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    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    Hello All,

     

    I got a Galaxy Note 4 before Thanksgiving. My ability to get LTE has improved over my HTC One (M7), but I'm not sure that I am getting a Spark signal yet. Today I was in the car (with someone else driving!) from Woodland to downtown Sacto and I never left "310120". If I understand correctly, this code is for the non-Spark bands (bands 25 & 26, Spark being band 41). Should I have had a Spark signal during the drive?

     

    Additionally, is there an app that tells me which band I am on? Some folks have posted screenshots that appear to be of apps that have this functionality - I haven't seen it in Sensorly or Ookla. What are the apps called that can show the band number?

     

    Thanks for all of you help. I am going to donate now to become a sponsor again (I lapsed).

     

    JK

    I'm Detective John Kimble. I'M A COP, you idiot!!!

     

     

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    Ant (iPhone 6 Plus)

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    From Kaiser hospital on Morse Ave all the way to Truxel/80, I was able to watch the newest episode of Shark Tank live the whole trip home. The HD stream never dropped, buffered or froze. We watched the entire episode nonstop in HD over LTE, primarily on city streets.

     

    From Morse we cruised down Alta Arden and merged onto Arden. Jumped on the 160 and exited Canterbury. Cut across Arden Way and Del Paso, cruising on El Camino for a few blocks. Then headed north on Norwood until we turned west on Silver Eagle/San Juan and flew past Truxel. Many neighborhoods and traffic traffic traffic. No congestion on the Spark highway, however.

     

    Nonstop Live HD streaming the whole way via the Xfinity TV Go app. I can get used to this. This was better than speed testing and Sensorly mapping. Wife was super stoked Sprint was that reliable, and it took the whole episode to get home from the hospital.

     

     

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    Ant (iPhone 6 Plus)

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    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    Band 26 is a 5x5 carrier with theoreitcal max speeds of 37/12. Band 41 is the 20 mhz TDD-LTE carriers that can reach 100/14.7 theoretically but mostly tops out 50-80mbps.

    Well shiver me timbers. It appears that I must go on Ghost Hunters looking for B41 from now on. I won't be the same again now that I know the theoretical bandwidth thresholds.

     

    Tim, you saved me. What would we do without you? (=

     

     

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    Ant (iPhone 6 Plus)

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    Slow speeds are to be expected at weak signal levels -110+.

     

    On the bright side you are connected to Band 26 LTE 800.

     

    Also LTE does not broadcast their location so every single app out there that says the location for LTE sectors are wrong.

    I did just over 67Mbps over the weekend at over 100dBi. I believe that was band 26 also. I'm always on that band it seems. I thought 41 was the more desirable one?

     

     

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    Ant (iPhone 6 Plus)

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    Winston Churchill Middle School in Carmichael, in the parking lot on the corner. Today is the first time LTE has ever been seen on any of our phones in this area. It's slow and I'm jumping back & forth between two towers (blue = visible, red = connected), but It doesn't drop to 3G.

    LTE is slower than 3G right now at this location, however, I am happy just to see LTE on. I'm sure it'll get faster.




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    Ant (iPhone 6 Plus)

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    I got my iphone two weeks ago and tallied up 6.1GB in data usage. I have an unlimited data plan. Is there a threshold on the Sprint network where they may begin throttling my speeds?

    Perhaps I should take a break from doing speed tests all over town. I used the XFINITY TV Go app to watch two tv episodes and some live news channels. I can't believe I sucked up all this data in about two hours today. Okay, back to Ancient Aliens marathon on the Spark network.

    Unlimited baby!


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    Ant (iPhone 6 Plus)

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