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Has anyone ever gotten what Sprint's load balancing rules are?  Is it based on usage, signal strength, thruput, bandwidth availability, etc?

Seems really weird that B25 seems to be sitting here available and reliable, while B26 and B41 are wastelands.

As it turns out, both B26 and B41 are unusable. After disabling B26, my modem freaked out. I wish I had a screen video capture, SCP was just bouncing between any B41 site and carrier it could find, but never holding on as the network would attempt to balance it elsewhere. After seeing that for about 10mins, I disabled B41 I'm addition to B26.

Once my device was on B25 it was as stable as I ever remember it. Here is a speedtest from the B25 connection. While on B41 a speedtest would never start.

It appears that Sprint's network priority is B41->B26->B25. One would think that B25 would be preferred to B26 as it is a much larger and multiple carriers.

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I remember driving 30 minutes to the first LTE site in the mid-Michigan area just to get an LTE signal.  Then talking with a crew upgrading a different site and find out that they built the first one.

There is a way to turn off Band 26 on Nexus devices.

 

Dial *#*#3282#*#*

Go to LTE and select Edit.

For ServiceCode, just type in 000000

From there, select Band 26 Enabled and select Off.

Press the home button and the phone should restart.

 

Your phone should only scan for B25 and B41 after this. If you wish to turn it back on, just go back and turn it on using the same steps.

 

As far as load balancing, the network can move you around, even during data sessions. I've gone from ehrpd to LTE during active data sessions without a hiccup. LTE 25 and LTE 26 swap back and forth without any issue either during active data sessions. The same happens with B41, but I find it more iffy.

 

But now that you mention it, I have seen the network act a bit funny with load balancing and LTE hand offs in my area. I'm sure it's just regular nationwide maintenance since I believe there was an update to the network to accommodate HPUE devices.

I think I tried this once before and my phone basically quit working, but I'll give it another shot.

Nexus 6p *61 updated to *62

I've been very frustrated my network connections recently.  I'm not sure if its my device or the network load balancing, but my Nexus 6P latches on to LTE B26 and just sits there.  I can be in downtown Lansing, MI with visual site to 3xCA, 8T8R, Triband, full build sites and still be parked on B26.  Due to the Canadian/US border, we are limited to a 3x3MHz FDD LTE carrier that is so over loaded, it is essentially useless outside of the middle of the night.

I remember when LTE was first launched and only B25 existed there were limitations on network changes due to CDMA.  My recollection from those threads and conversations was due to CDMA and LTE not being forward/backwards compatible, an active data session couldn't hand up from CDMA to LTE until a "quiet" period occurred.  However, if LTE was lost or too weak, the session could hand down to CDMA via eHRPD.

I thought it was explained that once LTE was across the board and all three LTE bands were available, the network and devices would be able to pass active data sessions up and down (i.e. B26->B25->B41 and reverse) because LTE allows and supports this type of load balancing.  Also, its best practice to get a device on the most largest available bandwidth to get their data session completed.

What I experience is that my device will go to B41 or B25 when it is idle, I start using it and I have a good network connection for a few minutes, but quickly I end up back on B26 and with a less than stellar thru put.  I.e. 45 secs for a website to load, minutes for a snap to send, 10 minutes for an app to update, etc.  I can disable mobile data on my device, wait about 30 seconds, then I'm back on B25 or B41, turn on mobile data and experience the same thing with getting shuffled onto B26.

Is my understanding of LTE active data sessions being able to change bands incorrect or is something else occurring?

One caveat for my experience at home is that I live on the border of two separate Sprint switches/regions.  To the west I have a B25 & B41 site, to the east I have a triband site.  However, when I'm in Lansing for work and other stuff, I'm one a single switch/network.

I use mine for the hotspot to connect my nest thermo stat to, its also my streaming device for netflix/hulu/amazon prime.  I use it for easy web browsing, recipes while cooking, etc.

I wish I hadn't paid the 299 thru sprint, but I never thought to look at ebay.

Can the OP be updated with a tracker for how much has been donated?  I'm broke for a paycheck or two, but I'll be putting a bit in the pot when i can.

A little birdie told me that the Test Drive is 7.0 with April Security patches.

any recommendations on a Glass and/or glass/LCD combo kit for this device.  I've got a co-worker who does the replacements and she has volunteered to fix my phone.  Just was to get a good screen/glass replacement.  I've read iffy reviews from the kits on Amazon.

the calyx page seems to work for me @ https://www.calyxinstitute.org/member/membership-levels

 

and I can log in to my account, not that it does a lot

 

as far a the device, it has never been very stable for me here in st louis, I suspect it has issues with the mixed clear/sprint towers here, as it loses internet while still showing 'connected', which either takes a reboot or a manual disconnect/connect to get working again.

 

the battery life is not that great either.

 

I am not likely to renew, I got the unlimited tablet data plan and it comes with 10gig hotspot on my ipad mini2, so between that and my phones I rarely need this hotspot service anymore.

They have two different sign up links, one works and one doesn't

Windows 10 was a free upgrade. He could add a donate option to the existing app. LTE Discovery has a continuing support option, he could do something similar.

 

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Windows 8 was not much of a hit with consumers.  MS did that to just save face and get W10 adoption rate increased.

Looking deeper into this, the membership pages seem to be unavailable, any existing users having issues?

Anyone seen or heard from Mike recently?  Just wondering if he has any updates on progress since his post in February

I still utilize this tablet.  Since I don't have High Speed Internet, the 10GB hotspot is how my Nest thermostat stays connected.  I wish I hadn't bought it directly from sprint as the $299 price point was about $150 too much, but i didn't consider BYOD at the time.

I'm still on the $20/month plan, unless I can figure out an HSI solution, I can't see myself getting rid of it.

Compared to what T-Mobile won and how much they paid, Dish got taken for a ride. They overpaid for Nationwide 5x5 and the only place they got more spectrum than T-Mobile is in New York and the Bay Area. For a $2 Billion difference, I would have sacrificed NYC and SF-OAK-SJ for equal or more spectrum in the rest of the US markets and rural 20x20 spectrum.

They went whole hog on NYC and that is almost a third of their outlay.  Looking at the spreadsheet, looks like they got a lot of 10x10 too.

Found this on Fierce Wireless...

Wow, T-Mobile really went for it.  They've got 15x15 or 20x20 in all Michigan markets.

Has anyone created a legend of who the random names were buying for?

$4.99

 

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Its not like each new Windows OS or Office version is free

Maybe Mike should find a way to not update the old version but come out with a new improved version and charge a fee on the Google Play store.   He needs to be paid and I sure do not have an objection to paying for his time and efforts.

I'd gladly buy a new version of the app.  So much has changed, the amount of work deserves some additional compensation.

Rumors were of a new test drive getting setup, I heard of some emails going to MXPE users who were a part of previous projects.

Wasn't M2M on Sprint B10 CDMA one of the talking points they used in the early NV1.0 days?

It was almost 6 months between CDMA B10 and LTE B26 being fired up in the Lansing area

Updated Beta coming down for N6P, includes FingerPrint gestures NPG47I

Will the small cells being deployed contain 800mHz?  I assumed the small cells were for 2.5G?

i believe all small cells are B41 only