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[EVO 4G General] miguelfp1:
any specific area in guaynabo?

I also had read that they were testing near the Sprint building in Hato Rey but I haven't found signal there yet...
[EVO 4G General] CruzECO13:
Tirale un screenshot a tu evo cojiendo señal 4g y los speedtests para poder creerlo :P
[EVO 4G General] miguelfp1:
one thing I've wondered is who's running the install and the network? is it Sprint themselves?, considering there's no Clear here...

that's actually the reason I thought 4G was not gonna come here
[EVO 4G General] Eckopr:
Tengo una pic y la qro postear y no me deja. Si quieres entra a tecnetico.com y busca donde dice se busca: sprint 4g en trujillo y alli esta mi screenshot y otras d trujillo.Miguel pdes entrar ahi y check la parte d trujillo
[EVO 4G General] Deleted member 857253:
WTF!!??!! Damm thats awesome!!!

Voy a tener que pasar por Guaynabo un momento a probar!!
[EVO 4G General] Droga:
Yo estoy en el oeste de PR, y se donde esta localizada la antena q servira el 4G para el area de Aguadilla. Demas esta decir que estare prendiendo el 4G todo el tiempo hasta que la prendan y pueda tirar par de speedtests. :D

Im in the West side of PR, and I know where the 4G antenna is located for the Aguadilla area. Of course, I will be turning on my WiMax radio until they turn on the system and I can perform some speed tests.
[EVO 4G General] luiggipr:
Wich part from guaynaboo?
[EVO 4G General] Eckopr:
Check la pag d tecnetico y busca dinde dice ultimo avistamiento d sprint 4g ahi en los comments han posteado algunos lugares donde se ha detectado. Segun lei es casi seguro q cerca d los sprint store se detecta.
[EVO 4G General] pamplinas:
That is some sweet news!
[EVO 4G General] CruzECO13:
NICE!! Gracias por la pagina. Esta chillin :)

Donde en Aguadilla esta localizada esa antena? Voy vivo por la base ramey.
[EVO 4G General] rockypr:
Ya era hora mano, practicamente llevamos un año de que se anuncio 4G y todas las otras basuras de aqui ya tienen 4g menos nosotros.

Yo soy de Bayamon y no he visto nada todavia. Aunque se me hara dificil darme cuenta pq los roms que uso no tienen 4g...

Gracias por el topic mano sino entro ni cuenta me doi...
[EVO 4G General] Scrub Life:
Haha, finalmente! Solamente e prendido el Wimax en mi Evo una vez en Miami, y era rapidisimo. Cuando vi esto pegue un grito que mi mama vino corriendo a mi cuarto pensando que me di un mal golpe
[EVO 4G General] miguelfp1:
that's actually pretty decent speed, though the ping is sky high!!! i only wish they'd fix the 3G here, in Hato Rey, for example, I get less than 300kbps...

nonetheless, it's great to know they're deploying the 4G network, though it's probably gonna be a slow buildout...
[EVO 4G General] slipshft:
They are Clearwire sites. The sites are for spectrum holding, but will provide limited service.
[EVO 4G General] luiggipr:
me reporta mi hermano que en trujillo alto por la mañana temprano tiene 4mb/1mb pero que ya pasadas las 9am.. regresa lo normal y no detecta el 4G...

Quizas las pruebas las hacen en la noche/madrugada ? .. who knows :)
[EVO 4G General] miguelfp1:
hace sentido, esos trabajos tienden a hacerlos tarde en la noche para no afectar tanto el network y los clientes
[EVO 4G General] CruzECO13:
True Story: Hace como 2 semanas de regreso para Aguadilla desde Mayaguez Mall (eran como las 7pm) el Epic 4G de mi hermana tenia 4G prendido y de momento vi una señal supuestamente de 4G (en mi mente yo dije, NAH Imposible) pero en lo que conectaba ya se habia hido. Y ahora es como que caigo en cuenta cuando lei este post de supuestas señales en esta area de la Isla.
[EVO 4G General] ipzant:
WOWWW:eek::eek::eek: Lo mejor ke pudieron hacer!!! NO ESTAMOS TAN MAL KE DIGAMOS!!! ESPERO KE SEA MEJOR KEL DE FLORIDA!?!?!?!
[EVO 4G General] He123321:
Before they get 4g in the island, they better improve their signal strength in Utuado. The roaming there kills batteries...
[EVO 4G General] CruzECO13:
I called them up about that a while ago and they sent me the newer airvana unit and an extended battery to help the battery issue.
[EVO 4G General] Droga:
En Aguadilla la antena grande que esta cerca de Las Cascadas y otra antena que esta en Guerrero ambas tienen las antenas 4G, pero al menos de dia, ninguna tiene la senal prendida. A ver si manana en la noche me tiro a testear a ver si a esa hora las prenden.
[EVO 4G General] Eckopr:
En Ponce la señal empieza si vas d juana diaz a ponce en donde esta la construcciin del centro d convenciones y se cae al llegar al pejae pero tan pronto sales del peaje se conecta hasta la curva despues d las cucharas pero todo ese trayecto es sobre la autopista solamente.La unica urb q pudiera tener seria villa del carmen pq la senal practicamente esta sobre el tramo d la autopista.
[EVO 4G General] neno2323:
It's about time P.R
[EVO 4G General] rockypr:
Any updates on this? Getting 4G on other cities?
[EVO 4G General] miguelfp1:
I haven't found any 4G between Bayamon and Hato Rey, neither between Bayamon and Luquillo when I went there over the weekend.

Hopefully it gets here sooner rather than later, the network here sucks right now, even getting slower than dial-up speeds at times, which is simply embarrassing for the company and unacceptable to its customers.
[EVO 4G General] giovagsxr:
Yes I'm from ponce to, I tried this afternoon in the highway, in the storethe signal up a little. at 3:45 pm the 4g the signal is poor but is nice hury up spint we need the 4g
[EVO 4G General] giovagsxr:
Eckopr te creo yo Lo use hoy en la autopista justo llegando al centro de convenciones de ponce y purging fui ala tienda y si me confirmaron que estan haciendo pruebas pronto estaremos tumbando cabeza a la compe
[EVO 4G General] freditoj:
Posting this from my phone's 4G thru wireless tethering! Speeds are a bit slow as they are still testing. I'm currently at Rio Piedras, signal quality poor.

4G icon looks nice hehe
[EVO 4G General] tequilapr:
Hay 4G desde Plaza las Américas hasta el hospital Pavia.
[EVO 4G General] miguelfp1:
nice! I'll have to try it out on Monday...
[EVO 4G General] Darkshneider:
Im gonna leave my 4G on whenever Im near a power outlet and gonna post if I find signal over here.

Otra cosa: keep the language in english before they lock the thread. Recuerden q "yosoyandroid" punto com :D.
[EVO 4G General] rockypr:
Pretty nice that 4g is starting, only bad thing is that the best roms Ports don't have 4g LOL
[EVO 4G General] miguelfp1:
tried it yesterday and today while near Plaza on the highway, found the signal but my Evo didn't connect... nonetheless, it's cool that there's progress on it
[EVO 4G General] miguelfp1:
Found 4G coverage in more places!

Last night I managed to connect near Santa Rosa Mall in Bayamon, got about 1.2 Mbps in a speed test. Also found coverage near Plaza Rio Hondo, also in Bayamon, plus the one near Plaza Las Americas, but haven't managed to connect to that one. Seems they're starting build-out near shopping malls...
[EVO 4G General] dami00976:
i found some 4g at trujillo alto and in metropolis carolina and actualy got conected and for been just on test its pretty fast
[EVO 4G General] miguelfp1:
it's definitely popping up at more and more places, I've been keeping the WiMAX radio on while driving, to see where I find coverage.

from the speedtests I've run, it's not nearly as fast as in the US, though I really hope that they to go up when the network officially comes online; I've gotten around 1.5 Mbps on average, which really should be the 3G speeds.

the screenshots attached were taken tonight, in Bayamon.
[EVO 4G General] Impulses:
This is great news, I wish we could get some sorta timeline tho, are we looking at a summer launch? Winter? 2012? I wonder if they'll do any aggressive advertising once it's up. AT&T, T-Mobile and Claro may claim 4G service but the devil's in the details. It's all HSPA+ of course, which some would claim isn't even 4G... But it can certainly deliver Wimax/LTE-like speeds for now, given the right circumstances.

That's just it tho, those circumstances might be hard to come by. From what I've seen T-mobile has the best speeds here if you're in the right area... I've seen 3mbs+ on a Nexus S (the original, which isn't even a HSPA+ device). That blows away Sprint's 3G anywhere (i get as low as 300kbps in a lot of places), problem is in a lot of areas on the island T-mobile doesn't even have 3G yet, so you fall back on 2G.

Sprint coverage might be more reliable in that regard even if it's just average mostly everywhere. I'd love to know what kinda speeds AT&T users are seeing with HSPA+ phones, regular 3G speeds were never that impressive when I was with them... Altho overall coverage was better than Sprint's, but I still wouldn't go back tho, 2GB hard cap = fail.

I gotta call Sprint and squeeze an Airave out of them tho, the low signal strength at home absolutely crushes my battery if I leave the phone in certain rooms of the house, even with Wifi on.
[EVO 4G General] Impulses:
Btw, what side or area of Plaza is seeing 4G? I oughta test it... I suppose it should be the side facing the Sprint store one Roosevelt Ave no? I go by there every day on the way to college...
[EVO 4G General] miguelfp1:
No timeline that I've heard or read, but I keep seeing coverage popping up everywhere, so it could officially be up this year... who knows...

and I hear you on the Airave, I had exactly the same problem, my Evo kept missing calls and texts inside the house so they sent me an Airave.

on the expressway side of Plaza, though I haven't been able to connect to it. ironically, I haven't found coverage on that area of the Roosevelt Ave., though I did manage to connect to 4G while stopped at the traffic light before La Poly.
[EVO 4G General] egonadrian:
Ive been reading and it looks like they are putting 4G close to their Sprint stores. Ive used it in Santa Rosa and Plaza del Sol Mall and the highest i got was 7mb down. The other place i used it was in Sagrado Corazon in the train station and it averaged 5mb down.
[EVO 4G General] Hazelfoot:
Meanwhile, everyones 3G speeds are still like 200 kb/s
[EVO 4G General] rockypr:
Rare i work in Santa Rosa and have not see any 4G on my phone :(
[EVO 4G General] davidoe:
Aleluyaaahhh!!! jajajajajajaj es real aqui en PR tenemos un 2g por que siempre que doy test estoy en 230Kb o como maximo 700Kb. Ya era hora de que se pusieran a trabajar!! eso ehhhh !
[EVO 4G General] CruzECO13:
I get no more than 450kb max throughout the Island and average is about 200kb. West, East, North and South coasts :( Still hav'nt been able to find a 4G signal. It's pretty crappy compared to the other carriers here.
[EVO 4G General] :
Also, remember that your speeds may vary depending on the rom you have, I connected at Plaza del sol with CM7 7.0.3.1 and the fastest was 2mbps down. Then I nandroided back to Myns RLS5 and got 6mbps down...

Anyway, 2mbps is a thousands time faster than our so called 3g!!
[EVO 4G General] Hazelfoot:
Yeah. Only slightly slower than Verizons 3G.

Sprint seems like their technology is still 20 years in the past. Which it probably is.
[EVO 4G General] egonadrian:
The signal is really weak, if you go behind a building or just a wall in some cases you will lose the signal. Just go to the texaco or in front of Walgreen and you should get signal there.
[EVO 4G General] Impulses:
Hmm, it didn't occur to me to try it that close to the Poly, but I tried it while driving on the expressway today (in plenty of traffic, not like I was toggling it while going 60 mph :p ) and you're right... All thru the Pueblo side (and even before it) my phone would find a 4G connection, it didn't seem to be able to connect tho. It'd start to, then it'd disconnect a few seconds later. Guess I'll try it at night the next time I'm around there.
[EVO 4G General] Impulses:
I've seen speeds as high as 800-1,000kb, outside my home or sitting by the living room window... But that's rare, I'm pretty sure whenever I've seen them that high it's been late at night (when there's probably less people on the same tower). Usually I get like 400-500kb at best, as low as 100kb in a lot of places. My average is probably around 300kb...

I don't think there's anything wrong with Sprint's 3G tech, this isn't a CDMA vs GSM thing or anything like that (altho the GSM carriers do average better 3G speeds overall than the CDMA ones across the US); I think it's all just a matter of capacity. You often see very low speeds even with excellent signal, I think that's a sign that their towers are overstated...

I mean, it's ridiculous that I can get between 100kb and 1,000kb sitting in the same exact spot at home, depending on when I run the test... Hopefully the 4G deployment will help. I'm still relatively satisfied with the service tho, it's still fast enough for browsing, web videos and even some tethering at school when their Wifi is unavailable.

I'd rather have middling speeds with unlimited usage than a constant 1mb with a 2GB hard cap, any day of the week. I've gone over 2GB of use on about three or four of the last 11 months...
[EVO 4G General] Impulses:
BTW What PRI and PRL are you all on? I've been on PRI 1.90 for a while, I just noticed my phone upgraded itself to PRL 01115 recently tho, dunno when exactly, used to be 60677 or something like that.

Recently I've also seen the phone restart itself several times while I'm using it heavily on 3G in an area or room where the connection is borderline... However I can tether off it for hours without any restarts if it has 2-3 bars (DSL was down for a couple weeks here, hence the heavy tethering), no restarts on wifi either. Not quite sure if it's at all related or if it's always behaved like that...
[EVO 4G General] miguelfp1:
btw, surfing around Clear's website this morning, I found something pretty interesting...

see for yourself!
[EVO 4G General] :
That's the map that Sensorly uses, it's an app on the market that shows you cdma/gsm/wimax/lte coverage near your location, and so far has been pretty accurate..!

BTW, I'm still on PRI 1.77, but with the newest radio and the 0115 prl, and rom-hopping between RLS5 and CM7...
[EVO 4G General] CruzECO13:
Came to Caguas for a few days and turned 4G on for the drive here. Right after the paytoll @ Buchanan, 4G connected. Quickly went away since i drove right past the area and turned back on and connect with good signal after toy r us near Plaza Las Americas. Not long enough to get an IP though :( But I finally for myself saw 4G signal here in PR. :D
[EVO 4G General] omispeed3:
Well, this is what I got.
[EVO 4G General] rockypr:
http://www.tecnetico.com/17809/sprint-nos-dice-es-mas-que-solo-4g/
[EVO 4G General] Darkshneider:
Sprint will have a press conference on May 26 about "Vision" (3g+4g towers) in PR.

Sprint tendra una conferencia de prensa mayo 26 sobre "Vision" (torres 3g+4g) en PR.

Link
[EVO 4G General] rockypr:
I think I will be in that press conference, i will keep you reported guys...

Hasta el momento, creo que podre ir a la conferencia de prensa, y no pregunten como jaja, pero mas adelante les confirmo si pude ir y que paso... sino como quiera nos enteraremos por las paginas.
[EVO 4G General] miguelfp1:
nice! I just wish they'd fix the slow 3G, I'd be content with the 1Mbps 3G I used to get a year ago...

don't get me wrong, I love the fact that we're getting 4G, but with its limited range, fast 3G would be more useful in day-to-day use
[EVO 4G General] elchupacabras:
Today at about 9:30 am I was driving near "Parque Central" in San Juan when I turned on my 4G and for my surprise I had a poor signal. I ran a speedtest and the download speed was around 1.2Mbps. Can't wait to test at a better signal :):):)
[EVO 4G General] rockypr:
I'm in Bayamon Children's Hospital with my baby boy and I got 4G...
[EVO 4G General] CruzECO13:
Esta manana en la entrada de Best Buy que esta en Plaza Las Americas me pude conectar.
[EVO 4G General] kobe4rings:
De camino a casa prendí el 4G radio por el Tribunal de la 65 de infantería en Carolina (Mejor pueblo de PR praaaa) y me tiro estos números. Mas después por el me centro comercial Parque Escorial me salio otra senal pero se cayo porque era mas lento que el 3g lol.
[EVO 4G General] rockypr:
Hoy por la mañana es la conferencia vamos a ver que dicen
[EVO 4G General] CruzECO13:
En vivo desde la conferencia de prensa de Sprint Puerto Rico

Sent from my EVO 4G - CM7 (Nightlies)
[EVO 4G General] Darkshneider:
Wow, PR is gonna be one of the first 8 states to get Network Vision, better internet connections and now were getting PTT (I thought they were phasing that out). Pretty cool I guess.
[EVO 4G General] rockypr:
En resumen:

1. Network Vision, aunque oficialmente no lo hayan dicho, ya comenzó a implementarse. Por eso es que están haciendo las pruebas con WiMax 4G.

2. 4G no será lanzado oficialmente en Puerto Rico hasta que Push To Talk no se lanzado en todo los territorios donde Sprint da servicio. Eso está pautado para los últimos 4 meses de este año. Es por esa la razón que no habrá 4G este año en P.R. y USVI.

3. Se supone que los clientes, aunque no se sabe dónde, comenzarán a ver mejoras la próxima semana.
[EVO 4G General] omispeed3:
Well, I hope they improve the 3G, but is sad that we don't have release yet the 4G.
[EVO 4G General] Eckopr:
It was today in Rincon. Aguada over 1mb too. Only 3g!!!
[EVO 4G General] CruzECO13:
Estuve por la Isla este fin de semana. Consegui par de señales 4G :)

Ayer por Plaza Las Americas (Kmart/RoomtoGo)

Hoy pasando por Ponce hacia Mayaguez. La señal estuvo bastante fuerte y duro facil 10 minutos antes de perder la señal.
[EVO 4G General] CruzECO13:
Mi Evo paro de cojer data hace unos minutos y se fue de 3g a 1x por aprox. 5min. Cuando subio la señal 3g nuevamente hice varios speedtests. No se que paso pero nunca habia visto mis d/l mas de 400kb llevo 15min y tengo consistente d/l entre 1300 y 2500 :)

Area: Aguadilla
[EVO 4G General] CruzECO13:
Mas Speedtests

Edit: Se fue la señal 3g nuevamente y estoy en 1x o.O
[EVO 4G General] CruzECO13:
Regreso el 3g pero mitad de las velocidades que orita :/ pero mejor que las q tenia antes!
[EVO 4G General] wbyrd:
Wow, and I live in Phoenix, the 6th largest city in the US and am not even on the list for 4g. Way to go sprint!
[EVO 4G General] brenddie:
sprint's network in PR is so screwed up that I guess they just decided to do a real fix this time by implementing Network Vision instead of wasting more money on "patches". Im sure that not having a stable big roaming partner for the long term must have influenced the decision too.

Still will believe it when I see it and so far there are no improvements.
[EVO 4G General] gab2012:
I get 1 bar of 4g in my home...and its in my bedroom, download speeds of 3.5mb in the bayamon area near plaza rio hondo.

200kbps downloads on 3g with full bars! the 3g crapage is mostly due to people roaming on sprint towers and sprint sharing some of their towers aswell with Open Mobile and grandfathered centennial customers. also unlimited data doesn't help.

Sprint is putting the WiMax rollout on hold for the island and making the switch to LTE during 2012 according to a rep in the store.
[EVO 4G General] Danonman:
4g en Puerto Rico

Queridos compañeros de xda-developers... Para Este asunto de Los areas que sprint tiene 4G, yo entiendo que Sprint esta trabajando en establecerlo en la isla segun me dijo uno de Los tecnicos que trabajan en la calle y posiblemente para el fin de año tengan corriendo el sistema. Per para aquellos como yo de desesperao, existence una app que se llama "Sensorly", el cual con Google map, marca y scannea el area e identifica la disponibilidad de Las señales 4G y/o 3G..... Segun yo he visto con esta app, que hay señal probatotio de 2.2mb down y 1mb up en: Ha to Rey, Trujillo Alto, San Patricio, Carolina, Ponce, Bayamon, y antes de llegar a Arecibo. Claro que Las areas son limitadas pero por eso Sprint no anuncia nada hasta tener la red mas expandida y funcionando a toda capacidad.... Repito el nombre de la app: "Sensorly" :cool:
[EVO 4G General] AA27:
Fui los otros dias a la isla, todavia no estaba el 4G en la isla, pero me alegro que ya este llegando :D
[EVO 4G General] LCL22:
sweeeeeet!

yo sabia ya que en bayamon habia en plaza del sol, tienen en las tiendas pero inclusive al frente de la tienda nunca obtuve mas de 3 barras, pero me alegro porque el network 3g es horriblemente lento, probablemente por toda la gente usando el hotspot hackiado : /
[EVO 4G General] gab2012:
Lo unico que note es dentro de plaza del sol tengo 0-1 barra, afuera esta en 3 barras y es mas rapido, el enemigo del 4g se llama la pared. lol
[EVO 4G General] manolo13pr:
Hi guys this was yesterday at 1:00 am in Ponce a get the signal front of the Ponce Convention Center near to PR-22 to the Home Depot old building, if you see the signal strenght was EXCELLENT!! and the speedtest download 3618 kbps and the upload 1448 kbps!! go 4G Sprint!!!!:)
[EVO 4G General] manolo13pr:
Ayer estaba en el juego de la seleccion de PR en Bayamon tenia 4G pero muy baja, luego de regreso a Mayaguez frente a Plaza Las Americas era regular donde mejor tuve señal fue en Ponce, en la autopista desde el Centro de Convenciones, algunas partes del pueblo y donde mejor estuvio fue desde Krispy Kreme hasta casi llegar al Holiday Inn, solo me falta ver si en mi querido Mayaguez llega :(
[EVO 4G General] Impulses:
Tienen q meterle al área metro... De que sirve afuera de plaza si adentro de ese shopping no entra nada de nadie, aunque eso no es necesariamente culpa de Sprint. Todo el mundo tiene problemas de señal allá dentro, supongo q los Fonalleda no les da la gana de invertir en más repeaters ni de AT&T ni de nadie... Y mira q hay mucha tienda de celular dentro de Plaza las Américas, AT&T nada más tiene como tres.
[EVO 4G General] hidigitech:
True, I heard the same thing from a store manager in Mayaguez. It makes a lot of sense since it’s supposed to run faster than 4G!!!
[EVO 4G General] Impulses:
LTE isn't really any faster, even looking towards the future at the successive iterations of both technologies... When it really comes down to it, speed is usually constrained by Sprint's backbone capacity (the underlying network behind their towers) and/or customer saturation in your area. A tower with a thousand people connected to it isn't gonna perform the same as one with a couple hundred (gross oversimplification but you get the idea).

Even the frequency used is usually a barrier to speed before the underlying tech, Sprint is currently using 2500 mhz for Wimax which tends to have trouble penetrating thru thicker structures. The only way LTE will instantly be better is if they manage to implement it somewhere in the 800 mhz spectrum where they've been clearing space by killing of the old iDEN PTT network, but that's speculation and their recent LTE partner (Lightsquared) isn't gonna be building out a network in that space AFAIK.

To be honest, I wouldn't get your hopes up for widespread 4G on the island anytime this year or next, but hopefully they continue working on their 3G network in the mean time. If you need top notch speed on the island you're better off with AT&T, but that comes with a higher bill, a low data cap, threats about unpaid tethering use (specially if you're still grandfathered on an unlimited plan), and AT&T's other shenanigans.

For now I'm happy with slow but cheap and unlimited. Even poky sub-1mbps speeds are good enough for web browsing and streaming... Unless you're in a crowded place where the network sometimes bogs down, but I've seen my sister experience the same thing with AT&T.
[EVO 4G General] idkwhothatis123:
LOL. That's like half of the bottom barrel speeds on VZW 4g. Yeesh