JonnygATL

Wow, so even after zooming in I had to rub my eyes. It seems essentially NO sites in Midtown have been upgraded to LTE, let alone 3G, but I suppose this goes along with the idea of doing the suburbs first, the urban areas later, eh? But I do want to let you know that I talked to a supervisor at Sprint regarding my rollercoaster data speed ride and was informed that a.) there had been a local tower outage likely due to NV upgrades and that b.) the other towers around me were being overloaded as they were being forced to carry the extra traffic. And, a few hours later, lo and behold, my data speeds have now returned to "normal." Attached is a screenshot showing this. ok...well I tried to attach it but I don't know how. It says something like "file type not supported in this community." But the downlink was 1296 and the uplink was 637. So, yeah, definitely better.

Robert - Really? That is odd. I certainly believe you but can you tell me why my speeds suddenly increased about 4 weeks ago up to about 1.3 down, on average, and remained there until just yesterday? I posted previously about this in another thread...I can't recall which but it pertained to NV in general.

To sum it up...when I first moved to this part of Atlanta I had horrible speeds, like today (around 0.2 down) and even less. They sent me an airave. It didn't work out (horrid voice calls). They advised me updates were ongoing. They were right. One day my speeds spiked up to the aforementioned 1.3 (ish) down and remained that way until yesterday.

If the speed increases were not due to NV upgrades, then why in the world did my speed increase so dramatically..some five times faster, in fact (and seemingly overnight)? I hope you can explain because I am lost!

I still don't see a single person on any website/blog reporting having been able to download this OTA or otherwise prompted by their phone for an OFFICIAL update. Am I wrong here/missing something?

Also, on another note, 3G data speeds here in Atlanta (Emory University area) have suddenly become dreadfully slow, just as they were beore NV began. Currently, using the speedtest app, I am only getting 0.1 - 0.25 down. No joke. Whereas before I was consistently getting 0.8 - 1.4 mb down. With LTE scheduled to go live on Sunday, is this latest slowdown in 3G speeds somehow related even though these are obviously 2 different technologies/frequencies?? Just curious as not being able to effectively use my smartphone for data really sucks the "smart" out of the "phone."

Can we not just force it through the "system update" function under "about phone" in settings? I keep hitting it, but it keeps telling me that my "system is up to date." Which, in my mind, it is NOT! LOL...so how bout it - can we force it or must we endure the dreaded wait?

Thanks, guys. I am now a sponsor. I will donate more in the coming days and weeks (OMG I sound like HP/Palm..or Sprint w/ that corporate speak) as I do greatly appreciate the countless hours and work put into this baby!

When I first moved from Midtown Atlanta to here near Emory University, I was appalled to see that my shiny new GSII was not only entirely unable to latch onto a 4G (wimax) signal at all, but it couldn't even catch a usable 3G signal! Imagine the horror! I was still very much deep inside the Perimeter (I-285 loop around the city) and could not even get a Rev A signal. WTF?? So I called Sprint..they sent me an Airave. It garbled my calles but gave me respectable data speeds. However, voices calls were all but impossible as I could not tell what anyone was saying nor could they understand me at all, so I pulled the plug on that POS and decided to just wait out the (3G) network upgrades. I mean, I was not even able to get 0.2 MB down. It was abysmal. I couldn't even stream my mp3s from Amazon's Cloud Drive. It was THAT slow.

But, randomly one day a few weeks back, my 3G speeds suddenly spiked to 1.0 Mb down...then even as high a 1.6 down. I was in shock. I even went to check and be sure no one had plugged the Airave back in. It was NOT connected. These were real world speeds as a result of improved backhaul courtesy of NV upgrades. Hallelujah! Just for anyone who is wondering..the speeds have remained generally consistent ever since. I rarely dip below 0.8 mb down even in the deepest recesses of the house. There have been exceptions...when the speeds briefly drop back down to lethargically slow 2G speeds..but I imagine this is due to testing or something. I don't know. But, by and large, the upgrades (to just the 3G network I'm speaking to) have been amazing here in Atlanta.

Just so you know. : o ) Cheers, folks!

Oh, I totally searched high and low as well and could not seem to find it either. I assumed once you logged in, a button would pop up saying something like "become sponsor" or something like that. My point is that I assumed it would only appear after you logged in so that said donation would be tied to your log in name. At any rate, I'm about to donate so that i can partake of some of that yummy "sponsor only" map goodness!