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When you get south of 80/94 in Northwest, IN the density starts to decrease to where B25 can't cover everything and B26 isn't optimized yet so it just drops to 3G a lot. Indoors in the city, again because B26 wasn't optimized anywhere I went would drop to 3G constantly and just become unusable. -
So now some are starting to realize what I've thought for years now, that the subsidized phones aren't really as bad as they seemed? I personally fought the guy at the AT&T store when we signed up to put one of the phones on a subsidy instead of Next, full well knowing that it would be cheaper to pay the ETF upon cancellation vs paying off the Next balance. When I cancelled with Sprint I saved about $200 paying the ETF vs if I had gotten it on Easypay and paid off the balance. Obviously this loss of money for the carriers is why they're doing away with contracts and people are none the wiser and think it's so wonderful until they do the math. I was half tempted to jump over to Verizon but after seeing how they're reshuffling everything and tacking another $10-20 to the bottom line with those plans is sickening. Hopefully Sprint keeps some good options around as I do plan to come back in a year or when they finally optimize their network here.
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When I traveled this July I tried to be a "Good wireless customer" and do my part by using wifi as much as possible and I gotta say that was one huge disaster. When staying at Hotels the experience ranged from having to hold my phone in a certain spot in the room and having constant timeouts, to the best being attwifi at a couple of Hilton owned hotels which worked but still wasn't satisfactory. Actually I did have one very surprisingly good experience with public wifi and that was the San Antonio (TX) municipal wifi at the Mercado downtown, which seemed to cover the grounds extremely well and a speed test netted 30 down 50 up (yes 50 mbps up!) My free 30 minutes of Boingo WiFi at O'Hare wasn't bad either, but this and the other one are just the exceptions to what I found. 85% of the wifi I attempted to use was just awful and ended up shutting it off within 60 seconds and just used my LTE. One hotel was so bad I ended up actually tethering my iPad to iPhone because the wifi just disappeared for hours on end. I hope their experiment doesn't go like anything I experienced. I've personally lost faith in public wifi and avoid it as much as possible.
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If well executed it should workout very well. If Brighthouse hotspots are anything like the Assfinity hotspots we have all over here then the trial is doomed out of the gate...
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AT&T and T-Mobile LTE are not using IPV6 for me.
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I remember it being passed around here as insider info that once B26 was fired up that it would be optimized within 6 months I think? Then later on it became until band 41 was live everywhere (this may have been heresay). Now both band 41 and 26 have been everywhere for a long time now and still no optimization as well as no more info about that. That's when the anxiety started. (Or frustration)
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I noticed something very strange with T-Mobile yesterday. I was playing with the band selection on a Lumia 640, and when I locked it into B4 WCDMA it actually connected to it and I was able to even make a call. The channel was 1987 and everything. Very strange considering that AWS WCDMA was "shut off" and LTE is now 15x15 (including this tower that I was connected to on AWS WCDMA). This couldn't be possible cuz they only have 30 MHz of AWS here unless they were both broadcasting at once, which I would think would cause interference?...
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No not that late! Second B25 carrier was coming online in March/April. I left for my trip in May, got back in June and 2nd carrier B25/B26 were just about everywhere by then. They both came online en masse within the same time frame. The USCC network was shut off January 30th or something? So B26 may have been sighted first.
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I just hope that they realize what's going on and how they're wasting their spectrum by not optimizing the LTE bands especially B26. The fact that's it's been well over a year now and B26 hasn't seen any improvements makes me worry. Even B25 seemed overly short distanced in some places. It would be nice if their were some insight to this matter.
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It will once they actually tune it properly. I've been camping out on AT&T the past few months as I've broadcasted across here many times so I've been out of touch with Sprint on a day to day basis. I do check them on my Nexus 5 with an unactivated SIM periodically and still saw the same old same old at 33rd and Halsted (LTE dropping as soon as I walk indoors). Now that we have a lot of 2nd B41 carrier and CA live, I now REALLY don't get what the hold up is....unless they think that B26 performing no better then B25 is perfectly acceptable? I wouldn't mind coming back if that were all taken care of across the area as AT&T in Northwest, IN is a bit congested.
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Is everyone still having the same problems as was still going on 3 months ago with lack of optimized bands and losing LTE all the time?
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Yeah all they need to do is dismantle DC-HSPA leaving one WCDMA carrier and shut down the 2G that almost nobody uses and they'll have another 10x10 LTE carrier. I'm sure this will happen by early next year too.
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I was one of those that said that would happen. I've noticed some other reports of it slowing down in Chicago too. I haven't personally tested lately so I can't confirm but I don't doubt that.
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I doubt that, it's only an afternoon-evening event and the network crushing crowd only lasts an hour.
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IDK, I didn't have a Sprint device with me. Last year B25 crashed, B26 was semi usable, and EVDO crashed and B41 was out of range. It shouldn't have been any different this year as that area already had both B25 carriers, B26, and B41 live last year.
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So I'm sitting here near Munster Centennial Park waiting for fireworks, where thousands of people are already at the park and more piling in for the show at 9 and so far T-Mo LTE is holding its own at .8-1.8 Mbps down and .2 Mbps up. Meanwhile DC-HSPA has already crashed. Last year by comparison H+ continued to work while LTE crashed. Nothing surprising considering the shift of spectrum from WCDMA over to LTE in the Chicago area. Meanwhile on AT&T I had .2 Mbps down on LTE and 2.6 Mbps on HSPA+.
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I used to use iTunes Radio all the time and now with this update half of my saved stations are gone and there's no way to add new ones?! All I see are "recently played" which pisses me off and makes no sense, is that supposed to be the new saved stations or not! And since there's no way of saving stations do they expect you to search through the genres every time you wanna play a specific station? If so that's horrible and makes me wanna throw it out the window, I used to just switch saved stations while driving without even looking and now I have this crap to deal with. This new version reminds me more of Spotify which I'm also not a huge fan of, though it's easier to deal with then this. I feel like they've reinvented the wheel with the new interface and/or took away a lot of functionality. As of right now I think the new Music app is trash, and I hate that they basically ruined the Radio functionality as compared to before. As for the update itself, no problems with my iPhone or iPad. My mothers iP6 lost dictation functionality though.
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The Mystery (Sprint) Signal
gusherb replied to EntrepreneurKid's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
Do you ever go outside when you pick up this signal? I'd bet if that's your signal inside you might be able to get something strong enough outside to actually use it. -
I think it's possible but it may be another tie. Sprint seems to be JUST starting to get it's ass in gear to start building momentum and I feel once they do it's gonna be like T-Mobile has been the last couple of years. I feel T-Mobile has been fattened up and buttered for the sale and it's fate will greatly depend on who consumes them... For the last few weeks, every time I go past a Sprint store I see droves of people piling in the doors, which is a good sign. Unfortunately I have to wonder how they'll feel once they discover the fact that they can't hang onto LTE indoors and in between suburban cell sites. A customer at work today was talking about her new Note 4 and I asked her how she likes Sprint and the first thing out of her mouth was "4G drops everywhere", and then I took a glance at her phone and saw it had 2 bars of 3G just like my iP6 always got in that same spot, where it should be getting 2 bars of B26 LTE (if the downtilt and power was adjusted correctly).
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The Mystery (Sprint) Signal
gusherb replied to EntrepreneurKid's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
I can't wait to hear about what this is. When I was driving through West Texas last June I was easily hanging onto 1x800 from 30-40 miles or so from any nearest Sprint site. On the NM portion of that same trip where I was roaming on VZW, their towers had to have been spaced at least 50 miles apart and 1x 850 had no problem covering me across all that distance. So to find out it's a distant site wouldn't surprise me, though it sounds like something else is possible too. -
T-Mobile VoLTE is incredibly reliable here especially given its all over AWS. AT&T VoLTE has been dropping calls left and right for us OTOH, so bad I had to set the phone back to data only. (At least 2-3 dropped calls a day). Never experienced dropped calls like that on Sprint even when they were in the middle of NV 1.0. Those supposed LTE<WCDMA handoffs are non existent.
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I guess that seemingly piddly upgrade of 10 MHz made a whole lot more difference then one might've thought. Where I've tested I've seen much improved results. I'm very happy about this in case I decide to join T-Mo again, which may happen if AT&T doesn't fix the congestion in NWI soon (and they probably won't)
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We've had 15x15 over here for about two weeks now and the highest I saw was in the upper 50s on an unloaded tower. presumably because of capped speeds or reduced backhaul due to the less dense nature of the area the sites are serving. I think in instances like that it should just at least be more consistent.
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According to a HoFo user it was up a half hour ahead of schedule at 11:30PM on the 17th. I'm not surprised. Can't wait to hear from everyone in the area about the results of this.
