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    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

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    Am I going crazy or is it that whenever the weather conditions are bad service is affected negatively by it. I've noticed that when it's raining too hard my service will be like non existent and now it's snowing pretty much the same thing. Is it only me?

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

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    Only certain areas of Long Island though. If you take a look at certain areas, the Hamptons, Bay Shore, Islip, Deer Park, etc, you'll see that those areas are pretty much covered entirely in LTE as well. Then there are certain areas like Riverhead, Hicksville, Bellport, etc. that seem to be struggling. Elmont falls somewhere in the middle between those two. extremes.

    Yeah I noticed that. Suffolk county has more LTE than Nassau County. They're probably split into divisions as well. Eh well there nothing I can do. It's a waiting game. Hopefully by the end of this year or by summer at least. LTE will be a regular for towns like mine.

     

    Long Island is a separate market from New York City. Different timelines, different management. Long Island started getting upgrades more than a year after New York City did. So in a sense, yes Long Island got shafted a bit. But they are catching up.

     

    Everything east of the road I have circled is the Long Island market, so was managed differently than the NYC market.

    Ah I understand. Thanks for clarifying.

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

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    Well. Fair enough, the site closest to you hasn't been upgraded. But all the others have, so saying only 1 site has been upgraded is a little bit of an exaggeration. You just happen to be in a bad spot. And that sucks.

    Tbh I just feel like Long Island got played in the long run. I've been living here for 4 years. Got my 5 in my 3rd year of living here and i've seen Queen's, BK and every other borough of New York State get upgraded and still L.I or at least most areas that I'm in and I travel frequently has no LTE. Not even upgrade 3G either. I'm just waiting for the day that I can celebrate and woooo my area has LTE and be able to walk aside and know I can load a simple YouTube video or hell even IG.

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

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    1 tower? I can assure you that is not the case, if you are still in the same place that I remember.

    Lol no lie when i tell you. 1 tower. There are at least 3 towers around me. This my good friend is the only one in my proximity transmitting any type of 4G service. Everything else is Sprints throwback Thursday services.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

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    And now with Band 26, you virtually have LTE everywhere in NYC. And they still have more sites to convert. It just keeps getting better and better.

     

    I remember when people said, 'all I want is LTE everywhere' or, 'I just want Sprint to give me at least 2Mbps'. Now Sprint exceeds that and even has thousands of places with 20-70Mbps around NYC and the same people are complaining.

     

    I feel like it doesn't matter what Sprint does, some just are unhappy with whatever Sprint does.

    I'm speaking of my own experiences with Sprint. I recognize that in the city almost EVERYWHERE, there's LTE, and I respect that, that's growth. But where I am there's nothing. Literally 1 tower converted. I believe it's B25 & B41 and those signals just barely reach my house. When I say Sprint is moving slow I mean for my general area. Over the 2-3 years I've only seen 1, 1 single tower in my area upgraded. So yeah I am a little disappointed but I also recognize that sprint is the best. No one has unlimited without a throttle anymore. So yeah

     

    Perhaps because there are still a lot of people using 3G hmm? Upgraded backhaul doesn't magically fix everything. You still need to get everyone on Tri-band devices. That way there are fewer devices parking on 3G when you go inside rather than Band 26.

    Tbh I think that may be the issue. There is no B26 on my local tower. Even though mostly everyone I know owns an iPhone 5s and up if the bands aren't there then they can be utilized. Mostly every tower around me is 3G. If it had any type of LTE I'd know because I'd connect but nah lol.

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

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    That makes zero sense, since the 3G network is riding the same backhaul as the 4G network.

     

    This isn't Verizon where it's discreet install, Sprint has the same site upgraded with all technology.

    Okay so then can you please explain to me why my 3G speeds are still of the legacy quality hmm? Cause you're right it makes zero sense for me to have almost every 4G band with legacy 3G because why would Sprint do that, idk it's mind boggling.

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

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    Exactly DATA IS EVERYTHING and has been EVERYTHING for at least 10 years now.... the first 3g phone I said it. My 3G speeds have always been 2 or 300kbps but those days hopefully will be over soon WISHFUL THINKING! lol. but as for VOICE I only care about that when Im driving from Queens or Brooklyn to the Bronx. Thats when it matters most. When I cross the 59th St Bridge and the phone cuts off about 3/4 of the way down lmao I hateeee or when I come down the Jackie Robinson at Cypress Ave it cuts off.

    I've never had any issues with voice especially now since I have my iP6, Sometimes it would disconnect on my 5 but that was rarely. I feel as though Sprint never even really upgraded the 3G side of data. Most sites are upgraded for 4G but I feel like they just left 3G as legacy and I could understand that but it's a little annoying especially when you fall off 4G.

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

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    yes exactly. all this outrageous speeds for sprint don't make a difference we need steady constant speeds and thats it... boost doesn't matter at this point. they need to catch up with tmobile verizon and att 3g speed already. my least of 100 is like 45 50 during the day. as for better voice calls.. there was never a problem with the voice end ever its rare I get a dropped call maybe 4 or 5 times a year and thats like maybe once locally if not Ill get dropped call elsewhere. I never complain about voice... JUST DATA!

    Data is the most important thing especially in this day and age, no one makes phone calls anymore. It's all about the data.

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

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    Y'all in New York City are lucky. Did all of you see the FiOS map?

     

    http://gizmodo.com/after-billions-in-subsidies-the-final-verizon-fios-map-1682854728

     

    See what billions of dollars in subsidies pay for these days!

    I have FiOS and I've never had any issues besides that it cost a arm and a leg to have. I have the 50x50. On average I get around 35/40 for both down and up. Verizon called me last month asking if I wanted to upgrade to the 75x75 for 10$ extra on my bill. I thought about it and declined. 50x50 is perfect for my household.

     

     

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    iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus User Thread

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    So much wasted space on that.... I'll stick with the current version until they offer a more compact view. I would love to turn on auto updates again, but won't justttt yet. It looks much better than before though that's for sure.

     

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    See how many more posts lol.

     

     

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    I'm definitely switching back. This font tacky.

     

     

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    iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus User Thread

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    Just don't take off that glass too many times. I cracked my 2nd one removing it when I put on my Otterbox Defender.

     

    I still can't decide if I want to keep the Otterbox built in protector, or just go back to the Zagg Glass. I like the feel of the tempered glass much better, but haven't had time to take off the plastic screen protector.

     

     

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    The defender screen protector is horrible but I doubt the zagg glass will even fit in the case cause you know it's kinda thick.

     

     

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    iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus User Thread

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    The glass ones are the easiest to install. They're hard to get used to for me because swiping up from the home button to access the control panel feels weird. I use the hinge method where I line it up perfectly, and tape down the left edge, peel the backing off, and flip it down perfectly into place. For years, I was trying to "hover" the protector onto the right position, and I never had it 100% perfect. You can look it up on YouTube for a demonstration.

     

     

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    I always get screen protectors perfectly for some reason. Before this one I had the Supershieldz privacy screen. It was private but it wasn't shatter proof hence my phone cracking. I had that one on perfectly as well. The hovering just works for me, and if I get it wrong I just take it off and do it again , as long as there's no air bubbles idc

     

     

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