King PDon't blame me. I voted for Ron Paul Premium Member join:2004-11-17 Murfreesboro, TN |
King P
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2010-Oct-21 9:16 am
Really?I'm actually pretty happy with Sprint. Some issues with my Samsung Moment aside (micro usb port broke and they wouldn't replace it...at first), I've been pretty happy with them for the last 5+ years.
I really could care less about WiMax at this point. I don't plan on using it, nor will I be getting a 4G phone anytime soon (although Nashville does have decent coverage).
Maybe the folks they lost are just ones that are fairweather users, that cry/moan/pitch-a-fit, when something doesn't work exactly right? | |
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Forget WiMax....how about fixing 3G in my areaThey're about to lose another customer here over 3G speeds. I've been on the phone with customer service every week for the last 5 weeks trying to get 3G download speeds higher than 56K. Everything was fine until 5 weeks ago when suddenly 1.5M slowed down to 56K. Every customer service rep has taken information, put in a ticket, but when I call the next week the customer service rep can never find the previous ticket. | |
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| digiblur Premium Member join:2002-06-03 Louisiana |
digiblur
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2010-Oct-21 9:26 am
Re: Forget WiMax....how about fixing 3G in my areasaid by ChuckIL9:They're about to lose another customer here over 3G speeds. I've been on the phone with customer service every week for the last 5 weeks trying to get 3G download speeds higher than 56K. Everything was fine until 5 weeks ago when suddenly 1.5M slowed down to 56K. Every customer service rep has taken information, put in a ticket, but when I call the next week the customer service rep can never find the previous ticket. Join the club... they haven't fixed the coverage issues here and their 3G has been in the toilet since they got off the leased Alltel 3G 3 months ago in my area. Their network planners ran ONE T-1 to the downtown tower for 3G that covers all the state capital offices!! Yes...ONE! This is daily for me right here... Don't waste your time trying to call customer service...put in tickets yourself with the tower guys. Email them and they will call you back and get all of your info. Here is the email: just to prevent spam to their address... it is trvesc at the typical sprint.com | |
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| tiger72SexaT duorP Premium Member join:2001-03-28 Saint Louis, MO |
to ChuckIL9
speeds seem to have decreased for my girlfriend's Sprint service too ever since Virgin started their broadband package. | |
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WiMaxSprint has already stated they are looking at LTE. I don't see WiMax phones being released much past 2011. Besides, if someone bought an EVO or Epic because of the 4g, they need to realize it's not much more than a novelty in most places. I bought it because of the its other capabilities and Sprint's plan pricing. | |
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Re: WiMaxsaid by hamburglar:Sprint has already stated they are looking at LTE. I don't see WiMax phones being released much past 2011. Besides, if someone bought an EVO or Epic because of the 4g, they need to realize it's not much more than a novelty in most places. I bought it because of the its other capabilities and Sprint's plan pricing. If Sprint goes LTE it would likely be in 5+ years converting CDMA spectrum once there is an LTE voice service - and I think they should. They'll continue to do WiMAX via Clear for several more years if not for the long haul. Clear has enough spectrum to do both. Would like to see Clear stick with WiMAX in the term and Sprint convert CDMA spectrum to LTE in 5+ years. Qualcomm is working on a way to ease CDMA/LTE migration. | |
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Mr Anon
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2010-Oct-21 9:37 am
No they haven'tI have a buddy who was visiting in an okay south side Chicago neighborhood and had great clear 4g even in a basement. traveled to an apartment on the north side near the end of the brown line and no 4g what so ever. | |
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ryder9
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2010-Oct-21 2:13 pm
Re: No they haven'twhat does that have to do with anything?? | |
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Mr Anon
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2010-Oct-21 3:49 pm
Re: No they haven'tOne would expect the second location to have a better signal than the first. It's near a university, near a transit location, VS. the first location which is basically... no where.
While his sprint phone (non 4g) is the opposite, Location 1, no service except *some* outside, location 2 full strength 3g, so is the clear but as stated before no 4g at the second. | |
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Sprint 4g = clearwire?Because I can say wholeheartedly that it's underwhelming. I live in an area on their map that lists me as getting 4g within my home, but my phone gets one or two bars in 4g in my living room. Out on the main road it gets full signal, but still pulls very underwhelming speed tests (less than 2mbps down, less than 25kbps up). | |
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LivinWparnts
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2010-Oct-21 10:48 am
Re: Sprint 4g = clearwire?Ya but its doing this wireless!! I think its a great product and love clearwire so far.. | |
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| jmn1207 Premium Member join:2000-07-19 Sterling, VA |
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I'm sure everyone's experience is different, but I could not be happier with my Sprint HTC EVO's 4G performance. Here in Northern Virginia, if I am in a spot with 1 or more 4G bars, I have been able to stream my Slingbox video to my phone without any issues. I've never seen it throttled and I've had great speeds at all hours of the day/night. I watched an entire round of the British Open golf tournament, and several legs of the Tour de France without any problems. I just watched the Yankees - Rangers baseball game last night and it was perfect for the entire game. Sprint's 4G is great for many of us, and hopefully it will improve in those areas where people are experiencing problems or poor performance. HTC EVO 4G
I captured a couple of screen shots of the movie "The Blind Side" being shown on HBO with my EVO's SlingMedia player. From Movie
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Re: Sprint 4g = clearwire?Well la-di-da. It's great to know they're not relative shit in your area. | |
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Wow that's a terrible result for 4G. Here's typically what I get on my Evo
I love how low the pings are with Sprint. AT&T was always 250ms+ when I had the iPhone. | |
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jmn1207
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2010-Oct-21 8:02 pm
Re: Sprint 4g = clearwire?Right, terrible, please. I was inside my office building sitting at my desk, which is located away from the windows, so I had no GPS lock and the app ran the test on the last server that was used. Notice the latency on my test? When I use a test server in and around D.C., and I have better line of sight to the tower, my latency and speed results are much closer to what you are posting. Still, a steady 6 Mbps wireless connection is freaking awesome for many, many people. Having absolutely no cap limit is the icing on the cake, until it melts away and Sprint has a change of heart. But, I concede. You are the true champ of the 4G speed test. | |
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said by Happydude32:Wow that's a terrible result for 4G. Here's typically what I get on my Evo I love how low the pings are with Sprint. AT&T was always 250ms+ when I had the iPhone. The home users were bragging like that for about four months so they get the good reviews then they will cap your a$$. | |
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wow!! they've just realized that?clear should NOT even THINK of throttling new york customers or they will take their business elsewhere... | |
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io chico Premium Member join:2003-12-30 Marble Falls, TX |
io chico
Premium Member
2010-Oct-21 10:01 am
Happy with SprintI've only been with Sprint for 2 months, but I'm very happy with them. I'm getting just under 1Mbps. It's the unlimited data that attracted me. The only other option in my area is at&t's 2GB cap.
That said, I can imagine the frustration if it dropped down and no one could help. | |
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Re: Happy with Sprintyou're happy with under 1mbps??????? what do you use your connection for? plain text email only? | |
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io chico
Premium Member
2010-Oct-21 10:32 am
Re: Happy with SprintIt's just under my isp's connection of 1.2Mbps (up from .5Mbps of 4 months). Rural life. Either I get used to demanding less or I spend my life angry. | |
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Re: Happy with Sprintsaid by io chico:It's just under my isp's connection of 1.2Mbps (up from .5Mbps of 4 months). Rural life. Either I get used to demanding less or I spend my life angry. Or you can stop voting in politicians who hate you. | |
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io chico
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2010-Oct-21 7:22 pm
Re: Happy with Sprint?? | |
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| | DavePR join:2008-06-04 Canyon Country, CA |
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You can stream very nice sounding radio at 1 mb/s. YouTube sometimes requires that you let the cache fill before watching. Most web pages open quickly enough. Beats dialup. My ex in Texas uses a 3g dongle. 10 miles from the high tech capital of America and no cable, no DSL. | |
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| | en102Canadian, eh? join:2001-01-26 Valencia, CA 1 edit |
to vlad1000
How much browsing requires +1 Mbps on a cellphone ?
I had Nextel BB 7100i with Opera Mini and it was slow - but that was ~60kbps. By comparison 1x is fast. I have a Sprint Treo 800w, and its relatively fast - as long as I have a connection. Many times I get a connection issue attempting to connect to data. Voice isn't bad.
I'd rate it as a service similar to AT&T here in SoCal, with faster service on AT&T. Latency is a little better on Sprint (using pockey PuTTy SSH client on Treo 800w vs iSSH client on iPhone 3GS). Both are very reliable - Pocket PuTTy client loses connection (as does Windows LCS) during a call or incoming SMS which can be a pain (work related). | |
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That is what I talked about a while agoIts great for fixed hotspot like cafe, beach but not great when you are on a train or another moving vehicle. Too many small dead spots and/or hand-off between towers is not without an interruption.
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38632383 (banned)
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2010-Oct-21 8:08 pm
Such Coincidence !Interesting how Sprint Employees are able to get 5 and 10 meggabits of perfect wireless service while the average customer gets dial up speeds and new taxes every month, and charges that the CSR can't even identify ! Oh, wait.... That is Verizon, not Sprint... Never Mind ! | |
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