4 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

Verizon finally turned on C-band on the sites the cover my home. Maximum speeds indoors or out are ~350Mbps around my home. Unfortunately their signal isn't great inside my home just as I hypothesized. Near any window I get 2 bars which gets me as fast as 350Mbps down and up to 12Mbps up but generally hover around 250 down.

In my living room where I have the weakest signal on both T-Mobile or Verizon (besides my basement) I lose n77 completely. If I hold my phone just right I can get ~55Mbps down but the uplink is the bottleneck. I can’t get more than 1Mbps there. This is in comparison to 483 down and 28Mbps up in the same place on my T-Mobile line.

For what it's worth I don't think backhaul is the issue since the sites around me all have mmWave. I think it's more that C-band's range isn't that great in my area. 

Here are some screenshots of Verizon speeds just outside my house vs in my living room:

 

Sidenote: Has anyone else noticed that Verizon has removed the mmWave layer from their coverage maps? Looks like they're deemphasizing it just like T-Mobile and AT&T.

 

I still see the mmWave layer

4 hours ago, iansltx said:

Apparently 3.45 requires NR Release 16, which is only available on X65 modems. So the only phones that can take advantage are the S22 series right now. Plus whatever comes out with the 8G1 otherwise. Which annoys me because I'm not hearing great things about the S22, so I don't particularly want to upgrade, but I also want to take advantage of that spectrum.

Might have to buy two new phones this year as a result: one for 3.45, one for n70 😐

3.45 what?

It looks like they shut down B26 in my area.  Can't connect to it anymore.  I still connect to Sprint B25 though.

1 hour ago, Destroyallcubes said:

So am I missing something with why All N77 capable phones arent able to use the new "Andromeda" spectrum? As far As what I could tell is the new ATT spectrum should be available to use as N77, but ATT seems to ensue that N77 phones wont work with it. Is there a specific band thats used for it?

They don't want to pay for going back and getting those devices "approved" for N77 and software updates.

8 minutes ago, Fmalley said:

I also have a sticky notification on my S22 Ultra TMobile.

Clicking it doesn't open it and it doesn't clear. 

Any idea if it actually means anything?

I was able to clear mine.

Did anyone else get a notification that says it's from "T-Mobile Diagnostics" app that just says "test"?  

In the Cleveland market (Parma) area.  On Galaxy S21 (Sprint version, T-Mobile SIM)

On 3/1/2022 at 3:32 PM, RedSpark said:

Should be interesting. Predictions?

Let's say absolute worse case, T-Mobile doesn't win ANY spectrum in that auction.  Would we lose our current 100Mhz N41 channel?  Or how much of a second n41 channel would they be able to use?

3 minutes ago, Paynefanbro said:

All evidence points to yes. The antennas that Dish has been deploying are capable of n26 whereas T-Mobile hasn’t deployed any n26 capable equipment. 

Cool, I was wondering about that.

Does anyone know if T-Mobile is still planning to sell B26 to Dish?   Or what the status of that is?  Just curious.

17 hours ago, RedSpark said:

Should be interesting. Predictions?

Also, I saw they are planning 50Mhz channels.  

1 hour ago, RedSpark said:

Should be interesting. Predictions?

Hopefully T-Mobile will buy as much as they can.

15 minutes ago, dkyeager said:

Did LTE 71 also drop?

5 for LTE 71, 15 for n71 in Columbus today, which seems lower.

No, LTE here has always been 5 Mhz.  And it is still 5 Mhz.

Maybe they are going to give Dish back their leased spectrum?

I just noticed today that my N71 bandwidth has drop from 15 Mhz to 10 Mhz.

15 hours ago, PedroDaGr8 said:

T-mobile lists the bands as follows:

GSM: 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 1900 MHz; LTE: 2, 4, 5, 12, 46, 48, 66, 71; LTE Roaming: 1, 3, 7, 8, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 38, 39, 40, 41; UMTS: Band I (2100), Band II (1900), Band IV (1700/2100), Band V (850); 5G: n5, n25, n41, n66, n71, n260, n261

I have also heard that the bands you mention will roll out as a software update because they just got FCC approval. 

No N77?  And it's weird that B25 is listed as roaming

My phone just downloaded the Feb security update.  BVA6.

So, I just connected to N71 + N41 SA today.  In my basement, no less.  Speeds weren't too impressive, at 76/11.  But it's a start.  I don't think I've connected to B41 or N41 in my basement before.  Not even when I was with Sprint and they had a B41 site less than a 10th of a mile from me.

In the Parma, OH area.

53 minutes ago, PedroDaGr8 said:

Maybe I didn't explained, we have had B41/n41 for quite a while a well. That being said, my phone would almost never connect to B41 instead preferring B2 or B66. Just in the past couple of days, B41 appears to now have a priority much closer to B2 and B66.

Ah, ok.

7 minutes ago, PedroDaGr8 said:

I've noticed my phone connecting to T-Mobile 4G B41 a lot more often the past few days. I wonder if this has anything to do with them really starting to push forward with B41/n41. 

I think it's because they have finally deployed it in your area.  We've had T-Mobile B41/N41 for a while.

1 hour ago, BlueAngel said:

Was a huge update for a security patch, 616.26MB.

Mine was 584

Just became available for me today.  Jan 2022 Security update.  Also talks about increased stability.

December update just downloaded for me.

Anybody have the December update yet?  Not me.

7 hours ago, dkyeager said:

Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G (SM-G998U1)

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Build Number : G998U1UES4BUKK

Android version : S(Android 12)

Release Date : 2021-12-31

Security patch level : 2021-12-01

· The security of your device has been improved.

Build Number : G998U1UEU4BUKF

Android version : S(Android 12)

Release Date : 2021-12-07

Security patch level : 2021-11-01

• Overall stability of your device has been improved.
• The security of your device has been improved.

No update for me when i check.

Think we'll get the december update before new years?

19 minutes ago, 1dante said:

I connected to 600mhz 5G a few weeks ago here. Today was the first time that I’ve connected to UC in Live Oak. 

I'm really loving them pushing UC to more rural areas.  I wonder what percentage of their coverage area they are targeting when they are done deploying N41