jayq330

Do you know if the sprint network vision is supposed to have fiber optic lines, or is it only some areas. I live in NYC and the spark network is almost complete, but I think the only band's that has optic cables are bade 41,speedtest's show the downloads are consistent speeds acrosd the graph, band 26 also... Band 45 seems about up 1meg & down 1meg with slow movements to it's top speed. It's antennas strange, it seemd as if network vision 1.0 use copper t1 that would explain allot I guess. reason for its slow start. The other bands start really fast then slowed down to 50/60 MBS speed, the same with band 26. I've been googling for his trying to get an answere. But I just found out more confusing into about Sprint & some other commodity companies has a couple of under sea ootic connections, international waters optic connections for their other long distance industry department. Would they be able to use this to their advantage & connect Sprint wireless to it's nationwide optic network or are they only upgrading done towers to use oc's? I thought the whole NV network would be updated to the latest that wirekess networks has to offer...I can tell that on humid days & rainy days you can see a major show down in the network, from what I've read it's because its a microwave antennas weakness (humidity & rain) so I'd NYC a fiber optic connected city or copper? I would like to know since it's since this will help me decide to either move to T-Mobile or at&t. I'm hoping it's modernized enough that they've gone the optic cable route. Please someone that know's give me something, thanks everyone.

Oh OK,I'm y the esteem river by Manhattan, FiOS is the only option we have here, not good business to monopolize, building is brand new & you have only FiOS, they know their all we have so their days is not what they commercialize at all. But yeah FiOS is definitely fiber optics. It's still weird that it's advice ground I never seen that. From the stat it goes into my buildings basement, from the basement ever floor in has their own fiber connection to these giant closets filled with server like machines... It's all new to me since I've only had twc, roadrunner before.

How long ago was this, I mean I live by Manhattan, been in downtown Brooklyn & and queens, you sure they're not coax? Verizon FiOS and other conspiracies just tire a street apart to add more fiber optic lines. I think the last place I saw writes on poles was in a quiet and neighborhood. I'm guessing their are in some area but if I were to guess from what I've seen maybe just 20% of cables are on poles. But most of the work even regular coax is undergoing, sewers maybe, but when they reach a point where they need a connection for a building they have to did into the ground to get the lines inside the building.

It sounds like the ciena MultiWaveTM 1600 DWDM, 1,600 GB's. It had 16 fiber optic connections hanging or if a long black bulb like end. It's the latest in fiber optics

You gotta be joking.

I remember Vegas being one of the first Sprint lte spots in the network, so it might be that they went to the extreme for a good first impression & overdid it with band 25 antennas...or you can call Sprint and do what I did, told them I can't get on band 26 & they fixed the problem in 30 minutes or more. Now I'm in my elevator downloading at 14 to 26 MBS. Nyc , average speed-40 to 60 MBS.

Boston is not even officially a spark area yet *7/6/2014* I'm I'm NYC where your network is working at its maximum 24 hours a day. My nexus 5 just got sprint spark access with the 4.4.3 update & I get an average of 50 to 65 MBS down with peaks reaching 73 MBS, uploads are 15 to 25 MBS , then there's the 800 MHz lte that I can get in basements with 15 to 18 MBS downloads with peaks at 25 mbs & 8 to 14 MBS upload. The advantage of having 3 band is that everyone's not always on the same band congesting data & even though Verizon just opened up their new aws spectrum it's going to be used more than their 700 MHz lte because it's priority is much higher, so it'll get congested pretty fast unless they had two GHz band's to share the weight like sprints 1.9 & 2.5 GHz. & yes time does matter because I remember Verizon's 700 MHz lte getting downloads of 50 MBS then a year later it couldn't even download 5 MBS, so while there's only at least 4 Verizon phones with aws acces you'll need real life usage of at least half of its users having access to aws. Sprint has bandwidth beyond Verizon so much that Verizon went crying to the FCC of how unfair it would be to sell them more spectrum, spoiled B****'s. Anyway my point is that NYC is basically 65% complete & were still not fully covered but I can say that I get 45 MBS everywhere I go *outside* before switching to 800 MHz. So consider Boston 15 % complete, remember they're replacing all their old towers & putting up new spark/multimode/vision towers before turning on a spark tower. It's a total replacement not an upgrade, but these upgrades are well worth it for their abilities to use any frequency at an instance & other unique abilities. 8x8 mimo first in or nation. There's slot to mention & allot that makes them the first in the Nation to use.