ALL LTE discussions here, where, when, how fast!
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Just a few blocks away from my house
And what I get in my house :/
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Wow that's just so unfair, I get 25 to 27 down in my house. I love it. There's gotta be something in between the tower and your house. Or is your house closer to the tower?
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I'd assume signal quality isn't as strong, since it's a few blocks away. However, the there's many variables it could be. Such as wall materials (certain buildings are brutal on RF signals).
EDIT: Even with 5mbps, I'd be happy. That's fast enough for Netflix/Youtube.
I'd assume signal quality isn't as strong, since it's a few blocks away. However, the there's many variables it could be. Such as wall materials (certain buildings are brutal on RF signals).
EDIT: Even with 5mbps, I'd be happy. That's fast enough for Netflix/Youtube.
More than enough for those, and cod black ops 2 online... sprints 3g handles those quite nicely in my house with no lag
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Hehe, I get a good 2mbps on 3G with 100 ms ping. I couldn't ever get my NAT type to be any better than Moderate, though. eHRPD actually helps with the ping, bringing it closer to ~80. Haven't tested the Jitter.More than enough for those, and cod black ops 2 online... sprints 3g handles those quite nicely in my house with no lag
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True 5Mbps is still nice I can't complain since 3G is still garbage in my area. I lost 4G for a whole day a few days ago wanted to shoot myself. Some pages wouldn't load and couldn't upload pictures to Instagram haha.
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My house is really close to the tower :/
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My house is really close to the tower :/
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I'm like 3/4 mile away from the tower, but I have learned he closer to it I get the weaker the signal gets.
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Redmond, WA got a flicker of LTE for about 20 minutes today
Hey folks, Got my first little taste of LTE this afternoon. I had LTE for all of 20 minutes at work. Speeds were about 2.0mbs which is about 2x what I normally get here. I wasn't expecting too much as they apparently have just over 1% of the LTE towers upgraded around here so far, AND since it wasn't on for very long I'm assuming they just fired up the LTE to make sure the install on that tower was good. It's got my hopes up and I'm excited that it's finally coming
Have a great day
Hey folks, Got my first little taste of LTE this afternoon. I had LTE for all of 20 minutes at work. Speeds were about 2.0mbs which is about 2x what I normally get here. I wasn't expecting too much as they apparently have just over 1% of the LTE towers upgraded around here so far, AND since it wasn't on for very long I'm assuming they just fired up the LTE to make sure the install on that tower was good. It's got my hopes up and I'm excited that it's finally coming
Have a great day
This means your lte signal is actually coming from another, more distant tower.
No not really it's coming from this one tower but if you sit right under it or within a block of it the speeds drop off, if I'm 2 blocks away or further the speeds pick back up. It was the only tower turned on until a couple of months ago, so I tested a lot on that issue.
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Are you going based on the signal bar status (dBm measurements via settings?) If so, then it is displaying 1x signal. Even if you're connected to LTE at the moment. Usually when you're right under a tower, you should yield great results. I was checking my local site and even standing under it, my 1x signal never got better than a -77 dBm threshold.
Actually, "right under a tower" is the worst place to be. Towers don't aim the signal straight down at the ground. They aim the signal over the coverage area at an angle specific to that area. Some towers are aimed towards the ground more than others depending on geography and population density, but the one place the signal will never go is directly under the towers, or even within a couple hundred feet of the tower for that matter.
Signal bars have nothing to do with data signal. Signal bars are strictly cellular.
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Just a quick question (hopefully there are some site tower fanatics out there.) Do you recall how long it took Sprint to flip the switch for LTE after they've installed the new panels on your local site? Mine's had new panels for over a month now and I haven't seen a blip of LTE yet. I know it's coming, just looking for an estimate lol.
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i get up to 38 down and have gotten 42 in the past i can post screenshots if nessecary ..samsung galaxy s3 atl:good::good:
i get up to 38 down and have gotten 42 in the past i can post screenshots if nessecary ..samsung galaxy s3 atl:good::good:
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6That sucks. our Dallas LTE thread was closed and now were stuck in a General. Personally i would prefer to have a thread with each city so i can focus on my issues and location not a general every LTE discussion..
Hope the Moderator who closed our Dallas LTE thread is reading and will open ours back up.5I know I've said this to some folks before but for the new ones posting... the reason you are probably seeing slower speeds are due to the weak 4G signal. Your signal bars on your Android (non-CM) phone show the 1X voice/sms connection strength not the 4G LTE signal. You could be connected to a site across the street with a nice -50 signal showing all bars, but your 4G signal is barely hanging on at -120 pulling 1 megabit. Just the nature of the beast with Sprint letting us use the signal instead of sitting on the ready cell sites like other carriers do and firing them up all at once.
I recommend the Signalcheck Lite or Pro application. It allows you to see the actual signal numbers in your status bar of both the 1X voice/sms and LTE or EVDO connection at all times. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wMiwiY29tLmJsdWVsaW5lLnNpZ25hbGNoZWNrbGl0ZSJd
More info: Bars Lie for LTE Signal Strength! How to determine your actual LTE signal strength4
It depends. How old are these studies, and which chipset did they use? With SoCs older than our Snapdragons, LTE was a huge battery drain, especially compared to Wifi. However, the Snapdragon S4 chip has a much more efficient LTE radio than previous SoCs, and therefore, less battery drain.
I'm sure Wifi is more battery efficient than LTE, even on our S3s. The question is "How much more efficient is it?" And the answer I've received (from myself and many other S3 users) is, "not noticeably". Considering that LTE is a lot closer to Wifi technologically than it is to EVDO, along with general advances in LTE technology, that shouldn't be a surprise.
Technology "studies" can become invalidated very quickly with the current pace of technological progress, much more so than medical or environmental studies. There have been lots of "studies" that say Android is riddled with malware, even though most folks you'll meet in your life will never experience Android malware, and the ones who do may as well have sought out the malware purposely, because you practically have to try to get infected.4
give it 6-12 months as more cities get lte. it's only a matter of time before the abusers and people with no consideration start bogging the network which sprint in turn will implement a 1-2mbit/s cap. lets hope instead they start throttling the abusers.3
obviously if i knew harrisburg had active 4g, i clearly knew about sensorly. A little deductive reasoning never hurt anyone.
saying that Sprint never promised anything is a really lame point. I never demanded that the rollout be 100% completed by December, all i did was voice major disappointment over the fact that the rollout date went from December, to January, to February, to Spring. That is the difference between reading and reading comprehension.
