Contreramanjaro

I like this thread.
 
I have U-Verse because I spent many years waiting for my Comcast modem to connect. U-Verse is definitely more reliable but the speeds are so much slower. From time to time it just crawls.
 
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2866449659 Pay for 18/1.5.

Also, This video is funny if you guys haven't seen it. 

I'm really considering switching to Comcast though because I can get 50Mbps for the same cost but the story goes that U-Verse is going to be upgraded soon but I don't know how long I'll wait.

Everything I know about it comes from this link.

I'm just wondering if anyone knows how wind affects installing towers and stuff like that because there has been a ton of trouble with my connection on campus, a few blocks from my house but on a different tower. The weather hasn't been too bad other than some icy rain sometimes but wind has been gusting up to 25mph or so. I know I wouldn't want to get up on a tower in it but to that effect I wouldn't want to get on a tower at all. The Sprint support folks on Twitter confirmed a tower being down a few weeks ago when I had some trouble but it has been very fickle ever since it came back up.

no worries, i just assumed .5Mbps because that was what I got the last time I did a speed test on my commute.

 

ive also had speeds like .16Mbps, .21Mbps, and even .02Mbps.

 

it's quite frustrating because i'm not trying to stream netflix or youtube. i just want to listen to music and not have to wait for it to load the next song.

 

hopefully, things will pick up in the next month or so.

Yes. Those speeds will cause a lot more stuttering. The worst thing about that sort of speeds is it's often just an overloaded tower and your pings skyrocket. If you're waiting nearly a second for a server response you can just imagine what that does to data transfer, god forbid you drop packets.

My experiences with tower upgrades are mixed. It seems like every time one gets fixed up, everyone realizes at once and forgets they have WiFi and not long after the speeds drop again. I live in a college town so it's great when the students leave but right now when it's in full swing, anywhere near campus is abysmal. This is rather different from Bloomington IN, home of Indiana University where my speeds on campus rarely go under 1.8Mbps or so on 3G and 5 or more on WiMax. I have never tested LTE there.

I think Sprint's on the up and up but I just complain about the contracts. Two years is fine for a flip phone but smartphones become worthless much sooner. Softbank can't get here soon enough. I was on Dish Network's team with the Viacom/Comcast thing but if they keep blocking this deal and strengthen American telecom's duopoly of net neutrality hating beasts I will not support them.

You can call BS, but why would I lie about this? It's not like complaining about it on this forum will get Sprint to give me a credit to my account or lower my bill. I'm not trying to bash them since I'm clearly still with Sprint...I'm merely telling you what happens to me multiple times each morning during my commute.

 

I stream Songza or Pandora and it takes way too much time to buffer the song. When it switches to a new song, I either stay, "buffering" anywhere from seconds to minutes.

 

It seems like half the commute I can listen to music, the other half is spent in, "buffering."

I don't think you're lying. I think that you are getting way less than .5Mbps if you can't stream. Also, I'm all for Sprint discounting its customer's bills if they use, let's say, less than 500MB of data per month.

My BS calling was saying that if you got .5Mbps then you should have no Pandora trouble. I was saying you must be getting much much less or have a problem with your phone... I really could have said that better. In fact, I was way more negative about Sprint than you.

Equivalent service would be having data speeds that aren't .5Mbps.

 

I can't even stream Pandora when I'm driving.

I'll dust off the old s4gru account and get in on this.

I'll call BS on your comment here. One part, at least is wrong. You definitely can stream Pandora on .5Mbps (credit where due for proper capitalization) I do it all the time. Also, I've streamed Pandora on the road driving through sections of the country filled with hills where even Sprint says I wont have service. Popping between 3G, 2G, and roaming, I had to wait up to a minute sometimes for a song to start but it totally did.

But this isn't just for you Glenavo34, I'm not trying to be too mean.

Bloomington IN didn't have 3G in 2009 from Sprint and I streamed Pandora on my Samsung Instinct. Granted, it was horrible quality but worked for when I forgot my Zune.

A bit more insight with a colorful embedded graphic, I have this (http://alpine-usa.co.../view/cde-135bt) receiver in my car and streamed Pandora over bluetooth the whole way.

A lot of fields and woods on that trip and no problems.

I by no means worship Sprint, I really hate some of their corporate moves but I'm with them and don't think they deserve half the criticism they get. At least criticize for real problems they have.

You are one of the few ? I'm interested in hearing how that conclusion was reached. Exactly how many others are there?

edit: removed my rant. This is not on topic. Please carry on.

Quit yer complaining. Now, git before I take a switch to ya!

 

AJ

Aww pa!

Get used to it. And lose the umbrage. AT&T, like the plague, perpetually announces how much it has "done for you." See the example below:

 

http://www.prnewswir...-166804516.html

 

Sprint is just keeping pace with the competition...

 

AJ

It'd be different if it was an addition but it is a removal. And I'll have whatever umbrage I want, however there was none to be found. I'm one of the few people on here that understands that Sprint is a corporation with competition and financial responsibilities. You don't always need to be so defensive.

I think you may have explained the issue with future upgrades being removed in your post. I would imagine that first of all it is not an oversight, that was a major piece of functionality that was removed. Secondly, I believe it was removed because people were confusing the "Data speed upgrades" with LTE deployments. Let's be realistic, it even happens on this site quite a bit.

I doubt it. The future upgrades were fairly uncertain promises and the past upgrades are like a commercial stunt. It went from a tool to see if you were going to get an upgrade soon enough to stick it out to a place where Sprint can tell you how much they've done for you. Transition... useful tool -> marketing crap.

LTE sites completed are also being labeled with "Data Speed Upgrade", or

1. The data speed upgrade is referencing the fact that new upgraded backhaul is at the site
   

 

Robert

 

Maybe I can help support this a little (sorry been busy and my traffic to this site has plummeted.) Anyways, recently on Reddit.com/r/sprint I had a guy tell me that he got LTE in Muncie, IN at Steak N Shake. That is very near to a tower that has recent "speed upgrade" tower.

Link to topic.

Tower nearest there I can see. It has very many panels on it and must serve many different people.

This is the tower that I'm pretty sure serves my apartment so needless to say, I'm now in the market for an LTE phone. It's taking all I've got to hold out for an LTE 800 model.

Hope this helps and maybe you network wizards can pull more data out of this than I can. Cheers.

Edit: Here are the coordinates if you want them.

I completely swore off Logitech after the Logitech Revue software fiasco. (yes I dumped my money down the toilet on that pile)

Oh yeah. That... thing. One of those products that was a fantastic idea that just didn't work out. Logitech should just stick to mice and keyboards... and speakers.

After sitting through a power outage streaming videos and plowing through megabytes of data, I came to a realization. Sprint has never really failed me.

I've had to restart my phone a couple times a year to re-establish connections but anyone that's used Comcast is used to that. I had it go down for about 2 hours last year and then come back with much better performance. This is since 2009 Christmas time when I got my Instinct. I just thought I'd say that among all speed complaints and LTE expansion impatience, Sprint has never really let me down like Comcast and to a much smaller degree ATT Uverse. The only one that comes close is when I had Insight BB cable.

I'm a brand loyalist. I only buy Asus computer parts, Logitech peripherals, HTC Smartphones, and Corsair power supplies. Sprint for my phone. Just thought I'd share that thought.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Pvbbadd4s

My dad is about as American as can be and he'd laugh at that commercial. "'Me don't cry' ahh hahaha."

Then again it seems that Asian companies have really been hitting the nail on the head for American marketing recently.

It seems to be using OpenSignalMaps which runs on input from phone via an Android app. Sounds like Sensorly to me but that site's maps show me as not having 3G on Sprint where I'm sitting and I do. Long story short. This sort of thing is a great idea but no basis for a full blown carrier comparison. I know that Sensory maps are Sprint biased since they were kind of a big deal for WiMax at the time.

Fellow Hoosier here, but at IU - Bloomington. Speeds are pretty fantastic here and have been since I arrived mid-2011. Worst tests are approx. .5 Mbps. Tops out around 1.5. I should also share that the .5 Mbps happens with super weak signal. NV will be great, but these speeds that I'm seeing are fairly respectable. Enough for my needs, really. The ping times just need to get lower.

I went to IU from 2009-2011. When I first started there, there wasn't even 3G, it just stopped somewhere just south of Martinsville and basically didn't exist until Kentucky again. The explanation I received was that is came from Evansville instead of Indianapolis like it does now. So my freshman year sucked on 2G but the WiFi there is nearly flawless so it wasn't too bad. So the 3G was 1 year old when you got there. I was down in Btown just before school started this year and consistently pulled 1.5 to 2Mbps on campus, up to 10 on WiMax (That town has to be damn near officially covered.) Add in 50k plus additional bodies for those that go home in the summer and I'd say .5 is pretty damn good.

Oh, at the time I had no WiFi on my phone, Samsung Instinct... All those cool unlimited everything features I'd been thrilled about just 8 or so months earlier were worthless. It's such a first world problem when I hop on my laptop and pull 90+Mbps though.

Even so, these fixes have made a previously unusable network usable. I'm just happy to see Sprint addressing it at all.

While doing these tests I had connection drops about 1/3 of the time. When it came through there speeds ranged from .02Mbps to .5Mbps. From this I'm assuming it's a capacity issue. Also, ping times were rarely under 600ms. Signal strength is about -96dBm.

This seems bad but last year, pre NV, if I got a connection through, the speeds rarely passed .1Mbps and if they did I was ecstatic. It's not just Sprint however. All cell connections are a bit crippled here with ATT being by far the strongest and Verizon the most consistant, no surprises there. Sprint hangs in the middle with spotty WiMax and relatively weak 3G.

This is what I'm seeing if the connection goes through which has as it approaches noon is getting closer to the 50% success. Stupid freshman and their iPhones need to learn how to connect to WiFi, they never leave the dorms anyways.

For those that may say, that's no NV! Here's a screen of network.sprint.com. As you can see there is more work to be done but a bunch has been done so far.

edit: I'd like to note, yes, I use WiFi but the signal does not reach to all my bus stops and there is no WiFi on the buses I use (There is on the school's shuttles.) With an error window of about 10-15 minutes on the bus schedule, I find myself trying to do something on 3G while waiting.

Hope you enjoyed my tale.

There was a thread started on this last night: http://s4gru.com/ind...26-florida-lte/

Thanks for telling me. I don't know how to delete posts so I'll do it if someone tells me or maybe a mod will take care of it for me?

A couple more from his channel.

What a waste.....

 

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However, it is remarkable how long a smartphone battery lasts if you turn off data.

200MB? That's a day for me

 

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Yes. It causes me great pain to watch him suffer. Always in search of WiFi. He has the Atrix 4G too with the lapdock (the only reason I can't talk him into a Photon), it's quite a neat setup but very underutilized with the restricted data.

Windows 8 prior to 2013 or right at the beginning. Sounds very exciting. Also Tizen has been interesting to me for a while. Great article. Great post supert0nes.

With that system, get it up to 3 or so gigs of RAM before thinking about a GPU. You're going to be bottlenecking so hard on that 1.5GB I don't personally see a point in getting a new GPU. Also, you'll probably be topping out that PSU no matter which GPU you'd get which is not good.