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Make a list of every device that connects to the internet through the modem you're seeing the high usage on.

If any PC's are in that list, do a thorough virus scan.

How much traffic is the Airrave sending/receiving?

Any torrents running?

Is the Dishnet hopper downloading content?

Without knowing what your actual router is it's going to be hard to make suggestions beyond setting up SNMP polling for the interface statistics.  Does the modem have a web interface with its' own traffic counters?

I am in Montreal for the week and I can say this is 110% true. I was going to switch to a local provider for the week but when I saw how much they wanted, I decided Sprint roaming and WiFi hunting was the way to go. Sprint offers unlimited texts and calls for $.2 a minute with the add on. This is actually pretty good in the industry. However data roaming at $2 per MB is pretty steep. Whoever I am roaming on while in Montreal is adding service to the subway, as many stations now have service underground.

That's where I just got back from.  Fantastic city!

I was thoroughly impressed at in-building coverage wherever I went while even switching between the major carriers.  Mostly to see if there was any significant differences.  (There weren't that I noticed)  I couldn't help but always scan the buildings to see the panel placements while I was walking around.

I get what you're saying, but even taking such plans, I don't see it working out as imagined. The traffic we're seeing with what already have in place is taking huge hits. Even moving those people over to B41 will impede on the network when you have certain users that are going to sit there and hammer the network using it as their provider.

Fair enough and good point.  There will always be 'unlimited' abusers.

Chamb makes a good point about pestering the Telco/Cableco.  That's really the only way they'll change or decide to expand their footprint in your area if you can't go with the P2P wireless option with a neighbor you're friends with.  In my anecdotal experience it took 2, almost 3, years to remedy a random disconnect issue with cable internet service.  It finally took my neighbor, who had VoIP service and was also getting D/C's, calling in as well for them to FINALLY come out and replace the filter/dropdown box on the telephone pole that fed our two houses.  Once that was replaced, all issues went away.

Good luck!

I did read your post buddy. Even with a minimal distribution, having a constant connection to the network by some former Clearwire users would kill the network and it couldn't handle it, even with all that Sprint is releasing. Traffic shaping and QOS adjustments aren't going to change that. If they did use that, it would have to be so heavily done that it wouldn't be worth having the service anyway.

For my understanding, how would having a few fixed services over double to triple digit devices on a sector have an adverse effect on the sector performance while offering the same limited 6Mbps/1Mbps speeds?  Don't higher SNR connections effect a sector less than many low SNR mobile devices?  Once, or if, 8x8 MIMO is deployed, how could it possibly be *that* detrimental to network performance?  That's more bandwidth than an 8x4 channel bonded DOCSIS 3 node!

I'm not saying they'll do it, but mostly trying to understand why they wouldn't allow it for customers that have stayed with the service due to lack of other offerings to the bitter end other than to line the pockets of the execs more.  I'm all for getting rid of the service, really.  It just seems like a rather large middle finger to the customers that use and don't abuse the fixed service with constant file sharing and large downloading.

KnarfOH,

Perhaps you could work out a deal with your neighbors that can get DSL/Cable and then set up a small point-to-point wireless network from their premise to  yours?  Just depends on the terms and services of said provider if that's acceptable with their services.

Ubiquity Airmax or Mikrotik SXT antennas are perfect for that application.

Just a thought.

Was recently in Canada for a few days and shopped around the major providers as well as big prepaid MVNO's... All I have to say is Canadians are getting royally shafted on cellular plans while keeping the USD <--> CAD conversion in mind.   150Mbps is cool and all but it seems a bit pointless with how fast you'll reach your 500MB-15GB cap.  Though, I do see the benefits of overall customer experience due to the capacity. 

So, I suffered with T-Mobile 128Kbps~ data roaming instead which ended up working out just fine to lookup directions and whatnot with Google Maps.

Not gonna happen that way. Network can't handle it.

Obviously it wouldn't handle it in WIDESPREAD fixed broadband service.  That's not what I'm talking about if you actually read my post.

Why wouldn't Sprint offer limited availability MIMO devices to customers in this situation?  With traffic shaping and a little QoS for various services, why wouldn't it be a sustainable business opportunity considering LTE is more spectrally efficient.

Perhaps team up with Ubiquity or Mikrotik to come up with some inexpensive home base stations for these types of use scenarios.  Though I'm not sure how well the MIMO setup would work if you were in a situation that required an external antenna on a pole to get service.

We can dream, right?

Is there any way to adjust the signal level that the phone hands off to EvDo?

i hope with Google next update they also enable triband!  Theirs a lot of cmda being turned on in my area want to see if theirs lte 800

 

 

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2014/03/05/nexus-5-problem-fix-for-battery-life/

Ahh, interesting!  I had that process issue only once so far and it happened just the other day.  Strange!  Reminded me of my Galaxy Nexus days with a warm phone and no battery... 

Rebooted my phone and it was back to normal.  Haven't seen it re-occur since.

Where was this taken?  Those look like PCS only wide beam NV panels, and not Band 41 only panels.  I say that because Band 41 should only have one RRU per panel.  Whereas a Samsung high capacity site can have two panels per sector with two RRU's per panel.

 

Robert

I'm guessing it's a high capacity site, it has a very good vantage point  to a very large area.  It's not broadcasting Sprint PCS according to the site maps. When I lived in that area and took the pictures, my Sprint signal strength was bad enough to need an Airrave to hold calls.

https://www.google.com/maps?q=29.526259,-98.323048&num=1&t=h&z=19

MikroTik's are solid, but no 802.11AC.  This would be the one I'd mess with if my current setup dies: http://routerboard.com/RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN

I prefer a Cisco ASA 5505 and then a separate wireless AP.  Kind of expensive that way, though.

LTE can use a channel as small as 1.4 x 1.4 FDD.

What would the propagation characteristics be compared to say a 5x5 FDD LTE channel and current CDMA channel?

CPU: P4 3Ghz

RAM: 2GB DDR2

GPU: Radeon 9700 pro

HDD: 80GB

Case: Dusty

PSU: Working

OS: Win XP

Great to hear! Because of the optimizations, how would you rate the battery life? I mean, it can't be worse than my Galaxy S3, which I can usually get by with, but the G2's battery seems like a big improvement and it's almost tempting. Otherwise, I think I'd rather go with the Nexus than the G2 since I would like to go with the 'pure' android experience. Thanks for your post btw, as it definitely helped as you touched up on my main concern.

Battery life, for my usage, is pretty good.  I've forgotten to plug it in at night quite a few times and make it through most of the next day before it's begging to be plugged in.

Edit:  Once you go pure Android you never go back

GS3 to HTCOne isn't going to be much of an upgrade and you will most likely see slightly worse RF performance with the One.  Tri-band or bust.  I had an HTC One for a day but decided against keeping it since it felt extremely fragile.  But, I don't like aluminum body portable devices since they scratch, gouge, and dent very easily compared to plastic body devices.

I have had nothing but a good experience with my Nexus 5 so far.  San Antonio did not seem to be affected by the CSFB/eCSFB issues so I've had seamless LTE, eHRPD, and 1x. Making calls can be a bit slow while the phone does the circuit switch, but other than that it's been great. Now I'm just waiting for the TD-LTE sites to start lighting up.

N5 will roam just fine on VZW CDMA, I've roamed on VZW with mine and had no issues while roaming. With that said, the Nexus 5 is a great RF performer with its 'envelope tracking' radio.

Well....i totally didn't name this thread Superlaxatives....someone decided to be funny and rename it, but it is hilarious none the less....

Hahaha, yeah.  I saw the thread title before it was cleverly vandalized

I'm not sure I'd want any superlaxatives.

What device is that?

 

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Any USB TV tuner with the RTL2832 chip should work.  They're all over Ebay.

Was messing around with my re-purposed TV tuner stick the other day and found these most interesting.

Not sure which provider these are:

Low edge

High edge

Low edge

High edge

Something in 800

Another

Guessing ATT or VZW in 700.  No idea what I'm looking at in 800.

HDTune should tell you what interface the drive is.

did TMO prepay SIM work?

No issues here using T-Mo and AIO prepaid SIMs.

Goodby Huawei. Hello Samsung? http://imgur.com/a/XBJpw

Stuck on T-Mobile prepaid Sim right now because telesales told me to go to stores and the stores were clueless and told me to go to telesales for a UICC. Sigh.

Stores should have stock for sure today?

On another note, tower crew out installing TDD-LTE equipment on the nearest site to me yesterday and probably today. Woohoo!

What are the chances of existing Clear home internet users being allowed to upgrade to TD-LTE base stations?  Slim to none?

Will they eventually be terminating customers from the home ISP service?

I keep a Clear account active as a backup/failover connection, so it'd be kind of nice to stay with them.