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lilotimz

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  1. I wonder what's the point of putting up a B26 only site up. If you're going to the expense of setting up a new site, why not do a full triband setup? To note, I suspect there are similar setups on the town's along Highway 2 through Montana, as I found B26 in some of those towns too last weekend.

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    $$$,$$$.

    Same reason why T-mobile and Vzw and ATT throws up low band only sites in rural areas.

    Optimize sites for coverage and then go back and add mid band and high band if there's demand.



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  2. Shows up as "magic box" under my account, but it does not work.  I called into magic box customer support and they said that the tool to enable Ethernet on the magic box gold is temporarily down so I have to call back later.
    Just return it and try and get the Airave 4. It's a parasite module to the MB Gen 3 and they have to update core parameters along with various hardware / SW upgrades in order to bring ethernet / wifi BH into working status.

    To date, said upgrade and configurations are active in just a couple test markets. They're nowhere close to rolling that functionality out o a national scale yet.

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  3. 19 minutes ago, alphaalphagamma said:

    so...i called and placed an "order" for an airave 4...and got a magic box voice amp!!! WOOO!!!  anyone else have this happen? lol.  i do have a magic box also.  win win?

     

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    Hahahaha! 

    Thats not released to the general public yet lol! 

    You'll need a Gen 3 in a market with  airspan ethernet core upgrades completed (none fully  done yet). The Voice amp plugs into the Gen 3 ethernet, while the power brick daisy chains off the Gen 3s. 

     

    It's literally an airave 4 but with the lte guts torn out. 

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  4. A thought I had poking around Spectrum Omega. What are the odds of Sprint doing swaps with Dish for their PCS H block? Do they even have anything Dish would want?

    H block is useless for sprint or any cellular carrier as they are currently configured. Beating a dead horse really.

     

    In addition Dish had FCC create a brand new lte band using it and some unpaired AWS-3 (25x15? Something like that). So in all likelihood theyre not going to split just the H block out when they can demand $$$$ for the entire block.

     

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  5. 46 minutes ago, SeanK_ said:

    I called them yesterday about it and they put it on my account after I gave them the MAC ID, the Serial Number couldn't be found they said. Today it still won't active and they decided to just send a new one, unless someone finds a way to fix it before the new one gets here.

    Could always check if the folks at magicbox[at]sprint.com knows of a way since they deal with MBs and presumably Airaves all the time. 

  6. So my Airave is DOA and will no active what so ever, so they are going to be sending me a replacement. [emoji22]

    Basically they failed to attach it to your account from the warehouse. I experienced that with my Gen 3 MB.

     

    They had to do an manually change the serial number of the active MB line to activate the Gen 3 which took an entire afternoon.

     

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  7. Update:  The Airave can't seem to get a GPS lock.  Tried everything. Curious to see if anyone else has issues with this when their units arrive. The unit will produce a CDMA signal without a GPS lock, but no LTE.  Curious how it can do that as I thought CDMA relied heavily on GPS timing. 
    The GPS antenna is likely very sensitive like the 3. Definitely make sure you place it as instructed.

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  8. 2 hours ago, SeanK_ said:

    I seem to be the only one so far that got it shipped. I was told yesterday that with the ordering system being down that if you submitted a request it you'll get one, might take an extra day or two since someone has to input this order into the system. I would just watch the link that Mike provided (sometimes doesn't work so you'll need to do my process)

    Gotcha!

    Thanks for the heads up and do post many pics and first impression when you get it!

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  9. Yeah it's definitely a WIP. 

    I am able to connect but It's chugging real bad. I can't connect to any speedtest server, resolving domain names takes like me back to Pre-NV memories, and VolTE / Calling Plus calls just outright fail. Sometimes its so bad my Pixel gets stuck in 1x purgatory as it refuses to connect to LTE at all. 

     

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