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Sprint Note 3 lte

accobralover

accobralover

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Signal strength :0.19Mbps download: 0.24 upload, at home.( after reseting everything with Sprint on phone) Slower than Galaxy S2. I ordered the Airwave from Sprint at $124. If that does not arrive on time or work, I will have to return the phone and change carriers. Sprint said I was between towers. I live in Austin Texas?
Any known issues with Airwave 2.5+?
 
Not to be that guy but why exactly does it matter what your speed is at home? My signal is almost non-existent but have had wifi at home or my apartment since before my cells were smart enough and never run it at home without the antenna on.
I have run Sprint, ATT and Verizon stuff all around atlanta and could pick out the spots each is best and sorry none are any better or worse no matter what Verizon may advertise here. In fact Verizon had BY FAR the worst call quality and stability and it wasn't close. And don't be rich and have Verizon, NW Atlanta Verizon signal sucks from Peachtree out Paces to the river.
 
broadrun96 said:
Not to be that guy but why exactly does it matter what your speed is at home? My signal is almost non-existent but have had wifi at home or my apartment since before my cells were smart enough and never run it at home without the antenna on.
I have run Sprint, ATT and Verizon stuff all around atlanta and could pick out the spots each is best and sorry none are any better or worse no matter what Verizon may advertise here. In fact Verizon had BY FAR the worst call quality and stability and it wasn't close. And don't be rich and have Verizon, NW Atlanta Verizon signal sucks from Peachtree out Paces to the river.
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True. You can find isolated places where sprint or att or vzw is better. But its ignorant to post about things you dont know about. Coast-to-coast vzw has easily twice the LTE infrastructure in place. Even with Softbank buying sprint, they won't have equal coverage for 1 to 1.5 years. I know this. Its my job. I know where the lte network outages are. I knoe why they occur. I know why iOS7 is a problem to ATT. I work on a box I the EPS core, the deals with all the call processing for all 4G data calls, and deals with the CSFB (circuit switched fallback) used by ATT and sprint. Vzw uses almost all dual transceiver mobile sontey support 1x calls on their ims network while maintaining LTE data sessions.

Vzw does have the best network, its not even close. If it's not good in your neighborhood, well its entirely possible.
 
Lets keep in mind that ultimately, people are going to use what's best for them. The actual quality of the network isn't all that matters for all people

You may rank network speed as much more important than I do.

With that said, its important to do your homework before signing the dotted line. If you're not in an area that's rolled out LTE yet of course the speeds are going to be slower
 
jetguat said:
True. You can find isolated places where sprint or att or vzw is better. But its ignorant to post about things you dont know about. Coast-to-coast vzw has easily twice the LTE infrastructure in place. Even with Softbank buying sprint, they won't have equal coverage for 1 to 1.5 years. I know this. Its my job. I know where the lte network outages are. I knoe why they occur. I know why iOS7 is a problem to ATT. I work on a box I the EPS core, the deals with all the call processing for all 4G data calls, and deals with the CSFB (circuit switched fallback) used by ATT and sprint. Vzw uses almost all dual transceiver mobile sontey support 1x calls on their ims network while maintaining LTE data sessions.

Vzw does have the best network, its not even close. If it's not good in your neighborhood, well its entirely possible.
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And that was WHAT I POSTED, learn to read and not spout about how smart you are. I was commenting on MY PERSONAL experience, and could not care less what the network says is going on. I work in that area daily and work with residents there that would call you a liar to your face and they actually enjoy the dead zone at their house as they are not bothered. I could not care less about coast to coast as I live HERE, so please don't bother with your tech crap that I can easily read on myself and actually have. None of your information is protected and is all public knowledge.
 
broadrun96 said:
And that was WHAT I POSTED, learn to read and not spout about how smart you are. I was commenting on MY PERSONAL experience, and could not care less what the network says is going on. I work in that area daily and work with residents there that would call you a liar to your face and they actually enjoy the dead zone at their house as they are not bothered. I could not care less about coast to coast as I live HERE, so please don't bother with your tech crap that I can easily read on myself and actually have. None of your information is protected and is all public knowledge.
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@broadrun96. If you enjoy your WiFi in your dead spot, that awesome.

@Rxpert83. Also true. Network speed is different to each user. If people want raw speed, my suggestion on network provider would be different. Thought that particular suggetion would also have to be tempered by more network down time and more congestion, but that operator can correctly claim higher speeds. True, network speed is different to all. I'd drop 1-3Mbps for better reliability in the Midwest.

@broadrun96 back to your comment ... You wrote
"I have run Sprint, ATT and Verizon stuff all around atlanta and could pick out the spots each is best and sorry none are any better or worse no matter what Verizon may advertise here."

Its this specific comment that I replied to. If you want industry reports to suggest elsewise, I'll take a look for them.
 
well for me in LA lte towers are pretty much everywhere that i hang out at so i can't complain. i just got 2 mbps download and 3.02 mbps upload on 4g lte.....so i am not complaining as this is fast enough for me.

and sorry op i never had to use an airave.

and guys lets keep this thread more on topic to help out the op rather then go back forth with each other;)
 
Regarding OP. Sprint is going to have a great 4G network. But its behind ATT and VzW. Their attempts with nextel and WiMAX side tracked them. If service is really bad in the areas you need it most, switching carriers might be the only option. If service is good enough, and if by you feel you like the brand, then consider trying sticking it out. Sprint has lots of improvements coming in the next year. Guess you could say the worst is behind them now.
 
I'm sorry but I just gave up on sprint and went to tmobile and I'm very impressed with there 4g lte way better than sprint.
 
As to comment on the airave thing i have very poor service in my house but with WIFI that didnt bother me. But i seen that i registered to get the airave for free so i said why not. It toke me from no bars to full bars anywhere in my house. So for me the airave worked perfectly.
 
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