What the heck is going on with sprints network

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One hour I'm at 800kbps. The next I'm at 2200. Then 200. Then 600. What the hell is going on? Its been like this for weeks. Are they messing with the towers? Where do you guys get your sprint news to know when this stuff is happening. It just seems so eratic. Thoughts?

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Originally Posted by Stopsign002

Are they messing with the towers?

It's likely they are for your area:
http://newsroom.sprint.com/press_kit...presskit_id=19

Gotchya ok. Well that's nice to hear. Hopefully it will all settle down soon. It's been like a month with this crazyness. But I could see that it could take that long to do the many towers in this area, causing congestion and such. Thanks for the info

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Originally Posted by Stopsign002

Gotchya ok. Well that's nice to hear. Hopefully it will all settle down soon. It's been like a month with this crazyness. But I could see that it could take that long to do the many towers in this area, causing congestion and such. Thanks for the info

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Hopefully you're lucky and that's exactly what's going on in your area.

your lucky. I can't even think about getting those speeds here ever. The MAX i see is about 1.13Mbps and thats at 6am here when no one else is on the tower. During normal hours of the day its 0.16Mbps avg. Just thankful I'm always around wifi connection for the most part.

can't wait till they get to my area and get things rocking.

Seems like once the evo got cheaper **** is slow around here now. I think its just to many users and to much data for one tower to handle.

My 3g was alright on my evo, since i've got my evo3d its almost useless in most locations

Originally Posted by mattykinsx

It's likely they are for your area:
http://newsroom.sprint.com/press_kit...presskit_id=19

I knew a small amount about their network upgrade, specifically via my interest in 4g (mainly LTE), because I was lied to when I opened my sprint account about 4g availability. Here in Arizona there is next to no 4g [both indoor and outdoor] coverage, and none in my city despite it being the 5 th fastest growing city in the us. Their current Wimax roll out is/was despicable, and an absolute failure. LTE has more potential than Wimax, from the way I hear it the evo 3D should be capable of either frequency spectrum with just a software update (can't verify the accuracy of that fact), but some indoor Wimax would be a huge upgrade for me!

The detail in the article you posted made it an exciting read, thanks for doing the dirty work and finding and posting this little glimmer of hope!

Data on sprint sucks right now...I'm getting a whopping 55k down during the day, and 600k during the evening...I'm not looking forward to iPhone hitting...its going to get much worse

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Originally Posted by Sad Panda

I knew a small amount about their network upgrade, specifically via my interest in 4g (mainly LTE), because I was lied to when I opened my sprint account about 4g availability. Here in Arizona there is next to no 4g [both indoor and outdoor] coverage, and none in my city despite it being the 5 th fastest growing city in the us. Their current Wimax roll out is/was despicable, and an absolute failure. LTE has more potential than Wimax, from the way I hear it the evo 3D should be capable of either frequency spectrum with just a software update (can't verify the accuracy of that fact), but some indoor Wimax would be a huge upgrade for me!

The detail in the article you posted made it an exciting read, thanks for doing the dirty work and finding and posting this little glimmer of hope!

Just so you know the general argument LTE > WiMax is the most bogus miss informed crap out there. your comparing standards, and as far as speed is concerned they both offer the same roughly. The reason WiMax gets a bad rap is b/c of the freq spectrum it is rolled out on being 2.5GHz doesn't get much building penetration hence the low coverage areas. If they were to put LTE on the same band WiMax is currently on we all would get identical results.
The only reason this rollout is going to be better and will give LTE a better coverage than WiMax is b/c of the freq they are rolling it out on is much lower, so much better building penetration.
The reason they dont do that with WiMax, is b/c now at this point LTE has been adopted by VZ and in turn has gained a lot of steem form suppliers making the costs to rollout LTE equipment much less than it was when they initially rolled WiMax with Clearwire.

Thanks for your reply, I am educated in physics and had forgotten about your frequency point. However I had read that LTE has the potential for up to 80mbit, where Wimax is much lower. Do you know whether that information is false or not?