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JosefTor

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  1. Hmm... I don't get it. I went to SF like 4 months ago and came away extremely impressed with the 4g speed and courage downtown. Has speed tapered off since a few months ago? Perhaps this is mirroring what is happening in Chicago? I'm surprised there is no press release if this turns out to be true.

     

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  2. I didn't believe Sprint at first, but today was the first day I noticed that an NV upgraded tower has better coverage. Unfortunately I noticed this because I normally have 4g 20 mbs speed at the beach and now I have 0.25 mbs from a newly 3g NV upgraded tower that has yet to receive updated backhaul. Before, the NV 4g tower ruled the area. Can't wait for upgrades backhaul on the new tower

     

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  3. I'm a little sad that there is no knock on, dynamic notifications, or voice search with the screen off. Is this just a longer, narrower, and fatter phone with screen bezels that make the screen smaller than "last generation's" S4?

     

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  4. This site is a great learning experience for me. I travel 80 miles round trip from North Orange County to West Hollywood every day. Navigating traffic, I have lots of different routes to and from home and work. I am impressed with how much better the network has become in the past year around me and I am seeing Sprint deliver on its promises. Thanks S4GRU for opening my eyes and making me as network obsessed as I am cellphone obsessed.

    Welcome to the drug they call S4GRU. Where is the addicts help line?

     

    Sprint has done pretty well upgrading their network. I'm very excited about 800 LTE as well.

     

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  5. ive recently noticed that ive been getting 4g lte at home ive never had it before just started happening maybe a week ago. itworks fine for a few minutes to maybe an hour or so, but then out of nowhere it shuts down and flips back to 3g :( is this normal? if so how long will it continue ti happen? anyone ? please?

    I would imagine that the 4g upgrade is complete but the signal not strong enough to keep 4g on so the phone reverts back to 3g. What happens if you go outside your house?

     

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  6. Early 2014 is only two to three months away...I'm ok with that....

    I'm not OK with LG getting away with not announcing plans for 4.3, 4.4, and updating their software to support triband so late. If this is how they treat their flagship, I'd hate to see how they treat the prior generation.

     

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  7. I saw a screenshot in this forum from an Android app that gave the download and upload bandwidth for the tower they were connected to. Unless, I forgot where the post went so I can't ask the guy directly. Does anyone know of an app that gives this information? I already have signal check and LTE discovery and I didn't see it there.

     

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  8. I am having a problem finding the primary tower that appears to serve me/the Aliso Viejo neighborhoods.

    Apps are saying that the tower is here:
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    When I noticed that I didn't see this particular tower on the S4GRU map that shows all towers, I went on a hunt and when I got there I only saw this:

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    Does anyone know a definitive way to find out tower I am connected to so I can get cross reference that you to the NV complete maps?

    Also, does ehrpd mean I am connected to an upgraded tower?

    Thanks!!!

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  9. TMO is never better than Sprint anywhere. I don't care about dc-hspa or anything else. It isn't a reliable service and isn't worth talking about.

    Give credit where credit is due. I appreciate all of sprint's hard work to make a world class network, but t-mobile did good with planning early on their backhaul. Plus, they have a lot of great Spectrum in the 1900 band. A marriage might not be too bad.

     

    I don't appreciate baseless fanboy comments either. See today's side by side comparison:

     

    http://www.s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3420-T-Mobile-LTE-&-Network-Discussion&do=findComment&comment=226074

     

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  10. I hope this doesn't get me banned because this site is like oxygen to my body right now.  I believe the below is pretty un-biased though and a fair look at the two networks so at least delete it if it is not appropriate.  

     

    I had the pleasure of hijacking someone's T-Mobile iPhone 5C so I could perform a comparison to my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 experience.  Unfortunately, since they had an iPhone, I could not map my trip on Sensorly (booooo!).  Instead, I attempted a real life comparison where I only performed speed tests where I normally use my phone (e.g.; my chair at work) and I performed news streaming on Newsy.  To me, this gave a better experience then simply mapping the network or performing random speed tests.  

     

    My one question to those knowledgable, why does Sprint have slower pings on 4G sites with upgraded backhaul?  That doesn't make sense so I'd appreciate a schooling.  Pings seem a lot more important than network speed which is why T-Mobile didn't hiccup at all at video (buffering only once for like a few seconds) and Sprint suffered.

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  11. Aliso Viejo just got a lot more filled in. I believe a tower near/on the 73 just went 4G. I think the map that is supposed to show all sites regardless of network vision status is a little outdated because it looked like the majority of the towers in the main part of Aliso were complete. I'm excited to see the 4G complete map updated so I can see what happened.

     

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  12. 2x2 N on 20 MHz of clean spectrum can do 75 megabit. Wider channels may or may not help in dirty RF.

     

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    I know I'm going to make the wireless pros cringe with the inexperience of this question but....

     

    If you have a 20 MHz channel of 1900 versus a market with an equal demand on 10 MHz of 800 and 10 MHz of 1900, would the speeds be equal for the same network conditions/signal?

     

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  13. i don't have sprint or any large value from the company i work at currently. At one point in time, I had a lot of money invested in my company stock. My fortune was at the mercy of how well this company was doing and to me this is too much risk. I currently have a very diverse type of profile and I try to keep a 40/60 diversification. Forty percent in bonds and the remaining in various stocks.

    To diversify your bond position, you may consider putting some of that 40 percent in treasury inflation protection funds. I would hate to see what interest rate increases would do to that portfolio.

     

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