GrappleFu

hopefully they are rolling out 800 voice????

Last night LTE Discovery showed I was connected to 1x800. But it also showed I was connected to LTE which I wasn't. My GPS wasn't on but this was at 21.397137, -157.967902

Over the past few days while at home (no LTE), I have noticed that I will bounce between eHRPD and EVDO every few minutes. Not sure if its related but during this period I will not get incoming calls and text are super delayed. Only remedy is to put it into CDMA mode and everything works fine again

 

It seems that UH campus is covered with LTE.

Coverage on campus outdoors is alright. Take 5 steps indoors and there no LTE signal. I think I've seen the Hamilton Library tower got LTE accepted this week so hopefully it'll be better.

T-mobile speed in my house. In Hawaii Kai, Honolulu

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Its like that in a lot of places. Tmobile used 10x10 for most of its AWS spectrum and some markets have since gotten 15x15 or 20x20 I believe. Sprint used only 5x5 for SMR and G Block bands. Haven't looked into what theyre using for their 2.5GHz.

But like I said, Spark can theoretically reach into the gbps. If it gets that fast, who knows. Sprint also owns a lot of LTE spectrum. Whether they use it or not, who knows.

My question was directed at the statement of Sprint will blow away the competitors. I am assuming he meant speed of download? Because as far as coverage is concerned? At&t and Verizon has the edge here on Oahu in that regard.

Spark theoretically can reach speeds into the gbps when optimized. Current markets with Spark have real world speeds of 80+mbps right now. However with Spark being on 2.5ghz, building penetration won't be strong.

In terms of speed?

T-mobile in town especially in Waikiki averages about 60-70+MB download 15-20MB upload

My Co workers on Sprint will be happy with Spark if it tops T-mobile speeds

Unless you're torrenting something, would it even be noticeable? Normal web browsing/youtube/social networking, I can't tell the difference between regulat Sprint LTE and any other network.

Have you called Sprint?

They're no help since LTE isn't "officially" launched here

*Should* be. There could be issues still (especially in Ericson markets).

Thanks. For months, if I use CDMA/LTE mode, its a 50/50 chance my phone will ring or get texts on time. Even if I'm not connected to an LTE tower it still has this problem.

If a site is 3G/4G accepted, should CSFB be active on them?

Wish upload speeds were better

 

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It wont really get any better until bands 26 and 41 are deployed. Which wouldn't shock me if it takes another year +. Or you are somewhere within 1/4 mile of a lte tower with little congestion. The fastest I ever got was 17.28 down and 5.03 up right outside Target Salt Lake.

They need to get one of the Pearl City towers going! lol

Become a sponsor, you can see which exact towers are updated and what they were updated with. So you don't have to just drive around blindly trying to map areas

Anybody knows if sensorly will automatically update the 4gLTE mapping.. Seems like it did not work after driving down fort weaver road for 5 mins.

It can take up to 24hrs for it to show up at all zoom levels.

I'd be more interested in seeing these places mapped than doing speed tests

Did work just come to a halt on Oahu? lol

Was having strange gps issues in Waikiki tonight, network data placed me on Kauai and my wife on the big island, wonder if they messed up on a tower lol

Used to happen to me all the time at Moanalua Shopping Center. GPS would show me in Lahaina, Maui.

Ii see it pop up once in a great while around alewa but always switches back to 3g once I try to speed test it.

If you're on a triband device, turn off band 26 & 41. Until they get ecsfb working with those bands, it'll keep kicking you to 3g. Seems to work for me

LTE from the Halawa tower stretched all the way to the pearl city viaduct. Got 22mbps by the h1 h201 merge

 

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What band was this on?

Just got back from Hickam. No LTE by the stadium or airport. 3G was surprisingly fast though

Hopefully it'll be back up for the me and 50 other people at the UH game this weekend lol

Note 3 is fine, I get LTE on my entire drive down the viaduct, no spark on this

Note 3 is fine because I believe it is a dual band phone.

LTE by the airport is useless on triband devices right now. S4 and S5 kicks me to CDMA while the S3 stays on throughout the area.

Does anyone know if the towers currently broadcasting LTE are eCSFB/CSFB enabled? Was in the airport area and tried mapping more but it would kick me to CDMA after a few seconds.

Mapped some of the side streets in Salt Lake/airport on sensorly. Only seems to show up when zoomed in though.