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How's the Missouri state university campus coverage?
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Here in rural Missouri att is adding a tower in the back of a subdivision, about 5-6 miles from i44. They're already drawing fiber and have streets closed to do it-_-. I can't see them keeping a tower in their name, wouldn't it be more likely someone else owns and built it or that they're going to sell it to one of those tower company is? T-mobile has spotty edge, and a few tiny spots of hpsa. Atts LTE is a bit denser than Sprint(because not all of the sprint towers are upgraded), but speeds are lower. Verizon probably is on less towers than att but they're better placed. Now the real king tower wise/density is USC, they have towers all over the place. For instance there are three less than a mile from my home in the boonies.
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It shouldn't matter, there should still be a manufacturers warranty. Usually it's about one year. I'd think you could get it replaced for the screen issue also, that doesn't sound normal. Maybe you got a dud phone lol.
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Your battery could have crapped out possibly. You could always see if google would replace it for you(as in your phone lol).
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Have any twrp backups from the time when you were getting good usage?
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Well that's abnormal, I get 3-4 hours screen time and 16-20 hours of usage. You could trying installing xposed and using app opps, bootmanager, and xprivacy for starters. They're tools to limit apps access to things and control them better.
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Mine are usually 30-50 on all bands, ex peg this one tower where I average 12 or less.
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Band 41 is great, being a champ in the -110dbm range.
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If I understand your question, you're asking if all Sprint NV towers have fiber for backhaul or if some have T1 copper lines. All NV towers will have fiber as backhaul, every single tower that has LTE has fiber backhaul already. If it doesn't then LTE doesn't go live. The reason for b25 being so much slower is that its overburdened by single band devices. B41 has much higher speeds because it's a 10x10 swath of spectrum instead of a 5x5 like b25 and b26. Band 26 manages to stay at higher speeds because the network doesn't put people on it unless they can't get any other LTE band, or the other ones they can get are vastly over burdened. It's Sprint's final defense for when all else fails.
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From the highway 100 exit to downtown st Louis you shouldn't drop LTE almost anywhere. My n5 on the latest radio never goes below a -105dbm signal. Its been like that for a couple months, so that's very weird to hear. I haven't been up to Chicago since I got Sprint service so I can't compare the two, but I don't see any city being as good as Kansas city is.
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Which part of 44? Its blanketed every portion I drive, excluding where towers don't have LTE.
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Some new b26 on highway 100. Well new to me at least lol.
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That's good news, I'm going to spending about one weekend every month down there. Nice to know I should have decent service:P.
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So they just hooked up fiber to one of the two towers closest to my house! Both aren't upgraded yet, but one has it to the tower for sure!! They had to cut through a bunch of trees to get to it, so its very evident. Edit: by hooked up I mean its there, not that it's live.
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500kbs 3g? Damn I'd kill for that, my home is 3g only on two non upgraded towers and I'm lucky to see 50-100 at off peak hours (dead of night) lol.
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You cannot compare the crap Samsung puts out to iOS, its not fair. The only fair devices to compare to the iPhone experience are the nexus 5, and G3. Both are so much better than any other android phone, software wise. Obviously the nexus has no bloat at all and the G3 is stupendously done. I came from an iPhone 5 and I haven't had a software complaint about my n5, or the G3 I've played with, that want purely just an issue with an update done to an app. Comparing a true android experience done right to an iOS experience is like comparing a red bag of skittles to a blue bag. They've both stolen ideas from each other (cough cough the new hangouts is basically imessages and face time together, apple letting people tweak their skins/settings stuff oh that sounds a lot like android from forever ago until now...), they're essentially the same thing. Android just has more functionality and uses, where iOS sacrificed a lot of that and blocked developer creativity to keep it uber user friendly and simple. Pick your flavor and deal with it, when it comes down to it they both came from the same idea.
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I forgot one thing, that'll be a big factor. Apple is combining their ecosystem into one polished, easy to use interface. In what is actually a smart way, they're not half assing it or trying to say your phone needs the same operating system as your desktop(which is kinda what Microsoft headed towards and backpedaled). Being able to have a tablet, laptop, desktop, phone, and god knows what other smart tech that comes out, work together simply and easily (assuming its all fairly up to date) is a huge plus for the average American. Like the majority of iOS users I know, when something isn't working they just take it to the nearest techie person or store and say fix it for me. Now if apple was just willing to compete a little bit better on prices...we'd see a lot more people switching from android and windows, or at least dual booting.
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Its relatively simple looking, every feature is dumbed down and super easy to learn how to use. Plus it never changes so the old people/wanna be techies never have to learn their way around an update lol:P. Well and it's pretty polish and doesn't really ever have bugs (major noticeable ones) by the time the official release comes out to the public.
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Yes I know, I didn't bother getting a b26 screen shot because it wasn't even close to overloaded. I thought that was self explanatory, my bad .
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Well actually they've accelerated deployment a crap load, especially b26 in all kinds of areas including very rural areas. I believe you've already been corrected on being wrong with how long NV has been going. I don't believe any of us were saying you can only hope for 5-10mb/s, in 95+% of the areas I go I get at least 20mb/s ranging up to 36ish. This is all in non b41 deployed areas. You really don't need more than 5mb/s though unless you're downloading large files, which isn't really legitimate mobile usage for the most part.
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They advertise 3-6 mb/s. In reality a constant 5 mb/s is perfect, it allows you to stream full HD video without stuttering which should be the most taxing thing you really need to do on a mobile device.
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An introduction to South African carriers
kojitsari replied to Azimuth's topic in International Networks
I take that's towards my post lol? It's not hard when you stream music (320kbs quality) for a couple hours each day and stream some HD TV/movies. Most of my usage is actually when I'm out and about (still waiting on LTE at my home), like the other day I was getting new tires on my car and had a four hour wait. So I just watched Netflix the whole time. We also get unlimited calling from cell phone to cell phone even on other carriers, which is nice. I'll probably drop down to 2-3gigs in a few weeks when I get my $70 1gig fiber connection. -
I don't see it going anywhere until they offer a free battery replacement. IPhone batteries crap out too quickly before your contract is up.
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An introduction to South African carriers
kojitsari replied to Azimuth's topic in International Networks
I have the newest nation wide unlimited plan from Sprint (my way). Unlimited is really unlimited, the sole exceptions are:1. In times of network congestion video streaming may be temporary throttled to 1mb (so enough for standard definition but not high definition video. 2. If you are in the top 5% of data users on Sprint's network and connect to a congested/overburdened tower they reserve the right to latency throttle you until congestion is over, or you move to an unburdened site/sector. I personally use about 12 gigs of data a month on my phone, which puts me at using 2.5x the amount Sprint has said puts you in the top 5%(5gigs). I have never been throttled in the past three months since they implemented this, or if I have it's completely unnoticeable. They past few months I have actually used 35-40 (streaming lots of video to my phone, and other legitimate usage) and have been to massive events with thousands of people on only one or two sectors of sites, in areas where there is only one b25 carrier or a few had b26(800mhz) but none have had b41(Sprint's saving grace of capacity), and I still has not noticed ANY throttling. Not even the reduction of speed for video streaming that's in the TOS of my plan. Granted my average usage probably makes me a power user, and I honestly normally don't ever go up to 15gigs the past few months have been exceptions, but being completely honest I have no issues telling people I have true unlimited on a strong, quality network and when I need to I can use (what I consider) an excessive amount of mobile data(aka 15gigs plus) without needing to worry one bit. I have three lines on Sprint: one with no data and two with unlimited, all my way plans though. My bill is 160ish a month and my personal line is only 55 bucks because the first line on my account is cheaper on voice and text (unlimited data added on is $20 a month). In comparison I was paying 195 a month on att for the same three lines, except we had a family unlimited text thing added on for 45, and only 2gb of data compared to unlimited.
