Brad The Beast

So I'm trying to change my APN with unlockit.co.nz but the APN it tries to set is wap.cingular. Is there a way to change this?

I don't know where to find the APN. You used to be able to look at it in Field Test mode.

They have to assume that the merger isn't going through and conduct themselves as such.

Yes. AT&T postpaid. Unlimited Starter plan. Didn't know there were other APN's to try tbh

So this is my 4 days in review. Coverage: I've only been in town. Seems fine. About the same as T-Mo and Sprint. Verizon is better thanks to small cells on the university campus and a couple more sites around town. Call performance: Much better than T-Mobile. No call problems so far, call quality doesn't seem to be very good. Data performance: So the definition of busy in "when the network is busy" is: if there's at least one other device using the same tower as you. I am deprioritized 24/7. Speeds are wildly inconsistent. When the network isn't being dumb the speeds are good. 40-90Mbps down and up to 12Mbps up. Pings are 110ms+ most of the time.

Ok. I understand now. Not everyone has a device that's both CDMA and GSM compatible.

They switched to AT&T for voice roaming though. They even updated the coverage map to reflect it. So can we roam on both VZW and ATT for voice?

Verizon voice roaming was turned off back around March of last year was it not?

It's possible. There's no such thing as "fast" in the legal world.

Missed 200,000 postpaid adds. Went from 53.9 million lines to 54.1 million total lines.

Submitted report. Got a message under "Upcoming improvements" (I guess them fixing the network counts as an upcoming improvement). The message says "We are currently experiencing a technical issue in this area and we are working hard to resolve it". Don't know if this is just the default response or what. We'll see what happens.

Probably coincidence. I'll give it a try. I don't have any confidence though.

Here's a test I just did. Network is clearly not congested so I don't know why I'm being deprioritized.

Actually, I just noticed that I'm not getting H+ anywhere now. Used to get it at my apartment and now I'm not.

Maybe? All I know is I need my H+ because LTE struggles a good chunk of the time.

Anywhere from >1Mbps up to 50Mbps. Speeds are wildly inconsistent. Ping times are god awful. I think the best ping I've seen so far is 79ms. 90% of the time it's 110ms+. This site isn't new. It's been around for a while.

I became a bad man and switched my work line from T-Mobile to my uncle's ATT account. I've made some interesting discoveries. Turns out that when they say "AT&T may temporarily slow data speeds if the network is busy", that means you're deprioritized 24/7. I've also found a site here in town that has no HSPA/HSPA+. It's LTE or nothing which I thought was odd.

There is no time table. But it's not a fast process. There's no way we'd have a decision this early. Common sense.

You should not be opening any ports at all. The Airave 4 has the same spectrum requirements as the Magic Box. If you run your address through the Magic Box address checker and it says ineligible then you are also ineligible for an Airave 4.

Ah. I see. Yes it's definitely not optimal. Luckily there are very few Sprint customers here so band 25 performs fine. It's not amazing or anything but it works.

5x5 with 64QAM on the uplink has a max of 18.75Mbps. 18Mbps up is the fastest I've seen here. I usually average 13-14Mbps up.

What's yuck about 55 down 18 up?

I don't have any band 41. We have two non-contiguous 5x5 L1900 carriers and a 3x3 L800 carrier. You can get up to 55Mbps down and up to 18Mbps up on band 25 here. Band 26 is completely worthless for downloads though.

Now I know you're all thinking "Brad this is terrible!". It is both terrible and not terrible. Let's compare Sprint's data against the July 2019 report to see what's improved. 4G Availability has improved quite a bit (OpenSignal is very urban-heavy on it's data though, 4G availability should be considered availability in urban environments only). On the July 2019 report it was 89.5. On the January 2020 report it's 92.5. That's a 3% increase! Sprint's scores on the video experience metric have also improved. On the July 2019 report, Sprint scored a 47.5. On the January 2020 report, they scored 55.5. OpenSignal had this to say: We're going to break down the Download Speed Experience metric into 4G and 3G performance. Average 4G download speed on the July 2019 report was 21.1Mbps. Average 4G download speed on the January 2020 report is 25.9Mbps. That's a 4.8Mbps increase in average 4G download speed. Average 3G download speed on the July 2019 report was 1.3Mbps. Average 3G download speed on the January 2020 report was 1.4Mbps. The 3G speeds are what is dragging the overall download speed metric score down. Upload speed experience is going to focus on 4G speeds only. Sprint's average 4G upload speed on the July 2019 report was 2.6Mbps. Average 4G upload speed on the January 2020 was 3Mbps. A very small increase which shows that uploads still need a lot of work. Latency experience will only focus on 4G. Sprint's average 4G latency on the July 2019 report was 55.1ms. Average 4G latency on the January 2020 report is 51.2ms.

There was never going to be a decision until February at the earliest.