I think it was about 2014, maybe 2015 ...
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 2:42 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <
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> I’m not sure now long ago that was. We had t Mobile several years ago and
> it was bad. They had added a lot of towers and that new band which has
> improved
> You guys still use a 4S?
I did, until the move back to AT I upgraded to an 8, since the
4S was basically doomed at that point. The 4S was quite a bit
smaller than what replaced it. That was kind of nice, plus I had
two drop-in charging stands for it, and a video cable for the TV.
I still
I have four SEs in rotation. One just decided that the ringer wasn’t going to
work any longer after Mom in law plugged in a headset. I presume the jack
failed and disabled the speaker.
I have a 7 Plus that’s my County work phone, and I really like it, but I’m not
keen about the size, which is
On Sat, August 29, 2020 5:57 pm, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote:
> Last year, T-Mobile didn't even work at our house, which has line of
> sight to places where it did work. (It roamed to the AT cell at our
> house.) At the beach cabin, zero service, even though with AT the month
> before it had
> T Mobile has a bunch of new towers on a new band of signal, but in order to
> be able to pickup the new signal you have to have a newer phone. I think the
> Iphone 8 and up will pick it up, but something as old as a 4 will not.
Yeah, I'd heard about that. My zero service at the beach with
One other thing I forgot about. T Mobile has a bunch of new towers on a
new band of signal, but in order to be able to pickup the new signal you
have to have a newer phone. I think the Iphone 8 and up will pick it
up, but something as old as a 4 will not.
On 8/29/2020 4:57 PM, Jim Cathey
Last year, T-Mobile didn't even work at our house, which has line of sight to
places where it did work. (It roamed to the AT cell at our house.) At the
beach cabin, zero service, even though with AT the month before it had
been fine. (Same iPhone 4S telephone.) Merging with Sprint will help a
At an airport the _net_ load is fairly constant. Lots of churn, though.
At something like Sturgis, veey different.
-- Jim
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That is a well known fact when I was researching. Supposedly T Mobile is now
about even with AT as far as coverage goes. Now that they bought Sprint maybe
it will get even better.
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> On Aug 29, 2020, at 11:15 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
> wrote:
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> Having worked on
I’m not sure now long ago that was. We had t Mobile several years ago and it
was bad. They had added a lot of towers and that new band which has improved
coverage greatly. I have some pockets here and there with spotty coverage but
for the most part had been fine.
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> On
Yeahbut, at a big/busy airport you'd gain or drop 300-500 connections at a
time every minute or so. Not only are there a lot of connections they rise and
fall "all of a sudden" as a plane arrives or departs.
At a sports venue the ramp up or down would slower, although still pretty darn
fast.
I
Go look at a major sports venue, like a large football stadium.
I saw the engineering for WiFi and cellular infrastructure for Raymond James
Stadium (Buccaneer’s football stadium, this year’s Super Bowl location) a
couple of years ago, since the County owns the stadium and leases it back to
It only just occurred to me the massive infrastructure the phone providers
must have around airports. The load fluctuation around airports must be massive.
-Curt
On Saturday, August 29, 2020, 12:55:08 PM EDT, Jim Cathey via Mercedes
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> Nope. This is geo fenced somehow and can
> Nope. This is geo fenced somehow and can only be used at your home address.
> Not sure how they do that.
Lock it to the local tower. That makes sense, it's the only way they could even
hope to guarantee service levels. Imagine everybody bringing their units with
them to Sturgis, for
We had AT for years because we had a vendor discount.
We tried tmobile for a month, based largely upon the knowledge
that it falls back to AT towers where it has none of its own.
Only then did we discover that the fallback is on a tower-by-tower
basis, at the discretion of AT, and that one of our
Having worked on both AT’s and Verizon’s site buildouts, I can assure you
that Verizon has everyone beat as far as number of cells and national coverage.
I was told that part of the rationale was to be able to sell off service for
piggybacking to smaller providers, like Spectrum. My Spectrum
We had T-Mobile at first, but often had to go outside to make calls. Then
we found that we had no service when we flew to small town airports, etc.
Hard to cal for a ride when there is no service. We asked what the locals
used, and it was Verizon everywhere we went (N, S, E, W), so we switched
and
On Sat, August 29, 2020 11:27 am, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote:
> Nope. This is geo fenced somehow and can only be used at your home
> address. Not sure how they do that.
The PRL (tower database) only has one tower in it?
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Nope. This is geo fenced somehow and can only be used at your home address. Not
sure how they do that.
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> On Aug 29, 2020, at 9:51 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> wrote:
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> On Sat, August 29, 2020 10:40 am, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote:
>>
>> but the T Mobile thing
On Sat, August 29, 2020 10:53 am, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote:
> If it's a new service in the area, you'll probably get pretty good
> service until it fills up with customers.
When I first got EVDO on Alltel, it was practically like having a T-1 line
(the T-1 that fed the tower two miles away).
> Have a WeBoost [nee Wilson] at the lake, aimed at the Verizon tower.
I have one (with the 12" rod antenna) perched on top of the camper.
The rebroadcast antenna I move from the truck cab to the camper,
depending on whether we're traveling or parked.
I duct-taped an old circular saw blade to
If it's a new service in the area, you'll probably get pretty good service until
it fills up with customers.
-- Jim
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> At my house, I'm lucky to listen to my T-Mo voicemail without getting
> dropped in the middle of the call (but it works OK if I step outside)
Sounds like you might be a candidate for a Wilson whole-house amplifier system.
BIL and his wife are both doctors, and need phone access. The Wilson
On Sat, August 29, 2020 10:40 am, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote:
>
> but the T Mobile thing is much cheaper if it works ok in the long run.
> Even though this other company offers those speeds no telling if you
> actually get them.
And cellular ISP from a national carrier is portable, you can
On Sat, August 29, 2020 10:33 am, OK Don via Mercedes wrote:
> That sounds excellent for a rural ISP!
At my house, I'm lucky to listen to my T-Mo voicemail without getting
dropped in the middle of the call (but it works OK if I step outside)
I just tried Speedtest with Verizon, which give me two
So far so good. This is $50 a month. There is a different WISP in the area I
thought about contacting before I went this route. They offer up to 25Mbps for
$199 a month and 20 for $149. They have cheaper plans also but the T Mobile
thing is much cheaper if it works ok in the long run. Even
That sounds excellent for a rural ISP!
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 8:38 AM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <
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> The T Mobile home internet router arrived yesterday. It is basically
> simple router with 2 ports, has a port for WAN and a port for PHONE.
> The WAN and PHONE
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