the_tom_burns

I've been totally dropping data (no 3G, 4G, nothing) in Short North, Hilltop, and Worthington for a few weeks now. Considering the level of completion in some of those markets, my thoughts on the network upgrades range from slightly negative to horrendous. Perhaps it will get better. But as of now, I'm just waiting out my contract. So to say there's coverage holes is an understatement. I'll note that 5+ years ago I never had issues in Short North, and in fact could impress others with how far inside various bars in the neighborhood I'd have coverage. But today I got the triangle exclamation point standing outside of my gym on High and 2nd. That's...not good.

Having grown up in SW Ohio and then going to tOSU, and thus making the trip from Columbus to south of Dayton hundreds of times, I can say that this has been the case since at least 2008 or 2009 (one of those years is when I started Pandora through my phone as my radio on those drives). Exits like, 72 to 62 on I-70 especially are terrible. So perhaps things aren't done totally, as that's been status quo for years on end, but y'all would know more than me. For what it's worth, that dead spot doesn't bother me. It may be an interstate but there's not many people out there, and you're through in 15 (or, uh, 6) minutes. The "dead spot" (in that data is basically unusable) at Hilltop in what's almost downtown Columbus is what just kills me.

(first post woo) As someone who never travels outside 270, and is never around Morse, Sprint's been ...not good over the past few years. But the last week or two everything has been nigh unusable. I travel down 315 from Worthington to Short North most mornings around 6:30am to go to the gym, and over the last week or two my Pandora hasn't streamed anything the whole way down, and just gives me "timed out" errors. I'm not sure if that's long-term good, but short term it sucks. I have, however, figured out that forcing EVDO (is that forcing CDMA? I'm a bit foggy on that point) makes things work much better. Somewhere I read on this site that eHRPD is routed through the LTE chipsets, vs. EVDO going through ...something else. Given that Sprint put everyone on eHRPD where I'm from, my theory is that the EVDO technology is barren, and we can get usable data through it now, whereas their eHRPD routing is hyper congested, as they're not done building out how it works. I'm sure someone will make what I said make sense. But in short, I have data when EVDO is displayed, none when eHRPD is. So get into EVDO and you should be ok.