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    DSL Reports has a pretty much neutral article ... except for the comments. Oh, the comments.
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    Some guy in an office in Basking Ridge must've been drunk one night and thought, "why not?" And then everyone ponied up to these names. :-D
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    The arrow means "the two fought a battle, and the winner lies to the right "
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    Done!
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    I didn't even realize they were still around! Here in Eastern PA Cellular One became Cingular and then AT&T
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    Like when the high schoolers I teach look at me like I'm from Mars when I talk about growing up in the 90s and early 2000s with dial up!
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    Sprint offers a 30 GB plan with a special LTE router. Although I believe it is $110 a month. I know, outrageous. But it beats satellite and actually you could do a lot with 30 GB. I'm in a similar boat as you in PA. I live 1/2 mile from where the cable stops. The cable company wanted $22,000+ to extend their lines to me and my 8 neighbors. No way. And we are over 20,000 feet from the CO from Verizon for DSL. Luckily for us, there is a state law in PA requiring all telcos to provide DSL to 100% of their territory by the end of 2015. You can speed the process up by gathering people to sign a petition. I did that for my area in October 2012 and a DSLAM is currently being installed and hooked up as we speak. So, I know how frustrating it can be. We've been living with a 3G hotspot for almost two years. I would say to either keep pushing AT&T, or look into the LTE router. I would have been interested in it, but didn't want to shell out the money since I knew DSL was eventually on the way.
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    Something similar happened to another forum I go to that uses IP board. Weird!
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    I tell them that so they know that there are probably lots of people on there. I talked to them yesterday again. Probably the 4th call back I've had with them. The person yesterday said they actually went to the site and "made some modifications" whatever that might mean. He had me switch the Mifi to 3G Only ... As if it would matter because there's no LTE. (??) Then had me turn off the connection optimizer on my phone and switch to CDMA Only. Which I've since turned back to LTE. He did say he saw lots of things scheduled for surrounding areas (like New Tripoli, Kempton, and Germansville) "in the next 3 months". So I'll take that with a grain of salt. So, I'm not sure if they actually did anything, or they just said they did. I also moved the hotspot to a different place. It usually had a signal somewhere around -90 where I had it, but I just noticed yesterday that the Ec/Io in that spot was -6. I moved it to a different window and now it is -85 and -1. And it seemed to improve ... So I'm not sure if that was it all along, or if they did change something. (also I just figured out last night what Ec/Io actually means!)
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    Anyone had any luck with network tickets? I don't have LTE yet at home but having slow 3G (~0.25 Mbps) and I opened ticket. It took 3 days for someone to call me back, and now I always miss their calls. They keep saying nothing is wrong and keep asking for the same information over and over ... The RSSI, PN code and a speed test. It's becoming very circular. They just called me now, I am not at home so they wouldn't do anything. Even though the hotspot is always in the same place and there is only one tower it connects to. I told them to use the same information as yesterday but they refused. I don't have broadband at home so the hotspot is our internet connection.
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    There's no 3G where you are? Mine works just fine on 3G
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    One of the schools I taught it didn't even have D's anymore - just ABCF!
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    This was really interesting! I always wonder about stuff like this in other countries. Hope you're staying clear of the Ebola outbreak!
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    At first I thought there was some B26 going on. My and my mom's EVO LTEs didn't have any data connection while my sister's iPhone 5c said LTE. But she tried to Google something and there was no connection. To which she commented, "But I have LTE!" And then frowned. I told her once, after checking the bill, that she was using a crazy amount of data (like 9 GB on unlimited) and asked her what she was doing to use so much, and if she knew she was. "What's that mean?" She responded. I said something and then she said, "Oh, is that what LTE is? If so then I use that all the time!!!" Women.
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    There's an AT&T store near me that's built in the center of a jug handle exit ramp. And it has a tower in the back of the store. When you're sitting on the ramp at a red light you can get a pretty good view of the equipment which is only about 10 feet (?) off the ground - it's a two story building but it doesn't even go over the roof. I'm always surprised by the massive amount of equipment on there. Why does AT&T require so much? Just not as sleek as Sprint, or they haven't done a rip and replace so they just keep adding stuff?
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    Just saw Jason Aldean perform at Citizens Bank Park. Couldn't use any data at all for about the first two hours. Not even 1x! Not sure what was going on. Then around 9:15 or so I had a great LTE signal (-84) but it was still spotty. A sign of congestion or something else going on?
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    Haha, that was sort of a joke! Get it?
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    Why has no one else commented on this yet! You deserve some kind of trophy for getting a like from AJ...!
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    Hopefully they stop in Nazareth and Emmaus, too. And maybe Egypt along the way B-)
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    I'm curious if once B26 and CDMA800 the Palmerton area will have decent coverage. Once you cross the mountain on 248 there isn't a Sprint tower for miles and you get nothing but Verizon roaming.
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    Wish I had a triband to test it out!
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    Does this make you guys happier? "Not too shabby" 3G
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    HTC EVO 4G LTE

    mrknowitall526 replied to P_M_G's topic in HTC

    I'm still rocking mine! Got it in January 2013. But I was recently thinking about upgrading to the new One M8
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    That was me and I'm on vacation here, I was expecting much worse based on all the things I've read about nTelos. That speed is more than usable for staying up to date on news, looking up things to do, etc. So yeah, I was being serious. You don't need 35+ Mbps LTE to have a usable and reliable experience.
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    On vacation in Smith Mountain Lake. Not too shabby on nTelos 3G
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