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Oops. Now who is Masa-san gonna fire?
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Also assign a static IP address to the Airave, or you may lose or degrade service if it ever is powered down, as the router may assign it a new IP address when it is powered back up. The Airave (or the Sprint network) may get unhappy if the IP address changes. (10 points to anyone who can word those 2 sentences more awkwardly. YOU do 10 hours manning a booth at a trade show and then try to type in English. So there! ) -
O P is an ISP, and is quite knowledgeable about FCC requirements.
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Sorry, AJ, you've already left that milestone waaaaay in the past.
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And we all think that Robert is a super-duper forum manager!
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I use a separate bike computer and an app on my GS3 called RunKeeper. The combination of the computer and the phone work well for me, but everyone's tastes are different. I mount the GS3 in an oversized case (designed for a Galaxy Note), because I keep the phone attached to an external battery while riding. I got the mount and the semi-waterproof case on Amazon from a UK company called Ultimate Addons, and I am extremely happy with it. The mount/case is well made, stable, and has a retention strap for those times when I idiotically don't snap it into the mount tightly enough. (I previously had a mount/case from another company for my old Evo, and it was a cheap piece of crap and broke before the end of its 1st season, and didn't have a strap.) I particularly like having the phone because I ride on a bike trail that goes right next to a Sprint tower, and I can give people LTE-envy by getting 37+ Mbps on speed tests. And in agreement with fast-typing David, I find the computer to be more accurate than the app. It also doesn't stop working when I forget to un-pause it.
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And densification will enable Band 41 to penetrate into a lot of locations and structures which Wimax never reached, off-loading the capacity from potentially- (and in some locations, already-) overloaded Band 25 and 26 spectrum.
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Hate to sound like a dummy, but at my age I can hardly remember TV channels (especially on Comcast: How did WGN get on channel 192 -- but I digress [perhaps another sign of senility]). Could someone knowledgeable tell me/us in simple terms what cellular channels were actually seen, and what that means in terms of old Sprint spectrum and the new repurposed USCC spectrum. I vaguely remember that I got EVDO on channel 575 in Naperville over the weekend, and that the buzz was that it was former USCC spectrum, but there are just too many frequencies and channels being bounced around in the previous posts to be easily understandable to an old fart like me. Help??
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Maybe they should make him wear an Oto-san costume.
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Yes, get a tri-band. Robert sighted Band 41 LTE in the area last summer, and it will only get stronger. Band 25 is getting denser almost daily. Consider donating to the Sponsor or Premier levels, where there is a large amount of information on the Denver market.
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And I have raced up Randall Rd. to Lake in the Hills, and my evdo is on channel 325.
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Are we sure evdo channel 575 is former USCC PCS Block B? I am currently in Naperville (and also on LTE, as the attached screen shot shows), but my evdo engineering screen shows it is on ch 575, which may be from the last time the phone actually connected to evdo, or may be current, or may be false (don't know, above my pay grade). Hoping someone more knowledgeable than I chips in. If it IS former USCC spectrum, that was fast!
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Masayoshi Son has a strategy, count on it. No one on this forum knows what that strategy is -- count on that too. He admires and has supported Dan Hesse: It is therefore likely that Hesse will be significantly involved in whatever happens. Beyond that, quite frankly, none of us has any meaningful knowledge. While I would like to see a result favorable to Sprint (and to me persoanally), Mr. Son has demonstrated a unique ability to take underperforming companies and turn them around. There is a strong possibility that he will do the same with Sprint, but may do things that some or all of us distinctly dislike. Beyond that, everything anyone speculates in this thread is basically fluff. I mean no disrespect to anyone's else's opinions, but I think pretty much all we can do us wait, and see.
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In parts of northern Illinois, backhaul has taken a year or more to be installed, so 5-6 months sounds pretty good.
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Nothing in the linked article discussing how many US jobs (and careers) will be blown to bits.
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AJ, you treat foul-mouthed loser-guy with far too much respect. Somehow, I don't think he would last too long in S4GRU-Land.
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I was trying to joke (note missing idiotic smiley). The hotspots do have a browser-based interface, so it might be possible to create a custom browser-based app that would pluck out the numbers of interest. I'll have to think about that one. I would also be curious to hear from any Boston-baked -- oops, I mean -based -- hot spot users regarding how many digits they see.
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Oh, those Samsung enginerrs are more fun than a barrel of tower monkeys!
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Unfortunately, my GS3 doesn't give us LTE ID data, so I have had to use my hotspot for cell hunting. On the Zing, B41 and B25 actually do report different numbers of characters, at least in every market that I have been in, but they are decimal. I am inferring the hex number of characters from the different numbers of decimal characters. What we need you to do is write a Signal Check app for the hotspots! (I would insert an idiotic smiley here, but I am on an iPad and can never remember where the smileys are.) EDIT: Also, the shorter B41 hex ID fits exactly into the site ID, where extra leading digits would not fit.
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I believe that B41 cell id's currently have 7 hexadecimal characters while B25 cell id's have 8. Examples from Chicago: 0B7E702 hex (12052226 decimal) is a B41 site on the northwest side of Chicago, while 07E46102 (132407554 decimal) is a B25 site slightly closer to the city. (Note also that the decimal B41 is 8 characters while the decimal B25 is 9.) This pattern holds for B41 sites that I have personally seen in Chicagoland, Minneapolis, and St. Louis, and I think for B25 sites all over (although I have to admit that I am now bored with tracking down B25 sites since there are so many in my area -- I think that I am satiated with them). The B41 market identifier ID is buried in the hex ID somewhere, but I am too lazy this late to drag myself over to my desktop PC to dig it out. I have figured out a complicated method to correlate B41 cell ID's with the Clearwire site identifier which I will publish in the Premier section as soon as the people I work for stop demanding that I actually work. The PCI's are arbitrary sector ID codes that are assigned differently depending whether you are in a Samsung area, an Erickson area, or an Alcatel-Lucent area. Digiblur has talked about this in other threads, and has pinned them down in his New Orleans LTE charts, where A-L uses an offset of 169 or something close between sectors. In my world of Samsung, the offsets seem to be completely arbitrary.
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And, sadly, your (and my) GS3 don't report the LTE cell id, either to Mike's Signal Check app or to the engineering screens. They do report the sector ID, but only to the engineering screen. If anyone had put together an LTE spreadsheet for Chicago like digiblur did for New Orleans, you would be able to correlate id's with LTE site locations, but I don't think anyone has done that for Chicago.
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Understood, but even with equal priority and in the presence of strong 1900 signals, for the past few weeks, my GS3 will switch to, and hold, 1x800 almost everywhere I go both in the suburbs and the city.
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Almost any time I leave my house (I have an Airave, so I am almost always on 1900 at home), my GS3 seems to be on 1x800 -- it seems to be the preferred connection on the current PRL (although I know 800 is supposed to be the same priority as 1900 voice).
