@ Unreasonable – Did you have an actual problem? Originally you stated your Samsung did not give you a problem? Are you just trolling this post? Give a guy a break? I am doing this on MY OWN time, just to give some of the folks on the forum a little knowledge of what’s going on specific to their individual issues (There is more than 1 cell site in College Station). To answer your question, no I am not just “sending emails” to people. I have personally verified some of the issues going on around town using actual test equipment, driving to folks houses, collecting actual data about the RF environment, etc. and making adjustments accordingly. Most issues were already known, and a plan in place. No, I cannot on a public forum post proprietary network settings, or network upcoming changes, new cell site locations, etc. doesn’t that make sense? No, we didn’t just start all of a sudden start to do something about issues.
No cellular networks are without issues. It’s amazing that it works at all if you understand the physics behind the technology. Things break, air conditioners fail, endangered birds make a net on towers (preventing a broken antenna to be fixed), storms roll through blowing antennas off azimuth, telco decides to go down, John Doe ran his truck into the telco connection point, people steal copper, power companies disconnect the wrong meter, John Doe decided to install a cell booster he bought on ebay, illegally transmitting into cellular band jamming sites, TV stations forget we bought the 700MHz license, paging companies forget we own the 850MHz spectrum (yes pagers still exist), John Doe decided the fiber optic cable running through his back yard needed to be dug up, someone set off an EMP (well not yet) the list goes forever though. You name it, it happens…
Please remember I am only a grunt, trying to do the best I can. I obviously cannot post everything to the forum. Many folks issues have already been resolved, and have noticed the improvement…
@Ag Mom 91 – That neighborhood is a good bit from the nearest site, the microcell (I assume microcell) should have helped… If you are noticing “lag” it may be due to internet bandwidth. If there are many things going on at one time on your home network, it could be the problem. I know this is not a solution, and I will look into the subdivision a little closer.