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My real test downtown will definitely be the Chicago air and water show next month. A million+ on the lakefront. Last August, my iPhone 5 worked, albeit very slow. This year, I'm anxious to see how a triband device performs with that kind of crowd.
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Not to side with anyone, but holding on to a single-band device has it's benefits here in Chicago. He still has access to two 5x5 LTE carriers. And with many customers being divided amongst three 5x5 fdd lte carriers, plus a 20mhz swath of tdd LTE, his speeds should be increasing consistently. Especially with all the flagship releases happening lately, and their followers running to Sprint stores to upgrade.
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No. Just the single panel. I've actually never seen a capacity site around here, but I think I discovered one the other day. I'll need to investigate further. No other sites are nearby, two separate gci's, both with very low dBm.
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Had band 26 down i-57 from before monee to about Kankakee. Even some second pcs carrier on that stretch. Holy smokes. It basically goes to the southern edge of our market towers.
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It's actually not a joke, it's a real thing. Solar interference kills radio signals, and often times you will connect to more distant sites after sunset. I notice it all the time. -
Quite a bit of band 26 in Naperville. Haven't been out here in a long time.
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I haven't been to the Joliet area in a week, but I know some exact sites that were broadcasting 26 that I tracked down; mostly along 80 and 55. I was at the rail yard near 55 and arsenal late at night when a few of the sites there went live with 26. It's great because there is so much government land out there, that the surrounding towers have to reach very, very far. I'm actually going camping tonight near Kankakee. Hopefully, the nearest site has 26 live. It's about 2 miles from the campground. I'd like to have some service to stream some tunes.
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Neighboring cells are also doing this, too. I wonder if it's a simple fix?
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Just checked my phone. I'm actually idling on 26 for the first time ever. It's stuck there. I saw a white Ford Taurus parked at my home tower today. Maybe it was a tech doing something.
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Not necessarily. It depends on a lot of things, like how the site is configured, and the traffic load on the site. While I'm at home, I'll occasionally bounce between the 02 and 05 sectors of my home tower while just sitting on the couch. Although, it does appear to be random at times, almost like that second carrier is on some kind of 50/50 algorithm. Having incoming connections, and people ending phone calls and being randomly placed on one of two carriers after reconnecting to LTE seems like a good way to divvy up LTE traffic, then let the load balancing manage the idle connections. I don't think Sprint purchased that spectrum to pick and choose where it will be deployed. They want every subscriber in the purchased spectrum area to benefit from a better data experience. I'm pretty sure it will be on every Chicago market site, although, they might deploy it in a certain order based on traffic patterns.
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If you're on a tower that has the second carrier, a few airplane toggles should land you on it. Look for 8315/26315 in your LTE engineering screen.
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I really wish direct connect was a free add-on. Since it runs alongside Sprint's PCS network and not iDen, it doesn't really consume extra resources. I used to love DC back in the Nextel days. PTT apps are pretty popular these days, and Sprint could set itself apart by including that with their plans.
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Now, as much as I love a limited edition phone, and a limited edition color scheme, the hk version didn't do it for me. Even with the nice headphones. I sat in a Sprint store for an hour with one in each hand. I found the hk to be too glossy, and a big fingerprint magnet. My gunmetal version never shows grease on the metal back which is awesome. Definitely go compare the two in person because online photos never do justice.
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Since it's not a widespread market issue, I'm leaning towards them just simply not being optimized, like you said. On the other hand, Chicago has an additional LTE carrier that only a few markets have nationwide. Maybe it's a whole new process for the folks turning on band 26, and things may have been missed.
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I've discovered a network handoff issue in many parts of the western/southern suburbs regarding band 26, and I need the help of members in here. I've been getting dropped down to 3g far too often, and on sites that I know are broadcasting band 26. What I'm noticing is: if I'm on the second pcs carrier, and lose signal from that sector, it will drop me to 3g instead of 26. This doesn't happen when on the regular pcs spectrum...ever. While this isn't the case on every site broadcasting 26 plus a second carrier, it is the case for a large portion of them. I don't know if this is by design, an overlook by engineers, or from the sites only being launched for around a month, and not fully configured. If you know of any sites broadcasting all three 5x5 LTE carriers, try and get your phone on the second carrier, and lose signal by death gripping, or simply by moving away from the sector's reach. Then, try and repeat that process while on the original pcs spectrum. Let's see if we can get a consensus on this issue. I wouldn't even begin to know what to tell Sprint support regarding this issue. I don't have the patience for their endless profile/prl updates.
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But, don't we all pay that E911 service fee every month? I thought that was to cover 911 location services?
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More than likely.
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I really only use an actual computer about once a month, and the Chicago permit site isn't very mobile friendly. Even their mobile site. And, I've yet to find the filed permit section on any town's website. We have so many towns here that it could take a very, very long time to browse them all.
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I try my best to contribute. Network vision has been my obsession for a few years. Since my home tower went band 26 last week, I find myself death gripping my phone, or airplane toggling just to see that 11 sector come up in signal check. I was patient for several, and now I'm enjoying it. My fiancee is always asking me why I'm "gripping my phone like that."
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I have found so much second carrier, band 26, 8t8r, and in-progress 8t8r in the wild. I wish I had the time to make us a premier map, or to even find the time to contribute to someone else's map.
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Not in the western/southern suburbs. There have been a couple of actual downtown second pcs carrier reports. Not sure what the hold up is, but it should happen just as rapidly as it did outside of the city. It was literally in the span of a few days from nothing to fully blanketed. Maybe the tighter spaced sites in the loop are a problem with interference or something.
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That's already present in and around Sox park. The second carrier is new over there. It just needs to be fully functional along side PCS-g, and band 26.
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My fiance just handed me her phone because of an update prompt. Looks like 7.1.2 just got pushed. I forgot to take a picture of her screen. Something for ibeacon, and a security fix for mail. Seems very minor.
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I actually still drop a few calls every week, and it's usually on the Dan Ryan or the Stevenson. It can be annoying, especially when you get those back-to-back-to-back drops. But overall, the quality is phenomenal. My friends on AT&T sound terrible.
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Has anyone ever had an issue where people just cannot hear you for the first 5 seconds of a call? Any ideas what could cause that? It's been happening since I got the phone in January, and on various towers in the Chicagoland area. It's getting annoying. I'm wondering if it's a setting, or if my phone has an issue.
