Got a little 4G love in downtown Youngstown Ohio today for the first time. I attached a couple of images of the speed test results I got. Not the best speeds EVER but darn better then 3G. Thank You Sprint.
in Springfield here and i get nothing
Wow, didnt expect 2 ppl from NEO on here. Anyways, I dont think sprint cares much for anyone not in the three C's. I really thought we would get wimax here in akron when CLE went live.
Y-town? Nice. That's my hometown. Been in VA for about a year now though.
I tried in Campbell and got connected and got an IP. Signal quality was poor and I was only able to get 822kbps down. I couldn't even web browse because I was losing signal.
I got home on the south side and couldn't even connect to 4G.
Will we receive a text message from Sprint or any other indication when 4G is fully live here?
Went to YSU here, why the heck would sprint/clearwire waste money on 4g in Youngstown before Akron.
wildgillis said:
Went to YSU here, why the heck would sprint/clearwire waste money on 4g in Youngstown before Akron.
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Obviously, because it's the home of Al Bundy.
Actually we have a thriving tech hub downtown. Makes sense to me.
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Got a little 4G love in downtown Youngstown Ohio today for the first time. I attached a couple of images of the speed test results I got. Not the best speeds EVER but darn better then 3G. Thank You Sprint.
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Really!? Youngstown gets 4g before Akron?... Not cool sprint, not cool.
Seems most of us geeks are from Ohio.
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wildgillis said:
Went to YSU here, why the heck would sprint/clearwire waste money on 4g in Youngstown before Akron.
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I would hardly consider it "wasting money". How about because its between Cleveland and Pittsburgh and they probably want 4G between the two. Seems to make sense to me. I love how some people feel their city is more important than all the others. Akron is not that great sorry.
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Seems most of us geeks are from Ohio.
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It would seem that way. Must be the lousy weather.
skylar.sutton said:
Really!? Youngstown gets 4g before Akron?... Not cool sprint, not cool.
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Maybe that's why Lebron left! No 4G!
Good one except they have had 4G in Cleveland for a while now.
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Akron is not that great sorry.
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Never said it was... but I will say this:
Akron (inc. Metro) Population: 700k
Y-Town (inc. Metro) Population: 100k
It seems pretty obvious which NEO area should be next in line for 4G
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Never said it was... but I will say this:
Akron (inc. Metro) Population: 700k
Y-Town (inc. Metro) Population: 100k
It seems pretty obvious which NEO area should be next in line for 4G
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Don't feel bad, SE Michigan towers over any other part of michigan with half the states entire population @ ~5 million people. No 4g love for us , and sprint just turned on 4g in flint, which is the most broke ass city in the state.
I am going to have to take a trip down to toledo to scope out their new 4g. At least you lucky bastards have like what 5 or 6 major cities covered
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Never said it was... but I will say this:
Akron (inc. Metro) Population: 700k
Y-Town (inc. Metro) Population: 100k
It seems pretty obvious which NEO area should be next in line for 4G
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If I had my way I would turn on the whole state. I don't get it at my house so I would have to go down to the University to use it. We are renovating a plaza downtown so I might get to use it.
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I would hardly consider it "wasting money". How about because its between Cleveland and Pittsburgh and they probably want 4G between the two. Seems to make sense to me. I love how some people feel their city is more important than all the others. Akron is not that great sorry.
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I dont even live in Akron I live in Cleveland and could care less about either city.
From a business standpoint I wonder why Youngstown would get 4g before Akron. I lived in Youngstown for 4 years for college I'm not trying to trash it. If they were actually going to add 4g all the way along the turnpike I would understand that but considering clear is teetering on bankruptcy I don't figure they have the money for that. And as someone else pointed out Akron has a significantly larger population and likely a similar area to cover although I haven't looked that up.
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If I had my way I would turn on the whole state. I don't get it at my house so I would have to go down to the University to use it. We are renovating a plaza downtown so I might get to use it.
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Whole state sounds good to me but isn't happening anytime soon.
Honestly I see most metro areas of the state getting it soon. I am in Springfield which is in between Columbus & Dayton. Dayton doesn't have it yet, but Columbus does. I hope they build towers west instead of going straight to Dayton. They will probably have Dayton go live and then fill in between. I could never expect my dying city to get 4g before Dayton. Maybe Sprints big announcement is going to be live 4g everywhere. A lot of places have been popping up lately & a lot of them are smaller too.
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They should hit all of the cities around universities first -- the younger generation are the ones using the data the most and thus the ones that need it.
Next up should be: Akron and Kent.
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Turned on 4G downtown Lansing today and its connected, getting about 500kBs down and 125kBs up.
Confirmed by the airport and down in Holt too.
I've been seeing WiMax towers for awhile and I check once a week, but its live in testing
Here are two screen shots, I changed the Speed test setting to kB/s from kpbs
I've reinstalled Sensorly Map Viewer and will begin collecting 4G data and hopefully get a good map on there.
First off, I hate you... Not really but damn. I guess we are just a bunch of broke asses in metro detroit. I hope you enjoy it, I know I would!
No connection in East Lansing, just off campus
Those are some very slow speeds for Wimax. I get around 5-6mbps in Phoenix.
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Those are some very slow speeds for Wimax. I get around 5-6mbps in Phoenix.
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I dont know if weather effects speeds but we are getting pounded by some snow
Hope we get it in Detroit soon!!!
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Hope we get it in Detroit soon!!!
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You know, I am really getting pissed off about this crap, if you look at the clear.com/coverage, it shows FLINT having 4g. FLINT!!! Detroits ****ty cousin (j/j)! No offense to anyone in flint but like 25% of michigans population lives in wayne county. </rant>
Sprint is probably testing smaller populated areas first. Theres a lot of Sprint customers in Detroit so they need to ramp up for it. Sprints Feb. 9 "magic trick" better be nation wide 4G. They were the first to start advertising it and will be the last with nation wide coverage.
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They were the first to start advertising it and will be the last with nation wide coverage.
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LOL, its so funny because its probably true
Or sprint just hates detroit
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sprint just hates detroit
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i feel and believe this sometimes. very upset with them, they put it in grand rapids. grand rapids is full of rejects and nobodys. no disrespect to anyone
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Those are some very slow speeds for Wimax. I get around 5-6mbps in Phoenix.
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if I run speed tests in mbps rather than kB/s it makes a major difference. Note that kbps and Mpbs and kiloBITS and megaBITS while kB/s is kiloBYTES. Remember 8 bits in a byte
here are back to back bit speed test
wimax is definitely in testing and I expect to see everything jump up and more towers go live in the future.
Can anyone near Eastwood towne centre confirm if that tower is live?
Edit in: I just looked back at my pictures of the Tower at Eastwood Towne Centre and it DOES NOT have WiMax panels
If they're still in test mode there's no way Eastwood will have it in the crappy blizzard. I'm not going anywhere today, haha. Maybe tomorrow ill check.
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Those are some very slow speeds for Wimax. I get around 5-6mbps in Phoenix.
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i feel and believe this sometimes. very upset with them, they put it in grand rapids. grand rapids is full of rejects and nobodys. no disrespect to anyone
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Hater!
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Hater!
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Your right, it's not grand rapids fault that the local government helped pay to implement wimax, therefore setting the standard that the metro-detroiters government should help pay to have it set up here! lol
But i think everyone in michigan can agree, why the HELL is flint getting it? lol
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Detroit used to get everything first in michigan while us in GR was aways like the redheaded stepchild.
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Detroit used to get everything first in michigan while us in GR was aways like the redheaded stepchild.
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Lol
I hope it gets to Detroit soon
GR has the best concert venue around, AND the #3 beer bar in the world. Pretty awesome place, no?
It looks like Clearwire has been putting in some work, after almost a year of having a 4G phone I just found out tonight I can actually use it now. And looking on sensorly map viewer it looks like it is popping up everywhere.
Anyone else just get it? Now seems like a good time to go hunting for it.
Nope
I live in the metro-detroit area.
I don't blame Clearwire/Sprint, I wouldn't waste my time either.
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Nope
I live in the metro-detroit area.
I don't blame Clearwire/Sprint, I wouldn't waste my time either.
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I'm really surprised Detroit doesn't have it yet, Sprint must not be very popular there I'm guessing? Next time you're outside somewhere try holding your phone from the bottom right corner and seeing if it tries to connect to Sprint, when I was driving around earlier there where a bunch of places where it would say Connecting to Sprint but disconnect and sitting the phone down or blocking the wimax antenna killed the signal like no other.
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I'm really surprised Detroit doesn't have it yet, Sprint must not be very popular there I'm guessing? Next time you're outside somewhere try holding your phone from the bottom right corner and seeing if it tries to connect to Sprint, when I was driving around earlier there where a bunch of places where it would say Connecting to Sprint but disconnect and sitting the phone down or blocking the wimax antenna killed the signal like no other.
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I would say Sprint is pretty popular here in the Metro Detroit area. Everyone I know has Sprint. I just can't believe how they just randomly pick areas to turn on 4G. Makes no sense to me.
Memphis here, by the time we get 4g it will be a thing of the past...
still nothing here :/
In Alabama, no 4G yet, probably will get it 2 days after the apocolypse.
Check www.clear.com/coverage and zoom in on your city, they are turning on random towers all over the place.
Darn it... I'm surrounded by 4g on all sides!!!
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Man, I cant believe we dont have it in Coffeyville Kansas yet. WTH,
I have the Epic and I've been seeing this happen too... they just lit up 4g in the Lansing, MI area.
I wonder if their Feb announcement is going to be SVDO, cmda iPhone or 4g nationwide coverage.... what's your gut feel?
According to the map, Bowling Green, KY has 4G coverage???????
But not the major Kentucky cities?????? Wow!
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Check www.clear.com/coverage and zoom in on your city, they are turning on random towers all over the place.
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Strange, that map shows downtown Memphis lit up light a Christmas tree with 4g, guess I'm gonna have to drive to the ghetto and see if it's for real......
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Man, I cant believe we dont have it in Coffeyville Kansas yet. WTH,
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**** i live in wichita and there ain't no 4G that i've found yet. Hopefully we get it before Coffeyville does!
Well just drove downtown Memphis and its for real, 4g is on here, now why the hell they turned it on in that part of town instead of out where all their customers are is beyond me....
I'm 1000% sure you will have it long before Coffeyville does. I'm just happy I have 3G and that its a lot faster than Verizon 3G in this area.
Sprint and Verizon has the only 3G in my area.
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**** i live in wichita and there ain't no 4G that i've found yet. Hopefully we get it before Coffeyville does!
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We arent even mentioned on clearwire's map yet but I'm sitting here with a signal right now
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I have the Epic and I've been seeing this happen too... they just lit up 4g in the Lansing, MI area.
I wonder if their Feb announcement is going to be SVDO, cmda iPhone or 4g nationwide coverage.... what's your gut feel?
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my guess would be a 3d phone and an announcement about LTE 4G or using Nextel's band for 4G as well. My friend still has a nextel phone and he just said last night he was starting to have a hard time finding a signal where he didn't before.
According to the map, Bowling Green, KY has 4G coverage???????
But not the major Kentucky cities?????? Wow!
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Maybe Sprint just likes Corvettes.
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I would say Sprint is pretty popular here in the Metro Detroit area. Everyone I know has Sprint. I just can't believe how they just randomly pick areas to turn on 4G. Makes no sense to me.
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Whether they can get the 4G turned on in specific areas depends on a variety of factors - including obtaining the permits from the local cities, easement rights from the property owner if they're not hopping on an existing tower, etc.
Places they WANT to provide service versus where they're ALLOWED to provide service don't always go hand in hand.
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Check www.clear.com/coverage and zoom in on your city, they are turning on random towers all over the place.
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Just like the Sprint map it says I'm covered, but the damn 4g signal sucks at penetrating buildings. I have to be next to a window to get a "poor" connection on my phone.
How does Sprint go about choosing cities for 4G? Also, when will most smaller "cities" finally have 4G? A year from now? Sooner, later? Does Sprint have any publication outlining their plans? I live Columbia, SC, and right now speeds are slllowwww on 3G. So when is YOUR city getting 4G? We've all been payin for it!
good luck finding that information out. I tried to contact sprint about those exact things and got the same bs over and over and over and over (yes four times )
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I live in Greenville and someone that works for Clearwire said they have one tower in the area but that's it so far. I'm not getting my hopes up for a full rollout any time soon and after getting to use 4G recently, I don't really care anymore either. T-Mobile's 3G is faster than what I've personally seen from Sprint's 4G, my wife and I are switching this summer when our ETF drops to $50/line.
I know. They pick a random city and provide customers with very spotty coverage that barely penetrates walls
You need to carry around a ghost buster battery pack to fully utilize 4G constantly any how. The only time I use 4G is when I'm plugged into a power source or to watch one video if needed. Almost useless pretty much, I'm in a 4G area and I'm using a rom without 4G and I'm just fine.
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I live in Greenville and someone that works for Clearwire said they have one tower in the area but that's it so far. I'm not getting my hopes up for a full rollout any time soon and after getting to use 4G recently, I don't really care anymore either. T-Mobile's 3G is faster than what I've personally seen from Sprint's 4G, my wife and I are switching this summer when our ETF drops to $50/line.
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you know...if you didnt have to toggle the radio, it would be alot better. i agree with you tmobile is kicking some ass and taking names...however our saving grace for me and us is the anymobile anytime stuff. If tmob got that going id etf it...I like sprint and my 22% discount but i could pay the same on tmobile for the 3 lines I have (since I dont have to pay a 10.00 fee per line) and I could get liek the dell streak or some other snazzy gsm phone. Really cdma I personally think is a dying technology.
man, im starting to like this thread already
I think they all go out and get drunk, then throw darts at a map. Thats why they just rolled out 4g in Jamaica and Taiwan
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man, im starting to like this thread already
I think they all go out and get drunk, then throw darts at a map. Thats why they just rolled out 4g in Jamaica and Taiwan
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Is this Sprint Picking 4G
Its gotta be....The DART is Yellow LOL
Well now at least when im sitting at sandals in jamaica, I can check xda via 4g, and look up drinks I want quicker alowing me to consume more!
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Is this Sprint Picking 4G
Its gotta be....The DART is Yellow LOL
Well now at least when im sitting at sandals in jamaica, I can check xda via 4g, and look up drinks I want quicker alowing me to consume more!
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OMG lol!!! that was perfect
I wish I knew too. We just got 1 tower here in Appleton, Wisconsin. I'm not sure why we get these faster then bigger cities? Oh well, guess we will need to get an insider to leak the info.
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They are doing it based on population size. I've also heard that there is a minimum population size to even be considered for 4g.
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They are doing it based on population size. I've also heard that there is a minimum population size to even be considered for 4g.
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There must be a maximum too, we're still waiting here in San Diego... the nation's 7th largest city
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Is this Sprint Picking 4G
Its gotta be....The DART is Yellow LOL
Well now at least when im sitting at sandals in jamaica, I can check xda via 4g, and look up drinks I want quicker alowing me to consume more!
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^^Quite literally thee funniest commercial on tv right now!!!
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They are doing it based on population size. I've also heard that there is a minimum population size to even be considered for 4g.
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I highly doubt this is the case. There are many examples where their roll out does not follow suit
I have to agree with elegantai, that seems like the most likely answer. I'm definitely not complaining though, they just turned it on here within the last week.
I've been wondering how they decide their rollouts. I have a feeling that the commercial is spot on
But anyway, I can't wait to try some day to day use here at KU. Been to KC a couple times and was blown away by how fast it was. 4G is supposed be activated here in a month or two, so stoked.
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^^Quite literally thee funniest commercial on tv right now!!!
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Yea I saw it a few weeks back and i thought it was awesome...
So, upon visiting a local Sprint store to attempt to preorder a Nexus S 4G, I was waiting for a Sprint rep to not be busy. This gave me time to look at the EVO on display (mainly because I wanted to compare my awesome Gingerbread to stock Froyo ).
I looked at the statusbar, and I noticed a 4G icon with some service...I instantly enabled 4G on my phone and was stoked because I highly doubted Gainesville would ever get 4G, so this made me think that only the Sprint store was broadcasting a small 4G signal to demonstrate the speeds to customers (pretty unlikely, I know), but upon leaving, I drove a few miles away, and still, I had full 4G service. As long as I am not in an area with an excessive amount of trees, I have decent service...soo happy
I guess I am one of the few using this service, because I have some pretty decent speeds for WiMax (about 2x what I have gotten in Tampa).
www.clear.com/coverage and zoom in random towers are popping up all over the county. Its "Clear on the go" coverage...
awesome i never thought they would have it there i live in tampa so i know how gainesville is crongrats!
you just made my day, been at UF all this time with my EVO and no 4G
LMAO i cant believe you guys didn't even try it i usually test everything where ever i go to see what i can connect to lol.
After months and months of nothing, you sort of give up on it. At least that's how I have been. But that Clear coverage link jefbal99 posted says there might be some a few miles away (Peoria, IL area). I'll have to drive to that area and see what I can get. But, even with zooming in, no antenna icons ever show up on the map, just light green. Maybe it's not as hopeless as I had figured.
Which Sprint store were you at when you connected?
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After months and months of nothing, you sort of give up on it. At least that's how I have been. But that Clear coverage link jefbal99 posted says there might be some a few miles away (Peoria, IL area). I'll have to drive to that area and see what I can get. But, even with zooming in, no antenna icons ever show up on the map, just light green. Maybe it's not as hopeless as I had figured.
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The light green areas don't list the towers, just coverage. I can verify that every place I've been with light green gets 4G connection.
If you are on a Sense ROM, here is a good thread with info on making 4G connect with a weaker signal and stay connected longer. I used is successfully before my switch to CM7
Are you reporting 4G on the uf campus?
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I'm glad we finally got coverage in UF... what sucks is that they're using such a high frequency for the WiMax service. The signal just bounces off the walls and doesn't penetrate well into the buildings, especially the concrete UF buildings.
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The one in Butler Plaza.
The best signal is south of campus, with strongest being on most of Archer. Haven't tried out towards Newberry yet..
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Campus is spotty with it...because of the buildings and the mini-forests we have, but slightly south of the Reitz, towards Hume, I was getting service.
Thanks for the info. Just checked the map and I have 4G in Palm Bay,Fl. Went outside my house and I connected to 4G. WOOHOO. Bout Damn time.
Nothing up on NW 13th street yet.
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The best signal is south of campus, with strongest being on most of Archer.
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This has also been my experience with 3G in Gainesville.
Edit: Just looked at Clear's coverage map. It looks like they're covering some of Gainesville, as well as Newberry and Ocala.
Saw Ocala on the map too. Haven't been able to get a lock yet.
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Nothing up on NW 13th street yet.
This has also been my experience with 3G in Gainesville.
Edit: Just looked at Clear's coverage map. It looks like they're covering some of Gainesville, as well as Newberry and Ocala.
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dude u made me have faith, i mean i live in ocala, fl but if gainsville gets it im hoping ocala goes next in line lol
I've got spotty 4G in Ocala, FL. 1.1M down 250K up
Gainesville 4G confirmed as well!
BOUT DAMN TIME, SPRINT! Great to see my $10/month going to use!
If you don't mind me asking -- whereabouts in Ocala are you seeing 4G?
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I've got spotty 4G in Ocala, FL. 1.1M down 250K up
Gainesville 4G confirmed as well!
BOUT DAMN TIME, SPRINT! Great to see my $10/month going to use!
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Sprint is running currently all of the data traffic on a extremely small amount of servers. This means that everyone that is trying to use the internet on their cellphones on sprint is running on the same highway. So speeds are going to be really slow. What does this mean for us? Sprint is upgrading and testing new 4G towers and servers. This is an internal data BTW. Places like the top of LQ Cove have weak 4G signal and places like the Costco JackntheBox area have strong out door signal. North indio as well as the K-mart area in indio have weak 4G. So switch over to 4G in those areas and test it. Please comment bellow if you have found places with 4G signal in the Coachella Valley. What a coincidence that we are starting to get 4G since before Coachella fest.
What??????
How cool a fellow xda'er in the valley
I live in palm springs and some days get nice speeds and other days... not so nice. Lol. I hope they're gonna bring in 4G soon valleywide! I'm dreaming, but hey...
I figured slow speed was due to them testing the network.
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What??????
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I think he said something about the Nexus and how Cyanogen is an overhyped rom?
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How cool a fellow xda'er in the valley
I live in palm springs and some days get nice speeds and other days... not so nice. Lol. I hope they're gonna bring in 4G soon valleywide! I'm dreaming, but hey...
I figured slow speed was due to them testing the network.
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oh wow how nice i thought i was the only one in the valley
apparently parts of palms springs and cat city around the 111 area have had 4G since the evo came out
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I think he said something about the Nexus and how Cyanogen is an overhyped rom?
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yeah thats totally what i meant to say lol
I thought I was the only one too lol
But yeah I used to check all the time for 4G in different parts of the valley but got tired of being disappointed so I quit looking lol... I think I'll start looking again since it's been a while
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yeah please do i usually have 4g on my phone on constantly but i switched to VR GengerSense rom with no 4G so i cant use it lol which means im stuck at 1X speeds till the tower at indio is back up and running
i was at LQ cove yesterday hiking towards cahuilla and i had the kingdom rom on my evo wich had 4G and i got full archs which was weird lol
Currently in Cathedral City, next to Date Palm, I am getting a fair signal and hitting speeds averaging 125 kB/s down and 15 kB/s up.