Sprint Tri-Band LTE Phone Discussion Thread aka Sprint Spark

[ttwiitch]

Anyone knows how I can find out what areas of my county/ city, has 800mhz deployed for LTE and/or voice? Been Googling but I don't get a specific answer ...just news articles.

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[ttwiitch]

Anyone knows how I can find out what areas of my county/ city, has 800mhz deployed for LTE and/or voice? Been Googling but I don't get a specific answer ...just news articles.

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[VW Maverick]

Anyone knows how I can find out what areas of my county/ city, has 800mhz deployed for LTE and/or voice? Been Googling but I don't get a specific answer ...just news articles.

Try here: Markets - Sprint 4G Rollout Updates

Mav.

 

[ttwiitch]

Try here: Markets - Sprint 4G Rollout Updates

Mav.

Thx!

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[HopelesslyFaithful]

so people have actually seen band 26? i have never seen it in the chicagoland area so i was figuring that it was still on the back burner.

BTW i was getting like 16-20Mbps down and 6-10 Mbps up on 1900 mhz that is pretty sick given good situations! I thought it capped at like 10/10 or 12/12 not 20 down I just thought ideally it was symmetrically because 5x5 or 10x10 or whatever mhz?

 

[ttwiitch]

so people have actually seen band 26? i have never seen it in the chicagoland area so i was figuring that it was still on the back burner.

BTW i was getting like 16-20Mbps down and 6-10 Mbps up on 1900 mhz that is pretty sick given good situations! I thought it capped at like 10/10 or 12/12 not 20 down I just thought ideally it was symmetrically because 5x5 or 10x10 or whatever mhz?

I've gotten upwards of 33mbps down on the 1900mhz band. Regular conditions, sometimes peak too.

Now, band 41, is a whole new ball game. Look below :-!


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[VW Maverick]

No Band 41 in the ATL yet but getting some real nice Band 26:

Mav.

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[HopelesslyFaithful]

jealous :/

 

[Mitri360]

I am getting a crappy upload from my phone galaxy mega and I have no idea what any of that means in order to at least see what I need to do to improve my upload. My DL is good enough for me

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[Almeuit]

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/13/u3u4y7ez.jpg

I am getting a crappy upload from my phone galaxy mega and I have no idea what any of that means in order to at least see what I need to do to improve my upload. My DL is good enough for me

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What kind of upload speeds are you hitting?

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[Mitri360]

The DL isnt bad. Usable for me and what we do on it. But the upload is horrible.

And idk what the rsrp/rq means or what band I'm on or anything. Idk how to read that screen .

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[HopelesslyFaithful]

your probably stuck on 2500mhz for that upload to happen and it isn't letting you switch to 1900mhz. You are in that crap gray error i bet. Mav should be able to tell you how to switch the priorities so that doesn't happen. assuming you have the code or whatever...it was a ways back so i dont remember sorry

You really need anything above 110 to work decently. I get in a certain spot in my office on 1900mhz band 25 ~ 5/5mbps with 100-110 db.

 

[dpham00]

No Band 41 in the ATL yet but getting some real nice Band 26:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/13/vavahady.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/13/hu5epunu.jpg

Mav.

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Is it 5+5mhz or 10 +10mhz?

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[dpham00]

your probably stuck on 2500mhz for that upload to happen and it isn't letting you switch to 1900mhz. You are in that crap gray error i bet. Mav should be able to tell you how to switch the priorities so that doesn't happen. assuming you have the code or whatever...it was a ways back so i dont remember sorry

You really need anything above 110 to work decently. I get in a certain spot in my office on 1900mhz band 25 ~ 5/5mbps with 100-110 db.

You can't get higher in that range? I I can get in 70s with that signal, though I am on Verizon

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[HopelesslyFaithful]

You can't get higher in that range? I I can get in 70s with that signal, though I am on Verizon
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/13/a8u5ygu5.jpg

dpham00, Android Central Moderator
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The highest speed in this thread so far IIRC was was 60/15mbps that is ridiculous. I have never heard verizon having that speed. I have -108-110 db and get 5-8 down and 5-7 up. This is 1 bar which is on 1900 mhz/band 25. Also my 1900 mhz signal has stayed about the same but bandwidth has improved a little at home in the last week or too. It was only 5/5 or 6/6 for the longest time. Now i am seeing around 8 quite often. Best i have gotten on band 41 was:
44.55/13.67
38.85/22.93

and that was with very good signal (full or missing one bar) in aurora IL.

The person above has bad signal and as i noted earlier when you have barely any signal on band 41 you get terrible upload so he is probably still being stuck on band 41 when he should be on band 25 due to bad signal. Sprint give too much priority to band 41.

think about it....your dealing with a very high frequency and a handset that can only send a very weak signal...if your at borderline the weaker power source will tank the most.

now you can see
you can see at the same place and time
Speedtest.net by Ookla - My Results
and how a little drop in signal when you already had borderline signal makes it tank hard in the upload because the device has a hard time because of lack of power.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/684793414
FIXED THIS SORRY FOR THAT


Now one where you barely have enough to stay connected. Still good download.....very very bad upload
Speedtest.net by Ookla - My Results

 

[delthor7]

This is in Costa Mesa, CA

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[dpham00]

The highest speed in this thread so far IIRC was was 60/15mbps that is ridiculous. I have never heard verizon having that speed. I have -108-110 db and get 5-8 down and 5-7 up. This is 1 bar which is on 1900 mhz/band 25. Also my 1900 mhz signal has stayed about the same but bandwidth has improved a little at home in the last week or too. It was only 5/5 or 6/6 for the longest time. Now i am seeing around 8 quite often. Best i have gotten on band 41 was:
44.55/13.67
38.85/22.93

and that was with very good signal (full or missing one bar) in aurora IL.

The person above has bad signal and as i noted earlier when you have barely any signal on band 41 you get terrible upload so he is probably still being stuck on band 41 when he should be on band 25 due to bad signal. Sprint give too much priority to band 41.

With 5 bars, have seen 138mbps. This tower was recently upgraded to 20+20mhz aws.

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[Topgonzo]

This is a sprint forum so not exactly sure what posting speeds from Verizon does to help people talking about sprint download..

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[Almeuit]

This is a sprint forum so not exactly sure what posting speeds from Verizon does to help people talking about sprint download..

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I think he was strictly showing what a full bar speed test on that band could do is all...

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[VW Maverick]

http://www.lightreading.com/mobile/...-s-peaks-in-2015/d/d-id/709518?_mc=RSS_LR_EDT

Mav.

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