AJC1973

most town councils are pretty dumb they get locked into an exclusive contract with company A for a few pieces of silver they think they got a great deal company B comes in and says hey we can give you better but all the red tape and if these contract have actual time limits hands are tied... thats why DSL got a foot hold because it was from phone companies it gave consumers the ability to get two choices without cities backing out of deals with cable companies

this is a reason why i have mediacom (well if i had cable they are the cable company) even though cox is less than a mile away

that plant is right down the street from me... in theory the sapphire is supposed to be more scratch resistant.. but i believe the gorrila glass is more shatter resistant

is that better than LSD LTE?

thats what she said

the htc one is not triband but the htc one max is http://htcsource.com/2013/10/sprint-htc-one-max-to-be-priced-at-249-99-will-feature-sprint-spark-tri-band-capabilities/

yea but wont that pay as you go plan still be in place? i figured that would replace the subsidized model people have been spoiled for way too long now as it is... but the my way plans are at least a way to make it easier on the subscriber than having to dish out full price at time of sale..

a donation will give you a step up on that info in the members areas there are alot of maps that have this info in it. there have been a ton of tower expansions phx is well underway most of the towers have had the network vision upgrades that means that the towers are upgraded but the backhaul for 4g hasnt... LTE comes when backhaul work gets done and thats by century link and cox... but if you have 3g where you are its likely that lte will be shortly following once the backhaul is in place... i would highly recommend making a donation whatever you feel is fair and the amount of info you get its worth it... make educated decisions not just guesses...

its been 80 for 3 weeks here i think we had two weeks of fall... im ready for winter to show up lol

i guess i missed the verse in take me out to the ball game about decent lte is that before or after the cracker jacks?

not counting us phone nerds most people like to actually look and play with a phone first before buying them...

The op doesnt have LTE, but to answer your question as to why someone would... i work at the airport in Phoenix. We have LTE at the Airport occasionally im on the fringe of a couple of towers' range.. i routinely shut off my LTE because ill get stuck connected to one with Signal Check showing 110 or more db so im not getting any data... but connected to LTE so until more towers closer or actually on the airport grounds get LTE when im at work ill routinely shut it off or ill have unusable LTE its pretty but kind of worthless lol

i know from experience waiting on Frontier is like watching paint dry... or glass flow...

I understand the 4g part i mean its been just relatively recently that here in phx have seen some. so i feel your pain.but thankfully we have been seeing alot of updates now that our back haul vendors are catching up to the contractors doing the work... As for why you may have bad reception from a tower you have a few things less than obvious could be the problem... signal loss woudnt necessary be an issue of tower load but slower speeds could be attributed to that fortunately for you most people in eastern indiana are either VZW or ATT. so tower loads are probably not a problem and you should be seeing as NV gets in full swing an even nicer throughput the biggest thing that addresses signal when you can see the tower is at what angle from a sector are you Cell towers are not omnidirectional like a radio tower so there is signal loss if you are at a right angle from the panels direction But the largest thing to consider especially in a less dense area like Richmond is downtilt of the panels themselves. they may increase the uptilt of a sector to reach slightly farther or decrease it to get closer to the tower itself so you may be right up on top of the tower and get no signal but people 5 miles away getting 4 bars.. now sometimes thats by design and sometimes its by bad workmanship from the contractors hired either way putting in a job ticket might fix it for you, also before phoenix started full swing i put in a request for an airwave to help with my signal in my old home it helped for any dropped calls i may have had.

Oh I agree totally nothing like having some of the greatest views of things like mountains and rivers only to have a view of a big concrete Wall to look at..

Bah interstates! Who needs those when you have the National road? Interstates are a fad. US 40 is forever... I hear hear they said the same thing all all across the country on Highway 66 too lol who's going to get get their kicks on I40 fix the roads we got don't build new ones I always say. Who needs to go 70 much any way... Said ppl in the 1950s

Hey Rick welcome to s4gru.. Being from Hagerstown. Originally I get your pain it's rough going home for service... Hell htowns only tower is off Germantown road down by mcyds off 1 and 70. When vzw finally put a tower up near the country club I was able to roam while home.. Was always frustrating visiting lol. But for raw info to get a better idea of what's going on make a donation whatever you can every bit helps. The access and maps you get is worth it and better than any lying u will get at sprint forums. Go Tigers... And I can't help it Go Boilermakers lol

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I get bored at work lol

Just so you know you can already change that!!! I would think a time lord would have noticed that lol but ill take that ten dollars lol

well that would certainly depend since most radio station towers are omnidirectional no.. but if they were unidirectional yes that would make a better signal.. depending on the reference point im looking at it would be like having a yagi with more elements but those make no sense in a radio station you want a large audience in all directions from the station... now i could see the argument of saying that more cell panels on a site would give a better signal ok not signal but throughput, if they are not connected to one radio but multiple radios because then you could double the amount of users to each site. you would have less bandwidth issues.. which may be the argument being made... could be but it doesnt come across as such.. i know you were being sarcastic and in the way you meant it obviously no... but there is a point there lol

every body has said it, load on tower... i mean i have a finite amount of data going through a single pipe... if i have 30 people hooked up to it its going to dribble at the end. i mean we have all had bandwidth issues in the past whether at home or using a single wifi connection with multiple people, this is expected everywhere and easiest to explain also your location in reference the available sectors you can be the same distance from a tower.. but if your location is offset from the panels at a right angle your going to get significant signal degradation they try to elieviate this by having multiple sectors but still you are going to get an uneven power distribution also keep in mind the angle the panels are pointed uptilt is something thats hard to measure or anticipate you may have lousy signal the same distance from once site than another but be able to go a few miles further and get great signal, not knowing those numbers makes it impossible for anyone to say why your home tower is slower than other towers... but you have to keep these variables in mind when you go to compare one tower or another. you cant just say im x miles from tower a and i get this signal so if im x miles from tower b i should get this signal without knowing the other variables like sector direction, and tower uptilt. if you are going to test a site do it from different locations in relation to the towers to see if there is a problem with the site or just that its set up with different variables.

50,000 WATTS

i wish i could like this one more than once lol