A2CKilla

Well well well, look what I came into on hempstead road 

Another win for sprint, verizon's network went down for a good bit of the area (lancaster, york, etc) and people kept coming in asking me what was wrong with there phone (work for samsung) and were surprised to hear the all mighty verizon actually went down. I said very happily, well I have full signal and my calls and data work fine with my sprint phone     

This was the outage, pretty crazy

I was right, connected to b41 closer to park city

Is that Lancaster?

 

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Yep, they've been doing upgrades out here a lot and it's finally kicking in

Well this literally just happened at the best buy off the greenfield exist...now I can tell people how great sprint is at work 

Was Verizon roaming on Sprint?

 

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I'm assuming so because he was on 1x,and the only other CDMA carrier is sprint, unless Verizon roams on someone else that I'm not aware of

Well today was a proud day to be a sprint customer, was at York college for a friend's party, Verizon....

Roaming, AT&T....3g,t-mobile......edge,me with good old sprint....LTE!!!!! And the signal was great around - 92, yet they were still saying that sprint was bad...this is why I'll stick with sprint for the long haul!!!!

Abit confused, your saying that the second carrier is slow or that the network is slow in general.

 

My guess is that your being parked on B26, and yes that has slowed down considerably. Its more of a lack of load balancing between bands.

 

I also believe that peoples obsesion with signal strength bars has lead sprint to allow people to park on B26, just so that the device can display a higher signal strength without any actual benefits to performance.

 

All device manufacturers should switch to a better way of displaying actual signal quality (like the nexus 6)and not just strength, personally I don't care whether its 1bar or 5bars as long as the network is performing well enough to get the task completed.

 

Unfortunately, I'm in the minority.

I have a nexus 6....and use signal check pro, so i look at db signal (refer to my op), not the bar representations    and I was talking about second carrier band 25 when I visit the york area (shentel), it's really slow at least from my testing.Sometimes I try to force a b26 connection just to get better speeds. second carrier, again, in my testing, seems to be just as over-saturated as b25 was before b26 came into play

It could be that they haven't increased the backhaul yet. I would hope they wouldn't even add the second PCS carrier without doing so, but it's hard to tell.

 

It has helped speeds in my area. The tower closest to my home, and most towers around me, now have three 5x5 carriers and speeds definitely bumped up since Shentel began doing so.

 

Have you seen any 2nd carrier B25 in Lancaster yet? I realize it's central PA, but I'm curious if Sprint has activated it yet there.

 

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 nope, or I haven't ran into it for the areas I'm in, just a lot of b26 and the one area of b41 I hit, but it's like progress has stopped out here. Haven't seen speed increases, just adjustments, so I connect to b26 more often indoors. I just don't understand how they're working on the towers out here and adding things, it's very random at least from my perspective. From my individual testing and my talks with a local sprint rep, the signal strengths are the only thing that's staying consistent right now.

Well, the last few trips I had to york...band 25 second carrier is well.....really slow, feel like it was a step back honestly...

Saw some wires coming down from the sprint tower on rt 30, was that some antenna adjust? Or is b41 getting a little closer to park city mall, still can only pick it up near hacc - lancaster campus

I'm not sure if this is the right thread, but I'm heading out to the Poconos for a weekend getaway in two weeks, staying in Lakeville. I believe that is all legacy iPCS territory, so I'm curious how is 3G? From what I saw, there is no LTE anywhere to be found in that area, which is fine, but just wondering how 3G would be.

 

My wife and I are staying at the Cove Haven Resort. 

probably not great if it's a saturated area, but everyone's mileage varies, even in some places that I'm in with LTE, when I drop to 3g, basic things load fine, but don't try to stream anything HD

but what about the nexus 6 and everything it supports...I'm really surprised (though it was after these plans) that it couldn't support it

I don't think it's a phone issue, I connected to it last week and shut my Tmo friend up with this

 

 

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Haha, good deal, that's why I just let the sprint haters hate, they still think it's the early 2000s, sprints got a plan now and they really are following through with this new management

I can even see your signal is a lot lower than mine, my radio strength also has a lot to do with how often I connect to b41,25 and 26, and Motorola generally has better radios than any manufacturer

I was referring to that same exact site, sitting in the Safeway parking lot. Couldn't get it to connect to anything but B25.

I've found that most of the Columbia sites are overloaded. Yesterday, I was at the mall there and was getting these speeds from 4pm all the way until closing at 9.

 

 

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that's the tower I was referring to as well, but yea, mines jumps right onto b41 and stays there I'll drop down to b25 for maybe a second but then it goes back to 41,now I'm just assuming from your sig you have an iPhone, I don't know if the band priority is different for the iPhones compared to the Android phones, otherwise I would say change your band priority and see if it still only connects to b25

Is that in the Baltimore market? If so, it might just be a cluster of sites that are down. My phone refused to connect to a known clear b41 site even though I was in a parking lot 500 yards from it.

 

 

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Yep, Baltimore market, near the Baltimore national pike where Lowes is, I always could connect to b41 but my Nexus 6 gets the best connections than any phone I've ever had. Even out in Columbia I'm hitting b41 but it's sprint branded, definitely better speeds on the clearwire towers

What does this mean for us? Do we have to get new phones?!? Isn't the note edge the only phone with all the capabilities to truly utilize this? I'm just hoping they really get the speeds up to snuff with everyone else, because even in the places that have b41 active, the speeds...well, just make me a little sad

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2903874/sprint-to-rollout-lte-advanced-to-chicago-area.html

Well I was on my way to the shady maple buffet in Ephrata PA, and look what I found again, I swear sprint picks the weirdest places to put b41,this is literally out in Amish country, I will say though, speeds are amazing out here, probably because of that exact reason, lol

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well that's saddening

Just finished talking to a sprint rep that came into my store, he showed me the tower statistics, estimated completion time, what towers had b41 running, everything, man I wish I had the app he had, we have to get our hands on it, lol

Now things are even better, I know what tower is giving off the b41 signal and it's right behind my school!!! Now I actually enjoying coming here, lol

That's awesome A2CKilla! Where did you pick that up? Is that also in Lancaster?

Yea, it's the area I had I hard time connecting to again when I first spotted it, the whole hacc Lancaster campus is covered with b41 but then it drops as soon as you get a little bit away, which makes me feel like this is a small cell tower, I also work nearby the area so I usually keep testing as well, they've gotten b26 to shentel levels out here rarely do I drop to 3g outside of a small spot

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