tommym65

Hollywood Hills Amphitheatre, Disney Hollywood Studios:

Oops. Now who is Masa-san gonna fire?

I think you both are saying the same thing. "Make sure not to plug it in before the router" and "attach it behind the router"

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.

Ah, yes, the text message again.  Now, if you will excuse me, I have to go insane...

 

AJ

 

Sorry, AJ, you've already left that milestone waaaaay in the past.

Love the layman's term "super-duper fast". I guess that would make 800 "super-duper penetrating"

And we all think that Robert is a super-duper forum manager!

Getting a road bike in a few weeks and would like any suggestions on mounts/holders for a gn2. Also do you suggest a computer or just using an android app, or both? 

 

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.

800 is important, but capacity is king and it always will be in wireless. Unfortunately there is not a lot of capacity with sprint 800 holdings. Speed isn't that important in the end (at least to smart phone users) but capacity is and band 41 has a ton. The capacity on band 41 is what gives sprint the edge over the competition.

 

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.

Yep, definitely a LTE carrier in the first pic and 2 CDMA carriers in the second. Once again, they've left a channel (Ch. 750) empty, and likely have Ev-DO at Ch. 725 and 1xA at Ch 775. It's close, but the first CDMA carrier looks ever so slightly stronger.

 

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??

But will they make him wear a coat and tie?

 

AJ

 

Maybe they should make him wear an Oto-san costume.

First time poster here, I've been patiently waiting for this rollout in Denver and this forum has been extremely helpful. I would like to thank each and every contributor for their time and effort in informing everyone of what's going on. I've been waiting to upgrade my phone for months now, my galaxy s2 that I have had since the paleolithic era is on its last leg. The only reason I've kept it is for wimax which has been a life saver due to the weak 3g signals I get. Well now that LTE is around the corner, it's time to buy a new phone. My questions is whether or not I should get a tri-band phone. If Denver doesn't get spark in the next 2 years I can wait until then, if they are expected to get it sometime soon I would be willing to only look at the few phones that provide tri band. Does anyone have the faintest idea of when Denver should be getting spark?

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.

And I have raced up Randall Rd. to Lake in the Hills, and my evdo is on channel 325.

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!

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.

Really you think it could be as far out as 5-6 months Wow. I was hoping for sooner but I've been with Sprint since 1995 whats a few more months. Thanks for the input have a great weekend.

 

In parts of northern Illinois, backhaul has taken a year or more to be installed, so 5-6 months sounds pretty good.

Nothing in the linked article discussing how many US jobs (and careers) will be blown to bits.

Uh, Koi is an S4GRU Premier sponsor and an all around good guy.  The other commenter, well, he is a moronic loser. AJ

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.

Ah. Must just be a matter of display then, since with 0, 1, or 2 leading zeroes it's still the same decimal value. Band 25 in the Boston market only has 6 characters, so theoretically the Zing would only pad one zero onto it. I'd make a version for hotspots, but the Android version keeps me busy enough! Plus, I don't really know how that would work.. you can't load apps or additional modules to those, can you?

 

-Mike

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.

Surprisingly, "enginerring" reports the proper current MCC-MNC on its native screen, but it doesn't report it to the Android telephony functions. Android provides access to 4 different MCC-MNC functions; I agree with you, it looks like the S4T reports the native one from the SIM to all of them.

-Mike

Oh, those Samsung enginerrs are more fun than a barrel of tower monkeys!

It's not really more/less characters.. you're just dropping a leading zero. B7E702 == 0B7E702 == 00B7E702. SignalCheck should automatically pad GCIs to 8 characters, so if you're seeing one missing in the app, please let me know. They are likely very different because the B41 sites that are live were Clearwire sites, while the B25 sites have been Sprint's from day one.

 

-Mike

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.

Mike, did you see this post in the g2 section? http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/4886-lg-g2-users-thread/page-159&do=findComment&comment=273586

 

That makes 02F and 00F for new york and columbus band 41. Far to early to tell but maybe the third character can determine if it is band 41?

 

Also was curious if you have ever heard of a LTE GCI with this type of structure: LTE GCI of 8.22E+03 with a PCI of 270, and then I also got a LTE GCI of 8.22E+05 with a PCI of 275. Remote location of course and not fully paying attention to this at the time.

 

Thanks

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.

I love how in an official Sprint correspondence, it mistakenly says BC 26 and 41. It's Band 26 and 41. Band Classes are not used for LTE.

 

Robert

Fussy, fussy, fussy! We're lucky they can SPELL 26 and 41!

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.

Same priority. Stronger signal from 800.

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.

Thanks for the clarification, didn't realize I was getting 1900 Voice/Text on 1xRTT. I do get a strong 1x800 signal in my office where my LTE is weak and borderline fallback, so right there in that instance the idea of 800LTE will probably broadcast a stronger more useable signal there. Even if as you 800LTE will fall somewhere between 1900LTE and 800 voice, it will be a considerable upgrade in not only my office, but many high rises and urban structures downtown. To bad I don't have a B26 device. Oh well.

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).