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    Evo LTE serious problems or bull?

    in HTC

    Posted · Edited by centermedic

    No I was talking about the example. Signal is bad outside too. Just had RF design of the network for that area combined with a poor performing phone.

     

    Sent from my little Note2

    Ahhhh. I do have to say that I am satisfied with my reception. Maybe I had comparably underperforming phones before.
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    Evo LTE serious problems or bull?

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    Posted

    Here's my bull from the EVO LTE ;)

     

    http://s4gru.com/ind...dpost__p__97262

     

    Funny part is from the post above, the site she is located exactly 1 mile from is now LTE enabled. She said she saw it switch to 4G when she got of the car this morning but went to roaming when she went in the building. I saw the usage today, 2 kilobytes of 4G used and racked up another 6 meg or so of roaming. Pretty funny if you ask me. And no, there are no other sites that will cover this area even after 100% of them are LTE upgraded.

     

    Also had a member that couldn't get LTE right next to the site even after cycling airplane mode, he had to force it to LTE only to finally snag it.

    Maybe the building was blocking the signal? Also are you sure that no other tower will cover that area?(assuming you are talking about my post).

    Evo LTE serious problems or bull?

    in HTC

    Posted

    I was a little worried about my Evo as I could not pick up LTE were it had been previously detected. I would sit in a deployed area for up to 15 minutes while cycling airplane mode with no results. Then yesterday i picked up LTE without having to cycle at all. No connection issues at all!

    Why are people so impatient with Sprint?

    in General Topics

    Posted

    I was with sprint for so long I cant even remember when I started 15 years?. I Waited. I waited through no reception in my house (I Bought and installed a repeater in my house so I could keep the service). I waited lived with dropped calls on the my street. This Still happens after years. (No I did not make a pest of myself, but I did report them). I was OK with the service when others had service when I didn't. (This bothered me we I was a leader on Scout outings though). I really wanted to stay with Sprint. I was excited when they started 4G... and I waited and waited and waited for it to deploy in my area. I made myself a promise I would not get a new phone (and pay the Premium data fee) until 4G was in our area. Clearwire started to show up WiMax was comming!Then they changed directions to LTE. OK I said after reading about the reasons. Sprint is trying to go in a direction they thing will serve us better! Now other carriers had LTE already in the area. So I waited and my area was on the 2nd tier list. I read and realized that Sprint wouldn't have their network fleshed out in my area until 2014. Do I wait 2 more years? My some is going to college next year... Word I am getting is Big Red has better coverage on the campuses he is looking at. So Then I got a tablet. I wanted to evaluate Android OS. I Liked it, but it likes a network connection (Not all apps, but many of the cooler ones need a connection). I connected my tablet to 4G and found it was almost everywhere. So I could wait for fast data speeds (3g sprint speeds in my area were below 100kbps in my experience) or I could let Sprint catch up to the other carriers. I decided to do the latter. I am not anti-Sprint. I am not upset with them. I waited years for the cool stuff, I just did not want to wait more years. I don't think that Sprint 4G will be really good in my area until 800Mhz is rolled out and the kinks are worked out. I will likely be back. I wanted a new phone and needed it to be on a 4G network. Sprint didn't have that here yet. Once they do, I will look at returning.

    I'm going to go out on a limb here. In my experience, the Chesapeake area has very good coverage. If you were having signal issues then you were probably on a fringe area. In that case this will be solved by NV(theoretically at

    least). We will keep the porch light on for you :tu:

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    LTE connection issues

    in HTC

    Posted

    I will check on the 1st suggestion.

     

    As to the other two, I have done it directly under and passing by known 4G towers.

     

    Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2

    Passing by a tower my not be helpful at this point either. The footprint is so small that you can pass through the area before the device gets a chance to grab a signal. If it makes you feel any better I have not been able to grab LTE either. But I will wait until the area is better built out before I start making noise about it. Sprint likely won't listen until the market is announced anyhow.

    Network Vision/LTE - Raleigh/Durham Market (includes Fayetteville)

    in Markets

    Posted

    Lots of work going on at the tower near the corner of Rosemary Drive and Hillsborough St (very close to NCSU's campus). Witnessed workers installing the "half-circle" antennas (the ones seen on the tower on Meredith's campus near Whole Foods) and lots of new equipment in the "sheds" inside the tower's fence about 1-1.5 weeks ago. 4G LTE is coming to this tower very soon, if not there already. On a 3G BlackBerry for the forseeable future so I cannot confirm if LTE is live.

    Might be worth a short drive....hmmmm

    Dish files with FCC about Sprint/Softbank Deal

    in General Topics

    Posted

    I thought I major part of Softbank wanting Sprint is the economy of scale having Sprint 2.5 (2.6?) Ghz TDE in all their phones so they would also run on Softbanks network in Japan. They would also sell the same phones to their own customers. I really hope Charile doesn't get far with roadblocks.

    Bingo! I think people are underestimating the importance of Clearwire: in my view, the Softbank/Sprint deal was predicated on Clearwire being acquired - the whole point is that 2.6ghz LTE is going to be the 2nd most common band for LTE in the world (after 1800mhz), with China Mobile, the largest mobile provider on the planet, moving towards it, and Son using it for LTE in Japan. I don't even know if Son would find it worthwhile to continue with the Sprint/Softbank deal if Clearwire was out of the picture.

    Clear is very important. But do not lose sight of the fact that even if Sprint does not buyout Clear Sprint still owns 51% of the company and will still have access to the 2.6 ghz frequency.

    Dish files with FCC about Sprint/Softbank Deal

    in General Topics

    Posted

    I'm not so sure if Son + Co really want to get into a game of financial chicken with Ergen. The seems that Clearwire is a critical part of this this deal going through. No Clearwire, no Sprint/Softbank acquisition. Sprint can pull their acquisition deal from CLWR and fight the case of no-breakup fee, but whatever action/inaction Ergen decides to take is just too much of a risk for Son's acquisition deal.

    Eh, worse case scenario, Clear decides to go with Dish or Sprint abandons the Clear aquisition. Sprint can still use Clear for LTE(at a higher cost) and royally screw Dish. I think Softbank wants the aquisition to make everything nice and clean but I dont think Softbank sees it as necessary to the Softbank/Sprint merger.

    Network Vision/LTE - Raleigh/Durham Market (includes Fayetteville)

    in Markets

    Posted

    well i dont see edit but there was some 4g that popped up on old apex near high house. Got that mapped. So ... fill in the blanks on the map. Think this sunday the area will light up like a christmas tree?

    Only if they suddenly speed up. They put up Some LTE in the six forks area in December and then down by ten ten and 401 near the end of December and nothing since until you found those two spots.I also noticed that we are back to evdo in a lot of spots as of late.

    Getting an EVO LTE by Brown Truck tomorrow

    in HTC

    Posted

    Yeah, the reception in the overall Raleigh/Durham area is pretty bad. I've only lived here the last 18 months. I'm hoping things improve substantially in the next 6 months.

    This I have to disagree with. As far as coverage, Raleigh is excellent. There is virtually no place outdoors that you can go in Raleigh(Wake County) where you wont have a usable signal. If you have a spot other then Sharon Harris I would like to know about it because my job takes me all over the county. Now data is another animal.

    Sprint Network Vision is it going on?

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    When i wasnt playing Sword of Fargoal or Mule I was keeping the phone line busy.

     

    Play the C64 emus on my Note2 with a wii controller all the time. Bet the game devs would have never guessed their games would still be played 30 years later on such a device.

     

    Time to go on over to the off topic thread...

     

    -- "Sensorly or it didn't happen!"

    MULE! Best game of all time. Don't laugh but my first computer was a Coleco Adam(remember that?). I redeemed myself by buying an Atari 130XE as my follow up.
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