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I literally have to drive to the bad areas to experience n41, wish they would hurry up in my neighborhood.

2 hours ago, bookertdub said:

TNX?

T-Mobile Network Experience, which allows you to have a T-Mobile SIM and have native service. It's free but can only be done in store.

2 hours ago, bookertdub said:

So I’m going from the iPhone 7+ to the iPhone 12 Pro under legacy Sprint. When I get my new phone will it show T-mobile in the upper part of the screen and prefer T-mobile’s networks?

Unless you have TNX you'll see Sprint and roam onto T-Mobile's 4G and 5G.

46 minutes ago, Paynefanbro said:

My desire isn't really to actually use standalone 5G. I live in an area where my signal is so strong that I get a strong n41 signal indoors. I really just want the update for feature parity. I really dislike how carrier branded and unlocked Samsung devices don't receive the same updates at the same time.

I get only n71 here, n41 if I go into the not so nice areas. SA is very rare here only get it once in a while. But Samsung updates should be universal but nope.

1 hour ago, Paynefanbro said:

I'm on T-Mobile and have have the R15 SIM already. It has to be enabled in the firmware. So far T-Mobile has only pushed it to T-Mobile branded S20's. Samsung has not pushed the necessary firmware to unlocked S20s though.

My Sprint S20 Ultra has SA enabled, though SA is hardly what you would call widespread.

17 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

Unlocked S20's got the October security patch. No SA 5G though.

There won't be any SA until you get the T-Mobile R15 simcard with TNX.

3 hours ago, RedSpark said:

So the Magic Box is now no longer a thing:

When you think about how much money was spent on Magic Boxes that are now all going in the dumpster (vs. the Capex that would have been necessary for Sprint to not require them at all) and then you combine that with how much money Masa poured into everything but Sprint (ARM, Uber, WeWork, etc.) which yielded substantially negative returns on his investment, it shows the extent of the managerial incompetence that put Sprint in this position where a merger was necessary to save the company... from him.

T-Mobile isn't even bothering to take the units back to ensure they are recycled properly. Many of these units will wind up being improperly disposed of, not to mention that there will be no cost recovery for any components of the recycled units by T-Mobile. What an absolute disgrace on all fronts. I expected better from T-Mobile.... Maybe I shouldn't.

EDIT: Looks like the Airave is a goner as well....

Still have mine, haven't had it powered on in about two weeks. Granted it's not under my account so I haven't ever cared for it, made service at my house worse. I'll gladly send it back and recycle it.

11 minutes ago, Paynefanbro said:

If it's working as intended then it really shouldn't be used much at all. You should only connect to it in areas where there is only low band signal or mid-band is extremely weak. The band priority is supposed to be:

1. n260/261 + LTE
2. NSA n41 + LTE
3. NSA n71 + LTE
4. Band 2/4/66
5. SA n71
6. Band 71
7. Band 12

Standalone n41 is starting to be spotted in some parts of the country. I would guess that would be just below NSA n41 + LTE in the priority list.

Well there we have it.

58 minutes ago, iansltx said:

Or TMo doesn't want you to use it unless absolutely necessary because doing so loses you the extra bandwidth provided by PCS and AWS.

I'm curious how regular T-Mobile users are experiencing SA. I'm thinking it's just not on every tower so I'm just getting kicked off idk. It's just weird, SA is enabled usually after toggling airplane if defaults to SA, but eventually just goes back to NSA.

27 minutes ago, floorguy said:

Ok so something new happened today.. say least 2 calls didn't come through.. I was at home so on WiFi calling..  but there's a twist.

 

It went to some other number.. don't know who just wasn't me. Had a customer, ask someone to call me, they asked if I changed my number. So my customer called me... Same thing,  some other number.

 

Only way I found out, she emailed me about it..  I tried and it worked fine.. One called from a Comcast VoIP. The other was Verizon.

 

I realize this isn't "phone" related.. but I don't know where to put it lol... All these quirks are driving me crazy.. what do you think happened there?

I never had good experiences with WiFI Calling, best to leave it disabled.

38 minutes ago, jporter12 said:

If I use the band selector app, it can sometimes make it go to SA.  Also, in areas that I would see LTE B71, it will go SA on n71.  I have had it stay on SA quite a bit when when using the band selector. 

Yeah, I'm guessing SA isn't as widespread as reported?

5 hours ago, jporter12 said:

Here in the Columbus Ohio market, we're slowly getting n41 rolled out to us.  I was watching a tower that has the antennas on it, and yesterday I was able to connect to n41.  I had B66 @ 20 MHz, and n41 @ 60 MHz.  Pulled down 360 Mb/s.  This was a drive-by, I didn't stop, and didn't try to force SA (I swapped my sim last week for the TNX.) I know there are a couple other towers with n41 active, and I've spotted at least 1 other with the antennas.  I'm also suspecting a couple towers that haven't gotten B71 to get a gull overhaul with n41, just due to their location.

Overall, I'd say that I get NR about 75% of the places I go, maybe more.

My phone is always on NSA it will only connect to SA briefly and then go on NSA and stay on it.

n71 is only 10x10 here but on SA I usually top out around 50 down.

42 minutes ago, IrwinshereAgain said:

Does the s20 fe need an update to get Standalone 5g?  I see where the other s20 versions did get an update for that awhile back.

I'm sure it's supported so long as you're on TNX with T-Mobile otherwise on ROMAHOME you won't get SA support.

6 hours ago, Yuhfhrh said:

Yeah if you have the premium add on for your line, you shouldn't be throttled. I think your plan without the add on gives 1080P video, which matches the ~7mbps throttle you're currently seeing. If you have other lines on your plan that are still on Sprint sims, you could do some testing with them to see how they're currently working.

I bet they're still combing through all the initial plans they allowed for TNX and are trying to set everything correctly.

I know on my line I had the better video streaming, gonna have to look at see if they didn't remove it which seems to be the case.

1 hour ago, Yuhfhrh said:

As of midnight CST, I no longer have any video throttle. 100mbps+ on fast.com. They fixed that a lot faster than I thought they would.

I'm still getting about 6-7 on fast.com. I know for a fact I pay extra for the best streaming option my other line no, so weird.

3 minutes ago, Yuhfhrh said:

Final question, when you dial #264#, what does it say? (it will tell you binge on status).

Says it's enabled.

10 minutes ago, Yuhfhrh said:

Sorry, I'm just trying to make sure. Trying to gather information for the next ticket I open. Does the fast.com test actually finish?

I'm trying to figure out what your throttle point is, and if those few seconds unthrottled are bringing your average mbps way up on what you're seeing.

The test will finish yes.

6 minutes ago, Yuhfhrh said:

Are you actually getting 7mbps? Is that what the fast.com test finishes at? At least for me there first couple seconds of a test are unthrottled, before the 1.5mbps cap kicks in. Just trying to figure out if it's only certain plans having an issue with TNX, or if TNX currently has the same video throttle applied across the board.

My tests start out at like 20Mpbs then slows down to 7 or so. Speed test is over 100 or 50 or so on SA.

12 minutes ago, Yuhfhrh said:

1080p+ is unthrottled video on Sprint. So your fast.com and speedtest results should be the same.

Then I'm being throttled.

45 minutes ago, Yuhfhrh said:

I'm on SWAC premium, before TNX I had no video throttles at all (as expected, that's what my plan includes.)

I can only find this about my plan: Unlimited Freedom Premium resolution provides higher-quality streaming video at up to 1080p+ quality with music streaming at up to 1.5 Mbps and gaming streams at up to 8 Mbps.

So not sure if averaging around 7Mbps on fast.com is good or not.

I'm getting the same but I always got around those speeds I am on Unlimited Freedom v24.

2 hours ago, Terrell352 said:

Got the r15 sim and it has not been a good experience. 

Once you have that sim tmobile throttles your video. YouTube is the only exception for some reason.

Also you will lose the ability to roam on att or sprint and Tmo B41 will not aggregate bands vs Sprint sim that would aggregate both bands.

You lose a lot to get standalone and its not worth it. 

I'm switching back to the Sprint sim.

I'm not getting any throttling as far as I can tell.

So I went back to my T-Mobile store to switch my other phone over, I'm still the only one who has gotten TNX lol. Lady said they're starting to tell people about it now, why they don't advertise it more I don't know. 

20 minutes ago, 1dante said:

I was unsuccessful at getting the TMX. I have an iPhone 8 Plus and everything was well until they saw that I owe on my Apple Watch. So until I pay it off it’s a no go. 

If you have a watch tied to your phone they're unable to put you on TMX, that will change in the future though.