Anyone have any experience with any external antenna kits?
I'd like to get one for my house, as my coverage isn't so great.
buggz2k said:
Anyone have any experience with any external antenna kits?
I'd like to get one for my house, as my coverage isn't so great.
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If you have been with Sprint for a while, you can call them and ask for an Airrave. It's a mini "in home cell tower" that draws it's signal from your home cable broadband. They will more than likely ship you one for free if you have been with Sprint for a while and your acct is in good standing..
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If you have been with Sprint for a while, you can call them and ask for an Airrave. It's a mini "in home cell tower" that draws it's signal from your home cable broadband. They will more than likely ship you one for free if you have been with Sprint for a while and your acct is in good standing..
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Have to have broadband internet for it right? I live in the country and no such luck
aven_soulgazer said:
Have to have broadband internet for it right? I live in the country and no such luck
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Yes it requires a broadband connection.
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I get horrible reception at home with my epic... i was wondering if the epic will get a radio ported from the fascinate... just like how the hero has a radio from a eris dump...http://geekfor.me/hero/radios/radio-241040202/#more-932
ickwonder said:
I get horrible reception at home with my epic... i was wondering if the epic will get a radio ported from the fascinate... just like how the hero has a radio from a eris dump...http://geekfor.me/hero/radios/radio-241040202/#more-932
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Get a Wilson Electronics repeater.
Get an AirRave from Sprint
Get an airrave from sprint. I called complained, and they sent one to me free of charge.
sndtubes said:
Get a Wilson Electronics repeater.
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+1 Wilson repeater works great!
bomix said:
+1 Wilson repeater works great!
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I did a quick search, and it seems those things start around $300! For now, I use Roam Control from the market to force roaming.
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socos25 said:
Get an airrave from sprint. I called complained, and they sent one to me free of charge.
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What does the airwaves do and how does it perform. what did u tell them to get it for free. Roam control might be a good option. The repeater is just too pricey for me right now. Thanks for the input so far
ickwonder said:
What does the airwaves do and how does it perform. what did u tell them to get it for free. Roam control might be a good option. The repeater is just too pricey for me right now. Thanks for the input so far
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I got one of these as well. It performs perfectly, as advertised. It hooks into your high-speed internet and has a GPS receiver (to make sure you're not creating sprint networks in other countries, etc).
I called Sprint, said I couldn't get reception in my place and that, if there was nothing they could do about it, I was going to switch to Verizon (which is true). The guy looked at my account, saw that I had an unlimited plan, said I was a "high-valued customer" and waived all fees.
I did have to call and dispute fees that were added anyway, but they fixed those. Now I get 5 bars as opposed to none in my apartment.
ickwonder said:
What does the airwaves do and how does it perform. what did u tell them to get it for free. Roam control might be a good option. The repeater is just too pricey for me right now. Thanks for the input so far
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AirRave is a mini cell tower - so to speak - that plugs into your existing highspeed internet for VOIP calling. When the phone leaves its range, it attempts to hand the call to the tower. Keep in mind that they do take a line even if they do give it to you for free. Repeaters are a little pricey and will probably always be, not to mention I don't think they work for 3g - just 1x
socos25 said:
Get an airrave from sprint. I called complained, and they sent one to me free of charge.
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When?
I did this two weeks ago, and they said that program was suspended right now because they didn't have any, and wouldn't until after the new year.
socos25 said:
Get an airrave from sprint. I called complained, and they sent one to me free of charge.
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To ickwonder and socos25? What city are you in? I am just curious if the problem is nationwide or based on your specific locale.
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To ickwonder and socos25? What city are you in? I am just curious if the problem is nationwide or based on your specific locale.
Thanks
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My location is fine I'm in Ventura county... I think sprint considers my area part of LA. My buddy that works for sprint said 4g towers are up but not on yet. But it seems where i live the signal is very weak. Besides that I always have a strong signal in this area for the most part
What city...OXNARD, CA
What do you mean, take a line? Thanks!
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"take a line" meaning that most plans have 3 available lines....most I know of atleast. So 3 potential phones. The air rave takes one of those available lines.
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When?
I did this two weeks ago, and they said that program was suspended right now because they didn't have any, and wouldn't until after the new year.
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Yeah they cancelled it awhile ago and I was pissed, as much as I tried to haggle with customer support.
At about the 30 day mark into my phones use I just could barely hang on with 1 bar in the house, they told me I had missed the mark to get one by about a week.
You can rent one from them for like $10/20 but that's messed up.
Now just crossing my fingers the 2.2 update will bring a better radio signal, but plywood walls suck.
I'm wondering when does sprint 3g gets better? Someone said something will happen on October.
the service is so intermittent that when on 3g, I have to give up any kind of streaming.
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My 3G where I live has been great since I joined Sprint August of last year. I get close to 2 mbps on 3G. However in other areas, it can be a paltry 300 kbps.
I'm getting spotty service. Whenever I use the speedtest app, I get all spiky data pull.
I just want consistent download speed...
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The best answer any of us can give you is, "When you wake up one day and the service if better, mark that date - that's when it will get better."
Also, when will Sprint customers and XDA members become clairvoyant?
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October 7 is when they are announcing their plans for the network. After that, we'll have a much better idea of what will be happening with network improvements, the LightSquared LTE build-out, and hopefully WiMax.
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I'm wondering when does sprint 3g gets better? Someone said something will happen on October.
the service is so intermittent that when on 3g, I have to give up any kind of streaming.
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I'm an IT guy and any streaming of any kind is not deployed wirelessly so my advice to you as the same to my clients is do your streaming with wired internet and stop relying on a phone to complete your life
mtwow789 said:
I'm wondering when does sprint 3g gets better? Someone said something will happen on October.
the service is so intermittent that when on 3g, I have to give up any kind of streaming.
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How about first half of 2012?
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/27/sprints-lte-build-out-already-underway-new-4g-network-to-launc/
Very excited that they may re-purpose the Nextel spectrum for LTE, since it will have much better building penetration.
I just did speed test when I am on downtown Greenville.
I cant do anything on 3g right now
the network vision will take a while to complete nationwide, however as they update the towers, 800 frequency will help with calls in your home, possibly evdo rev b could be announced in addition to lte (l-band) from lightsquared. It will not be pretty over the next year or so, hopefully with all the cuts they have made and service costs they've increased the money and deals that have been made will make for a truly different cellphone company.
Today's result... I going to try verizon PRL tomorrow
adelmundo said:
My 3G where I live has been great since I joined Sprint August of last year. I get close to 2 mbps on 3G. However in other areas, it can be a paltry 300 kbps.
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I'd love to get 300kbps.
They will probably make it better when enough people buy that stupid ass iPhone they are going to start selling cause God forbid someone with an iPhone have ****ty service. LOL
I get better service than that in the middle of no where.
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I'm an IT guy and any streaming of any kind is not deployed wirelessly so my advice to you as the same to my clients is do your streaming with wired internet and stop relying on a phone to complete your life
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I disagree and I will tell you why that is. If I am at home and using my phone to download from the market, I am lucky if I can download a 1MB app within a 3 to 4 MINUTE time frame. Completely unacceptable when I pay $140 a month for service.
**EDIT** Here is the difference between 3g where I live in Phoenix, and the 1 tiny square block of 4g that's several miles from me. Keep in mind that according to Sprint I "live in an excellent coverage area"
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I disagree and I will tell you why that is. If I am at home and using my phone to download from the market, I am lucky if I can download a 1MB app within a 3 to 4 MINUTE time frame. Completely unacceptable when I pay $140 a month for service.
**EDIT** Here is the difference between 3g where I live in Phoenix, and the 1 tiny square block of 4g that's several miles from me. Keep in mind that according to Sprint I "live in an excellent coverage area"
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What's your point to that I'm referring to land based internet dsl,cable, fiber optic. I listen to pandora everywhere I go with no issues. my wireless in my house is only for phone and laptop. I have 3 pc's and a ps3 all wired. When I stream blu ray movies I don't let my $800 cisco wifi access point do it. I get one gigabit of bandwidth wired so that's why I do it wired.
Its gonna be a time when you don't need wires. phones are getting faster and faster
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Faster Sprint speeds may be coming.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282562
marioc21 said:
Faster Sprint speeds may be coming.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282562
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I don't think the current problem with Sprint is their backbone, I think they lost tower sharing in many places due to an expired agreement with someone around March. I've had Sprint for nearly 10 years, my phones just don't have signal in many places that it used to and it hasn't gotten better 7 months later. If you have full bars, then the backbone upgrade will likely make things fly, if you have 1 bar or none, it isn't going to help you very much. I would love to know the percentage of complaints that are lack of signal based vs full bars and still slow throughput.
I'd also like to know when the new frequencies that Lightsquared has will begin to be added to the chipsets and implemented into the next gen phones 2012, 2013? Finally is anyone else curious to see what happens when I get a call and my Garmin GPS is on?
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What's your point to that I'm referring to land based internet dsl,cable, fiber optic. I listen to pandora everywhere I go with no issues. my wireless in my house is only for phone and laptop. I have 3 pc's and a ps3 all wired. When I stream blu ray movies I don't let my $800 cisco wifi access point do it. I get one gigabit of bandwidth wired so that's why I do it wired.
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I'm not an IT guy and I can tell you my $50 linksys router can stream simultaneously to a ps3 wii and 360 on seperate floors wirelessly so idk it seems like I'm definitely getting my moneys worth if you can't stream from a $800 cisco one
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I disagree and I will tell you why that is. If I am at home and using my phone to download from the market, I am lucky if I can download a 1MB app within a 3 to 4 MINUTE time frame. Completely unacceptable when I pay $140 a month for service.
**EDIT** Here is the difference between 3g where I live in Phoenix, and the 1 tiny square block of 4g that's several miles from me. Keep in mind that according to Sprint I "live in an excellent coverage area"
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Where's this block of 4g at?
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http://www.walmart.com/ip/zBoost-SOHO-YX545-Signal-Booster-Wireless-Extenders/15406726
Anyone try this? At my parents place outside I get about -80 inside it goes to -106
Would this help sprint signal?
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http://www.walmart.com/ip/zBoost-SOHO-YX545-Signal-Booster-Wireless-Extenders/15406726
Anyone try this? At my parents place outside I get about -80 inside it goes to -106
Would this help sprint signal?
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Whoa... That's A LOT of money for something not that great. I recommend an Official Sprint Airave.
I would but there's no broadband connection there
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Can a WiFi or a broadband signal be made like a signal reapeater?
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donsh00tmesanta said:
I would but there's no broadband connection there
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Getting a WIFI repeater does not help cell signal at all. If there's no internet connection you just have to live with it and hope they put in a cell tower closer to your place.
donsh00tmesanta said:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/zBoost-SOHO-YX545-Signal-Booster-Wireless-Extenders/15406726
Anyone try this? At my parents place outside I get about -80 inside it goes to -106
Would this help sprint signal?
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You can always put a Wilson wide band antenna on the roof and run a wire down to connect to the phone for a strong signal. You will need a pigtail to match the phone or use a small whip from a wi-fi router to couple the signal to the phone if it doesn't have an antenna connector. Keep the leadin wire to 20' or less to limit loss. Here's an antenna you can get on Amazon that works well for all cellular bands.
www.amazon.com/Wide-Band-Directional-Antenna-700-2700/dp/B002DV4JTM/
Anyone recommend a good repeater/signal booster?
Anyone currently using one?
NO NO NO!!!!!
If you haven't already plugged it into your phone DON'T. It could damage your phone's internal antenna and void the warranty. READ THE WARRANTY BOOKLET THAT COMES WITH YOUR PHONE. I tried it on my phone (LGC800 mytouch Q) and it broke the internal antenna, and I had to buy a new phone. Look it up on Google its not a once in a blue moon thing, either.
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If you haven't already plugged it into your phone DON'T. It could damage your phone's internal antenna and void the warranty. READ THE WARRANTY BOOKLET THAT COMES WITH YOUR PHONE. I tried it on my phone (LGC800 mytouch Q) and it broke the internal antenna, and I had to buy a new phone. Look it up on Google its not a once in a blue moon thing, either.
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huh?
T-Mobile has one
So I got a sprint airave because my folks house is a dead zone they have hugesnet and in the manual it said it its incompatible with satellite internet well it is working but man does the call quality suck lol voice is so choppy lol, and they can't get broadband or here in the sticks so I guess I'm stuck with either having to walk to the road (45 acres away) or trying to use the airave maybe y'all know of a way I can fix this stupid way until me and my wife get moved into our own place in town. Needless to say you ain't gonna get good service in TN like we did in Fla lol unless I go to a town.
Any input would be greatly appreciated!
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Get a different carrier and if you don't want to give your service up just get a cheap prepaid 3g wireless router or whatever?
The airave isn't for internet its for cell coverage aka a signal booster than runs on an internet connection.
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stevemoffler said:
The airave isn't for internet its for cell coverage aka a signal booster than runs on an internet connection.
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Hes saying he is using the airwave with his satellite internet for his phone calls.
You cannot "fix it" since the reason it doesn't work well is the latency involved with satellite internet.
Figured damn hughes net and their crappy service.
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Coming from a E4GT I used the Roam Control app to force roaming when needed. Seems it doesn't work with the G2. :crying: What is the method for forcing roaming?
Wish I knew, would like to force roaming myself, for calls at home where I get 0-1 bars of Sprint service :-/
I'm sure a solution will be found eventually.
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EllGuapo said:
Wish I knew, would like to force roaming myself, for calls at home where I get 0-1 bars of Sprint service :-/
I'm sure a solution will be found eventually.
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If you have decent cable internet service at home, call sprint and ask them for a free Airave device.
No Airrave for me
tcrimsonk said:
If you have decent cable internet service at home, call sprint and ask them for a free Airave device.
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I thought about one of them but didn't really like the thought of Sprint getting first access to my internet service, and another device plugged into that area sucking down energy (I think I have about 20 now, it is near my entertainment center so I can use ethernet on my Xbox / Roku). Thankfully the Network Vision updates have brought me decent voice service in my home now, and 4G/LTE in a lot of areas around my house outside! They really just need to enable wi-fi calling on all phones, it is silly not to have it going by now, IMO.
Does Roam Control still not support this phone?