ddimit

Im not sure how accurate that is on the whole.

Sprint users tend to use Sensorly way more that the other carriers.

Comparing my local maps show Sprint with WAY more coverage than the other carriers.  having come from Big Red a few months ago i know this is not accurate.

You can throw the fastest and best router at anything but if you have ISP issues its all for moot.

Reduce things down to the simplest form  and work up from there.

In all the years all my issues have been ISP related.

i run mid grade older routers Dlink DIR-825  for the dual band and gigabit switch ports.

I have 3, yes 3 of these linked together to provide decent coverage over my 2 story Brick house. if you can run aftermarket software such as DD-WRT I would recommend that as well.  

Unless your running internal  gigabit file servers you don't need the most expensive router out there. Your ISP will always be your bottleneck

Not that i am aware of most got shut down around 2004/5 time with switch to Digital....

Eager beaver blamed for New Mexico Internet outage

Published: June 28, 2013 1:47 PM

By The Associated Press  

(AP) -- Officials have finally identified the culprit behind a 20-hour Internet and cellphone outage last week in northern New Mexico --an eager beaver.

CenturyLink spokesman David Gonzales told The Associated Press on Friday that a hungry beaver chewed through the fiber line last week. He says the biting evidence was discovered by contractors who worked to repair the outage.

It would be cool to have a tighter zoom in. Id like to see Apple's Campus and Google's campus to see how many are using the Competitors Product 

The silver line is the Fly wire, looks like the wrap/lashing line  is broken. From the size its probably fiber,  AT&T and Sure West have been pulling a lot of it in the past year

Now that's pretty funny... I knew what those things were when I was 12, they were all over the place connecting every city to the long distance phone network. Fiber has replaced many of them now.

Ok since this has popped up take a look at this site. A lot of History of AT&T Microwave and Coax deployment. cool history, cutting edge stuff for the 50-60's. Cool Cool Cold War Hardened bunkers and such. Interesting reading

http://long-lines.net/

I have a couple of i335's in my desk drawer i have used in the past as off net walkie talkies

I consistently don't expect much from first line Tech Support phone staff. and I am never disapointed

Will be interesting to see in the roll out here. CA Central Valley, I doubt anything will go live here until after 6/30 to see if they light up 800 by default on site turn ups.

Does Samsung have that much to go?

Yep, West Coast, Upper and Lower CA Central Valley, easily over 1000 sites here alone

I wish that I could find a video clip because, folks, you have not lived until you have seen this Saturday Night Live sketch. "Civil War Memories: Ordinary Americans who never completed high school look back at the war between the states."

 

The sketch video is great, as it is done in the archival documentary and talking heads style of Ken Burns. Alas, I can find only the transcript:

 

http://snltranscript...gcivilwar.phtml

 

AJ

As a Civil War Skit, it rates right up there with Col. Angus.

looks like a streched Note. Corners are more sqaure . Im betting a knock off of the original note

Android Version does. Everything is a legal problem for Apple!

Pay the $30.00 yr for Lookout and get device/lock/wipe and tracking. Both for IOS and Android, latest release even snaps a pic of the perp who enters the wrong unlock code to many times. To me its not just the cost fo the device but the information stored on it.

From what I have seen of the LTE Deplyoments they are using Cisco ASR Routers on site and then can definately do QOS , Shaping Policing. just depends where in the network they plan to enforce that, Wireless side or Backhaul side

All NV towers have 1x-lte some maybe lte is not on yet. 1x handles your vocie/txt side so its important to track you from 1x side for E911 location. Data side not so much.

Actually coming from VZW EVDO, Sprint has been an Improvment for me.

There will always be people that think that their wireless should work everywhere and anywhere. Most of the blame falls on the carriers setting unresonable expectation levels.

AT&T, Sprint and VZW are sitting in a car, this is their discusssion..

They just want your wad of big sweaty money lol...

First thing i do with a new phone out of the box is it goes in a rugged case.

Right now my note is in a Ballistic SG series. About $20 on Ebay This has saved my phone more than once.

Plus if you sell your old phones you get top dollar becuase they look like brand new. its worth the added extra size for protection.

The Note 2 would not survive a fall from any height and survive with all that glass surface area and plastic case

the only thing that really grabbed me as something I would like, would be the IR remote control feature

I thought the Note 2 was huge, until you have it for awhile. Problem is now there is no going back to a smaller screen.

I got an email from sprint saying that they have the S2 for free and the S3 for $99 (with a new 2 year). idk if that's a deal or not but it something.

S3 is a lot cheaper on a certain website if you know where to search.

http://blogs.seattle...t-then-verizon/

Most of this isn't new to anyone. But did prove one thing to me coming from a Big Red EVDO only device. They got rated the worst on speed on non LTE connections. I actually saw a speed increase coming over to Sprint. Looks like VZW is totally ignoring its EVDO Network and putting all its energy into LTE.

My Avg VZW download was 100-300k and worse on the upload.

Sprint 1.3-1.5 meg down and up

thats not electrical tape. its either coax seal or a weather boot. Pretty much standard for outdoor RF connectors

Dangelo110, Your profile says your a sponsor level. Check out the site maps for your location that's a good first step. you also have LAT/LONG on your screen shots. Google Maps is your friend to get you close by