nick

-116dBm RSRP on a B26 5MHz wide LTE carrier, I'm shocked you had any throughput. That's a pretty miserably weak connection. However, in my opinion, Sprint allows too many to connect to B26. I would limit it to users only who have no other usable LTE band detectable. I don't know how many times Sprint forces me to stay on B26 in areas where I know B25 or 41 are available, and they even perform better.

It is very frustrating, I will be stuck on unusable b26, in areas with usable b25 and even b41, it seems sprint or my iPhone is set to connect to the strongest signal... Even when that signal is strong but unusable. For example today I was at Wisconsin state fair, I was stuck on b26 90% of the time getting no throughput... However if I toggled airplane mode it would briefly connect to sting b41, it was lightning fast but would switch back to b26 within 1-2 min.

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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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be sure to report back, I was at summer fest in Milwaukee this year and band 41 was strong but completely unusable all day/ night, friends with Att, Verizon, and T mobile had slow but usable data the entire event, indoor out door didn't matter.  I was really hoping for a better experience..

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Millwakee is working just fine, I have been there all day no lte problems signal and speed acting normally

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You have an iPhone 6. That's your problem. That's all of our (iPhone users') problems.

 

To elaborate, Apple/Sprint released something called a Carrier Bundle Update to our devices. Carrier Bundles determine what bands our phones connect to, when it scans for them, how the antenna's in our devices work, etc. And this update that was released around the time that iOS 8.4 came out completely ruined the iPhone's ability to connect correctly to the Sprint network. Therefore, it's more than likely the iPhone's fault that you are dropping the signal so quickly. (Or, of course, it could be that that one tower isn't optimized.)

 

-Anthony

thanks Anthony, i just thought it was weird that one tower seems fine and the other towers seem to be weak, i just discovered the Iphone 6 thread talking about carrier bundle update... hope they figure out its a problem and fix it soon, it kinda makes the sprint network look bad not terible just slower and with less LTE coverage... thanks for the info

Are you in a Clearwire LTE market?

no clearwire it is a small market, only 5 towers in town.  4 towers are band 41 active, one is 3g only.  only one tower has good range with band 41, 2.5 miles outside, 1-1.5 (depending on building type) inside.  the other three band 41 towers have very short range .5 miles, never better than -100 or worse...  my guess is one tower is full blast and the other 3 are low power untill the 3g tower is upgraded they the optimize them all together? not even sure if that's how it works

 Nick

However with sufficient tower density, and back haul it's not crazy to think sprint could provide home internet services considering how much spectrum they hold in 2.5, not saying any time soon but someday perhaps. you would of course need caps of some type like most current IPS providers, 150-200 gigs is a common soft cap.  

I new here so sorry if this has been answered, try as I might I can't find the answer I'm looking for. What kind of range should band 41 be able to achieve? I find that I loose it .5 miles away from the site, I basically have to be right on top of the site to connect? This image is across the street from a band 41 tower it's the best band 41 signal I ever see in town.

I know i have a single tower in my town not upgraded to lte, is it possible that the area is not optimized? Thanks

Nick

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I agree with that on mobile data, but when it comes to replacing home internet I don't think a per gb plan would work for most people, unless you are a light user or the per gb is very cheap. Take my example most months I will use 100-120 gb over my home wifi, I pay around $35/ month for Att u verse. Under that the per gb price would have to be around .35 cents per gb. Imo I don't see wireless rates hitting that any time soon.

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interesting, thanks for sharing i think we are a long ways way from that reality, perhaps sprint will have an unlimited home internet plan by then? 

The iPhone is making Sprint's network seem like total garbage. They need to fix this. I'm getting frustrated with their executive support. I know more about their network than them. I just wish someone at Sprint would acknowledge that there is a problem.

 

Are Sprint employee email addresses first.last@sprint.com

in some cases yes, the CEO is

marcelo@sprint.com    he does respond (most of the time)

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