How's your service?

bullonie · Jul 2, 2010

It really sucks that I can get full 3G bars outside, then step inside and have it drop to 2. I think I'll get the airave or something.

pwabbit · Jul 2, 2010

That is just the nature of higher frequency cellular. It has a hard time penetrating the wall of a building. I have a repeater in my house for that very reason. The Airave would be a great idea or buy a repeater online.

MarkHirt · Jul 2, 2010

More bars is nice but I find my phone works just fine with 1 bar

WSFrazier · Jul 7, 2010

Even if I have 1 bar, I still get perfect calls and data speeds. No problems at all with signal so far.

mysticmead · Jul 7, 2010

where I live.. my service sucks. in my home office I can face to the right and get 1 bar Sprint.. face left get 1 bar Roaming.. face front and get no service.. Soooooooooo I got an Airave and now have 5-6 bars through my entire house.

now if I go a half mile down the road, I get 3 bars and EVDO

330D · Jul 7, 2010

mysticmead said:
where I live.. my service sucks. in my home office I can face to the right and get 1 bar Sprint.. face left get 1 bar Roaming.. face front and get no service.. Soooooooooo I got an Airave and now have 5-6 bars through my entire house.

now if I go a half mile down the road, I get 3 bars and EVDO

+1 for this... I was laughing reading your post, because I am in the same boat, but only have satellite internet, so no airave for me!

djkleric · Jul 10, 2010

From what I have been reading here in the forums here and other places, a CDMA network doesn't need a bunch of bars as long as you have a signal. The quality is all the same on voice calls.

IOWA · Jul 10, 2010

My Service is Excellent. Chicago.

SoulTerror · Jul 10, 2010

Mine's pretty good. When I go to school I roam for some reason. Always have with Sprint phones there. Walk out side and signal is fine. My bars go up and down at work, but I also work on the 4th floor in a hospital, so lot's of stuff to interfere with my signal.

joseamirandavelez · Jul 10, 2010

I only get one 3G bar at home but that is enough for decent speed internet

slschmidt76 · Jul 10, 2010

MarkHirt said:
More bars is nice but I find my phone works just fine with 1 bar

Same here. I work in a hospital and have 1 bar the whole time I'm at work but never drop calls and have asked called if they can hear me clearly and they say yes....so really not that big a deal.

K4KAI · Jul 11, 2010

djkleric said:
From what I have been reading here in the forums here and other places, a CDMA network doesn't need a bunch of bars as long as you have a signal. The quality is all the same on voice calls.

^ Ditto...I have only one bar at home, and my phone is PERFECT. Far better than the iPhone, with lotsa bars. Sprint service rocks!!!

Joehunni · Jul 13, 2010

Same here, no more than 2 bars ever unless I'm in the middle of the city, outside. No matter what though, my time without service is always less than 3% and I never drop calls.

hawkijustin · Jul 14, 2010

K4KAI said:
^ Ditto...I have only one bar at home, and my phone is PERFECT. Far better than the iPhone, with lotsa bars. Sprint service rocks!!!

Yep, Thats why CDMA even though its not used worldwide is 100% better then GSM. Remember when you had a tv with rabbit ears and the tv would be fuzzy if you didnt have a good signal but it would be clear if you did? Then the switch to digital and now its if you get any signal at all its clear as hd and if you dont get signal you dont get a picture at all. Well cdma is to digital as gsm is to analog.

kewlhandle · Jul 16, 2010

I guess I'm fairly fortunate, because where I live it rarely goes below five bars. And the surrounding areas are pretty good as well.

Gerbacio_PR · Jul 20, 2010

man with 5 bars my upload speed is 50kbps and 200 for download :S

i love everything so far about sprint but the 3g speeds need some work where i am at

joseamirandavelez · Jul 20, 2010

2 bars, 429 kbs, 277 kbs, 243 ms.

Taking into account that i'm inside a movie theater, in Puerto Rico, its not so bad...

Gerbacio_PR · Jul 21, 2010

joseamirandavelez said:
2 bars, 429 kbs, 277 kbs, 243 ms.

Taking into account that i'm inside a movie theater, in Puerto Rico, its not so bad...

Cual???

Yo cuando estaba en Puerto Rico estaba con ATT....como es Sprint por alla!!

joseamirandavelez · Jul 21, 2010

Plaza Isabela. No es tan r

joseamirandavelez · Jul 21, 2010

No 4G yet though...

Gerbacio_PR · Jul 21, 2010

cool man!! here is slower from whatyou posted but i live in rock hill SC ...work in fort mill SC ...5 minutes away from 4g on charlotte

u using Froyo?

Puddin422 · Jul 21, 2010

Same as most others...as long as I have ANY signal, I'm good to go. But there are a lot of rural places that have no signal at all. And there are some buildings where I am just not going to have signal. Period.

I do drop calls, but usually only when talking to someone on another sprint or boost phone.

Puddin422 · Jul 21, 2010

Oh, and any time I don't have signal somewhere, and someone else around me does, they usually have Verizon. There is one spot that my sis and I travel to visit our mom where I lose signal for an hour and a half, and she only loses it for a few minutes. She's on AT&T. This is southern GA near the AL line along 84.

joseamirandavelez · Jul 21, 2010

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