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eileenbunny
Druish Princess
eileenbunny
Druish Princess
I also only live 30 mikes from DC so it seems to me that there's not much difference. Tmobile is shit around here.
I did some work near BWI many years back and it wasn't bad at all out there. But once I started heading south, it was basically nonexistent between 32 and just before 495.
Dharma1521
Soooo do I look as young as I look?
eileenbunny
Druish Princess
When I had tmobile I didn't have service at my sisters house in no VA most of the time. It was spotty at best
its almost like everyone lives in different places and has different experiences
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
I have decent coverage when I go to actual cities, like Richmond and Fredericksburg. but as soon as I leave those cities, the service goes to shit. When I'm out there, I usually fly into IAD. I have great service all around there and down into Manassas. But once I go farther south from there, it disappears until I get into the Culpeper area, then I have it again for a few minutes, then I lose it again, and where I go, I don't get it back until I head back up 29 to IAD.
yes but I think they point is there are some providers like Verizon and AT&T that you don't run into as many coverage issues as TMobile, Sprint, etc
Exactly. For some people it works and other is doesn't. I couldn't get away without having Verizon.
Amstel
The Hoarse Whisperer
I think it's exactly like that.
I don't do a huge amount of traveling, so Sprint here works (now that they got the whole 4G thing upgraded. I went through 6 mos of spotty signal and apologies from sprint)
eileenbunny
Druish Princess
I'm only paying $15 more per month split between the three people on my plan for Verizon than I was for T-Mobile. It's worth it to not worry about whether my phone will work or not.
Verizon does have the best telecom engineers in the world, their network is incredibly well engineered and their vendors are run through the ringer to get their equipment on the vzw network.
but tmo has legit, unthrottled unlimited bandwidth and in major cities works fantastic. I dislike the idea of tethering data being treated differerntly but even when I've exceeded it I haven't been charged or throttled
in the middle of nowhere everyone turns to crap. so far out here tmo only gets me edge speeds which is utterly useless and verizon will top out at ~16mb/s while in Chicago both tmo and vzw hover around the 30-35 range
which reminds me I need to suspend my tmo data account while I'm here
but tmo has legit, unthrottled unlimited bandwidth and in major cities works fantastic. I dislike the idea of tethering data being treated differerntly but even when I've exceeded it I haven't been charged or throttled
in the middle of nowhere everyone turns to crap. so far out here tmo only gets me edge speeds which is utterly useless and verizon will top out at ~16mb/s while in Chicago both tmo and vzw hover around the 30-35 range
which reminds me I need to suspend my tmo data account while I'm here
eileenbunny
Druish Princess
Yes, but I've tried cheaper options and didn't get good reception. It's worth it to me to pay more for a working phone all the time.