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1 hour ago, Paynefanbro said:

I cut the cord today and got Sling. The retentions department of my cable provider seemed pretty mad. The person that I was speaking to kinda had an attitude the entire time.

In total I am saving about $60 while also getting all of the channels that I love. I also have Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and YouTube Red. All I need to get is an indoor HDTV antenna to get a few missing channels and then I am all set.

Same here. I got rid of Spectrum about 6 months ago and moved to Sling. Never looked back!! I initially started with the fire stick but then got an AIrTV from Sling. it has the OTA Antenna, tuner and integrated TV guide. Plus the standard Android TV apps. never been happier to pay 39.99 monthly bill for my Fios 50/50 internet.

LTE is back online in midtown. I am connecting to B25, 26 and 41. CA seems to be working as well.

 

Currently in Rye, NY getting these speeds.

 

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These are some impressive speeds my friend 

Back to Legacy 3G. Haven't seen these speeds in a couple of years  .

What I noticed is that the CA gets turned off when the data is not in use. I had to run a speedtest in the background to capture service mode screenshot. SignalCheck was only showing LTE without any band information.

Looks like CA is being enabled faster than I thought. Below are the results from W55 st and 6th Ave in Manhattan. I used to get less than 1MB on B41 during lunch hours.

Eh, speeds shouldn't be used to shame, rather, does the phone work or not, should be the benchmark.

 

I was in Jamaica yesterday at Hillside Honda and it was great to see B41 there. Was able to check carfax, truecar, etc. without any hiccups. That to me is what a benchmark of a usable network should be.

I agree. And as I mentioned before, Sprint network in NYC has improved tremendously in the past 1-2 years. Outdoors you are almost always connected to LTE. But then there are problems with the overburdened sites especially in Manhattan, and lack of LTE in several suburban areas. I usually visit Hicksville LI, Marlboro/Edison NJ and Kings of Prussia PA. Although the sponsor maps show most or all of the surrounding sites have been upgraded to LTE, there is barely any usable data. The point is that the current state of Sprint's network in the northeast is not comparable to other carriers.This can of course improve in the next year or two.

Hey wanted to give you an update if you're still in the area, the cell site was decommissioned and moved to a nearby building, so that area should improve significantly now.

Thanks for the update!! My reception at home improved significantly since I upgraded to a tri-band phone. I get decent B41 signal and never drop a call. Forest Hills and Rego Park area has improved significantly in the past year or so. At work I connect to B26 inside my office and get usable 1-3mbps. Most of my problems are with overburdened B41 in midtown Manhattan where speeds fall below 1x level. And lack of any LTE on parts of LI, NJ and PA where I frequently visit my family and friends. Hoping that decommissioning of WiMax and NGN project will improve service throughout the tri-state area. Whenever I run speed tests on my brother's TMO, he almost always put Sprint to shame.

The Sprint stock has gotten murdered in the past couple of weeks. Looks like the analysts and shareholders are worried about how Sprint is going to fund the NGN project. Some of the recent articles point out that the NV project was poorly implemented and NGN may not be the saving grace. I am rooting for the underdog and listen to what Claure has to say on August 4th.

Wow...10-15dbm improvement will make a world of a difference. I need to get my hands on a tri-band device.

Make that country clubs, more than one

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I know what you mean. I went to NYIT for 4 years. I doubt there is any place to build cell towers without encroaching into someone's mansion or country club. This is one of the richest places in the US. Lots of old money.

Where is that hospital? The address? I want to check something.

It was called the Parkway hospital. The address and pictures are in the below article. You can see Sprint towers in the pictures.

 

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140122/forest-hills/former-parkway-hospital-becomes-eyesore-amid-uncertain-future

A quick glance at their site showed me that they have Band 26 and Band 25, but there is no Band 41. They tell you what bands they'd support online. That's actually insane. Shame it is expanding in Queens first, no offense to Queens. This would be really useful in Brooklyn, even if they only do it around downtown Brooklyn first.

Where do you see this information aside from Premier sponsors map? We need B26 and 1x800 everywhere in NYC. I live in Forest Hills Queens and the tower I used to connect to was on top of a hospital that went bankrupt 5 years ago. Since then the building has been abandoned but you can see Sprint towers on the roof but with no signal. I can barely hold a call for more than 5 minutes and I am not sure if Sprint will be relocating the towers at a different location (its been 5 years). At work, I have LTE towers right across the street and I can literally see the panels outside the office window. But the signal is too low to hold on to LTE because I am close to the 40th floor. B26 will be a blessing for people like me 

Finally! I wonder if they did Band 41 and Band 26 or if it is just PCS.

I can only confirm band 25 because I have GS3.

I had a pleasant surprise last night while waiting for the train at 57 st station (Q/N/R line). There was LTE service inside the station where previously I was always roaming on Verizon. Looks like Sprint just started to turn on cell service inside the subway stations. Here is the speedtest from the inside.

You mean in this particular location or in any? because i have seen 10mbs @ 105dBm, its rare but ive seen it.

Last weekend in Ramsey, NJ i was getting 15-20mbs @ 98-100dBm.

Definitely rare. I have never seen such speeds but I have been mostly testing in Manhattan and Queens. Lately the speeds have gotten slower and I've been averaging 3-6Mbps with 65-80dBm. I have a feeling that the sites are getting overloaded because the phones usually leech on to the LTE signal more than 3G. At home my average signal strength is 110dBm and I am lucky if I hit 2Mbps.

It is half the amount of spectrum so, in ideal conditions, one can expect half the speed.

I don't think it have seen half of 5 to 10mbps on sprint with the signal strength of 105-110dBm. My LTE speeds have been pretty disappointing most of the times. Maybe we'll get better speeds after the build out is complete.

Quite frankly, i'm not surprised considering your 3G signal is so weak. How is 3G performance now, if the 3G side is activated, the speeds should be sufficient. At home, on a -95 signal, I usually get up to 1Mbps.

Well, my phone no longer dies in the middle of the day due to weak signal. This is after the tower recieved 3G upgrades about a month ago. The speeds are still around 50-100kbps. My coworker with VZW gets -105 to -110 dBM signal on his DROID (he uses Signalcheck lite). His speeds are consistently between 5-10Mbps. Maybe LTE on 800 will fix all of these problems?

What signal do you get on 3G in your building? Typically the LTE signal that I get is 1 bar below the signal that I get on 3G from the same tower.

Depends. If I put the phone on the left side of my desk its around 95dBm. Keeping the phone on the right side degrades the signal to 100-105dBm . LTE signal from my experience is usually 10dBM weaker than the 3G signal. Below is the picture I just took from my office. Its not very clear due to the glare but the arrow points to where the towers are.

Where are you located? keep in mind with the PCS spacing, you might end up with an even closer site to serve your area. But regardless, in building coverage is always a crab shot with 1900.

6th Ave and W54 st across from Hilton. If you look at the sponsor map, you'll see where the tower is.

Tower across my work place just got upgraded to LTE. On the street level the speeds are anywhere from 3 to 5Mbps. Inside my office my phone flips between 3G and LTE (around 110-118dBm) with absolutely zero data. 3G is as always around 50-100 kbps. The tower is on the south side of our building and so is my office so I don’t think I'm connecting to a different site. I can literally see the tower when looking down from 40th floor. This is extremely disappointing. I guess now the wait starts for the 800MHz LTE deployment in NYC or maybe Sprint engineers will realize that Manhattan is filled with high-rise buildings and you need more of an “up tilt” than “down tilt”   .

 

Here is another speed test from a different site. Clearly there is some kind of anomaly because based on Sprint's 5x5 configuration, these kind of speeds are impossible. I'll wait for Sprint to finalize their deployment in NY before complaining

Jeez.. So you guys have those 5 foot antennas just hanging street level on the buildings?

 

I call shenanigans without a LTE engineering screenshot of a close up speed test and a further distant one.

 

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I have verified the LTE engineering screen and CDMA Field test app and the LTE signal strength is always the same. I would have uninstalled the app if this was not the case .

 

I drove around the tower location and the speed tests are almost identical with signal strength from 58dBm to around 90dBm. I did notice that once I am home (5-6 blocks away), the signal falls to below 100dBm and the speeds go up to around 2-4 Mbps. I am not sure if this is because I am connected to a different tower which is around 2 miles away.

In the past, I have run several speed tests at different locations while literally standing underneath the tower (6 story apartment buildings) and always get around 25-30Mbps. I am wondering if someone else has ever experienced the same issue and this may get resolved in the future.

I was wondering if someone could help me understand what’s going on. Since the tower in Forest Hills Queens came online with LTE, I am having serious problems accessing data when connected to 4G. Yesterday I parked my car a block from the tower and ran some speed tests. Almost half the times the speed tests failed due to network error and the other half the download speeds were similar to 3G. This has been going on for over 3 weeks. In the below screenshots, the signal strength is 73dBm but when the data doesn’t fail, I get around 0.5Mbps download speed. The upload seems slow but not terrible. Maybe Sprint has backhaul issues at this site? I am not sure if calling the support will help because LTE is not yet official in NY.

This morning I got strong LTE signal around Jackson Heights on the #7 train. I wish there was more progress in midtown Manhattan where I work and have almost 0 signal. When I check the Sponsor's maps, my building is no more than 200 feet from the tower, which has not been upgraded. My poor phone switches between 1x and EVDO all day and dies by 3PM.