[GRLUG] FAIL!!! Xfinity mobile wireless

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 23:16 -0400, Matthew Seeley wrote:
> Agree with the 3G issues, Sprint has awful backhaul in West Michigan,
> I average like 100k down, on a good day. I called them two weeks ago
> and the tech rep told me there were already "dozens" of support
> tickets open just for our tower in Grand Rapids.

I know that Verizon recently concluded a backhaul upgrade in
anticipation of the bandwidth demands posed by LTE [aka 4G].

> But the 4G should be decent (2mb to 4mb down), most anywhere in Grand
> Rapids city limits, and some suburban areas.
> I'm suprised to hear about the 4G issues -- one of the Jenison
> Clearwire WiMax towers is literally across the street from you -- you
> should have had perfect 4G WiMax signal.

Confused.  4G != WiMax; are these dual mode LTE / WiMax devices /
towers / carriers?



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