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Public Beta 3 is out. Same build as dev beta 5. So far my 6 seems snappier then PB 2. I will give a more detailed update after having some time to play around. Sprint carrier is 20.6.17

I love the WiFi assist setting, especially when my phone connects to the xfinitywifi networks scattered along my area, as well as my company's wifi once I go in the elevator or stairs. (LTE gets through, but wifi doesn't.. Go figure!)

 

 

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Any band 41? Did you run any speed tests during peak times just to see what it was?

Today I did- at Buckingham Fountain and at the Bud Light state on the north side of the park. Pretty sure I spotted both carriers too; speeds were 1.5 up/down around 5:30 pm.

 

Still a little of a struggle near the stages but that is to be expected for any carrier. Again no issues with calls or SMS; LTE hung on real strong too.

 

A decent showing for Sprint if I do say so myself. Compared to last year and all the other festivals I've been to this summer (quite a few) this was the best I've seen Sprint at those large events. Just wish they would be more mindful of festivals out in the middle of no where (those are the best ones!)

 

 

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Lollapalooza report for Friday:

 

Held LTE 90% of the time and was only able to check engineering screens twice, both times I was on B26. Data was relatively usable outside the main stage areas, but deep in the crowds not much was able to be sent/received. iMessage worked flawlessly the entire time, which was great!

 

Calls/SMS had absolutely zero issues. Even in the crowded Perry stage I was able to call my friend (also on Sprint) and was able to hear him fine thanks to HD voice. Someone with AT&T even came up to me and asked if they could use my phone too, she said she couldn't do anything on hers and she was only on 3G and No Service most of the time.

 

Not bad, Sprint. Let's see how the rest of the weekend shapes up.

 

 

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It partially has to do with the wider bandwidth and additionally, T-Mobile turns up power on their sites significantly which would mean that your phone receives the signal super strong and you'll get great download speeds at the edge of a cell but on the upload it'll be poor.

 

Also the 4x2 MIMO.

Sprint needs to refarm to wider B25 carriers where possible and get 4x2 MIMO going. I still haven't seen it in the wild.

 

Higher power settings would also help. I have an 8T8R tower by me that barely goes out .5 miles until dropping to B25/B26

 

 

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Not in the Chicago market. But I was addressing shannonbrian, who spends most of his time in the Delaware/Philly/Baltimore markets. However, there are far more markets with one B25 carrier than two. So that is more an exception than the rule. Also, when B26 was added to Chicago, there was only one PCS carrier. Thus, doubling capacity when added.

 

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B26 came before the second B25 carrier in Chicago? I thought it was the other way around, or I've just lost all perception of time.

 

 

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Out of curiosity, does B26 really double B25 capacity since Chicago has two B25 carriers?

Originally when LTE launched in Chicago it was a single B25 5x5 carrier. Then they launched the second PCS carrier, which doubled capacity initially. Once B26 came online, capacity was increased by a factor of 1.5 (If my can remember my maths).

 

Currently Chicago has triple the capacity of the original single G block 5x5 carrier. (Not counting B41)

 

 

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Baltimore , philly ,dc .there are no optimized areas for too much band 26 is bad no building pentration . Triband coming a big failure on east cost.

This is the Midwest, Chicago market specifically. Away you troll.

 

 

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Since Sprint is the official sponsor, I wonder if they'll do something similar? One would hope they can at least match this:

 

 

Verizon adding small cells in Grant Park to boost data capacity for Lollapalooza

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/29640909/verizon-adding-small-cells-in-grant-park-to-boost-data-capacity-for-lollapalooza

I sure hope so, get a half a dozen Triband COWs out there and they might have a decent chance of having usable data there. I have a 3 day pass and I'm hoping the network is at least somewhat usable

 

 

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F that

 

 

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Oh and by the way, I have been on iOS 9 since Thursday, and haven't had any of these authentication errors with my wi-fi. Maybe it has to do with the way you updated to iOS 9? I did it by restoring to a fresh 8.4 (I was on jailbroken 8.4 so I couldn't just update straight to it, however I could now if I used this new tweak). Then I downloaded the public beta profile, restarted the device, updated to iOS 9, then restored from a backup.

 

How did you guys update? Just make a backup of your device, download the profile, restart, and update? Maybe it's causing some kind of problem. I dunno

 

-Anthony

I updated OTA straight from stock 8.4 to 9.0 public beta. No jailbreak or anything along those lines.

 

 

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I did notice that I was having issues connecting and staying on wifi. Figured it was a bug. Doesn't resetting the network settings require you to re enter all your wifi pws again?

 

 

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Yes, re entering the passwords is the only downfall of that workaround. Luckily I only connect to 2-3 password protected wifi networks on the reg so it's not too much of an issue for me.

 

 

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Anyone notice on the public 9.0 beta that wifi connections will time out due to authentication failures? The issue is corrected with a full network settings reset. This issue has been occurring about every 3 days.

 

 

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It's nice to see additional progress in my previous home market. (Including better performance in the tourist areas) Any CA sightings in the Orlando metro?

 

 

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How do you figure? Band 26 shouldn't be used for anything other than for people who are out of range of bands 25/41. There is no reason why anyone who can connect to those bands and get usable data should ever be on band 26 (except for, IMO, to idle on, because even though band 41 can be usable at -130 dBm, it's gonna be hella bad on your battery. Idle on 26, then when a data session starts, move to one of the other bands).

 

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Wild guess, but possibly load balancing could prevent CA between B25 and B26 from happening if B26 is already congested.

 

Plus I think I remember hearing that T-mobile plans to aggregate their B12 with AWS/PCS where possible. So why not Sprint? B26 is 5MHz FDD like TMUS's B12. I don't see much difference in that logic as both carriers have a fixed amount of low-band LTE for users out of reach of mid-band LTE capacity.

 

 

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Is there capability to aggregate B25 and B26 carriers to a 10 (or 15) Mhz FDD - like experience? I realize it probably wouldn't be priority for Sprint to do now with all this 2x20 B41 CA excitement going on but I think it would help at least marginally with their overall data experience.

 

 

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I noticed Sprint is one of the main sponsors for Lollapalooza this year. They will even have a "Sprint Stage." I have a three day pass this year and other than all the music and schinadigans I will be participating in I am also looking forward to seeing how well they will fair with over 100k people that will be in Grant Park over the weekend. Last year the service was mostly usable but not without sore spots.

 

 

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In Alabama, the news just mentioned Chicago weather and how bad it was, plus showed a photo that was tweeted . Said 100 flights cancelled at O'hare and trains stopping on track due to 80mph wind and golf ball size hail

The storms didn't seem too bad in the NW suburbs. I have a 10x10 ft Coleman shade tent set up and tied down on my deck and the thing didn't budge at all. We did get like 2.75 inches of rain though. It's been a really wet summer so far and my grass has never been greener. [emoji6]

 

My uncle is trying to fly out of Midway this morning. Lots of cancellations and delays but it appears his flight out to Raleigh is still on track for 10:30am.

 

 

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On the last couple most recent stock carrier bundles I was noticing a lot more drops to 1x, my phone would seem to hesitate to even find a 3G signal to latch onto when LTE dropped. However on the iOS 9 beta the carrier bundle seems to have fixed most of those issues. I've been holding on to LTE a lot better than I was in the past.

 

 

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Instead, people need to accept that they will not always be on one of those big 20 MHz TDD pipes. But 5 MHz FDD is nice, too. And with a good RF handset, the tri band transitions happen just about as intended.

 

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The problem is 5mhz FDD gets overloaded wayyyy to fast and performance sucks on the cell edge compared to wider carriers. Not so nice.. That's why many people do not like not being on B41 when the grass could be so much greener, especially when WiFi is also not an option.

 

Luckily I don't come across this as much as I used to as we have good load balancing and site spacing in my area, not to mention B26 and an extra B25 carrier to boot.

 

 

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The NV base stations don't need to be inside air conditioned hut's, so why put them in one?

Maybe because it's a rough neighborhood? I'm sure NV gear has some sort of value on the black market (copper, precious metals, etc) Just my guess.

 

 

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Let's say Sprint secures enough 600mhz to deploy a 10x10 swath of LTE in next year's auction. (fingers crossed) How quickly would vendors be able to manufacture antennas for carriers to overlay the network, in anticipation of the spectrum being cleared? What about OEMs building 600mhz functionality into devices to seed the market?

 

Thanks!

 

 

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I just made a donation! I'm a little low on funds this month too but still able to kick something in [emoji6]

 

 

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What knocked Sprint down this time is whatever extra spectrum AT&T deployed to increase their data speeds.

 

Everyone else seems consistent with the results from last time. Sprint did increase their DL by about 3mbps.

 

 

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Edit: This is my entire family's usage (5 lines). Mine is averaged to about 5 Gb per month

If the company thought it wasn't appropriate, and depicted their employees negatively to the show's audience, they wouldn't have allowed the skit to run with the Sprint branding.

 

Even if no money changed hands, Sprint likely saw this as an opportunity to gain some "coolness" in light of how hip T-Mobile is perceived to be by young urban adults (target audience of SNL). This is very close if not the same to the demographic that T-Mobile is focusing the bulk of their advertising on. 

 

What if that was a T-Mobile store and employees in the skit? Do you think John Legere and his fanboy army would have been up in arms? Not at all! They would have called it GENIUS.