Okay,during the past few months sprints network has been downhill in my home, seriously I get full bars of 3g during the day and at night I get full bars of no service and network is busy errors.
this is pissing me off, I was in the middle of an important call with a client and I got booted off the network.
tried all 5 of my evos and nada, signed up for skype quickly and I managed save my job.
This has happened a ton of times and my kids are always telling me about it, every time I call cs I am told its an outage and It will be fixed. But I am living in the most populated area of Puerto Rico, where every carrier has great service except sprint. heck tmo's EDGE network kicks the crap out of sprints 3g.
I could understand if I were in a rural area but damn I'm like surrounded by 3 sprint stores.
Anyways back on topic, would you guys recommend the sprint airave?I'm about to have call cs and ***** until I get this resolved.
My home internet speeds are 3.5mbdown/512kbps up.
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Okay,during the past few months sprints network has been downhill in my home, seriously I get full bars of 3g during the day and at night I get full bars of no service and network is busy errors.
this is pissing me off, I was in the middle of an important call with a client and I got booted off the network.
tried all 5 of my evos and nada, signed up for skype quickly and I managed save my job.
This has happened a ton of times and my kids are always telling me about it, every time I call cs I am told its an outage and It will be fixed. But I am living in the most populated area of Puerto Rico, where every carrier has great service except sprint. heck tmo's EDGE network kicks the crap out of sprints 3g.
I could understand if I were in a rural area but damn I'm like surrounded by 3 sprint stores.
Anyways back on topic, would you guys recommend the sprint airave?I'm about to have call cs and ***** until I get this resolved.
My internet speeds are 3.5mbdown/512kbps up.
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I've never heard of a "network is busy error" before related to 3g.
3.5 mb down and you're complaining?
Um....
There's no "3g" on ANY network that gets that high.
It sounds like it's just an outage. How long have these errors been happening?
I meant my homes dsl speed for the airave(sprints been doing 100kbps for ages while on 3g), and the network busy error appears when I try to place a call.
this started around 2 months ago, once every two weeks, now its annoying as hell, when I was going to have my dsl installed the tech almost left because he couldn't reach me (sprint outage).
I just sent a text and got an error. SMS Error Radio Interface Resource Shortage Cause Code:64 Error Class:2
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I meant my homes dsl speed for the airave(sprints been doing 100kbps for ages while on 3g), and the network busy error appears when I try to place a call.
this started around 2 months ago, once every two weeks, now its annoying as hell, when I was going to have my dsl installed the tech almost left because he couldn't reach me (sprint outage).
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An Airave could solve the issues in your home since the Airave uses voip to make phone calls.
Do you know anyone else with Sprint, do they have the same issues?
My son is at college on the west coast of the island and hes fine been fine, he complains about it when hes home visiting us.
I'm calling cs tomorrow to see if I can get them to give me a free airave since thats what I've been reading on forums.
People with signal issues receive a free airave and have the monthly charges waived.
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My son is at college on the west coast of the island and hes fine been fine, he complains about it when hes home visiting us.
I'm calling cs tomorrow to see if I can get them to give me a free airave since thats what I've been reading on forums.
People with signal issues receive a free airave and have the monthly charges waived.
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I'm sure they won't argue with you especially if it's an issue they admit.
this really blows, the funny thing is that their 4g is working... I can have data only but the signal reaches my home only in my bedroom with 1 bar.
I have 2 more calls to make and I'm not risking it with sprint, skype has been working great so far.
Does the airave give the phones in my home 3g data or is it voice and text only?
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Does the airave give the phones in my home 3g data or is it voice and text only?
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It uses your internet as the data connection and it uses your internet for voip [for texts and calls]
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this really blows, the funny thing is that their 4g is working... I can have data only but the signal reaches my home only in my bedroom with 1 bar.
I have 2 more calls to make and I'm not risking it with sprint, skype has been working great so far.
Does the airave give the phones in my home 3g data or is it voice and text only?
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It gives u 3g data also. I had the same problem at my house. I called them and told them the problem they said I live in a red zone are and will send me an airave. Free also. I have a epic and it boosted my 3g to 1.3mbs download.
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The airrave works great. I did notice an issue with Juicedefender though; it would not connect to the airrave even when forcing it to by dialing *99. Once I disabled juicedefender, it works great and much longer battery life for my device, assuming courtesy the airrave.
going to call tomorrow about it, from what I understand its some white samsung branded box right? I think I saw one at my local sprint store the last time I went there.
The new one I got about a week ago is made by Airvana or something. It is an unbranded white box (and kinda large sadly). It works just fine for both 3G and 1X (data/voice).
anyway, it was free when I complained about things getting worse. People on slickdeals saying you have to pay tax on it, about $1. I haven't had mine long enough to know.
I want this asap, I just finished my last two calls via skype and pulled the evo out of my pocket and the service is back....its 12am here now lol.
I get around 600kbs to 1.3m d/l on 3g and I ant complaining about that. But I would understand bad signal then you should reconsider getting the air wave thing.
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I get around 600kbs to 1.3m d/l on 3g and I ant complaining about that. But I would understand bad signal then you should reconsider getting the air wave thing.
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Out of curiosity, who here has an airave? My mother got hers yesterday for free for being a loyal customer for 11 years and also because of her horrible coverage in her home. I actually called customer service to see if she was eligible and she was. She used to get 1 to 2 signal bars on her epic 4g touch and now she gets full bars. Her 3g speeds went up 1.5 mbps from .3mbps. She's pretty happy with her airave . I also find out that they are planning to build a sprint tower about 20 minutes away off the highway from where she lives. No reason to leave sprint anyone time soon . Hell if the Tmobile and AT&T merger happens and I hope it doesn't, I'm heading to Sprint.
I don't know about Sprints version but we've used an At&t microcell for over a year with little to no issues. Had to pay $150 for the damn thing but it's been great. They should work similarly.
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Have had ours for some time now. Had a couple issues with it, but was always resolved within a timely manner. Without out ours here in the home, we'd see 1 bar if that. Got ours free from the problems that we've had signal wise.
Got an airave v2 from sprint for free since my basement drops calls, works great throughout the entire house, sometimes it doesn't switch properly to the sprint tower when I get out of range outside and drops though, but that's a rarity
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I have a new version Airave in my home (got it for free from Sprint cuz of poor signal quality indoors), and it works very well.
That's great that some have it especially for free. One question, does anyone have the GPS blinking green. When I first set it up it stopped blinking green and noticed now that it's blinking. I don't have the airave near a window nor elevated because of how her computer is set up and located. Should I bother connecting the external GPS or just not worry about it. My mother won't use her GPS whatsoever. Thanks.
Gps has to get a signal before airave will recieve data. As well as in highest level of support every call was airave. They work for a while and stop. We had an airave dept, but the calls were in the 100's every hr. We had to take all the overflow airave calls. Hate those things!
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I used mine without the extra gps ant. For a few months with mixed results. After a while I noticed the gps light flashed often, so I hooked up the external Gps reciever. Night and day diffrence. The airave never skips a beat, and signal is 100 fold better.
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I can't get my airave to work. I have it after the router and the GPS and Mobile lights are still blinking.
love my airvana
if your having issues put it before the router
Airave here. I like it and it works. Was free via sprint rep
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I want it after the router. I dont want to use the Airave's routing capabilities since I already have it set up on my linksys router.
I've read that you that you can just plug it in and it should work. I have tried changing the IP, etc. So far nothing.
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I can't get my airave to work. I have it after the router and the GPS and Mobile lights are still blinking.
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It needs to be close to a window or attach the GPS antenna to a window. Also first time plug in could take hours to go solid lights.
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I want it after the router. I dont want to use the Airave's routing capabilities since I already have it set up on my linksys router.
I've read that you that you can just plug it in and it should work. I have tried changing the IP, etc. So far nothing.
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I want to have it after the router as well, and thats where mine is; however, in a situation like yours where your trying to fix a problem its time to troubleshoot. If you put it before the router and it works then you've identified where the problem lies...
I have 2 of them Since i have a large family on my account that live in 2 different cities they gave me a second one free.I love them while in house i get great download speed and calls are not a issue.
I got it more for the download speed then anything else plus helps with tether
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I have 2 of them Since i have a large family on my account that live in 2 different cities they gave me a second one free.I love them while in house i get great download speed and calls are not a issue.
I got it more for the download speed then anything else plus helps with tether
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Wait... Your tethering from your phone which gets its signal from the airave which gets its signal from your home Internet connection?
I see two middle men that can be cut out of this equation
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I too have crappy signal at home. For those who have gotten unit from Sprint free do you still have to pay the monthly airwave fee? Seems to be unfair since you are using your own internet service provider to hook the airwave to.
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I too have crappy signal at home. For those who have gotten unit from Sprint free do you still have to pay the monthly airwave fee? Seems to be unfair since you are using your own internet service provider to hook the airwave to.
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I pay nothing
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By the way to all of you who want it after a Router, I have mine setup after a Router. The steps are easy just gotta port-forward. Google it =)
I did google. I also have the ports forwarded. The mobile and GPS leds are still blinking. It might come down to my charter service is not that great for VOIP (I even have OOMA too). I suspect it's that.
Shoulon, what steps did you do for after router setup?
Thank you.
So for the past two days I was not able to send or receive phone calls or text on my phone in the Brooklyn NY area. I thought maybe it was something to do with the rom I flashed or that sprint was just having outages. The funny thing is 3 and 4G worked perfectly fine. So this morning tried to call my wife on the using the cell phone and she couldnt receive calls.
So I called sprint this afternoon and they said that there was a problem with a few towers in Brooklyn where the 3g signal was interfering with the singel cell calling.
Supposedly this is suppose to be fixed by 12/21/2011 20:00 est.
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The rep wanted to do some basic trouble shooting on the phone via the network, so I am wondering would my phone being rooted and romed cause a problem with said troubleshooting.
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I posted this here because at first I thought that it was caused by the rom I recently flashed and I am just giving a heads up to people who may think the same.
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So for the past two days I was not able to send or receive phone calls or text on my phone in the Brooklyn NY area. I thought maybe it was something to do with the rom I flashed or that sprint was just having outages. The funny thing is 3 and 4G worked perfectly fine. So this morning tried to call my wife on the using the cell phone and she couldnt receive calls.
So I called sprint this afternoon and they said that there was a problem with a few towers in Brooklyn where the 3g signal was interfering with the singel cell calling.
Supposedly this is suppose to be fixed by 12/21/2011 20:00 est.
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The rep wanted to do some basic trouble shooting on the phone via the network, so I am wondering would my phone being rooted and romed cause a problem with said troubleshooting.
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I called in for Jersey and they said there is an outage. My texts usually fail to send but they say it'll be resolved within the week...
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I've been having issues in my part of Brooklyn for months now. Same thing, 3G works fine but texts and calls fail.
Chiming in well i live in brooklyn and i nor my wife have not had any call issues in my area at all.
We are both spilling having the issue. No voice or text via sprint or Google voice. I was told the tower issue in new york was suppose to be fixed last night. But we are still having the problem.
It's funny because the phone works everywhere else except in front or around or in our house. If I go five blocks away from my house the phone works fine.
Mship said:
So for the past two days I was not able to send or receive phone calls or text on my phone in the Brooklyn NY area. I thought maybe it was something to do with the rom I flashed or that sprint was just having outages. The funny thing is 3 and 4G worked perfectly fine. So this morning tried to call my wife on the using the cell phone and she couldnt receive calls.
So I called sprint this afternoon and they said that there was a problem with a few towers in Brooklyn where the 3g signal was interfering with the singel cell calling.
Supposedly this is suppose to be fixed by 12/21/2011 20:00 est.
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The rep wanted to do some basic trouble shooting on the phone via the network, so I am wondering would my phone being rooted and romed cause a problem with said troubleshooting.
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I posted this here because at first I thought that it was caused by the rom I recently flashed and I am just giving a heads up to people who may think the same.
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I called sprint and told them i had no service and no data in most of my city.. " what is it, that youre using?" i said "a cell phone..." he said exactly, its used to make calls not to surf the internet
whats funnier yet is that he was about 25 years old..
I'm in a different state and its happening to this area too. In store rep said they are aware of it and they are working on the problem. She said things should be fixed tomorrow friday, at least for my area. Some texts are falling into the black hole and some have come through hours later. Internet works. Texts ride on the phone line and not the data line. Even on wifi texts would fail. Phone calls worked sometimes. Some towers were not affected and some are. The one for my house is intermittent.
If your connected to wifi it only cover data and wont actually place a voice call through wifi right? Just data like picz and internet correct?
I believe so. I think email and internet works on wifi but not calls or text. I thought google voice ran on the internet side but I did see some failures with that too so I don't know,
I don't use a cell phone.
I use a Data Pad or PDA that happens to also have a cellular radio and it can if I want make calls but that is a secondary function.
and thats what I would have told him.
I would have said. you see the unlimited data? see the 500 minutes. Take a guess which I use more hehe
It's strange there seems to be a 5 block radius in my neighborhood where you can make or get calls or text with sprint since Tuesday. The funny thing is it is with all sprint phones and they say they are not aware of an issue. Their are 4 sprint phones in the 3 family building that live in and would have to be at least a 100 or more in the neighborhood. It's seems to only affect he phone during the day because late at night and early in the morning the phones are fine.
Bay Ridge resident here. For about a year now, data fluctuates anywhere between 100 kbps to 1.5 Mbps, but usually in the 200 kbps area. Been complaining for what feels like forever (issue has been there since last January). I've gotten a million and one excuses, taken it all the way up to the office of Dan Hesse (I **** you not). They credited me one month's bill and that was about it. This was a long time ago. I love the fact that Sprint has unlimited data and is cheap, but that's about it. Service itself sucks.
They're sending me an airave. Is that thing worth it?
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They're sending me an airave. Is that thing worth it?
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Just got my airave.. and i figured out why they have no problem sending it out for free... it turns that 5 mile radius around your house into a sprint tower for anyone to use... using the internet YOU pay for...and my calls are still broken up when i make them...the sprint rep couldn't hear me when i was talking to her on it... lol.oh well i guess i changed my prl to a really good Verizon one. I'm happy now
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Wait anyone in range can use your airave? It's not locked to YOUR phone?
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Wait anyone in range can use your airave? It's not locked to YOUR phone?
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from page 6 of sprint airave faqs @ nextel.com:
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Yes, you can limit access to your AIRAVE device by creating a list of approved
Sprint phone numbers (up to 50 phone numbers). You can create your list by
calling Sprint Customer Service at (866) 556-7310.
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I'm assuming most won't... and I'm assuming sprint knows that
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Ummm if you don't do it then its definitely on you...not sprint. I have one and I get perfect service at home...full bars. Why complain about that? Its free so yes it its absolutely worth it.
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I'm assuming most won't... and I'm assuming sprint knows that
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Ummm if you don't do it then its definitely on you...not sprint. I have one and I get perfect service at home...full bars. Why complain about that? Its free so yes it its absolutely worth it.
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You pay for your high speed don't you? Or is that given to you for free? And the average person wouldnt know that u can't do that. To each their own. If u like it then great! I think its a sham. I shouldn't need an extra tower in my apartment to get my cell phone to work.. that is on sprint.. oh and before anything is said about where i live, i am located in the top 5 most populated cities in Michigan. I don't live out in the sticks lol
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Hi guys, I'm sure many feel the service generally sucks everyday but I feel over the last week it's Ben horrible. I've had days of trying to send text messages, of dialing and waiting over a minute for the phone to start ringing, of 1x data speed with full bars. If you have had an upswing of issues like this please let me know. My girlfriend and I have both been having problems, and yesterday we talked with a lady in the city south of us, where she said she'd had such problems alot this last week. Just interested, no solutions here, but maybe it will let us know if we can push sprint to credit our way. Stop charging me for 4g there isn't any here!
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working for them ill tell you no they wont credit you back for your lack of service. You are more than welcome to try. But if you are having service issues try updating you profile then your PRL. If that doesnt work try doing ##72786# youll need to get you MSL (Call CS to get it or most stores will give it to you.)
They're probably upgrading towers near you in their network vision. Happened to my friend where he couldn't send texts or call for a while. Google "sprint network upgrades " and look at the first link and it'll show you their network upgrades in your area.
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I think sprint is sucks all together for service. I came from att like 4 months ago cause they didnt have 4g at the time and i really wanted 4g. I was told wimax was fast. What i wasent told is in az they dont have wimax. So i got a 4g phone for nothing. Im kinda pissed. Thinking about going to verision cause there speeds are off the chain without doing this and that to get them better.
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Good luck with those Tier data plans. $69 for talk + $20 for text + $30-80 for data or whatever it is and the $400 deposit. Plus not to mention all the total data outages theyve been having. God Speed Sir.
I've been having terrible sprint network issues this week. So bad that I've called them twice. They tell me each time that a tower is down/being upgraded in my area. I've installed the 00002 PRL on my wife's and my phones until they get their **** figured out. IDK if I believe them that they are upgrades as I was told it should be fixed by Saturday afternoon and its Monday and they still have issues. Once a day I switch back to the 60685 PRL and check reception. I'm not talking just data either... its voice calls as well. 30-60 seconds to change from "dialing" to ringing and when it does its roaming. Hopefully they fix it soon.
Yeah in LA area i have been getting less bars than i usually get. And dats speeds have gone from 1.4 mbps to 200kbps
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I've had inconsistent service for the last month; that's how long I have been working in New Orleans. Perhaps it is due to negative elevation but who knows.
Early in the week I had a lot of texts that said not sent. It was quite annoying. Also the same with calls taking 10 seconds or so to actually connect. I think it may be improving a bit, but not back to 100%. I'm in los angeles as well. On a side note, i've been trying 4g around my area and i've gotten up to 9mbits. In my home its on and off, but better than it used to be.
Thank you for your responses. Its both relieving and disheartening that you guys are also having issues.
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Last week I called sprint about my terrible service. They told me that they were doing upgrades in the area and that some towers would be down in the meantime. If you go on their site, they have a map of areas they are gonna be working on or are currently working on.
i just got the Epic 4G Touch yesterday and the data speed is horrendous!
i blame the inrush of iPhone users to Sprint.
Ok just moved into a new apt that has poor 3g signal with 2 bars and was suggested by sprint to get the airwave with my high speed Internet.. Well I was wondering I'm like a mile maybe 2 away from 4g, will it boost me into 4g coverage or just give me good signal within the home??
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Doesn't help with 4g, but reception is way better.
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The Airave doesn't boost signal, it's a femtocell, which is essentially a mini cell tower. It's 3G only and doesn't broadcast a 4G signal of any kind.
What datajosh said... And with wifi your data travels over that very fast.My two cents: I am so glad I have an Airave. I live in a fairly wooded area and both 3g and 4g (which I can get in town by the way) don't work well at all - for any carrier. I've had sprint up here for about 5 years and was looking at Verizon and ATT but neither could even get the anemic reception on 3g/1g I was getting on Sprint. Got an Airave and my signal is freaking great! I can walk out of my place to my garage about 50yds and still be on my unit. My sister got one because she too was was having issues down in SoCal (and the family has FIVE phones!). Now they can all get super reception. I set up my unit (and my sisters too) to be 'off' my network in a DMZ. Configured my router to allot an IP as DMZ and let the Airave use it as the 'public' IP. That way that traffic doesn't 'mix' with my local net and wifi. Lastly I just went to Amazon and baught mine for like $50.00 U.S. My sister made calls for about a week and finally spoke to the right person(s) and got one free!
I just got the Airave and the only thing I can see improved on is the reception of my calls (I get 5 bars instead of 2)
4g is the same
and 3g is still slow as heck..
also it has a build in GPS.. to tell you where you are..
It has about a 300 foot radius so if you go past that point you most likely will jump to another tower.
and when making and getting calls you get 3 beeps letting you know you are on the Airave. also dialing *99 will give you a message to let you know you are on the service.
If I am not mistaken the air rave is for call quality. 4g is purely data. Why wouldn't you just use wifi?I would think 4g would be slower than wifi anyhow. Feel free to call BS on this.
it only help with cell service.
you just get the air wave. ( they should offer it for free..)
and get on wifi network.
Have one myself. Great for calls and SMS/MMS but the data speeds are maybe half the speed of my DSL. I just use wifi for anything but calls, makes sense to me. Sprint had recently changed something with their towers out here and we were left with absolutely no service on my property. Sprints corporate numbers, including the CEO's, are not hard to find. I called and tore them a new one, I wasn't letting them get off easy with this one, being a sprint customer for yeeeaaarrrss. Long story short I got a free air rave for life out of it which I think was fair of them to do.
Just a note, if you have low bandwidth and you make calls while downloading stuff or just eating the bandwidth in general, you will have stupid delays in you conversations. Its just awkward.
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Not true about data speed on my airwave at home i was at 2.5mbps
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Why not just connect to the wifi of your home network...
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Not true about data speed on my airwave at home i was at 2.5mbps
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Well maybe their speeds vary, but the whole point is if you have an air rave you most likely have wifi so why not just use that for data? The air rave is completely dependant on the broadband connection, its not like a range extender for sprint tower signal. I'm sure the phones modem has a lot to do with it as well.
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i heard sprint will give you one of these free if you call and complain about the service in your house....any truth to this, cuz i cant text or call in my house if my depended on it
Oops blank post. I meant to say, read this thread...two people have said they got one from sprint for free...I was one of them. Do you read through posts before you ask a question at all?
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i heard sprint will give you one of these free if you call and complain about the service in your house....any truth to this, cuz i cant text or call in my house if my depended on it
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YES & No!
If you have poor/fair service in your home, then just search xda forums for info on how to get it, or just PM me and I'll give you the info. I have very poor service in my home with sprint, that I just moved to. I and my family would all have to walk outside in the yard, to get a signal that was less likely to drop in the middle of the call. Even then, we only got 1-2 bars at most. In my house, we either didn't get a signal at all or it would drop out if we moved around.
I called the Sprint Retention line, and explained to them my issues with the service in my new home. I told her that I had searched the Sprint coverage map, and my area was listed with "Fair" service. She had me hold for just a few seconds to look up my address on their coverage map as well. Then she came back and explained the Airwave to me. I had never mentioned an airwave to this point.
She said that she had to check my area's coverage before offering it, because they've received a ton of request from people lately for this device, and many of them were in "excellent" coverage areas, and were simply calling because they heard they could get it for free. Just to have it I guess. Anyways, if you are in a poor-fair coverage area, and have real issues with coverage/dropped calls. Yes, they will send one for free and then not charge a dime. You just have to agree that it's their property and is to be returned at end of contract/service-termination.
I have one in my home as well. Works great. it doesnt support 4g but any sprint device will work with it. I get about 2-3 megs down with it running 3g.
I have a airave but get nowhere near the range some of you claim. Is there a way to boost it's range? I'm lucky to get 50 feet. Sorry if this is a hijack.
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Free airaves
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1407446
JDinAZ74 said:
I have a airave but get nowhere near the range some of you claim. Is there a way to boost it's range? I'm lucky to get 50 feet. Sorry if this is a hijack.
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Doctor_XXX said:
sprint.com --> mysprint --> my preferences --> manage my airave --> range settings
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Awesome thank you.
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Actually, my Airave sucks. Somebody else in my building has one that is locked to their phone number, and my ET4G always get confused and connects to that one. It basically keeps me from making any phone calls in my house. I have to go all the way into the street to call.
So, please be kind and don't lock down your airave to your account.
Also, even when it does work, I still get **** data speeds.
Hi, I've been thinking of switching to Tmobile from Verizon and pulled the trigger on GS4 (ordered 2 for me & my brother).
We both live in NJ and work in Midtown Manhattan. I'm not sure if this is unusual, but our data service has been VERY spotty and we're having hard time even connecting to data. Sometimes browsing seems fine, while other times I get no data at all. Voice works fine. This applies to both indoor and outdoor. I read some threads on howardforums and other sites where people say Tmo in Manhattan is great except in a few buildings. Is this true?
I probably should've done a test drive beforehand, but one of my colleagues assured me his Tmo was fine. He said it's been exceptionally unstable for the past few days..
Tmo rep told me I could return within 14 days without restocking fee, so I'm not sure what to do. I understand Tmo LTE will be rolled out here around June; is it going to help a lot?
Verizon LTE in NYC is terribly slow, but it's at least stable. Any opinion would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
TMO in the big apple
I live in queens and frequently visit nyc and I can confirm that I pretty much always have perfect 4g cell reception. The only times I have spotty reception are in the subway (and only certain subway lines! I seem to get decent reception on the F/E) and when heading out deep in to east long island
cliffyb said:
I live in queens and frequently visit nyc and I can confirm that I pretty much always have perfect 4g cell reception. The only times I have spotty reception are in the subway (and only certain subway lines! I seem to get decent reception on the F/E) and when heading out deep in to east long island
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Hmm yeah I've seen a lot of people saying that. I doubt this is a phone issue since both of our GS4s are behaving that way. We get full bars, 4G with arrows flashing on the notification bar, but no data...
Tried modifying APNs, but still no luck..
Which could possibly be causing the problem??
sk2609 said:
Hmm yeah I've seen a lot of people saying that. I doubt this is a phone issue since both of our GS4s are behaving that way. We get full bars, 4G with arrows flashing on the notification bar, but no data...
Tried modifying APNs, but still no luck..
Which could possibly be causing the problem??
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Tmo 4g is generally slow in manhattan. Often times on any phone I have i'll get stuck in "it's sending upstream but nothings coming downstream " mode
bezerker said:
Tmo 4g is generally slow in manhattan. Often times on any phone I have i'll get stuck in "it's sending upstream but nothings coming downstream " mode
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i get around the 3 boroughs (ny/bk/qns) and I can say the only place where the internet craps out is deep into midtown manhattan
I live and work in Manhattan I always have constant 4G every test of done between HTC Amaze to the new galaxy s4 has been minimum of eight megabits downstream and two to three megabits upstream majority of the time its 15 megabits plus I have never found spotty 4G anywhere in New York City when you leave New York City I can guarantee you your service will go down when I Drive upstate New York my service is in and out constantly. I live in lower Manhattan and I work in midtown Manhattan just my 2 cents.
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I go to school in mid town and I must say for the past couple days it's been horrible the service is horrible hopefully they fix it soon it might be all those new iPhone users lol
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xSunny said:
I go to school in mid town and I must say for the past couple days it's been horrible the service is horrible hopefully they fix it soon it might be all those new iPhone users lol
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Just talked to tech rep at Tmo and he said I'm right in the middle of 4 2G towers with closest 3G tower 2 blocks down. I'm a block away from the grand central..
Anyways he said there's nothing he can do from his end and recommended using wifi in the office. Probably won't get better until they roll out LTE by this summer...
Im 59th Street and the service is 4G status but internet is down to like 2g speeds i cant even load a instagram picture
xSunny said:
Im 59th Street and the service is 4G status but internet is down to like 2g speeds i cant even load a instagram picture
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Generally, the more people on the same tower, the slower the internet goes
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Generally, the more people on the same tower, the slower the internet goes
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Yeah i think i know that but still t-mobile service has been lacking or it just might be the re-framing hasn't been completed yet and the city shows a little lte here and there so the phone might be trying to switch back and fourth causing the speed issue..