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firedude EVDO Junkie
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| Ping EVDOforums.com from Morro Bay Ca............. 127 ms |
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Draconas EVDO Newbie
Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 5
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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DeSoto, MO, 7 miles out of time, middle of the woods on a hill. Coverage map shows me BARELY in the "roaming" section...
Sprint w/Sierra 595u hooked to a tablet pc using ICS - Full EVDO RevA connection, -95 to -105 dbi - speeds around 900/400 from 4 networked machines!!!
Ordered an external antenna and booster which should take me down in the -80s
BYE BYE HUGHESNET!!!!!!!!
Just because you're not in the "Green" areas, don't give up! Take the 30 trial they offer and try it out. I NEVER thought I would have anything other than Hughes *cringe* but Sprint has delivered me from evil!! |
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firedude EVDO Junkie
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Draconas wrote: | | I NEVER thought I would have anything other than Hughes *cringe* but Sprint has delivered me from evil!! |
Seems to be a lot of those "deliveries" lately. |
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xchpstang EVDO Junkie
Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 208 Location: Turlock, CA
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Draconas wrote: | DeSoto, MO, 7 miles out of time, middle of the woods on a hill. Coverage map shows me BARELY in the "roaming" section...
Sprint w/Sierra 595u hooked to a tablet pc using ICS - Full EVDO RevA connection, -95 to -105 dbi - speeds around 900/400 from 4 networked machines!!!
Ordered an external antenna and booster which should take me down in the -80s
BYE BYE HUGHESNET!!!!!!!!
Just because you're not in the "Green" areas, don't give up! Take the 30 trial they offer and try it out. I NEVER thought I would have anything other than Hughes *cringe* but Sprint has delivered me from evil!! | I second this. I have found solid EVDO Rev A signals miles from where the map says coverage ends and I should be roaming. Sprint coverage maps are very conservative since I'm sure they have figured out that it is better to underpromise and overdeliver than overpromise and underdeliver. |
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Total Oblivion Omnis EVDO Newbie
Joined: 03 Nov 2007 Posts: 3
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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Hattiesburg, MS. Sprint Rev A sighted 1mbps down 100 kbps up. North of hattiesburg, but centralized in the city. |
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JoeCHecht EVDO Junkie
Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 241
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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Total Oblivion Omnis wrote: | | Hattiesburg, MS. Sprint Rev A sighted 1mbps down 100 kbps up. North of hattiesburg, but centralized in the city. |
You sure thats Rev A? The upload speed should be higher.
Are you sure its Sprint?
Like you, we have good Rev0 Alltel roaming coverage.
This is really strange:
We (32536) recently got upgraded to Rev0, although Sprint flat out denies it.
I'm connecting "sprint only - no roam", and verified with ##DEBUG that I am on a different "tower" than with AllTel roaming, and that I am not roaming.
I had thought they where just doing something like "branding" the roam as Sprint. Its really strange. Sprint claims they cannot even see me connect, much less at EVDO (and again, Sprint says EVDO does not exist in my area).
From where I sit, the Sprint tower in 32536 is at least a couple of miles directly behind the Alltel tower, and the Alltel tower is about 1.8 miles line of sight. The signal strength is always identical when connecting to either.
If I go to the other "sprint tower" side of town (and closer to the tower), I still get EVDO, but the signal strength is less.
At best, I am suspicious of what is going on, and I think I really need to go visit the towers directly, and test um out.
I will be driving though Hattiesburg is the next few days, and will try it out.
Thanks!
Joe |
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sirwoogie EVDO User
Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 28 Location: MI
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:19 am Post subject: |
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Must be getting for WiMax around my neck of the woods. I was consistently getting 1200/300 previous to this. Last week, I started getting this:
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