rmorrisonva

... this was part of the reason I held off on buying my Nexus 5 until I couldn't resist it any more ... knowing that the Nexus 5 thread would devolve into cascading self pity ... But seriously, I love my Nexus 5 even sans-Spark... and I'm ok with waiting a little longer (I survived the WiMax years, and the early NV years). Friends, this too shall pass!

I actually find good EVDO can even give HSPA, and sometimes HSPA+ a run for it's money, at least latency wise.

Warning folks... resist the urge to feed the trolls, it only makes them think that you actually care!

I've noticed the same thing in the garage under the office in Tyson's where I work. PCS used to penetrate down to P1 (1st level underground, under 10+ story office building, it was marginal at best for voice and data simply didn't work. Now I get workable data down to P2 and voice to P3 on 1x800 service. I think the only other carrier that even remotely works down there might be ATT but they have a tower directly across the street I believe. Note that I've noticed the 1x800 effect on my prior device (Galaxy Nexus) and now even more so with the far superior RF performance of my day's old Nexus 5.

In Economics we call the situation a "Tragedy of the Commons" and I think the theory is applicable here... a primer for those unfamiliar via Wikipedia: "The tragedy of the commons is an economics theory by Garrett Hardin, according to which individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one's self-interest, behave contrary to the whole group's long-term best interests by depleting some common resource." IMHO throttling the biggest consumers of the good/resource (bandwidth) in situations where there is a palpable scarcity of it and otherwise no incentives to consume less of it is a good bargain, and a good way to deal with a problem that really can't go away without SOME sort of cost imposed on a individual's consumption of said resource/good. There is no free lunch folks. This seems about the most reasonable and least onerous solution to the problem of network saturation AFAIK from any major carrier.

Times three. On my Galaxy Nexus I always felt as thought I needed a Custom ROM (CM) to have the phone working as well as it could (which was till a little wonky at times... !@%$ the trash CDMA radio they put in that thing, I am no longer in denial about that digiblur)... the Nexus 5 on Stock 4.4.2 does exactly what I need it to, and flawlessly, no BS. Long live Nexus (or whatever Google decides to call it)...

Please don;t feed the trolls :-)

Perhaps not all cases, but I still find it to be an encouraging sign in general!

I've noticed that thread volumes are directly proportional to the number of problems (and complaints) folks have which is in turn inversely proportional to progress in said market. Thus, a quiet thread means things are going swimmingly :-) At least that's my theory :-D

I'm pretty sure these issues are all capacity and that once LTE 800 and 2600 light up things will get better. Check out what my friends here in DC deal with on the vaunted "Verizon network": https://community.verizonwireless.com/message/1006964 But in reality we are all seeing what a bandwidth crunch looks like, hell I even pop into overloaded LTE sectors on occasion in unusual places and it's readily apparent. I honestly don't expect things to get better until we're running on something a little heftier than 5x5 FDD LTE over PCS.

It's informative to see the various issues everyone is encountering, however, keep in mind there are markets far less complete than yours with plenty of other subs waiting for the LTE network to even go live, many of these folks have LTE devices too. For all the "we paid for" "we were promised" etc re: LTE service and NV it still stands to reason a network upgrade as expansive and complex as NV is going to have hiccups. Some will be worse than others, for all the problems here I suggest folks take a look at what G2 and Nexus 5 (and any triband device) users are experiencing. It's not helpful to come on here and vent over and over about the same thing, observations are helpful to a point, but hammering over and over again on the same problem is not going to get it fixed faster. That said, there are plenty of other issues out there, this is not the only one. Like fraydog says, if you aren't OK with the issues a major network upgrade like NV can bring to the table (both POSITIVE and NEGATIVE) then maybe Sprint's network is not for you at this particular moment in time.

I definitely care about Sprint. I have gotten at least 4 friends and family members to switch to Sprint over the past 2 years or so, despite the NV growing pains I know it was still the best deal out there. I myself have been with Sprint since 2002, and my friend (who I share an account with) since 1996, we're definitely invested. I just know seeing a bunch of hardcore Sprint folks (not regular folks as on Sprint's own forums etc) discussing their terrible service and threatening to leave etc. is not the sort of constructive discussion that's going to help Sprint keep and gain new customers WHILE improving said network. I can understand how frustrating it must be in Chicago right now (reminds me of the bad old days around DC on 3G, 10k Up/Down was the norm in some places) but just keep the faith. I know Sprint must be aware of the problems and are surely working hard to resolve them.

Just a reminder, this is not a Sprint forum and is not a place to merely post complaints about Sprint service. If you wish to complain there are other places out there on the web to do so.