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[FLORIDA] 4g metro speeds ;)

n4zty said:
what u doing in my backyard? :D i get close to 10 mbps in my hood.
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yeaq I was getting amazing speeds there it was not to far from the usf campus..i was in the area because my friend was getting his car tuned there..it's nice there...I still haven't visited downtown and other areas...
 
Joshuah22a said:
@Gman Orlando, FL 328

is there a way to tell where the towers are located?or how to locate one?
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Gman9831 said:
I used OpenSignal.
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Ok GM I got one for you.

I've been curious about this. At first glance it's a stupid question but not the more *I* think about it it isn't. :o

Does Open Signal on your phone show just Metro towers or does it show All Towers which may or may not be on your same network?

Muchos Gracie us. :smokingsomb:

Bruce in Ocala, FL
 
OcalaFlGuy said:
Ok GM I got one for you.

I've been curious about this. At first glance it's a stupid question but not the more *I* think about it it isn't. :o

Does Open Signal on your phone show just Metro towers or does it show All Towers which may or may not be on your same network?

Muchos Gracie us. :smokingsomb:

Bruce in Ocala, FL
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Whichever tower your phone is getting the signal from
 
I obviously was not clear enough.

Are you 100% positive the App ONLY shows towers that your phone receives and transmits on?

Ie; their website has locations of ALL towers. Is there not some way for the App to get the tower location besides being on the same network as your phone?

Bruce in Ocala, FL
 
Gman9831 said:
I used OpenSignal.
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At least for Metro in my area, their website info is totally bogus.

First it shows just a small amount of coverage (3-4G) and none over a Wide area I KNOW has a very decent signal. Better yet, it somehow magically manages to discover some way for there to be the Metro coverage they DO show where they Also show NO Metro Towers AT ALL. :confused: (And only 1 T-Mo tower so that ain't it.)

Completely wrong info all the way around on the website for this area/Metro.

Bruce in Ocala, FL
 
OcalaFlGuy said:
At least for Metro in my area, their website info is totally bogus.

First it shows just a small amount of coverage (3-4G) and none over a Wide area I KNOW has a very decent signal. Better yet, it somehow magically manages to discover some way for there to be the Metro coverage they DO show where they Also show NO Metro Towers AT ALL. :confused: (And only 1 T-Mo tower so that ain't it.)

Completely wrong info all the way around on the website for this area/Metro.

Bruce in Ocala, FL
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All the coverage data is user inputted but then its pretty accurate in the tower finding
 
It's still weird I think their website shows basically No Metro coverage (when the whole city has some to decent coverage) and no one single tower.

Sounds screwed up to me.

Bruce in Ocala, FL
 
Tmo LTE at the Ft. Lauderdale airport yesterday and they were only using half the spectrum available
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Gman9831 said:
This morning and yesterday there has been like 20 people in South Florida saying it popped up without forcing it. 1 kept it for like 45 mins driving north from Miami on the 95
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ok still could be in testing, from my understanding, in other markets first few days it had to be forced but after that it did not but it was in phase 2 testing or something, simulated load on the towers and such.
 
nah the prl files are only to tell our phones which tower its allowed to connect to. here in tampa and south florida they boosted spectrum by from 3mhz to 5mhz and that allowed more speeds now when in florida they finally release lte coverage from t-mobile's towers they will most likely release a new prl to allow metro's lte phone to have lte coverage from such towers but thats about it. we will all need to get the new gsm phones when it comes to florida to gain Lte/hspa and whatever else comes with the package.
 
n4zty said:
nah the prl files are only to tell our phones which tower its allowed to connect to. here in tampa and south florida they boosted spectrum by from 3mhz to 5mhz and that allowed more speeds now when in florida they finally release lte coverage from t-mobile's towers they will most likely release a new prl to allow metro's lte phone to have lte coverage from such towers but thats about it. we will all need to get the new gsm phones when it comes to florida to gain Lte/hspa and whatever else comes with the package.
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When they do let us on tmobile LTE they'll just broadcast both the tmobile and metro MCC - MNC tmo users get tower access through 310-260 and then we get through with 311-660 simple as that no PRL update required
 
GM (or anyone who knows),

What's with the "burp" in the middle. I get that too. Really decent speeds then BAM a crappy one or two?

Why does it do that?

Bruce in Ocala, FL
 
OcalaFlGuy said:
GM (or anyone who knows),

What's with the "burp" in the middle. I get that too. Really decent speeds then BAM a crappy one or two?

Why does it do that?

Bruce in Ocala, FL
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Sometimes the network has hiccups which results in packet loss and thats why his ping is so high
 
lol my boy that lives in tampa as well like 20 min from me did a speed test for the first time on his motion and clocked out at 12 mbps i was shocked.

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