I have a wilson sleek signal booster I was using with the 3gs. Cell phone reception in north-eastern NY state is kind of weak. So whenever I go to the camping, I can kiss Bell mobility goodbye and forget about roaming to ATT or T-Mobile as the cells towers are too far away.
So with the AHD in Wilson sleek craddle and the external antenna on top of the trailer, the signal goes from nothing to a solid 4bars signal.
So if you are traveling a lot or need your phone in difficult area, this 85$ booster might be what you need.
Reviews on the internuts are quite good too.
Note: I have the older 800/1900 gsm version of the craddle , not the newer LTE.
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Throwing the LTE bands out on the table for non-Spark devices (such as M7) vs. Spark devices (Such as M8)
M7: 1900mhz
M8: 850/1900/2600 MHz
Now those who had an M7 know the fallbacks with the 1900 spectrum. While driving around depending on your area, or limitations of wall penetration, it's very easy to loose LTE and fall back to 3G. Then it's no fun waiting to get back to LTE when your streaming music or video.
The reason I am posting this question is because I don't want to assume, I'd rather have feedback for someone with an M8. If you're inside a building, or driving, have you noticed an improvement with a spark phone?
For instance, is it possible to be on the 850 spectrum and NOT the 1900? or as soon as it looses the 1900 will it still fall back to 3G? I'll be honest, I love/hate LTE on non-spark phones. Love because its unlimited data, hate because of how easy it is to loose LTE. I've had several non-spark phones and had this issue between all of them, and I also have a Verizon phone which is on LTE over 99% of the time. I live in the Tri State Area in NY.
So the bottom line question... If only one band is available (say the 850 because it should theoretically have better wall penetration), will it use that band? Or.. is Sprint Spark all three bands or bust..back to 3G?
im pretty sure from what ive read that spark uses all bands at the same time, so if you lose one youll still be connected on the others until you lose them all. my area doesnt have 850 yet so i couldnt tell you but i definitely feel the diference between having 2500+1900 and only having 1900... when i have both i get aroung 35Mbps then i lose 2500 indoors and i get 5-8Mbps but my phone never "disconnects" from lte when im testing that
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bigblueshock said:
This could be a simple or complex Question/Answer...
Throwing the LTE bands out on the table for non-Spark devices (such as M7) vs. Spark devices (Such as M8)
M7: 1900mhz
M8: 850/1900/2600 MHz
Now those who had an M7 know the fallbacks with the 1900 spectrum. While driving around depending on your area, or limitations of wall penetration, it's very easy to loose LTE and fall back to 3G. Then it's no fun waiting to get back to LTE when your streaming music or video.
The reason I am posting this question is because I don't want to assume, I'd rather have feedback for someone with an M8. If you're inside a building, or driving, have you noticed an improvement with a spark phone?
For instance, is it possible to be on the 850 spectrum and NOT the 1900? or as soon as it looses the 1900 will it still fall back to 3G? I'll be honest, I love/hate LTE on non-spark phones. Love because its unlimited data, hate because of how easy it is to loose LTE. I've had several non-spark phones and had this issue between all of them, and I also have a Verizon phone which is on LTE over 99% of the time. I live in the Tri State Area in NY.
So the bottom line question... If only one band is available (say the 850 because it should theoretically have better wall penetration), will it use that band? Or.. is Sprint Spark all three bands or bust..back to 3G?
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Yes, if only one band is available, the M8 will only use that band as long as the signal is strong enough to stay on it. Spark enabled phones have the ability to connect to all 3 bands as you have mentioned but can only connect to a single band at any given time as far as I'm aware. Unless it uses some modulation technology. I haven't read much into it, though.
The 2600Mhz band offers the highest theoretical speed out of all of them. Sprint just calls all their Tri-Band phones, Spark enabled for simple identification and as another means of marketing both their network and devices.
I haven't noticed any issues when I'm driving on my normal routes with the M8. Though, with the M7, I would sometimes hit points where it would drop to 3G and Google Music would buffer slightly and resume playing shortly thereafter. I'm not entirely sure its due to the phone, though as it might just be Google Music caching more data or Sprint has worked on the towers recently. I also haven't paid much attention as to which bands, if any, it has been connecting to as I believe this area is still limited to 1900Mhz LTE.
skizzled said:
Yes, if only one band is available, the M8 will only use that band as long as the signal is strong enough to stay on it. Spark enabled phones have the ability to connect to all 3 bands as you have mentioned but can only connect to a single band at any given time as far as I'm aware. Unless it uses some modulation technology. I haven't read much into it, though.
The 2600Mhz band offers the highest theoretical speed out of all of them. Sprint just calls all their Tri-Band phones, Spark enabled for simple identification and as another means of marketing both their network and devices.
I haven't noticed any issues when I'm driving on my normal routes with the M8. Though, with the M7, I would sometimes hit points where it would drop to 3G and Google Music would buffer slightly and resume playing shortly thereafter. I'm not entirely sure its due to the phone, though as it might just be Google Music caching more data or Sprint has worked on the towers recently. I also haven't paid much attention as to which bands, if any, it has been connecting to as I believe this area is still limited to 1900Mhz LTE.
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ahh. I was under the impression sprint was able to bond all 3 channels together to get a lot higher speed. but if it only connects to one at a time, that's a different story
bigblueshock said:
ahh. I was under the impression sprint was able to bond all 3 channels together to get a lot higher speed. but if it only connects to one at a time, that's a different story
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That might very well be the case, I'm not entirely sure how the Tri-Band works on Sprint phones yet but will definitely be looking into it moreso since I have a M8.
Band 41 (2500Mhz) will offer higher theoretical speeds at the expense of less range and wall penetration.
Personally, I'm much more interested in Band 26 (800Mhz) as this will hopefully greatly increase range and improve reception. I've been on Sprint long enough to realize that I mostly use data services which don't require huge amounts of bandwidth and when I really need a fast connection, I have access to Wi-Fi more often than not.
Just posting a quick result of a speed test on the might mix 256gb version. Vs the iPhone 6s+. Same network was used both in 4g and WiFi test on both devices, and the same Sim card as well.
The iPhone and mi mix performed equally good on WiFi. Both connected instantly. The Mix was a bit faster at loading uncached webpages.
On 4g it was a different story however. The Mix took on average about 30 seconds to connect to 4g (seems it favors H and H+) where as the iPhone almost had a 4g signal before I popped in the sum tray. There was also a noticeable speed difference of about 30% in favor of the iPhone, hitting a whopping 140-160mbps. The mix topped out at 90, but generally stayed at 70-80.
I live In a country with one of the strongest 4g connections in the world. It seems the iPhone is able to connect to 4g+ but the Mix isnt. What a shame. What are your network findings?
And the results from the iPhone 6s+ on the same network with the same Sim card
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And the results from the iPhone 6s+ on the same network with the same Sim card
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something odd
yes, the U.S (country that I live in) does not have the fastest LTE but even then no country has 140MBps (this is like the router speeds being touted for all kinds of MBps while the pipe into the home is nowhere near as fast; also depends on receiver h/w, if transferring files between computers versus communicating with outside world (internet))
maybe some aggregation going on?
I can see though the I6+/I6 connecting much faster as they have a much bigger band coverage and so tapping into whatever is available and connecting much faster .. that is true
(disclosure: do not own either of these devices..just trying to learn)
http://bgr.com/2016/02/04/lte-speed-test-comparison-global-2016/
https://opensignal.com/reports/2016/02/usa/state-of-the-mobile-network/
https://www.verizonwireless.com/arc...plans/4g-lte-speeds-compared-to-home-network/
http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/#iphone-6s-iphone-6s-plus
http://superuser.com/questions/235784/router-speed-vs-isp-speed
http://www.radio-electronics.com/in...-lte-advanced-carrier-channel-aggregation.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_devices_with_LTE_Advanced
This is on my 150/150 line. Router being a Netgear 6250.
Hello guys/girls !
I'm using JIO as service provider in India for my Nexus 6. I've recently noticed my speed gone down drastically. Wondering, I downloaded Signal Spy app and found that, when my mobile is locking to specific tower (Found using GCI code), speed is going down to 200 Kbps (transfer speeds of 20Kbps) but when it is locking to different tower speed is going way up (10 Mbps). Sadly as expected my mobile always locks to the poor tower. So just thinking is it possible to blacklist that specific tower? HELP !
People have been asking about blacklisting specific towers since at least 2013, and the answer for all of them has been the same: it can't be done. The hardware isn't designed to do what you want it to do. All the hardware does it find the strongest signal and connect using that. Unfortunately for you, the strongest signal has the lower bandwidth.
The only advice I can give you is this: you either need to switch to a carrier that has better throughput in your area, or you need to move closer to that other tower.
I have the dual sim exynos version.
Wifi is good but mobile network connectivity, whilst okay, isn't top of the line.
Looking at reviews online, they all seem to talk about the snapdragon version. I have no idea if those reviews applies to the exynos version.
When comparing my phone to my friend who has Oneplus 6. We get similar signals but he gets higher speed and latency is also lower. I hover around 60 mbps as maximum connection speed, he hovers well over 100 mbps.
The worst thing about this, is that when we're in oversubscribed area which is common, he gets through just fine. I cannot. Even if I put my phone on airplane mode then back to normal, I still can't get good connection.
We're on the same plan (EE UK, 4GEE max plan).