail.

In the last few weeks I've also experienced B26 25+ mb down and 10+ up when connected to the tower off 84th in Byron Center. Several other locations around GR I am seeing more B26 connectivity lately. Things seem to be getting better for Sprint. Bring on some B41!

Sounds like the might be going backwards on the local AirRaves, you'd need to be blacklisted so your phones won't connected vs. being whitelisted so that they can connect.  There is also the possibility that an AirRave is registered to address A, but operating at Address B and Sprint wouldn't know what AirRave to modify.

 

Since you are a sponsor, you could go and get one of DigiBlur's custom PRLs in the sponsor forums.  I believe there is one that drops AirRave support and has 800Mhz as a higher priority.  Worst case, he occasionally does custom PRLs for a donation to S4GRU.

 

Spark device wouldn't help as it would still connect to the AirRave for the voice calls.

 

There has been no new updates on Wifi Calling since the initial release.  It will probably come with the next software update for your device.

 

Thanks for the info. I hope they are not backasswardsing (redneck lingo) the white vs. blacklisting.  I totally believe the addresses are incorrect in some instances, plus my wife was ready to go to all neighbors’ houses to let them know about 1X 800 and newer phones until I told her they possibly have iphones lol.  I've also noticed over the last couple days that even when Signal Check Pro says I am connected to the towers, that it's 1X RTT.  I wonder if this is due to the Spark upgrades, as I've heard there are places in GR where this is underway.  I will try and find time to check the custom PRL's and see if that makes a difference.  Also, Air Rave Support had my wife do a battery pull for 15 minutes this afternoon, to see if service would revert back to the towers, and her phone stayed on an Air Rave.  They claim they reduced the power on them, but she is still picking up service on them.  We will keep using trial and error on this until we figure something out. 

Not to go too far off topic from the current thread, but I am seeking help with dropped calls. 

 

Our situation is dropped calls with what I will blame on the proximity of the towers around us.  We live near 76th and Burlingame between Byron Center and Cutlerville.  We have 2 Galaxy S4's and one iphone 5.  From what I understand the iphone 5 will not run the 800 voice (1X 800) due to being in the wrong band, so it's the worst of our 3 phones for dropping calls.  The S4's, will most times connect to the 1X 800, but then fail back over to the 3 or 4 Air Raves in our subdivision.  We've talked to Sprint Customer Service and Air Rave support, and received credits - $100 over 4 months, and now another 10% off my company discount for the rest of the plan, which ends in June 2015.  Air Rave support has tried white listing our numbers from the various Air Raves to no end.  We are Sprint believers and want to stay on board, but need a remedy for the calls being dropped. I do know that when we can stay locked on one of several towers on 1X 800 for the S4's we are golden, but they keep failing back to the Air Raves randomly, and when calls add up on the AR's, we are hard dropped, sometimes 3 or 4 times in a conversation. 

 

Is there any way that a Spark phone will help? I am thinking it won't matter as the towers are not placed well, and even with 800 Data we will face the same calling problems.  Does anyone know when the wifi calling app will be out for the S4?  I know it has launched on the S4 mini and mega.  Does a custom Rom help with tweaking settings to avoid Air Rave connections?  My phone is rooted, but the other S4 is not.   

 

Please help as we are pretty frustrated with this situation. 

 

As a side note, I had an Air Rave as well, installed for about a month last Sept./Oct. and I was promised it was free. I bought it on Ebay for 40 bucks and had Air Rave Support add it to our account.  The next billing cycle we were charged for adding a line to the plan, and the monthly $5 for the Air Rave on the plan.  I was very upset as I was told one thing and delivered another on the bill, so I had them remove it from the account and had to argue to get a refund, which customer service agreed to in the end.