jonathanm1978

Joe, I'm using (supposedly) 600mbps rated PLA's...they are new, and unreleased, so I can't detail much on them. The questions I ask will have to be broad, general....but, I noticed that when I try to use it, there are 3 lights on each PLA. Light 1 is supposed to blink when you first plug it in, then it should stay lit after a few seconds. Then, you plug in PLA 2, and the light blinks a few seconds..then goes steady. Once the lights are steady green on both, you press the security button on PLA1, for two seconds, and it will start making light #2 blink. Then go to the PLA2 within 2 minutes and press the security button for two seconds also...and when they both stop blinking, the security is set. Then, you plug in your router to PLA1, and your device that needs internet into PLA2. The 3rd light is a sign of the speeds...green means you have 100+mbps between them....amber means you have between 50mbps and 80mbps, and red means you have less than 50mbps. I couldn't get them to even factory reset, using the button that is recessed, like you would find on a router. I got an email this morning saying they have found some issues and are addressing it now in their lab, and by next week on Monday, we'll have an update to the software plus the firmware will be pushed... Maybe this will fix those issues, until then, I have a red light on the one beside the router, and the one feeding my Toshiba TV is amber... And the network tool designed to see these PLA's says that I have 60mbps and 10mbps between them as connection speeds.... Supposedly, this particular one uses the neutral to create it's backplane network...so data travels on the neutral leg. I know in some places, they hook up the 2 insulated wires, and the copper, uninsulated ground is not used (which I despise).. But before I inherited this house, I had a "step-parent" that loved to take shortcuts..and he just "thought" he was an electrician. I've found a couple of outlets in here that he didn't connect the copper ground on, and only used the "hot" and "neutral"...or white and black...usually he would just cut the copper off. I hate that people do that, if they only knew how dangerous it is to have electricity problems... This same step-parent, when the house was bricked up, he was too lazy to buy new triplex and run from the meter to the inside...so what did he do? He went and bought some copper screw-type clamp and cut ALL THREE lines of the triplex...used these clamps to put them back together once the footing was poured and some of the brick was laid... I found it when the neutral on the meter wore out due to a loose ground, and i had to replace the entire box... I was like...WTH is wrong with this man...he could've burned this house down. Thanks to his half-assed attempt at clamping together triplex, my central air unit burned out, and I lost my stove and water heater...and we had to leave because the power had to be turned off at the meter until the power co could come out and pull my meter... This is an example of what he used to "mend" the triplex...then taped it with electrical tape and buried it... Guess I'm lucky I found it before it caught something on fire. I actually have a picture of it, and I also took a picture of the inside breaker box before I replaced it (which this problem also burned it out too, the aluminum was almost a copper/bronze color from the dang heat in the electricity) I said all that to say this: My electrical outlets may not be the most dependable for PLA testing...I know which ones IVE personally done and fixed right...so I may have to use those so I know for sure I"m getting the copper ground like I should be, since it's used to create the network/data transfer.

I don't ask too many questions anymore because I'm pretty sure they've been answered. . I just hope I'll happen upon my answer while sifting through, which usually happens sooner or later (so far). I haven't had much luck finding the answer to the difference in a 4g only and 3g/4g tower...I know it's here tho Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4

Heck I even got a smart meter on my home, and they quit coming out to read meter usage personally about 2 years ago. Now they do it with computer from the office nearest my home. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4

You know they have the tech to deliver internet via power lines, but the telecom put a hush on it because it's more than what they can do with their copper and cable...or it was, I'm not sure how fast it could get, but it was on up there... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_over_power_lines Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4

Ok, I've done all sorts of things with routers...and still love learning things when I can..and I became a member of some beta groups in order to play with new toys before they hit the market... So when I got accepted into a beta for a {NAME OF COMPANY} Powerline Adapter beta, I was excited, but afraid since I didn't have much experience with those. I know the adapters use your existing electrical wiring to create a "backplane" and uses that as your network to put internet to places where it's otherwise inefficient to run cat5 or wireless wont reach. So I've had them for about 3 days...and in that time, I've totally confused myself even more, probably more to do with the beta version of the firmware. At first, I had this: 2nd DSL line ===> Asus RT-N15 Gbit ====>PL #1(source).... I came to my desktop with the 2nd PL, and wanted to give my desktop internet via the Asus RT-N15... To do this, I had to unplug my Buffalo router and plug in the PL #2, then I plugged the Buffalo back in to the filtered AC jack on PL #2... Buffalo isn't tied to 2nd DSL line at all...it does PPPoE for 1st DSL line, has the Airave 2.5, wife's PS3, Toshiba TV, "Hopperjunk", and the Netgear WNDR3400 that I use in conjunction with a WNR2000v2 with DD-WRT to make a repeater. So rule out the Netgear WNDR3400 and Netgear WNR2000..they aren't really "used", and all of this is on DSL line 1 anyway. So, everything was doing OK...the Asus RT-N15 has gigabit ports (until now I didn't realize that I only have 1 router with gigabit...I'm not sure on the Ubiquiti Airrouter, but I think it's just 10/100...but I realized I need to have a router sale and get rid of the (unused) Belkin I have, the (unused) Linksys e2400..barely touched the Ubiquiti Nano Loco M and it's sitting in a drawer now... At any rate, so I'm doing good with the connection...it appears to work fine from my desktop when I access the internet...and I started running Lan Speed test and putting it to the test... Suddenly, my ps3 in the bedroom, which is also connected to the Asus with a cat5, wont let me join any games. It was online, showed my friends, and even let me chat in the lobby while waiting on a game. But soon as I would try to join, it would dump me back to the main screen. So i figured it was a fluke, and changed back from using the Asus to using the Ubiquiti - which performs the PPPoE to the (whatever AT&T's wireless $100 gimmick is to make people sign a contract now, it's a black router with all the wireless and junk, which I turned off promptly at receiving it).... Soon as I got back up with the Ubi router and the PS3 changed back to it's previous settings for that router, all was good again. So I just left it that way and when I finished playing, I started LAN speed test again. This time, since I wasn't using the PS3, I figured I would do a 1gb file test, across the powerline, and see how that did. The Buffalo, which is plugged into the filtered AC on the PL giving my desktop access from the Ubi+DSL #2 suddenly lost it's connection. And for the life of me, I couldn't get it connected back until I unplugged the Buffalo from the filtered AC outlet and plugged it back in normal, as it was before the PL adapter was introduced to the scene. I bet I confused a bunch of folks...but I have two DSL lines, the one with the Ubi router operates my PS3 in my bedroom, Vonage, Roku3 in the bedroom, and my GS3's when we are within range of it. The DSL line with the Buffalo operates the Airave, wife's PS3, desktop, Toshiba Smart TV, an "entertainment device" that I'm beta testing (it streams stuff like Netflix, Hulu+, Vudu, etc)...I can't say the name of it either since it's still in beta and I'm under the NDA for it..

While this is true, the Japanese have some of the strongest worth ethics and morals that you can find. I have also worked for the Japanese, Honda manufacturing to be exact - on an assembly line in their Honda Pilot + Odyssey plant ...and they are great people. BUT..they want people AT work, no 40 hour weeks will do....you gotta be dedicated and such. Look at what happened with the guy and the Fukishima-Daiichi nuclear plant. He eventually killed himself to save face. A term we rarely hear in this country...but to them, it's BIG. Saving face means so much to them and their heritage.

Superman isn't real, it's Chuck Norris yawning! Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4

Not so much the download speed as most things on a phone can operate on 5mbps, give or take a meg per second, but upload speed is important because things sync so often. YouTube uploading a video, photos being sent to Google+, etc Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4

Argue, no. You said they don't have similar programs. I said they do, which is a fact. Advertising wasn't mentioned, but the existence of the programs has nothing to do with advertising practices. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4

In your profile, under Phones/Devices, I think I would change that. It looks as if you've entered your actual phone number, when you should probably want to keep that private. You can list the devices you have, like the Galaxy S3 or HTC Evo 4G LTE....not your phone number.

This may come as a shock..but I think this is discussed here: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/4191-softbank-new-sprint-discussion/page-21&do=findComment&comment=190659 I knew about this stuff before it was even advertised...because I called, talked with someone, and paid $50 back in July of 2012 to buy the Galaxy S3...since $50 was how much I needed to pay to buy out my remaining contract period. Then, paid for the Gs3. I turned around and paid $100 for my wife's line the following September and got her a GS3 as well. Sprint wasn't heavily advertising the Upgrade Now program, and as the program stands, it still is a better deal and they don't need to do anything to "catch-up" with the others. If anything, the others have played "catch-up" to Sprint by implementing their new device options.

Blah, mHz..not kHz. Sorry. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4

I've been around Centerpoint when they turned that first tower on and put some track down from 459 on in. My doctor is on roebuck pkwy. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Ok...I can say with pride that Sylacauga has LTE on one of the towers and thanks to Sensorly, I've laid down some purple track on the way home from some visiting we did over the weekend to Troy, Alabama. I'm headed back to town in a few to check which site it is, but I got a good idea already and will take photos to post for the supporters...but it's been on since Friday when I suddenly felt that 3-vibrate notification that Sigcheck does when LTE is found. I was in town on Thursday and there wasn't any LTE in the same spot..so I know they had just got it on Friday morning and were still working on it when we hit hwy 21 headed towards Montgomery. I Sensorly'd some in Montgomery but there was already someone doing it in that area...I'm happy to say I'm the only sensorly user in the Sylacauga area - besides my wife, I made her download it yesterday when we came back to Sylacauga because it shouldn't be long before she starts seeing some around Wilsonville/Columbiana, where the power plant is... If you look at the Sensorly map, when I get home later the word "Sylacauga" should have some dark purple on it...if I'm right about the tower that's been flipped on. I'm going right there where you can see the hwy 34 just under the word Sylacauga, and around in the entire area surrounding that street.(though that's not where the antenna is, I'm going to do some extra driving to put down some purple).

Sprint is 850kHz-1900kHz and SMR is 800kHz. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

I was wondering how accurate the BSL is on Signal Pro...I saw a location the other day when I ran it in Syl and I know there shouldn't be a tower where it was addressing ....because I know the 3 for this area. But it still showed it after I cycled data.

I saw the tower that came online Tuesday and I have a Dr appt Tuesday on Huffman road...I think I should be able to pick up just fine from there Sent from my KOTH Gribble phone using Octavio's airave.

I've had Sprint since the days of being laid off and getting unemployment. I remember the government deadlock about extending, we had no income from May 31 until August 10 or so...and I called Sprint -had only one line back then - and explained, and they were very polite. I told them that I wanted to see if I could put my line on hold for the time without money, they told me hang on...came back to the line and said since I had been a faithful account holder in good standing for so long, they would extend my due date 3 months. I didn't have a bill to pay for 3.5 months. To me, that sticks out and says they appreciate me personally. And I kept my word when unemployment came through and paid nearly $600 for the time period I was due. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

There's a tower near I565...just not to the south. I'm not sure where they could've been looking.

I don't know where Sprint told you a tower was, but there isn't one anywhere on that side of the I-565 and I-65 (south of I565 and west of I65).... maybe they had the wrong info or using a tower they no longer are colocated on another site with....not sure why they told you that.

If you could see the Sponsor maps, you'd find a tower that's close to that location I'm sure. I don't wanna repeat my above post and sound like a television commercial for S4GRU, but you'd find what you're looking for in the maps area of this site.

There's no way to know which direction they are going....no one knows that except for the contractors who are performing the work, and the party responsible for putting in the backhaul to supply LTE. Robert finds out when the site becomes accepted..but, your best bet to find out as much information as possible is to become a donating member of the site. This way, you can see actual maps of the towers nearby, and where you travel regularly, and get an idea of what the future will hold once Network Vision is complete in your area. This is by far the only place you'll find this information, as no other site is going to offer such detailed information on the deployment...and with the community of helpful members like digi, wiwave...etc, you can't go wrong. People from all aspects of understanding mobile carriers and phones are right here in one spot. (I have nothing to gain by telling you to donate and become a supporter, other than the gratitude that I know Robert has for people...keep in mind, this site doesn't pay anyone for their work...this is all done voluntarily and takes a huge amount of work from all fronts to keep this going).

Another purple dot on the map near Montgomery..looks like the capital is going to get a good bit of LTE love, and hopefully moving north (as Bham is much easier to get to than Montgomery for me).... I'd much rather hit the 4-lane 280 to Bham, than to travel the 2-lane US-21....up and down hills through "Coosa county -- where you go to hide the bodies".... But srsly...Coosa county is barren..there's not hardly anything in the entire county (and I mean stores, aside from gas stations. It's just...empty. And people from Coosa county are a special breed of Alabamian...unaccustomed to daylight, modern power, telephones and cars....I think they still use horsepower ..literally. Poor Sprint has about 3 towers to tackle in this area too...all on/near US21.

This reminds me of that Allstate commercial..."they can't put anything on the internet that isn't true".... Anyone could come say they have 4G-LTE just like Digi said...but Sensorly is a failsafe ...you're burden of proof is no longer just your word with that...it's there, in purple, to show that you're not asking someone who doesn't know you from Adam's housecat to believe you... It's not really a matter of believing anyone, anyway...it's a way to help others see what service is avail in their area -- for instance, someone looking to switch providers or travel to a certain area.

And I maybe should mention that my 74 Ford truck isn't excited about this moving crap. Keeps trying to die when I stop, so more carb work is in order - just rebuilt it and got it mounted back on this rebuilt 302 bored.30 over. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2