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JoSe_RaUL_96

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  1. Ooh baby, Legere really gave it to Sprint today saying any Merger would end with T-Mobile on top and Sprint's Network Vision is a shit storm. He's a bit delusional.

     

    T-Mobile CEO John Legere refuses to deny acquisition by Sprint http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/8/5289316/t-mobile-ceo-john-legere-refuses-to-deny-acquisition-by-sprint

     

    Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk

    Well he has a point, they always talking about the benefits of NV and how great it is but thats all they do, talk about something that is not there, the network is slow at least here in New Orleans it is, i rather turn off LTE on my iPhone and use 3G, half the time i have full bars of LTE and i cant even pull down a meg. and yes band 41 is supposed to fix that problem but thats not coming anytime soon and based on how fast they are deploying it it will take years, i do believe its a shitstorm and the Spanky network, no better word to describe it. Once Sprint deploys the network they been hyping about for the past years ill consider them as a carrier again. Their network works as wifi, you have to find the hotspots to get something done, and there are not many of them.

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  2. Can someone post a pic of a speed test on 4g in the new orleans area? I went to the sprint store on Veterans yesterday and did some speed tests on the Note 2 and S3. They were horribly slow. Like under 1mb. Uploads were really bad also. Is this the speeds everyone is getting?

    The tower is far from that store, I'm surprised some phone can connect to it, i couldn't get my iPhone to connect when i went to that store. You can find some speedtest in here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yi70ma10klcgn4c/XT65GbGek4 one of the pictures is showing some of the best speed i have gotten but you will rarely get speeds like that, average is 6-12, upload speeds are all over the place some as high as 10 some as low as .50, and ping is usually 80+ (from what i seen on my phone, from different towers in the city)
  3. Because the LTE signal is more fragile and cannot push data on a weak signal like EVDO can.

     

    The LTE signal and EVDO signal strength should be the roughly the same at the same distance from the tower (if you are measuring both in RSSI).

     

    However, LTE will stop being effective around -95dBm and EVDO will be able to work until approximately -105dBm. So if you are standing in a place with a -100dBm EVDO signal, you would also have a -100dBm LTE signal. But your device will probably not show LTE in your signal indicator because it cannot connect and be useful at that strength.

     

    Does that make sense?

     

    With LTE 800, the -95dBm threshold will be farther out from the site than LTE 1900, giving more coverage.

     

    Robert via Samsung Galaxy S-III 32GB using Forum Runner

    I've seen it written somewhere that the maximum anticipated NV gain ever to be experienced in ideal situations is 3dBm over legacy 1x/EVDO to NV 1x/EVDO. Since the maximum threshold between LTE and EVDO is approximately 10dBm (between -95dBm and -105dBm RSSI), this will be far different than the maximum 3dBm difference between legacy and NV. So, therefore, we can anticipate LTE 1900 should offer less coverage than legacy EVDO. If you use Cloud RF to model the difference, in an ideal flat area, you get about a one mile difference on a 300' boomer with no downtilt.

     

    So I think LTE 1900 coverage should be quite good in most urban/suburban locations, except in those places with poor site spacing (like Baton Rouge). But tertiary and rural markets will look like LTE swiss cheese until LTE 800 arrives toward the end of 2013.

     

    I appreciate your offer of being a S4GRU guinea pig.

     

    Robert

    I kind of didnt know how to ask they question but this is the answer i was looking for.
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  4. What's the location? where is the phone? what kind of phone? how is it being held? How's the weather? What angle is the site to the location? what's the downtilt on the antenna? how's the noise level? which was the wind blowing? what's the barometric pressure? is the user male or female? what is their sexual preference? how old are they?

    Im guessing ur trying to tell me there is no approximate average, i was look for something like EXAMPLE (EVDO can go a mile LTE can go 1/2 of a mile)
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    Here's all I could get being suck in the older part of my school forcing LTE with airplane mode. When I was close to outside I got up to 23 Mbps. Didn't have a chance yet to ride around and see the speeds. I have no idea where the tower is. I'm disappointed though because I live about 6 miles from Lutcher and I'm not getting any LTE here at my house! :(

    This is probably the site 30.038647,-90.696236 Texas St. and Jefferson Hwy
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  6. Discussing sites in the sponsor area ;)

    But what sites, i been all around the city and there is nothing new, the only recent site (julia st and s anthony) was turned off a couple days ago, that take us back to nothing, at this pace t-mobile is going to launch LTE, att and verizon 5G and we still going to be waiting on another tower to get turned on.
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    I am not sure of the exact steps but all the ones I have seen being upgraded are Panels then RRUs but generally at the same time. Digi and Robert probably know. We are pretty sure the upgrades at Calliope and OC Haley are the first T-Mobile upgrades. They aren't Sprint panels, but I never did get an answer if anyone thought the top panels were Sprint. We might have been looking at the wrong tower this whole time.

    Thats what i thought, this is the third T-mobile upgrade I see, watch them have LTE before we do.
  8. What are the steps of upgrading a tower? Do they put the panels and then the RRU or the panels and RRU at the same time? I seen too towers that look like are being upgraded but is just the panels for now no RRU that I can see. Calliope St and Oretha C Halley being one of them.

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