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I just crossed the new Bay Bridge. It's really nice. I mapped it on sensorly. Lets see how long it takes to show up on their maps.

I was at the In-N-Out yesterday in Daily City and had the same problem. The LTE signal was very strong but did not work. Clicked over to the CDMA and although it was slow, I was able to use it.

I always connect to a site near Peir 31 in the fishermans wharf while I'm at home. It kinda sucks there's no site on Treasure Island. I get truly awful service if I don't stay on the west coast of the island. Tmobile has a site right in the middle of the island and AT&T has one at a high elevation on Yerba Buena Island. Hopefully the 800MHz SMR signal will provide better service.

I just noticed I'm getting an 800mhz SMR signal in my house. Its not very strong, and what's weird is signal check pro located the tower all the way over in sausalito! If that's true, the distance that signal is traveling is impressive! Sent from my LG-LS970 using Tapatalk 4

God I wish I could. That looks incredibly fun. I wonder how they managed to close down all those streets to film that.

Yeah it's pretty wild. Last time they closed it down there was nobody on it. I had a 2 mile long straight away to myself.

Probably me. I cross the bridge every day, including today. I took this picture this morning.

I just stumbled across this project that mentions support for downlink with RTL-SDR: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openlte/ I'm going to play with it tonight and see what it comes up with.

Would it be possible to use a cheap SDR like the RTL-SDR's to scan for LTE? I have a couple of these guys I've used for scanning narrow band transmissions on many frequencies: http://www.amazon.com/RTL-SDR-RTL2832U-Popular-Software-Packages/dp/B00C37AZXK The limitations that come to mind is I think the widest channel bandwidth is only 2.8MHz, and the max frequency you can tune to is 1700MHz. I'm wondering if it would be useful for discovering LTE Band 26 deployments.

A couple pages back I posted a comparison from my old WiMax modem vs the MiFi 500. I get a pretty strong WiMax signal at home and a pretty weak LTE one.

I haven't really had a chance to go around SF testing the mifi. I've tried it in two places in SF now and haven't seen any Band 41. Im testing it in places I know I have good WiMax signal. It seems to have a much better antenna and radio than my LG Optimus G, because even with a poor signal (-108dBm) I was able to get around 6mbps on Band 25. I am about to leave for a conference in Las Vegas so I'm going to reactivate my WiMax modem. I'll keep looking for Band 41 when I get back.

From the same spot on my phone... Test Date: Jul 30, 2013 10:33:52 am Connection Type: Lte Server: Berkeley Download: 3978 kbps Upload: 1578 kbps Ping: 67 ms External IP: 66.87.135.140 Internal IP: 51.226.165.140 Latitude: 37.76422 Longitude: -122.39659 A detailed image for this result can be found here: Sent from my LG-LS970 using Tapatalk 2

Signal strength (RSRP):-81 dBm Signal quality (RSRQ):-9 dB

I'm in San Francisco. Looking at the debug screen, I'm on PCS band 25. I just tried it at my office too and I got only 1mbps on LTE and also band 25. I haven't seen any LTE band 41 in San Francisco yet.

I have a feeling Sprint is giving a higher QoS priority to mobile hotspots. There has been a number of times when I get lousy service on a number of sprint phones, but service through the hotspot is great.

They were taken 20 minutes apart around midnight.

I figured out how to get the band class! Once you're connected to the mifi, go to this url: http://192.168.1.1/debug/ =============== Debug =============== Engineering Current Service for CDMA: N/A CMDA Signal Strength: N/A Roaming Indicator value: Not Roaming Channel: N/A Latitude: 0 Longitude: 0 RSSI: N/A SID: 0 NID: 0 Packet Zone ID: 0 Packet Call Control State: Connected Ec/Io: N/A Receive Power 0 (CDMA): N/A Receive Power 1 (CDMA): N/A Receive Frame Error Rate: N/A Mobile IP Error Code: 0 IPv4 Address: N/A PN value: N/A Subnet Color Code: 0 HDR Session State: No Service MAC Index: N/A Subnet ID: 00 00000000 00000000 00000000 UAY024 value: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 AN-AAA value: No Request Packet Error Rate value: N/A DRC Request: 0 P_Rev value: N/A Dominant PN: 0 Current Service Pilots: N/A eHRPD Channel: N/A RSSI: No Signal Ec/Io: -2.5 dBm APN: r.ispsn LTE IMSI: 3101xxxxxxxxxxx Connection State: Connected PLMN ID: 825241907 Band: [0] type:LTE band:E_UTRA_OPERATING_BAND_25 channel:8665 RSRP: -110 dBm RSRQ: -12 dB RS-SINR: 5.2 dB Tx Power: N/A APN: r.ispsn IPv4 Address: 0.0.0.0 IPv6 Address: N/A IPv4 Call Last Error Code: IPv6 Call Last Error Code: WDS_CER_UNSPECIFIED_V01 Refresh

I couldn't find a way to get the MiFi 500 to report which band class you were on. Anyone know how to do it?

I activated mine last night. Replaced my WiMax Overdrive Pro. Right before I swapped the devices, I took some speedtests and compared the difference Wimax (-61dBm) LTE (-108dBm)

Anyone know if this will activate on Ting.com?

Is everyone that ordered one and got theirs shipped in a wimax coverage area? Maybe their cancelling orders for MiFi's that don't have any triband coverage.

I ordered one. Hopefully it comes in before I leave for a conference next week.

I've been running nexOGen for a week now. It's the best custom rom I've tried so far. It is stock based so it keeps the engineering screens and debug menus. Stock camera app and gps works great.

So excited. At my folks place in benicia and noticed 800smr up in the notification area. It connected to the smr even though there is an airrave in the same room as me. Weird. Sent from my LG-LS970 using Tapatalk 2

The download is <144kbps, and the upload test suttered and stalled out for a little while so I wouldn't consider the upload to be accurate. It was cool to see the download flatline at 128kbps though.