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  1. tongboy
    Hopefully by now they figured out how to make a cdma phone. More competition would be great! I remember when Nokias were the phones to avoid if you were CDMA. Sent from my EVO LTE
  2. tongboy
    What about the new prl that just came out today. Can anyone confirm if the smr band was added back in? Sent from my EVO LTE
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    I know this is a message from this morning, however I wanted to mention have done this very thing several times. It worked under the old plan and you could turn it off and on via your sprint web account. You would only be charged for the time it was enabled. I have no reason to believe the new tethering options are any different. It was really nice to use at work when preforming network maintainance and you just had to look up one obscure Cisco command. Sent from my EVO LTE
  4. tongboy
    I had heard a rumor about that from another source. I guess for me that confirms it. I wonder if that changes 911 location accuracy. Sent from my EVO LTE
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    Interesting. I experienced the location issue with my EVO 4g and EVO 4g LTE. It wasn't until their SID and NID changed with NV that netmonitor was able to locate them. I guess broadcasting the tower location is not part of the cdma standard? I imagine it would need to be done for 911 location identification. Sent from my EVO LTE using Tapatalk 2
  6. tongboy
    Netmonitor works really well for me in the Chicago area. Keep in mind it only locates what the tower transmits for its location. I did have a couple towers around me that did not transmit a location and if my phone switched to one of those towers metmonitor would not change the location of the map from the previous tower. It was one of the few apps I found that works on cdma. As network vision has moved though my area the towers that were not reporting their location now do. I'm not sure if that will happen everywhere. Sent from my EVO LTE using Tapatalk 2
  7. tongboy
    What is with that ping? Is that normal? Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2
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    I know based on how the rollout has gone here in Chicago that 3g upgrades can happen without the backhaul upgrade being complete yet. The couple towers that I have encountered here that have had both the 3g and backhaul upgrades done I was seeing download speeds of 1+mbps and 500k upload speeds at 2:00 in the afternoon. The upgrades, when they finally happen, are worth it!
  9. tongboy
    OK, I will take a swing at this... Sprint is the second level from the top? If that is the case then no, NV work has not begun on it. That tower looks like it would be a disaster to try and service the top level! How would you get through that nest of cable? Hopefully someone comes by this thread that is more knowledge about this than me and I can learn something...
  10. tongboy
    I haven't been to that area for a couple weeks. Were speeds any faster?
  11. tongboy
    Wow! I did not realize how much of a discrepency there could be between the 3g going on the air and the backhaul being installed.
  12. tongboy
    I live in Lake in the Hills, right on the boarder currently between the cluster being built out to the north and west and the legacy towers to the south and east. As I have reported in other threads things have been inconsistant, sometimes data service is awesome (2gigs+!) sometimes <56k. If I am driving in the area I get dropped calls all the time, almost always it is when my phone jumping across this boarder it seems. I can't wait for this boundery to move further south east.
  13. tongboy
    I would have never figured that. Do they just pick a random number for the BSID? I sent you an updated PM.
  14. tongboy
    What I was referring to is actually the BSID. You can find it using Netmonitor or CDMA Field Test.
  15. tongboy
    Sorry to revive a thread that has run its course, but I have an update. Quite a few towers have been upgraded in my area. You can tell right away since the nid and tower id change. Don't expect high speeds on day one however. It seems even if a tower is marked complete the backhaul and/or fiber may not be totally done yet... Does that make sense or am I wrong? As time goes on speeds seem to be increasing around here.
  16. tongboy
    I never knew this app existed. Thank you!
  17. tongboy
    prls just tell your phone what cell company it can roam with and who the home market is. Unless you hack one up so you force your phone to roam it won't solve your problem, even then the carrier your phone roams on may have the same problem. Have you created a network ticket for those awful speeds? Is it always like that?
  18. tongboy
    I just found the thread where this was being talked about. Thanks for the clarification, I will stick with the stock prl for now.
  19. tongboy
    Using the Sprint issued prl this morning I pulled the fastest 3g download speed I have ever measured. From a tower a couple miles from the tower shown on the map I got 2.2 mbps download, 700k upload. The speeds were consistently over 1.5 meg. I suspect my issue was speedtest.
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    LOL! There were four different hardware revisions to the Evo 4g. I was going to give it a try since I figured there was a tiny chance that they unlocked g block frequencies in later radios. I have a rev 4. Your speedtest graph was very intresting... All these issues are related I think since they would probably tune up and test NV on the G block frequencies, like what they did during testing, before throwing the switch on active towers? Although, based on what you and S4GRU stated I think the root of my problem is the SpeedTest app. I will try again today.
  21. tongboy
    I'll give it a shot. I had seen that prl thread a while ago and one person said the Evo 4g didn't scan the G block frequencies so I didn't try it then.
  22. tongboy
    Interesting... I hit two seperate servers. Same one in the morning but a different one in the afternoon. I will try a few more tomorrow.
  23. tongboy
    I hope that is the case. It was listed as completed on one of the maps on this site.
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    and the results I got back were pretty disappointing on my EVO4g. In the morning at 6:15 CDT I was hitting the tower here: http://maps.google.com/?daddr=42.148837,%20-88.259143 Tower ID: CH03XC430 It is supposedly a completed tower. I got a ping of 115ms, download speed of 758kbps, and upload of 49kbps. I was sitting at the light at 62 and 25. I confirmed I was talking to that tower by using Netmonitor. On the way home this afternoon I got similar results. Have others seen better results with upgraded towers?
  25. tongboy
    Netmonitor in the Google Play store works suprisingly well. It seems to locate accurately about 90% of the towers I come across.
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