JonnygATL

4 hours ago, PedroDaGr8 said:

Hello from a former Lexingtonian (TCHS '99 here)

Paul Laurence Dunbar class of 98!

On 4/15/2020 at 9:35 AM, Rawvega said:

I'll miss Sprint. I've had them since 1999. Maybe I was simply lucky, but I just didn't have the problems with them that other people reported throughout the years so I never had a reason to switch.

Same here but I've had them since 1998 - one year longer than even you.  I was a senior in high school that year in Lexington, KY. Since then I've lived in both several portions of metro Cincinnati and also here in Atlanta.  Even in the late 90s, I had no signal issues with Sprint even in Lexington.  Anywhere I went  - and I went to a lot of places during my college years (while at University of Kentucky)all over the United States - I tended to have service.  When I didn't have it through Sprint I was roaming on Verizon for little or no cost.  So it didn't matter to me as long as the damned thing worked.  And it did....at least until the latter end of the 3G era during the much maligned rip and replace.  By then I was deep into my stint here in Atlanta and after that really terrible period.....the service became stellar here.  I mean awesome, even, at least at times.  LTE here in Atlanta was absolutely fantastic. Low latency, high DL speeds.....tolerable upload speeds.  That was a deliberate configuration as we all know but it certainly worked for most people.  

But change is inevitable and here we are.  It's an ever evolving story!

indeed.

On 3/30/2021 at 11:16 AM, Paynefanbro said:

I always thought it was smarter for T-Mobile to partner with one of the existing streaming services instead of trying to create their own. I'm glad they chose YouTube TV since I already use it and it integrates well with Google Home and the Chromecast with Google TV if you're in that ecosystem.

Also pretty beneficial for both Google and T-Mobile since it could potentially draw customers to both services.

Makes perfect sense. 

I personally think they've all got it wrong.  100% #teamchromebook over here! 

Was in San Juan area feb 20 through 23rd for my 41st bday....was amazing and so was tmobile's performance!  Great signal everywhere i went while my ATT toting friend was stuck having to use wifi or my phone as a hotspot!  Interesting.

9 hours ago, mikejeep said:

You are seeing Clearwire on the latest update from a few days ago, or the one before that? There was a bug in 4.64 but should be fixed in 4.65..

You are correct. I updated again without realizing you'd issued one and - voilá - problem quite resolved.  Thank you. 

So I'm getting "Clearwire" notifications on SCP since upgrading to the latest update as far as provider goes when the bands are clearly tmo (2 and 4, usually...with a smattering of 41).  All of these indicated T-Mobile prior to last update. Why the odd discrepancy?  Anyone? Bueller?  Anyone?

16 hours ago, jasonsteele said:

So far still three carriers in Phoenix, Sprint is at 2640, 2660 and 2680 for B41. Seems like only 2xCA as well. T-Mobile is at 2538 and 2558 for B41. I’m guessing everything in between is for n41, can’t tell for sure on my iPhone 12 because Field Test Mode is hot garbage and my other phone is an S10+.

Not "hot garbage"!!

21 hours ago, greenbastard said:

Pulling out of mainstream sports and going all in on soccer was a dumb move by Sprint. You could tell Marcelo pushed for this as he loves soccer and had a financial interest in it. It was a move made by someone who is way out of touch with what America likes.

This is the US. Not enough people care about soccer. The sport pales in comparison to the big three sports. This was a terrible investment from the very beginning and the fan boys defended it by saying "but soccer is the largest growing sport in the country". Sprint needed the exposure today, not tomorrow. 

This is a very good point.  True, soccer ("football") may be the largest sport in the world - by far - but this isn't the rest of the world.  This is the U.S. and soccer just isn't on the radar really here in the sort of capacity that would make any difference to/resonate with Sprint subs or potential subs.  

You're not going to reach mainstream folks pushing what amounts at least in this country to a niche sport.  

It is shocking the number of missteps they took over the years.  Even more shocking is that they survived as long as they did.  I would contend that is at least partially (if not wholly) due to the massive upgrades made to their network from 2H 2012 on.  

To suggest that the Sprint network didn't improve tremendously across the board would be a bold faced lie.

They did a good job with threadbare resources.  Ya gotta give em that.  

I had a weird issue when trying to create that previous post, hence its messy nature.  My apologies.  I'm for some reason not able to simply create a new post.  The system thinks I'm trying to modify my previous post...which I'm not.  But I can't find a way around it. 

Just now, JonnygATL said:

My speeds here in the Big Peach on Tmo B41 LTE are about exactly in line with what you're experiencing in the Big Apple. See attached. 

Having issues attaching the third shot from Speedtest app.

3 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

We're talking about this exact same thing over in the NYC thread too. If I put my phone in LTE only mode I get parked on Band 41 almost instantly in my home. Speeds are around 60-80Mbps down and 6Mbps up. I'm curious if their intent is to just keep it as a capacity layer to throw users onto or if they'll seek authorization to aggregate it with their other bands to boost peak speeds as well. If they choose the latter then they'd have more than enough spectrum dedicated to LTE in my market to handle the influx of Sprint users, especially after they shut down HSPA nationwide early next year.

In NYC (without shutting down the Sprint LTE network), they'd be able to do:

20MHz Band 41 + 20MHz Band 4/66 + 15MHz Band 2 + 5MHz Band 4 + 5MHz Band 12 or 5MHz Band 71.

My speeds here in the Big Peach on Tmo B41 LTE are about exactly in line with what you're experiencing in the Big Apple. See attached. 

3 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

We're talking about this exact same thing over in the NYC thread too. If I put my phone in LTE only mode I get parked on Band 41 almost instantly in my home. Speeds are around 60-80Mbps down and 6Mbps up. I'm curious if their intent is to just keep it as a capacity layer to throw users onto or if they'll seek authorization to aggregate it with their other bands to boost peak speeds as well. If they choose the latter then they'd have more than enough spectrum dedicated to LTE in my market to handle the influx of Sprint users, especially after they shut down HSPA nationwide early next year.

In NYC (without shutting down the Sprint LTE network), they'd be able to do:

20MHz Band 41 + 20MHz Band 4/66 + 15MHz Band 2 + 5MHz Band 4 + 5MHz Band 12 or 5MHz Band 71.

My speeds here in the Big Peach on Tmo B41 LTE are about exactly in line with what you're experiencing in the Big Apple. See attached. 

I guess I'm just surprised at how often I'm now on 2.5 on TMobile for LTE  (not 5G).  When My Note 10+ was first moved over to the Tmo network I never saw any Sprint bands for months.  Then band 41 began to appear now and again and now I'm pretty much parked on tmo B41 both at home and at work.  

On 11/22/2020 at 9:14 AM, jbahlman said:

Has anyone had issues with calls that connect but either one side or both can't hear.  Over the last week i have had several times with my wife and my son that this has happened.  One time rebooting my phone fixed it and another time my son rebooted his phone.  I live in Northern Va. Each time we have tried multiple calls and no luck.  But so far it has only happened with calls between us not with work or other calls.

Here in Atlanta as well.

4 hours ago, mdob07 said:

And today I noticed this tower is now getting 2500 M-MIMO added. I can't tell if they are removing that crooked antenna or just relocating but all 3 sectors are sitting like that, that's what caught my eye as I was driving by. 

They are deploying in clusters here, wherever you find one of these there's likely more nearby. Here is a quick look at sites I've found so far in south Louisville with 2500 M-MIMO installed. There's another cluster in the northeast part of Louisville, and I found a couple of these over in southern Indiana this week as well. At least 2 of these got both 600 and 2500 gear on this install, the rest already had the 600 MHz equipment. So far except for the initial site they did over in New Albany several months ago I haven't seen them not add 600 if it wasn't already there. 

I will see what they're up to in Lexington. We'll be there for an extremely bizarre and socially distanced Thanksgiving. I will take notes.  It's also the first time they're all meeting the boyfriend.  Nervous AF but not too nervous to scout for *T4GRU.  😏

19 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

Anyone getting a lot of missed calls on TNX? I've missed like 3 calls today. They ring and hangup 1 second later.

I had that happen a few weeks ago. A simple restart proved to be my fix. 

12 hours ago, Trip said:

Answered my own question.

https://imgur.com/a/e1o4UlR

Yes, by putting my T-Mobile phone on Band 26, I was able to force it onto 312250.  When it should have handed off to the neighbor cell, it instead dropped to No Service.  So I'm set to try to identify some keep sites.

- Trip

Oh that's awesome!  Nice research you did.  Simple but brilliant.  Looking forward to seeing what you uncover!

On 10/7/2020 at 2:37 PM, gr8nuguy said:

Upgraded to note20. Of note, I did not have to switch plans (currently on 25gb/$70 mo plus $20 per line )

I see what you did there 😏.

I have a note 10+ but can still speak to loving 2.5.  Wireless Dex is amazing.  Best part, hands down.

5 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

It looks like they "fixed" this. No longer seeing that when I go to the map.

Drats.  Seems you're correct. 

17 hours ago, mdob07 said:

 

It shows the one live tower in Louisville but not the one in Lexington KY. Both have been live for months, so there's probably a lot more that's live but not showing yet.

 

Wow if they're putting N41 on towers in  markets as small as Lexington (roughly 340,000 in city proper) already then they are really on a roll! As much as I love my hometown I wasn't expecting them to give secondary and tertiary markets any attention until at least a year from now at the earliest. Yes, Lexington had widespread band 41 but it was only capable of 2xCA as it was based on mini macs (somehow that sounds like little rappers in my head but anyway). I like the speed with which tmo moves!

Just now, JonnygATL said:

So after switching my phone back to Sprint by disallowing LTE roaming on my Note 10+, things went decidedly south. Predictively, my phone began performing rather poorly and wouldn't even load a simple web page...so I re-allowed LTE roaming (which seems to be how they're managing this in the background for Sprint users) gland now I'm cruising along handily on AWS spectrum. But, before connecting to band 4 I briefly connected to this here at my home in Midtown Atlanta. I feel like this is noteworthy.  Am I wrong?

Shit. Wrong one. That was the after. This was the initial....

So after switching my phone back to Sprint by disallowing LTE roaming on my Note 10+, things went decidedly south. Predictively, my phone began performing rather poorly and wouldn't even load a simple web page...so I re-allowed LTE roaming (which seems to be how they're managing this in the background for Sprint users) gland now I'm cruising along handily on AWS spectrum. But, before connecting to band 4 I briefly connected to this here at my home in Midtown Atlanta. I feel like this is noteworthy.  Am I wrong?

I didn't see the option under LTE editing to turn off tmo bands one by my one so I completely disabled LTE roaming and now I, too, am thankfully back on my extremely robust and fast Sprint band 41 signal. I don't know how long this workaround will work, however. I'm guessing not through the holidays as that spectrum gets rapidly refarmed.