cjbanks

You have little to complain about.  Because of iPCS -- believe it or not -- northern Indiana has some of the most substantial rural coverage in the entire Sprint native footprint.

 

AJ

Yes, but it has still just become usable. Before NV, Indiana, particularly FW, was so slow you couldn't even load pandora. NV has fixed all that, thankfully. 

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.

No, you were not connected to LTE.  The MCC-MNC (151515-1515), uplink EARFCN (83535), and downlink EARFCN (65535) are not valid.  Those are just placeholders.

 

AJ

Ok. So you mean that I wasn't ever connected to LTE(at that location), those are just default #'s?

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Robert

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.

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?

So you know Lutheran off Jefferson, you've noticed theres 4G now. They just turned on 4G in that area and now it's all over.

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.

I wish I cab say the same. Everything is all 3g accepted not in my town though. Sprint keeps adding T-1s to the legacy system I mean yea it helps but I can see my tower and its 1/4 mile and im at 1-4 bars. im due for an upgrade since January.

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.

The 4G around town, i get 3-10MB down. My contract was up in October and well that's when NV was announced for my City. I thought personally, by now. My in home coverage would have changed, I usually get 2 bars lucky if I get 3. The 3G, I used to get like 10-120 KB/s down inside. Sometimes I pick up 4G and sometimes I don't. I used to get it more then i do now.

Hoping within a couple months, something will change.. Lately I've been roaming when I have my airave on. Never had that happen lol. But oh well, I still love sprint lol. EVERYWHERE and i MEAN everywhere, there is 4G now <3. ty

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!!!

If you are in an area that already has LTE and you are due for an upgrade don't wait around for 800MHZ to come online, go get whatever phone you like right now and enjoy some super fast data. There probably won't be any dual/Tri band devices till 2nd or 3rd QTR of this year and it could be late 2013/early 2014 before we see 800 LTE enabled on the network.

Ok.

Thank You for your help.

I am just going to get whichever device I like better when they release and enjoy what is there now!

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)?

Thank you all for your help. I think I will take my upgrade now and either get the HTC one or the s4.

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?

No, the chipset has effectively nothing to do with band/band class capability.

 

AJ

Ok. Thanks. I was under the false impression that it was.

The galaxy s4 will ship with the snapdragon 600 chipset in the United States. Does that support the lte on the 800 MHz?