cjbanks
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Hello. At my lake house (summer home), my Galaxy S4 is always connected to eHRPD, and my tower has had 3G and 800mHz upgrades. I always thought that eHRPD ran through LTE backhaul (or core), and if the LTE backhaul is in place, why wouldn't they have turned on LTE? -- Chris P.S. My tower is the Wolcottville, IN (46795) tower.
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Find LTE status for a specific tower?
cjbanks replied to mbodner's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
Ok. So you mean that I wasn't ever connected to LTE(at that location), those are just default #'s? -
Find LTE status for a specific tower?
cjbanks replied to mbodner's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
My tower has had 3G, and 800mHz upgraded. I was looking in the engineering screen and it showed I was connected to LTE even though my phone wasn't showing 4G? Had a IP address and when I moved to different areas the signal changed. Was LTE blocked, or am I crazy? https://www.dropbox.com/s/nunavp904lcuocb/2013-05-30%2022.54.41.png -
My speeds are fine! https://www.dropbox.com/s/7yaavg9m14s6pew/2013-05-30%2017.52.50.png Average 10 around town and 30 sitting in my downtown fort wayne office. Most sites in town completed, and it rocks.
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Roaming and my contract
cjbanks replied to wyattwalter's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
Just a bit of advice for anyone who roams frequently. Sprint strictly enforces their roaming policy. I used 400 ish mbs of roam in October and received a letter and phone call in February about that. They did not cancel my line, but told me if I did not stop using more than 300 mb of roam I would be canceled. Sprint has a special department that handles roaming issues if you would like to call and talk to them, you can pm me for their phone number, but i don't want to post it in the public and have the whole world calling them. They ordered me an airave no problem and also set it so I see a notification if I am close to my roam limits. Enjoy!!! -
Any new news on the status of the release of it or it it will support LTE in anything other than 1900?
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6 Months in with NV in Fort Wayne
cjbanks replied to Rukin1's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
I have! I work at Lutheran Hospital, so I noticed it between working on idiots. People, please don't be dumb or I may see you in the ER. -
6 Months in with NV in Fort Wayne
cjbanks replied to Rukin1's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
I hope things get better for you soon. Before NV in Fort Wayne, My speeds were so bad I couldn't steam Pandora with 5 bars. I have also been surprised about how actual coverage has improved too. I am able to get a decent LTE link and a perfect 3G connection where I previously roamed. -
6 Months in with NV in Fort Wayne
cjbanks replied to Rukin1's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
I also live in Fort Wayne and my service has greatly improved too! I get similar 4G speeds and my 3G speeds are about .4 -- .8 Mbps. I was going to leave sprint when my contract is up this May, but now with network vision almost done (at least in the city) the coverage and speed rivals verizion!!! -
Has the wait been worth it?
cjbanks replied to Shaggy_Dan's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
In Fort Wayne and Indianapolis Indiana I average about 3-5 Mbps down and 2-3 up in fort Wayne, and around 15-20 down 4-5 up in Indianapolis. Fort Wayne has a very large sprint customer base, so speeds started out around 15-20, but it has significantly slowed down, but it is still fast enough. Verizion 4g in Fort Wayne is normally under 1 Mbps because of how crowed their network is here. And lets be honest, my phone streams perfect video at just 1 Mbps, so why do you really need 20 or 25 Mbps(other than it looks and feels awesome)? -
I am due for an upgrade now and was looking for some advice. I hear lots about the tri and dual band LTE devices. I was wondering if you think that I should just go ahead and upgrade even if the next big device (HTC One or S4) doesn't support it? And if you think I should wait, when do you think sprint will start selling these mysterious dual and tri band devices?