JonnygATL

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!