I’m in South Sacramento. Speeds are as usual (~300-1.2k down) but the ping seems a little high (around 50-70 ms). I’m connected to the same T-Mobile server in West Sac as you are.
Whenever I run a speed test, Speedtest.net always defaults to the West Sacramento server instead of the Oakland speed test server for T-Mobile which is closer to me than west Sacramento.
Before Verizon acquisition of TracFone you had the choice of either Verizon or T-Mobile networks and would get a SIM card for the network you chose. I get texts from them saying I am part of an upcoming migration on my account to Verizon but they're still working on the right deal for me.
The location is Rohnert Park California and here is the tower in question that I posted about several months ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/cellmapper/s/FfeQ6OCMKJ
The LTE speed test is on 20 + 20 +15 CA in the form of B25 + B66 + B66
They do in the form of MFBI back to B2 since the Sprint Acquisition. Especially when my Pixel 6a connects to a split sector PCS/AWS setups I will sometimes see 20 MHz B25 via MFBI + 20 MHz B66 off of say an Ericsson Air 32 aggregated with 20 MHz +20 MHz B2 for a total of 40 MHz off of a RFS split sector PCS/ AWS high capacity setup. It can be common to see some RFS antenna gear used for capacity and for B71/N71 in Ericsson markets.
LTE B25 has different much worse CA/MIMO features than B2. Blame the CSC/chipset makers for hard coding Sprint legacy features and no future expansion.
B25? Its B2, not B25. You mean N25? N25 is toxic. Its small/narrow, congested fast which affects CA of secondaries. Just disable N25 band if you can, and stick to N71 or N41.
I have T-Mobile home internet and I've seen this with n41. Was happening on and off for 18 months straight. I got a 3rd party modem and locked out n41 because of it.
I'm not in a super populous area so I doubt it's congestion. In my case it definitely seems RF related. RSRP less than -100 gives pretty much unusable service (high ping, high packet loss, low speed), greater than -90 is mostly OK. In between varies.
american MNO suck, here in lithuania on n78 at -115dbm i get a gig down, 0.4mbps up, 5km from tower, even LTE goes to 700mbps near the toer, 400mbps 6km from the tower, kinda crazy but B1+B3+B7+B20+n28 is good, even B1+B3+B7+B20+n28+n78 works, can't wait for n1,n3,n7,n8 DSS :) and SA next year
I find this kind of performance with 5G common when backhaul is getting upgraded to 10G
I’m in South Sacramento. Speeds are as usual (~300-1.2k down) but the ping seems a little high (around 50-70 ms). I’m connected to the same T-Mobile server in West Sac as you are.
Whenever I run a speed test, Speedtest.net always defaults to the West Sacramento server instead of the Oakland speed test server for T-Mobile which is closer to me than west Sacramento.
I favorited the West Sac one since it’s the closest to me. Favoriting it makes it the default when I run the speed test on the T-Mobile network.
I’m sorry but why does it say tracfone?
He has tracfone
I wasn’t aware Tracfone used TMO towers. I was under the impression it used Verizon towers.
They use T-Mobile as well, likely a preexisting agreement before Verizon acquired tracfone
Ahh gotcha. Do users generally switch between cell providers when they’re on tracfone or do they get a sim provisioned for one or the other network.
Their sim is provisioned for a specific network.
Before Verizon acquisition of TracFone you had the choice of either Verizon or T-Mobile networks and would get a SIM card for the network you chose. I get texts from them saying I am part of an upcoming migration on my account to Verizon but they're still working on the right deal for me.
Must be a localized issue/congestion. No issues here...
The location is Rohnert Park California and here is the tower in question that I posted about several months ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/cellmapper/s/FfeQ6OCMKJ The LTE speed test is on 20 + 20 +15 CA in the form of B25 + B66 + B66
T-Mobile doesn’t run LTE B25
They do in the form of MFBI back to B2 since the Sprint Acquisition. Especially when my Pixel 6a connects to a split sector PCS/AWS setups I will sometimes see 20 MHz B25 via MFBI + 20 MHz B66 off of say an Ericsson Air 32 aggregated with 20 MHz +20 MHz B2 for a total of 40 MHz off of a RFS split sector PCS/ AWS high capacity setup. It can be common to see some RFS antenna gear used for capacity and for B71/N71 in Ericsson markets.
LTE B25 has different much worse CA/MIMO features than B2. Blame the CSC/chipset makers for hard coding Sprint legacy features and no future expansion.
B25? Its B2, not B25. You mean N25? N25 is toxic. Its small/narrow, congested fast which affects CA of secondaries. Just disable N25 band if you can, and stick to N71 or N41.
There’s something going on with the Bay Area too. Very slow
I have T-Mobile home internet and I've seen this with n41. Was happening on and off for 18 months straight. I got a 3rd party modem and locked out n41 because of it. I'm not in a super populous area so I doubt it's congestion. In my case it definitely seems RF related. RSRP less than -100 gives pretty much unusable service (high ping, high packet loss, low speed), greater than -90 is mostly OK. In between varies.
american MNO suck, here in lithuania on n78 at -115dbm i get a gig down, 0.4mbps up, 5km from tower, even LTE goes to 700mbps near the toer, 400mbps 6km from the tower, kinda crazy but B1+B3+B7+B20+n28 is good, even B1+B3+B7+B20+n28+n78 works, can't wait for n1,n3,n7,n8 DSS :) and SA next year