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6 hours ago, red_dog007 said:

What Sprint needs to just do is spend the capex.  Look what TMobile has been able to do with 4~5 billion in capex since 2013.  Now that Sprint is back up to 5 billion, we are seeing movement.  They can do what what they think is best, but just keep spending that money.  This will be their best ROI.  

They have excellent LTE roaming agreements and 3 more years with TMobile, no need to focus on that level of network expansion.  Honestly, I'd rather them continue with these native roaming agreements vs expanding into their territory.  

Also, we have had this conversation for years now. See Admin Robert posting 3 years back how after T-mo's band 4 rollout, Sprint could aggressively act in respect to a band 41 overlay. We just keep waiting and now as a merger approaches we see capex expand, a new CEO with a history of overspending is installed, whilst we are expected to accompany this rollout with pride. This was due 2-4 years ago. We are getting 8t8r in areas we thought would get minimacs and NR in areas those 8t8r were just installed.

While we benefit from these they should or could have been there years ago. This has got to be the biggest catch up we have seen on a macro level, and as usual Sprint is tripping over itself via inefficiency. I like the service, but it is not an enhancement or expansion. 

Like dood said in another thread we won't see densification, the last few plans fell flat via project cedar and such, small cells are being removed, actually taken out and replaced in other areas. If you give this c suite money, expect it to be dropped on a buyback if you are lucky.

4 hours ago, red_dog007 said:

What Sprint needs to just do is spend the capex.  Look what TMobile has been able to do with 4~5 billion in capex since 2013.  Now that Sprint is back up to 5 billion, we are seeing movement.  They can do what what they think is best, but just keep spending that money.  This will be their best ROI.  

They have excellent LTE roaming agreements and 3 more years with TMobile, no need to focus on that level of network expansion.  Honestly, I'd rather them continue with these native roaming agreements vs expanding into their territory.  

You are asking the current c suite to pour money into an indefinite time period or outcome that is up in the air based on souring regulators. We have seen the absolute limits of exposure to debt financing that softbank will endure for Sprint. They will quickly cut this down based on previous spend. They have made this company as lean as possible and mortgaged several key components of the existing Sprint entity to continue operation. The only way to expect a continued spend is a sale, that much is clear by Softbank's capitulation on majority share, stake and direction in a new company. 

John Legere flew to Tokyo instead of Hodges(spelletry) that message was quite clear. It is a sale to reduce exposure, a merger to free up softbank spend, or a devaluation of shares and expected firesale. This company needs a serious buyer or backer that is not a foreign banking asset. Until then one should limit market exposure based on past events, no?

Pick one.

9 minutes ago, danlodish345 said:

Hmm where I was it was in the FIT phase but where I live it is being rolled out...and aggregated

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Super nice!

1 minute ago, Brad The Beast said:

Any thoughts on purchasing some of Dish's 600MHz for the first 9 5G cities? It would improve coverage where a lot of the people and money are. They would be able to get a minimum 10x10 in 7 out of the 9 cities. Then purchase some more low band when they go to deploy 5G in more locations? 

It would be neat, odds are against it. More possible in the event of a merger falling through I suppose. 

3 minutes ago, Brad The Beast said:

Ok. That makes sense. What do you think of a phased rural low band deployment?

We have seen a couple projects at expansion with Sprint, cedar and such. Some they ended up leasing their band 25 license to an affiliate to complete build out requirements. So maybe?

7 minutes ago, Brad The Beast said:

What are the odds of Sprint buying some or all of Dish's lowband? Since they aren't using it for anything and probably won't. 

Probably the same as them participating in the current Spectrum auctions in MMwave. It is all about the will to execute and the cash to back it up. They make a great case that they will apply neither of these. It is fun speculation though.

11 minutes ago, danlodish345 said:

This was pretty good to actually

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Are you on aggregated L600 here? I don't see how this applies in your response.

I remember in merger attempt one how Masa was touting the ability to offer a fixed wireless solution. Many of us with a minor curiosity to a need for that solution have figured out how to make that happen on either operator in past, current and future form. Now they are dangling this carrot as only possible via a merger. A lot of this merger and ensuing dramedy has to do with how we perceive carriers and what they are capable of, where the market is and how we will benefit, but only with the permissions of our current conglomerates getting their way. Do not play by their rules.

They are trying to socialize the costs of not merging. One example is losing a 5g race to China, if we look beyond this line into how, where and what a market needs for rising consumption we will get 5g either way. We are told nationwide coverage won't happen; when we don't have nationwide coverage of the last gen yet, but we are seeing massive investment this year in making the legs of LTE read like it's title; long term evolution. 

They tell us we need 1GHz wide bands in millimeter wave or it will simply not be possible to meet these needs. When many of us see capacity growing in low, mid and the formerly high but now reclassified as mid bands like 2GHz to 4.2GHz. Why? millimeter wave reaches a block and building that costs trillions. Reality is crushing the narrative, some days the only way to win is to not play the game. We will get these things either way. Be it a state enforced roll out in the east used to monitor and control society at a lower cost, or a market demand for capacity in the west based on pushing carriers into areas to get new customers and to meet that capacity. Either place has a need and a way to get there within the current framework.

At this point in our observation of wireless evolution, it is tough to subscribe to the current despairing pleas of folks in private jets, as has been the case for years. If this sounds like a lot of doublespeak look to the speakers and then between their words.

12 minutes ago, 645824 said:

My service is through Sprint (not a third party on the Sprint network).

Setting my Cradlepoint COR-IBR1700 as follows;  reported by speedtest.net:

• MTU=1500, 100Mbps, half-duplex:  30 Mbps
• MTU=1500, 100Mbps, full-duplex: 2 Mbps
• MTU=1438, 100Mbps, half-duplex: 28 Mbps
• MTU=1438, 100Mbps, full-duplex: 3 Mbps
• MTU=792, 100Mbps, half-duplex: 27 Mbps
• MTU=792 100Mbps, full-duplex: 2 Mbps

fast.com  produces consistent numbers.

TCPoptimizer liked 792 the best, so I tried that also.  The values from 30 to 27 Mbps are probably just traffic related, so I see those as the same.  It is the dramatic difference between half-duplex and full-duplex that is my concern.

Thanks,

Scott

 

 

Indeed, Understood.

4 minutes ago, 645824 said:

I've made a discovery about my home's network setup and would appreciate some advice.

Using my new Cradlepoint COR-IBR1700 for connection to the internet via a cellular connection, the local ethernet port on the IBR1700 can be set.  The factory default has it on AUTO, which  it reports running at 10Mbps.  That speed was horrible.  My house is wired for gigabit and all of my switches are gigabit. So I manually set the IBR1700 to 1000, which also necessitated full-duplex (since there is no such thing as 1000 half-duplex).  That speed was also horrible also. 

So then I set the IBR1700's ethernet port to 100 half-duplex, and now I get 30 Mbps from  speedtest.net  and  fast.com    Changing to 100 full-duplex drops back down to 1 Mbps.  So clearly, my Sprint connection to the IBR1700 doesn't like full-duplex at any speed.

Note that I'm not changing the setting from the IBR1700 to Sprint (I don't seem to have access to that), I'm changing the connection from the IBR1700 wired ethernet connector to the rest of my home.

I think that most cell radios are half-duplex (I'm on Sprint's 4G LTE here in Patterson).  I'm just surprised that there isn't a big recommendation somewhere that says to run at half-duplex when connecting to cell.

Can anyone confirm or deny?  This was a big surprise to me; but I'm pleased with the 30x speedup between half-duplex and full-duplex.

Thanks,

Scott

 

Try adjusting your MTU metric in LAN settings from 1500 to 1438. This is a common occurrence with Sprint service on embedded LTE radios. Is your data provisioned through Sprint or third party?

L600 in Myrtle @ Hwy's 31/501 I thought them some big antennas, scpro grabbed it as usual.

Oh man this dual low band goodness is amazing. 20MHz FDD below 1GHz between l850 and l600.

40 minutes ago, jonathanm1978 said:

Got email that says this is the line.

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Does this correlate to any of those EBS leases we found?

5 hours ago, jonathanm1978 said:

The addresses are as follows:
1999 old Fayetteville road is congratulations
2000 old Fayetteville road is sorry, not available.


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JFC

Just now, danlodish345 said:

Where did you get that router from?

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I built it.

The answer here is they don't know or are unable to fix it. Each fix applied has broken a previous one.

1 minute ago, runagun said:

Not really.  I think they need to tune everything.  The same places where 8x8 b41 struggled. Still struggles with mimo.   

Gotchu fren. When you get your data points in, let us know how many carriers and what frequencies you are seeing. I wonder if and how they will shuffle anything to accommodate New Radio, like the Magic Box or UE carriers. What is the available bandwidth Sprint leases on 2.5 in your daily travels? Thanks for what you have put together; these are great pictures. 

6 minutes ago, runagun said:

 

Half of the towers around me have been Mimo'd   

How is it, living the dream?

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/3/21/18275640/tmobile-lte-wireless-home-internet-service-pilot-launch?fbclid=IwAR0rWAYcNAdkxiv9COGdbwV5Ts_Simm1hBXLPThgFmW3-NPa9NGpBlSKL1E

 

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T-Mobile is starting to pilot a wireless home internet service, offering unlimited LTE data to the home for $50 per month. At launch, the service has extremely limited availability. T-Mobile says it plans to reach just 50,000 homes by the end of the year, primarily in rural markets and markets with limited internet options.

Flashback to when John and his corpo fanbois were all telling us not to use a terabyte of data, that network capacity was somehow socialized to make us feelsbandman.jpg? Well we're still using terabytes, and now he sees it as viable because merger. Funny huh? 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Oh yeah there is a ton moar. They are just in the inconvenient EBS license size to determine from my end if they are any help to your specific area.Unfortunately I've only been to AL once and I wasn't tracking licenses, as much more fun that would have been over work.

Apparently Fixed Wireless Holdings, LLC is a front for Sprint EBS Leases. Here is a list of ULS results related to the State of AL and this EL EL CEE. All of the links are sorted to start on the map sector of their respective ULS page. A pair of them barely creep in from Florida but I included them below.

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/leaseMap.jsp?licKey=2833665&parentKey=null

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/leaseMap.jsp?licKey=2833675&parentKey=null

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/leaseMap.jsp?licKey=2833676&parentKey=null

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/leaseMap.jsp?licKey=2833895&parentKey=null

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/leaseMap.jsp?licKey=2833931&parentKey=null

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/leaseMap.jsp?licKey=2833933&parentKey=null

These are the remaining results in the ULS for EBS, they are currently licensed to various Board of Edu's. They don't seem to specify how or where they are deployed or used but gives you an idea of the market slices.

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/licenseMap.jsp?licKey=2588129

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/licenseMap.jsp?licKey=2592111

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/licenseMap.jsp?licKey=2586195

Now, you can use some of your previous detective work to line up what frequencies you have seen or documented online, and where, from your Phone or MB to confirm these. 

Not very helpful, probably a lot of going back and confirming. This is just the nature of EBS licensing. It sucks.

9 minutes ago, jonathanm1978 said:

 (if I'm doing it right)

I just noticed the map only contains BRS info, there are probably EBS .edu leases not listed. I will check out the FCC ULS and get back atchu fren

https://specmap.sequence-omega.net/

2x2 Band 2

4x4 Band 2



Budgeting in some better auxiliaries this week, I activated 4x4 from 4x2.
Gotta pump up that upload. 

Yeah we get higher throughput w T-mo as well, on bands 4+2 4x4 = 60Mb p/s vs 4+2+5 2x2 =55Mb p/s. I even found and authenticated band 4/66 on AT&T, MFBI too. I have had so much trouble just connecting to it, let alone getting 15Mb p/s down. rsrp is like -120, but SNR is -14. EARFCN's 66486 @10MHz and 66661 @5MHz checking in with 4x4 MIMO.

Aggregated.

This is a dream.

4x4 MIMO is fun! / How we learn to cope w (signal)Loss.

Tl;dr: Physically measuring each connection as you test to confirm is important. Double checking port number values and what command line values represent. This is one of the early things to add to the checkbox for us tinkerers as 4x4 becomes more accessible.

While cleaning up in the lab, I thought of something and naturally stopped to do some more work in the lab. I figured I should clean up the wiring a little more in my test box, and make room for another board, hopefully the rb11g, failover and such. I inventoried a few jumpers and connectors and found I could be a little more efficient in my setup. I added in some sma>3'>N adapters, instead of a couple more adapters I had screwed in already that kept it shorter. I am going to use those any way when I permamount this thing and add better auxiliary antennas for 4x4 MIMO, than what I have attached now.

58 minutes ago, danlodish345 said:

 

Hey DanLodish345. I had the same thing come up the other day on my embedded router.
Check out those earfcns'  You are seeing some sweet MFBI fren. 66736 is the band mask translation for 2140MHz,  2250 refers to the same block, 2140MHz just when detected as Band 4 by your handset, that indicates blocks D(5MHz) + E(5MHz) for 10MHz FDD. It just kicked on here, hopefully AWS-3 capacity is coming.



The best part, I was roaming on Sprint  Top is L66, bottom is band(s) L4+5+2 aggregated. It was the first I had seen of it as well. See how the math is exactly the same as yours?

We scored band 2 installations EOY 17,  5MHz is LTE on rural sites, city builds at 10MHz started appearing last summer so the rest should turn over soon, our whole market was modernized over the last year. Those speeds are really fast! Have a great day.

 

1 hour ago, clbowens said:

Then I assume some drone-shot cell cite photos are coming soon?!

They up top.