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1 minute ago, danlodish345 said:

And I got a first degree burn on the tip of my finger which seems to be healing okay.

Jesus christmas trees!

This could unironically only happen to user @danlodish345

Glad you are ok man! This is a pretty impressive yet unique set of events leading to what looks like a smoldering handset. Call Samsung my dude and see if they'll give you some kind of exchange for finding out what it takes to vampire slay a phone.

Our area is actually sold under an old Cingular affiliate, Horry Telephone Cooperative. We have a pair of Corporate stores in town for wireless subscribers and whatever media ATT bought last week. HTC is the fiber and backbone provider for our area.

They were slow to roll out HSPA here, so ATT made a big push a couple years ago in the area to update base stations. It seems to have worked out; updating to bands 2/30 in an overlay went smooth right after the 2g shutdown. It looks like those will be touched again with band 14, and 30 will now be coming to most sites. Bands 4/12 are active on every site.

Have you seen any ATT small cells? I haven't yet outside of COWs. 

10 minutes ago, danlodish345 said:

Well here it is deployed on the secondary 5 megahertz carrier so they don't have a contiguous PCS license for this area.

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2 minutes ago, danlodish345 said:

AT&T has a second 5 megahertz PCS carrier where I live. They also have 10 megahertz of band 12 deployed 10 megahertz of band 29 and 10 megahertz a band 30 deployed where I live. The only Spectrum that's not the point on LTE is band 5 which is relegated to HSPA.

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H1900 5MHz here, everything else is LTE. No band 5 license in our area.

At our location we have 10MHz band 30, 10 and 5MHz^2 band 4, 15MHz band 2, 10MHz band 12 active on the network; I see firstnet in the network scan but won't have a band 14 enabled radio for a month or so. We have a two routers with detailed logging enabled, one is stationary and one is mobile. How should we best contribute data to this thread?

1 minute ago, puch96 said:

In SE Michigan area?

 

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No in the south east US, It is good now. Tmobile roaming for sure is your culprit, as you saw with band 2. It is a tower or cluster update. Takes time to get through the tubes.

5 hours ago, puch96 said:

Hmm.. Interesting.  Thanks for the feedback.  I will keep an eye on it to see if anything improves.

Experienced this same thing for two weeks here while it rolled out. Good luck!

3 hours ago, IrwinshereAgain said:

Would Sprint have the money to implement 5g with their debt and low customer count?  Just asking.

Doubt it would be wide spread. Look at the documents they gave the FCC. In 2024 they would have a 5g network somewhat like band 41 is now, in the city.

E5 + is checking in. ~200 bux out the door for a great functional phone and cat 6, band 71 capable.

Doesn't the Pixel 2 have a debug screen that can give detailed info like this?

Working through the kinks load balancing cat12+cat12 slowly. The WG3526 runs them both from time to time, the debug screen gets full quick when one modem says 2+30 and the other says 5+4 and all the associated modemized telemetry it spits out. Fun times! The required schematics are difficult but I am figuring them out. No problems running the second radio over USB. 

Worst case scenario I have 2 of these things PoE stuffed in a box behind two antenna instead of one and one and I buy a router that does this automatically. Testing continues on the wall.



Definitely a bummer that these radio's use MHF4 connectors, the IPEX ones on the OG Magic Box antenna were great on the MC7455, so I have to use these little guys in the meantime.

 

10 hours ago, drhz said:

I was trying to leverage our unlimited plans and save money on cable internet.

We should talk some time. This is what brought me here.

4 hours ago, derrph said:

I saw this a month ago and posted it on reddit and was told by many on there and downvotes that I was on the business website. Go figure others are seeing it now. If Sprint really brings contracts back, would it really help them at this point with customer retention? 

Welcome to Reddit.

6 minutes ago, chamb said:

Unless you have an air conditioned attic, the high summer heat may kill the Magic Box.

I kept the attic entrance open in the summer and a little breeze from the soffit vents helped. I also kept 2 LTE radio homebrews and a nighthawk going. The tragic box did fine until I broke it down for parts. 

1 hour ago, drhz said:

My Magic Box saga continues. Over night the box found that weak Band 41 on it's own and switched to that. This morning I couldn't even browse the web. The connection would just time out. I checked the box and it was on -120 Band 41 downstairs. I'm going to try a different Window because I figure that's what Magic Box support would tell me. These devices should be smarter. I understand wanting to connect to Band 41 because that's where most of Sprint's spectrum is but come on. If service is so poor that a customer can't browse the web then the box should switch to a different Band. I may try a reset if moving Windows doesn't work. 

I found a small spot in my attic that worked well when I had one; newish windows have been harsh on RF. Before I put it in the attic it worked best in the spare room on the floor in a corner. Go figure.

Finally caught that one L600 Tower on the way to Fayetteville from Horry CO, SC. last week.

It is pretty nice to transition from band 5>71>12 these days; triband assets working in sub 1GHz along a 50 mile stretch. Wew.

Just now, Paynefanbro said:

Because the other carriers don't use those as their primary bands nor have them deployed on every single site in the same way Sprint does for Band 41. Not to mention Band 30 and Band 66 still have farther reach than Band 41. Also Band 46 is deployed in very few places as a hotspot type of solution.

It is essentially more time parked on 2.5 as a Sprint user then 2.3 as an ATT user, or 2.2 as a Verizon or T-mo user. I see bands 30, 66 just about everywhere these days. Those seem to be pretty primary as far as bandwidth goes, minimum 10 on band 30 up to 20 or 30 in band 66. This would indicate that somehow Sprint is not allowing service levels on band 41 to fail to band 41>25 nearly as often as other carriers are with similar frequencies i.e 30>2 or 66>2. That seems strange to me.

21 minutes ago, Paynefanbro said:

Where are you in NYC that you roam a lot? In the past 3 years I've used 0MB of roaming data. It's also important to note that Sprint's Sensorly map is skewed because of Band 41. Because of Band 41, Sprint's average signal strength will always seem lower than other carriers in the NYC even if Sprint's speeds are faster.

Using this math, wouldn't bands 46, 30 and 66 also show a weak signal on other carriers? Since all carriers posses band 2 and below how does sensorly ignore this specifically with Sprint?

Our markets are having quite the issue with the correct time when roaming. It will roam on LTE when all settings to roam are set off on the Sprint handset we have. The performance here is nice though when it is connected.

I'm out of town but I saw the clearwire mcc txing on my way out. I'll peg some LTE only radios to band 2/4/5 with a S sim when I get home Monday.

Will the unsold band 71 blocks be reauctioned alongside mm wave?

40 minutes ago, Jim S. said:

On the LTE Hacks Facebook group, one of the mods says that the released version of the EP06-A does not in fact do Band 41, despite the fact that all the documentation says it does.  I'm tempted to try it anyway since I don't have B41 on any towers nearby and probably don't have good enough LOS to pick it up even if they put it up.  I have two B25 carriers and one B26 carrier, all of which are only 5x5, so if I could get any carrier aggregation going with those it would be great.

 

I frequent there as well, good folks. Seems like it would work for you. You would probably get the two band 25 carriers no problem. I haven't seen 25+26 on the network yet.

On 9/30/2018 at 2:35 PM, Jim S. said:

Has anyone tried the Quectel EP06-A modem with Sprint yet?  I'm looking at that card instead of one of Sierra's offerings because it supposedly does CA with B25+B25 or B25+B26 whereas Sierra's cards only do B41+B41, and I have no B41 at all.

  

I haven't tried it yet. I can only find one supplier on Ebay that ships from China for about 80 bux. The price seems right. Should work with Rooter, looks like the libraries are in there for it.

1 hour ago, RedSpark said:

 

That’s impressive.

Here is the pre-order landing page.

https://www8.hp.com/us/en/premium/convertible/spectre-folio-13.html
 

Here is the fine print goodness. 

"1. Product exterior and outer keyboard is 100% genuine full grain leather as of 9/18/18.

2. Gigabit class 4G LTE module is optional and must be configured at the factory. The full utilization of this module’s functionality is dependent on network providers’ technical ability to support this network and speed. Backwards compatible to 3G networks. Module requires activation and separately purchased service contract. Check with service provider for coverage and availability in your area. Connection, upload and download speeds will vary due to network, location, environment, network conditions, and other factors. 4G LTE not available on all products, in all regions. HP Spectre Folio can connect to ATT, T-Mobile, and Sprint is coming soon. Verizon not available. Module designed for up to 1 Gbps download speeds as carriers deploy 5 carrier aggregation and 100Mhz channel bandwidth, requires activation and separately purchased service contract. Check with service provider for coverage and availability in your area. Connection speeds will vary due to location, environment, network conditions, and other factors. 4G LTE not available in all regions.

3. 4K panel not available at launch. 4K content required to view full 4K images. 4K optional on select models only.

4. Windows 10/ MM14 battery life will vary depending on various factors including product model, configuration, loaded applications, features, use, wireless functionality, and power management settings. The maximum capacity of the battery will naturally decrease with time and usage. See www.bapco.com for additional details. The battery capacity decreases to less than 100 percent when the computer operates under high temperatures for an extended period of time."

We have 1 of 7 2.5 sites with any actual RET capability attached and one actual modern build.

Has anyone seen or have an example of this technology in action, real world? Many here travel to stadiums and areas where modern equipment has shown up. A few have access to the network stats, just curious if this is actually in use beyond yeah tap this joystick this way and go home or if we have seen a hardware/software solution have an effect on the network. 

In action here we are limited. We have 1 8t8r site, the rest are mini macro sites with one half of sectors operable. They are 2x2 and did not attach the second operable ports on any 2.5 antenna additions, RET motors are absent.