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  1. tommym65
    Crap! There goes the neighborhood!
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    Does she have a sister?
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    Aww, crud, Robert!! Now you've done it!! Everybody knows that AJ is a space alien from another planet! By accepting his offer, you have made S4GRU a National Security Threat! Any minute now, you will get an Unsolicited Takeover Offer from Charlie Ergen, and this forum will become just another surly, non-responsive puppet of Dish! Doggone it doggone it doggone it!
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    If you are in Middleton, you are in the Milwaukee market. Sadly, I live in one of the last holes in the Chicagoland NV implementation -- I can get intermittent LTE if I am on the second floor, near a south facing window. However, I have frequent 800SMR, and signal strength and performance, overall, are much better than they used to be. I am anxiously awaiting installation of LTE on my local towers, as well as 800 on my closest tower. Where I do get LTE, primarily when I am driving in the Northwest and West Suburbs, performance is amazing (sometimes >30Mbps download). When I get 800, voice and text are excellent.
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    1. Become a Sponsor or Premier Sponsor. And/or: 2. Buy Signal Check Pro from Google Play Store (written by an S4GRU Premier). And/or: 3. Use NetMonitor (free) from Google Play Store (It may tell you that your tower is in Bangladesh, but it does show it correctly on the map). Be warned: Southeast Wisconsin Sprint towers don't transmit their actual geographic locations (like northern Illinois towers do), but will typically show 3 locations, 1 for each sector. You find the matching BSID's (usually they are 3 consecutive numbers), look at the triangle they make on a map, and the actual tower is approximately in the middle. Sponsor maps show the exact locations.
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    Hesse-san was very explicit in naming Verizon and AT&T as monopolistic and anti-competitive, and was passionate about the need for the FCC to improve competition in the low-frequency spectrum bands. He offered Sprint as an ideal partner for regional carriers. He did not mention T-Mobile at all, and was (not surprisingly) silent about the whole Dish mess, nor did he say anything about Softbank.
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    I thought there were 2 spellings: "AT&T" and "Charlie Ergen". And third might be "Verizon".
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    But, alas, no sound.
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    The 0G EVO does not report 800SMR or LTE, since it cannot receive either. My post said that my personal, disconnected EVO reported 1X1900 and EvDO. My connected GS3 gets 800SMR, and that is what the screen shot shows, to confirm to Mike that the app is working correctly on a GS3.
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    Yes, and yes:
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    Just a note: Signal Check will provide signal data from a decommissioned phone: The phone still gets the data, it just can't connect to the cell. I was able to view 1X1900, EvDo, and WiFi information on my disconnected 0G EVO, and subject to its somewhat weak radio, it was giving me equivalent readings to my GS3 (obviously, minus the LTE and any 800). But, my GS3 doesn't seem to beep, chirp, chime, belch, or otherwise call out when it connects to 1X800 - 1X800 shows on the display, but the phone is ominously silent. But I still really, really like the app. Thanks again and again.
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    Very reasonable. But you don't factor in the effects of 800 MHz and 2500 MHz spectrum. Admittedly, both are in the future, and if good ole' Charley Dish gets his way, 2500 may never be fully implemented. But the Sprint plan does include both. As Sprint adds more subs, and also as more subs start using more bandwidth, it is likely that both bands will come into play -- possibly as soon as early 2014 in some areas. Sprint may also be able to reallocate some current EvDO channels and also start using the US Cellular spectrum where available, in a slightly later time frame. So the actual number is likely to be well above 3900 GB per month, maybe much above. (And, yes, I use my recently-speeded-up Comcast WiFi at home [i really hate to praise the buggers!], and have an Airave, so I am offloading from the Sprint network as much as possible. Of course, I don't have LTE at home yet unless I stand on the south-facing side of the roof, but I still expect to depend heavily on WiFi when I do have reliable LTE.)
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    Don't let AJ catch you!!!
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    The browser version of the Sensorly Evil Empire 4G map (OK, really AT&T) shows gray in fringe areas. Neither Sprint nor Verizon seems to have the same "feature".
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    A similar time-zone thing happened to various of my phones a couple of different times as towers were being converted from old 3G to NV, so what you see may be related to that. Where I am, virtually all towers now have at least some form of NV (=new hardware), and the problem disappeared months ago. As far as the time update: Yes, it comes from Sprint (not from your WiFi).
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    Very, very sad. He will be missed
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    Got a few seconds of 4G LTE while parked at Silver Beach in St. Joe this morning, according to Signal Check. I'm guessing it was from the 4G-complete cell a 3 or 4 miles north of here, but am not sure. At least it flashed, a definite sign that good things are on the way. I couldn't repeat the "discovery", unfortunately.
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    OK, I guess I will try to make everyone mad: 1. I am 65 years old. I am not a grandma, nor a grandpa. Like AJ, I have been using Sprint for many years, and have been mostly satisfied. I sell computer software and I am technically up-to-date (in spite of my "advanced" age). And I use a significant quantity of mobile data: With 17 days to go this cycle, I have used 819.5 MB of 4G LTE, 72.6 MB of 3G, and 192.3 MB of hotspot data (for which I pay extra). Whoever used the "grandma" analogy owes me an apology. Please be more careful whom you insult. 2. I travel for business. Most of this month's 4G usage was on a trip to Los Angeles and San Francisco, where I could get 4G reliably, and where I did not (and do not, and in the future will not) trust hotel WiFi. I do not use bit torrents, I do not watch a lot of video, and I offload to WiFi where practical. 3. At home I have an Airave, and use WiFi on my Sprint phone for data. Even though I do yet not have reliable 4G at home, I would not use it heavily if I did, given that I have and pay for fast Internet, and that WiFi is likely to be more reliable for most Internet functions than 4G will, at least for a mobile phone in an aluminum-sided house on 1900 MHz (or 2600 MHZ, when available). 4. Is my 819 MB of 4G usage "excessive"? In my opinion, no. Others may disagree. But every time this argument pops up (and it seems to do so regularly), people start quoting numbers for "data caps", and berating heavy users, and so on. I agree with AJ that Sprint 4g "abusers" should and must be reined in at some point, and I fully expect Sprint to do so at the appropriate time in the future. However, I also (respectfully) disagree with AJ to some degree, in that I feel that the ultimate NV capacity per user will be HUGE, realistically well over 100 GB per month, even taking into account all the vagaries of time of day, urban congestion, increasing numbers of Sprint subscribers, etc., etc. Until NV is more built out, and until the deployments of 800 LTE and 2600 LTE are better defined, I feel that it is very premature to pronounce the need for data caps. Thank you for listening, and let the flames begin.
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    In a word, "Samsung".
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    Great work, Mike! I really, really like the address information being filled in on the 1X line. In Northern Illinois where the sector BSID's are right on top of the towers, this is very useful. Where I live, I get bounced from tower to tower like a ping-pong ball, even more so now that 800 SMR has started to work. Now if Samsung would just make the %$#* LTE Cell & Hex ID's available!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks!
  21. tommym65
    Consider getting SignalCheck Pro from Google Play - it has a reset button and signal strength meters, and will tell you clearly if you are actually getting LTE. It was written by an S4GRU member.
  22. tommym65
    NO! NOT MCCORMICK PLACE! ANYWHERE BUT THERE!
  23. tommym65
    At least in my part of the Sprint world, service degraded considerably as NV upgrades started (dropped calls, poor connections, weird text behavior, etc.), but then improved significantly as towers received new hardware. If this is the same for your area, it may mean that your NV implementation is progressing.
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    And consider becoming a sponsor -- you will be able to see what has been upgraded and what is in progress.
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    Sprint seems to have turned on SMR800 at a lot of Chicagoland sites which are not yet identified on the reports that Robert gets. In the far Northwest, over 50% of all towers may now have 800, maybe as many as 75%. This has improved voice and text significantly where it is available.
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