http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20914946 en Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:13:31 EDT Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:13:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20966127 opty165 : Well, it looks like we found a good spot for the antenna. And the speeds are better then they've ever been.



Thanks to everybody that helped. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20966127 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:56:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20957176 opty165 : Well we're still having the some problem connecting, but we did found a place on our back porch where we can pick up an EVDO signal. And it's not too slow there, but it's not as fast as it could be.

And the pilot number we usually connect to has changed, from 256 to 462. Do pilot numbers just randomly change?

And does anybody know what the yellowish red colored light means on the Franklin CDU-680? It will display this light when it fails to connect to EVDO, from the antenna on our roof.

Thanks!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20957176 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:48:11 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20924342 anon : Care to share the form reporting tower issues?
Thanks.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20924342 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:53:27 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20920859 opty165 : Well it's looking better today, just a little that is.



So just maybe they've about got the problem fixed. But, at least it's on EVDO now, 1xRTT was painfully slow.

EDIT: Never mind, it's back to slow 1xRTT. :(]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20920859 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:32:36 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20920452 avd706 : Same thing happened to me. I found a form on the sprint site for reporting tower issues and it got fixed within 48 hours.

This was after days and days of bouncing around customer support..]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20920452 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:20:53 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20917210 opty165 : Well, we called Millenicom and they said Sprint was upgrading.

Now, my question is, does it take Sprint 2+ days to complete an upgrade? Or was that something Millenicom made up to make use happy? And why would Sprint just happen to upgrade the tower, the second a major storm rolls through? And has anyone else been effected by these upgrades, besides use?

Well, anyways they said if it's not back to normal by tomorrow night to call back. So I guess I'll just wait one more day. :(]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20917210 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:52:03 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20917194 ydoucare : Same exact same thing happened to me a few days ago after a bad t-storm. It eventually returned to normal a day or 2 after, although my signal is now about 10 db worse than it was before the storm (same on my U720 and my phone).
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»evdo-tips.com/]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20916438 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:17:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20916177 opty165 : OK, I got connected to EVDO, for like one minute, and then it dropped back to 1xRTT again. :(
So maybe their working on the tower are whatever the problem is.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20916177 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:15:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20915275 Max Signal : The signals could be coming from different towers . Don't wonder just call or they will never get you back up and running. Sometimes they do not even know there is a problem till someone reports it
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And the signals are from the same tower, because we're using a yagi antenna. And this is the only tower that Sprint has around here. At least in the direction it's pointing. But I guess it's always possible that there's another tower somewhere close enough that it's picking it up instead.

And I haven't called this in yet, I thought sprint would of known about it. We get our service through Millenicom, so do I call them? or do I call Sprint directly?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20915253 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:08:32 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20915064 Max Signal : You can't fix it the carrier has to , Put in a trouble ticket with your carrier. Definitely sounds like a tower got hit or shorted out due to the storm
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www.MaximumSignal.Net]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20915064 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:39:11 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20915006 cpayne5 : It definitely sounds like a tower issue.

Last year, all of the towers in my area were doing something very similar. The software would recognize a RevA signal, but when we would connect, it would go straight to Rev0. There were reports of many towers in the area acting the same way. It took Sprint two months to fix the problem, as everything showed up fine in their system. It turned out to be a piece of faulty equipment in the regional backbone that was causing a problem.

I know its annoying, but just keep trying to inform Sprint of the issues you're having.
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Hail To The Redskins]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20915006 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:29:08 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20914946 opty165 : We had a bad lightning storm the other day. And all while the storm was going over our house EVDO worked fine. But after it got to the tower, which is 9 miles away, it stopped working and reverted back to 1xRTT. And this was about two days ago.

So this is what happens, when I first plug in the Franklin CDU-680, it shows an EVDO signal of around -83dBm(about the best we can get) then it jumps up to -117dBm after a few seconds and then finally disappears. And unplugging it and plugging it back in repeats this.

So my question is, what happened? Did lightning hit the tower? I'm not sure if that's what happened, because we're still getting an EVDO signal from the tower but can't connected. And we can connect to 1xRTT fine. And if lightning did hit the tower you wouldn't think that would work either.

Any ideas about what happened, or how to fix it would be very much appreciated.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20914946 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:21:05 EDT