cbobby
join:2009-06-14
New Windsor, MD | Hello Sprint,Hello Leaves, Hello Summer Speeds, Awwsummmmmm Last Result:
Download Speed: 277 kbps (34.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 227 kbps (28.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
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cbobby
join:2009-06-14
New Windsor, MD | Last Result:
Download Speed: 144 kbps (18 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 622 kbps (77.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 207 ms
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decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN
kudos:1 Reviews:
 ·Verizon Broadban..
| Mines taken a hit too.. Speed test
Testmy.net
Every now and then when I do the test It claims i'm getting .69mbps, but i'll put it this way... I had diablo 3 downloading over night and didn't even download 1 gig of game data /sigh at this rate, its gonna be a week for this to be downloaded |
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cbobby
join:2009-06-14
New Windsor, MD | the cnxn went to 1XRTT for about 20 mins
reconnected and suddenly Speed and Signal
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Download Speed: 767 kbps (95.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 318 kbps (39.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
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cbobby
join:2009-06-14
New Windsor, MD | reply to cbobby
Quality Service that Money can't buy.
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Last Result:
Download Speed: 266 kbps (33.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
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Latency: 3920 ms
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Download Speed: 275 kbps (34.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
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Lamiel
join:2008-04-05
Saint Johns, MI Reviews:
·Skyweb Online
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Man... Sprint sucks. I feel for you guys. Hopefully they'll get their LTE network rolled out quickly, and over a wide area. How great would it be to have a 50GB LTE Millenicom plan? Provided Millenicom could negotiate something like that, I'd be all over it...
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Sounds like you need a cantenna or something to punch through the summer vegetation.
Jim_in_VA has all kinds of info on his website and you can checkout the 3gstore as well. |
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 Jack_in_VAPremium
join:2007-11-26
Mathews, VA
kudos:1 | Vegetation? 2.7 miles through solid forest with green leaves. -75 dBm. No line of sight to the tower.
I personally think way too much is put on vegetation effects.
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cbobby
join:2009-06-14
New Windsor, MD | Jack,
I've written this before, but you and Jim live in a place that is little effected by any population drain on your Towers. 1/2 of your 360 degree local circumference is WATER. There are not a bunch of commuters in cars driving near your towers, nor are there 10-100 teens getting on-line with their friends....showing all those photos and videos they just shot.
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Download Speed: 227 kbps (28.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 502 kbps (62.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
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cbobby
join:2009-06-14
New Windsor, MD | reply to Jack_in_VA
Jack,
I've written this before, but you and Jim live in a place that is little effected by any population drain on your Towers. 1/2 of your 360 degree local circumference is WATER. There are not a bunch of commuters in cars driving near your towers, nor are there 10-100 teens getting on-line with their friends....showing all those photos and videos they just shot. Nor is there a Large High School and a Community College in range of your tower.
I'm grateful for Millenicom. I'd be paying AT&T for overages every month if it weren't for them. But please recognize reality beyond that isolated slip down in Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay that you inhabit
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Download Speed: 227 kbps (28.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 502 kbps (62.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
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I've been at 200k or less since last Fall, I don't know if someone else signed up but my tower now blows. I want to track down an antenna tower so I can get my grid antenna up higher and possibly pick out a different tower.
I am sick of Verizon and Millenicom not being able to leverage them. I was hoping the local WISP would be able to help me, even at a $500 install fee, but nada.
I'm getting very close to biting the bullet and getting a $250 T1. |
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| To find locall cell towers do a search here:
»www.antennasearch.com/
or here
»www.cellreception.com/towers/ |
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cbobby
join:2009-06-14
New Windsor, MD
1 edit | said by Aranarth_t:To find locall cell towers do a search here:
This Sprint page may help...depends on how Sprint has been updating it. It gives a better map to Sprint towers....when it's working.
Just put in your Zip and address.
»network.sprint.com/search
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Download Speed: 201 kbps (25.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
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| dear god...
I guess you could either shoot yourself to put yourself of your misery, or switch to wildblue and enjoy faster internet...
(J/K  !) |
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cbobby
join:2009-06-14
New Windsor, MD | reply to cbobby
Hey Sprint....commmmonnnnnn' SELL SOME MORE DEVICES.....BRING DOWNLOAD SPEED TO 0.. Crash your network just like AT&T did with the iPhone.
Last Result:
Download Speed: 176 kbps (22 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 675 kbps (84.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 204 ms
Last Result:
Download Speed: 244 kbps (30.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 442 kbps (55.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
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So have you tried a coffee can yet to give you a directional antenna?
How far away is your tower?
What sort of signal strength is your modem reporting?
Is it consistent?
Do you get this slow down at peak times or is it fairly random?
What have you tried to improve performance? |
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Reviews:
 ·SONIC.NET
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·Comcast
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I've had AT&T for 12 years now and ever since the advent of 3G, I've never seen speeds as poor as you're getting now. Even with EDGE, I saw better download speeds. AT&T may have oversold their network with the iPhone but Sprint's network was already slower than AT&T's at that point; meanwhile, AT&T has put in a lot of hours and spent a lot of money to improve things, while Sprint has done... what, exactly?
So many people down on AT&T for how they handled the iPhone; While I agree that they could have done better, they never got as bad as Sprint, have always had better coverage than T-Mobile, and drop far fewer calls than Verizon.
Hate them as much as you want, but AT&T manages several insanely-large networks, all of which interconnect at some point, and they do a damned good job of it. Do they have some deficiencies? Before you answer that, ask yourself, which provider doesn't?
That said, there is no way in hell I would ever consider AT&T Wireless for a primary data connection, I blow through their highest monthly cap in 2 days. I'm not trying to convince anyone here to switch to AT&T, it would be unworkable for the vast majority of you; but can we stop with the AT&T hate? There is no basis for it. |
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cbobby
join:2009-06-14
New Windsor, MD
3 edits | said by BronsCon:That said, there is no way in hell I would ever consider AT&T Wireless for a primary data connection, I blow through their highest monthly cap in 2 days.
I have an AT&T tower 1/2 mile from me.
That said, I dropped them when they first introduced the iPhone and my speed dropped to dial-up.
I would have gone back to them but they instituted a 5gig Hard Cap and would not even discuss my needs....at any price.....
I need 13gigs per month.
They absolutely refused to negotiate a higher limit.
Buy the way it's wonderfull that you have other choices for a "primary" connection.
Unfortunately.....due to the nature of the Monopolies in my area....Comcast and Verizon are the only companies that provide a Hardline internet service....and they refuse (Comcast) or don't supply the service(Verizon) to my home. Even though Comcast ends it's run 1/2 from my location. |
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cbobby
join:2009-06-14
New Windsor, MD
1 edit | reply to Aranarth_t
said by Aranarth_t:So have you tried a coffee can yet to give you a directional antenna?
How far away is your tower?
What sort of signal strength is your modem reporting?
Is it consistent?
Do you get this slow down at peak times or is it fairly random?
What have you tried to improve performance?
I've been with Sprint/Millen since the Fall of 2008.
When I first got the service all I needed was a small Flat Panel antenna set in a window facing the tower.
Tower is within 4 miles...but the terrain is hilly and wooded not a clear shot.
When I start the service, I consistantly got 1.5 to 2.0 down and .5 up.
Then as Smart Phones started to gain ground....my speeds and my signal strength also went down.
I got a Cyfre Amp and used the ant that came with it.
Could get up-to 1.0 Down....but not at peak times.....like 8AM to 9PM. Good for me was .5 to .75
Last spring as the leaves came out, the signal got weaker.
I got a Splitter and started using the Flat Panel again.
This Spring this set up is no longer producing the .7 to .95 on a regular basis. Though there are times I can get over 1.0 to 1.3 down.
It has become very inconsistant. Plus recently, the signal strength has dropped into the 90 dBm ranges, at times during the day it drops into the No Service area and into 1XRTT........
This from the low to mid 80s I had been getting.
As has been discussed here before....when many try to access the Tower, the signal strength drops for those farther away.
Last Result:
Download Speed: 586 kbps (73.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 421 kbps (52.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 229 ms |
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Jack_in_VAPremium
join:2007-11-26
Mathews, VA
kudos:1 | reply to BronsCon
said by BronsCon: quote:
Sprint has done... what, exactly?
Friday evening 7pm holiday long weekend with neighborhood full of people yapping and texting on cell phones. 
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