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Have the dozens of people that are on Tidal High Fidelity subscription while using the Sprint network made complaints yet regarding the 500Kbps throttled music speeds?

 

I don't believe that is in effect yet. Not until the end of October.

 

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I am a frustrated customer. Stating that this is unacceptable for the amount of time that has gone by. It's not just me it happens all over, the point is sprint should focus much more on just getting the network working. This all came from the announcement of 3xca. While I am happy they are getting it going why don't they put more people on towers getting them up to par?

Lack of funding. It'd be great if they could get then entire network up to the same level, but then we wouldn't all be gathered here because that would just mean it's not a struggling company. Sounds to get the network team involved to fix something you really need to be insistent. I had a fraudulent line added to my account yesterday, took a customer service rep asking his super what to do about it to get me to the fraud department after like 2 hours of contacting customer service. I realize it would have been easier to ask here for advice.

 

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I am not asking for your empathy strictly stating facts of issues within sprints network. You somehow came to the conclusion that I am a troll..... I don't recall asking for that either.....

You really do come across as a frustrated customer complaining about the network.

 

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I am trolling because it's 2 blocks from the tower? Smh actually it's less as soon as the leaves fall I would post a picture showing its literally the next street over.. I used 2 blocks to reference distance walking.. From my window in a straight line it's less than that. I have called, used the sprint zone app and nada. When I talk about sprint this is what I mean towers shouldn't go 8 months without optimizing or a tech visiting.... These are part of the problems that keep sprints rep down and many potential new customers away. - they sign up get an experience like this and leave.

 

I have 2 bars am on 800 lte and it's almost as bad as 3G....

That litteraly dounds like a bad tower compared to 10s of thousands that do work. So you are trolling when you state it so "matter of fact" that the entire network is like that. I cannot empathize with your situation.

 

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In order to each the same radius as a B25 site, you need the 8t8r panels.

Yup, the beamforming 8t8r Sprint radios, I think I mentioned that earlier. Speaking if beamforming, I remember when these panels were initially announced a lot of the comments in tech blogs were saying it was just a gimmick and wouldn't really work.

 

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I get B41 in Washington State in places at 5 miles+ at times. Every site is different. It depends on how it's engineered, deployed and operating. Azimuth, down tilt and power levels. And sometimes, RRU's are faulty.

 

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But we do agree that if it's a macro site it's designed to cover a larger than 2 city blocks radius on a normal city without the dense population of NYC and those places. The most coverage I've seen from a macro site is around 3 miles, but it's good to know they can reach even farther. So where did the myth that 2.6 GHZ can't reach far or inside buildings come from?

 

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I was suggesting that it seems weird that a macro site would have the service area of a small cell.

 

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Faulty RRUs, inadequate configuration of power outputs to the ports? Who knows? If It's a Sprint 8t8r panel there's no reason for it to not cover the same area a 5 FDD B25 carrier does.

 

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That screen shot is two blocks from the tower on I-90. Have yet to connect to Band 41 on the other tower in town. Maybe you're right, I should. But given how it took them 1.5 years to actually get any LTE in Austin, I'm not holding my breath.

 

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Maintenance is a separate department, if it's determined that equipment is faulty they'll expedite replacement since it's supposed to be providing service at the moment.

 

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Yeah, our small cells in NYC have 2-3 block radius.

 

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I understand small cells have a small service area and are used for capacity, but I'm macro sites.

 

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Lol, yeah trolling. Austin, MN is perfect example of the two blocks of Band 41. Literally only get Band 41 on north side of town if outside and for a few blocks. Specifically this area: http://imgur.com/a/IUpE4

 

Though where there is density, e.g. downtown Minneapolis, it's fine.

But not 2 blocks from the tower. If you do you should contact customer service and escalate a trouble ticket, you might have defective equipment in your area.

 

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It's nice but who cares if I am 230 and 2blocks later on 3G???

 

Don't get me wrong I like 3xcA but would much rather these damn towers get optimized, get their fiber or microwave going. There are way to many areas that are lacking so far into the project

2 blocks? Come on, quit your trolling, you have 3 additional carriers to pick from if you're so frustrated with Sprints performance. Most of them offering incentives for your business.

 

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Guess it's just the Clear sites. I got a little excited and didn't notice the lack of Clear sites being unreported.

 

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Anyone know what causes SCP to identify the Sprint band with asterisks in the logs?

AT&T gigapower is really only deployed in greenfield housing developments. Ie where no copper exists, so they install fiber. My old neighbor moved to a development about 5 miles from here that can get gigabit.

 

What you say about cable internet is mostly moot these days with DOCSIS 3.0 (and 3.1 coming now). We've had Comcast Internet for 3.5 years and never experienced a slow down. I just got us upgraded to Extreme 150 and we hit 180/23 all the time. Also never had a single buffering issue with 1080P Netflix since they started paying Comcast for a direct connection to their network. Had issues prior to that, as well as with Uverse when we had that.

Nope, brownfield deployment. Trying to replace all their copper so they can get rid of their RT related electricity bills. It'll take years, but there is hope.

Can anyone comment on the signal reception compared to their old device? Is it better or worse? Are you holding on to LTE better?

For me it's holding on to B26 like a champ and it even works a bit where the Note 5 would pull .24 mbps I'm getting around 1 mbps, even in the bottom floor of my house where the Note 5 would drop to 3G, 1x800 or even VZW roaming.

Well I haven't seen that 3rd carrier again and I'm running around town with CA disabled.  Anyways, is it me or does San Antonio seem to show less LTE+ areas than it used to in the Sprint coverage maps?  I know they aren't accurate but that's very odd.

1270  8/3/2016 20:22 -5 8/4/2016 13:04 -5 0 0 0   Sprint B41³  310120  083DE608  382 12826 0  -113

 

So here is the entry in the SCP site log.  Maybe it's a mistake.

GCI ending was 08? I have not seen that GCI number on any Ericsson/Nokia site. Are you positive that's correct? That would go against the expectation of the 41/42/43 endings for B41 third carrier. Also, how do you figure 08 is the Gamma sector?

Right, I forgot I'm not in a Samsung market anymore. I will have to do a doubletake on that to verify.

The GCI ending was 08, so it was the third sector and the signal strength was -113, so I don't understand why it's constantly bouncing through eHRPD, B25 and 1x VZW roaming. Even B25 at that strength has given me 1mbps up and down, but I guess it helps this city is covered with 2 B25 carriers. B26 was completely useless so I just turned that off. Anyways, voice is still great and so are texts and I have wifi so no real issues here.

That's surprising since San Antonio has a lot of Clearwire B41. What part of town was it?

Southeast area, around Rigsby and the 410 loop.

Just saw a bleep of the 3rd band 41 carrier in San Antonio. This is the first time I see it and it only shows up in my logs once.

well then most of the towers in colorado are crappy cause I'm still having those same issue's. This phone is screwed up. I was next to a site and it was stuck on band 26 with a -50ish signal and bars on phone said no bars. Go figure. That's just the latest.

Still having gps issues and google maps freezes so much more still.

The bars have been modified to show QoS rather than signal strength since it is what actually matters. We all know Band 26 is saturated with users and the user experience on it is not stellar. That being said, being stuck on Band 26 when you're right by the tower is strange and I have never seen a signal strength of -50 dbms for LTE. I thought based on the RSRP values being offset 20 dbms from the 3G values that the strongest LTE signal you could achieve was -60. I live right by a tower and have never seen anything stronger than that except on 3G.

Sorry, but Texas is full. ???? Pick another state to move to. We ain't got room for more out of state transplants, I reckon!

 

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Just don't expect an awesome network here in Puro Pinche Spurs Country. Clearwire B41 is ver hit and miss. 2nd B25 carrier has helped, but Sprint still has a lot of room to improve.

I didn't experience any difference between here and San Antonio other than how badly Denver needs a second B25 carrier in areas of no B41 coverage, which it won't be getting. Clearwire is hit or miss in Denver as well. I used to live in Texas before Colorado.

I hear ya man! Where are you moving to? I know they said the average home price in the metropolitan area is now hovering about $400k

 

Apartments are hovering about $1500-2000 a month for a 1-2 bedroom!

 

Me and my wife have talked about it but honestly don't know where we would move to and what kind of job opportunities there are in other states compared to here where the economy is booming! I'm a native and have lived here my whole life and have seen the increase in population explode and obviously more so when weed was legalized and started the great green rush as they would say. Kind of a double edge sword great economy= higher wages/jobs=more people moving here and housing going through the roof & traffic absolutely sucks!

I am moving to San Antonio. It's a growing city but the house prices are still very affordable. Since I can do my job from home the local economy wasn't much of an issue, but I would have still left even if I couldn't keep my job. Just maybe would have held on to all of my savings instead of putting money down on a house.

Every carrier has lte advance. At&t was first with it on a widespread scale but they are not branding it. Sprint was second to the CA race. Followed by Verizon and then Tmobile. Sprint is the only carrier that is branding CA.

 

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So closest to being honest on their branding. Better than Spark anyways. It was undersight that att didn't brand their LTE-A better. Probably cause it's not a full 20+20 CA and the results aren't as noticeable as Sprint.