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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / ATT Wireless / May 2004Trip report: GSM between Minneapolis and Virginia, MN
Took a road trip to the cabin this past weekend to clear some stuff from storage. Had my trusty v600 along with the GSM America plan from ATTWS. This is what I found: ATTWS service from Minneapolis to about North Branch, with a couple of small dead spots (roamed briefly on T-Mobile). After North Branch, picked up what the v600 called "Cellular One DCS." This is Dobson's GSM850 overlay. Had consistently good service (average signal from -70 to -95) all the way from the North Branch area through Cloquet (did not go directly to / through Duluth - went just to the west and picked up US 53). Service got a little thinner in many spots (-105 to -110) south and again north of Cotton on 53, and at one other point before Evelyth. Signal was quite good in the range cities, and extended up US 53 to hwy 169 towards Tower. Again, signal got weak at times, but whenever I checked, I had at least 1 bar. Got north of Peyla (the road at the "Y-store" about 6 miles before Tower), and about halfway to Fectos point on 77. Lost signal at the storage place a couple times, but picked it right back up upon getting back on Angus Rd / 77 on the way back to 169. Did a network scan once in Virginia and got Cell One and T-Mobile. Did not get a chance to do a scan anywhere else. For anyone who travels to that area of MN, this is good news for GSM users - especially ATTWS users... -Jon interesting .... I wonder if GPRS data also would have worked. Bob : Took a road trip to the cabin this past weekend to clear some stuff from : storage. Had my trusty v600 along with the GSM America plan from ATTWS. This [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] : : -Jon I forgot to mention, I tried it around Hinckley and the Mmode main screen came right up... -Jon interesting .... I wonder if GPRS data also would have worked. Bob : Took a road trip to the cabin this past weekend to clear some stuff from : storage. Had my trusty v600 along with the GSM America plan from ATTWS. This [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] : : -Jon >Subject: Re: Trip report: GSM between Minneapolis and Virginia, MN >From: "Jon Clark" jsclarkNOSPAM@visi.com [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >: >: -Jon What phone were you using? I need a new phone that does 850 & 1900 mhz and can do net monitor that yours obviously can do. I picked up a S56 Siemens on ebay, have yet to get it unlocked or further explored. PS: do you vacation in the crosslake area too? jay > >Subject: Re: Trip report: GSM between Minneapolis and Virginia, MN > >From: "Jon Clark" jsclarkNOSPAM@visi.com [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > have yet to get it unlocked or further explored. PS: do you vacation in the > crosslake area too? jay I spend some time in both the Gull Lake and Pelican Lake areas, and occasionally get up to Crosslake. I have not yet been up there to test the Dobson GSM. I'm using a v600 with the UK Engineering Flex (it has a netmonitor). The netmonitor is not included with the stock ATTWS software, but all you need is the Motorola USB cable and its easy enough to get all the necessary software from the net. Just be careful flashing and flexing the phone :) -Jon >I spend some time in both the Gull Lake and Pelican Lake areas, and >occasionally get up to Crosslake. I have not yet been up there to test the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >-Jon I'm not sure what a UK flex is, but i'll see if i can figure it out. Have you been in my video rental store in crosslake? I seem to recall the name over the years. I'm at home now or I'd look in my customer list. How do you get a UK flex v600? thanks for your assistance. Jay Guess i reread your post and see you have a v600, are you using some kind of net monitor function or just estimating the signal levels? Thanks. Jay > Took a road trip to the cabin this past weekend to clear some stuff from > storage. Had my trusty v600 along with the GSM America plan from ATTWS. This [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > dead spots (roamed briefly on T-Mobile). After North Branch, picked up what > the v600 called "Cellular One DCS." This is Dobson's GSM850 overlay. Thanks, Jon. I find it interesting that DCOC's 310-560 GSM 850 overlay is using the "Cellular One DCS" (or GSM World indicates just "Cell One") handset code. WWC has owned & licensed the Cellular One brand for several years now, and considering that WWC is also deploying its own GSM 850/1900 overlay, it seems somewhat ironic that WWC would not retain that handset code for itself. But according to GSM World, WWC's 310-590 overlay displays handset code "ROAMING" - ostensibly a nod to the fact that the overlay is exclusively for GSM roamers, not for WWC's own TDMA or CDMA subs. Andrew -- Andrew Shepherd cinema@ku.edu cinema@sprintpcs.com http://www.wirelesswavelength.com/ > > Took a road trip to the cabin this past weekend to clear some stuff from > > storage. Had my trusty v600 along with the GSM America plan from ATTWS. This [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > the fact that the overlay is exclusively for GSM roamers, not for > WWC's own TDMA or CDMA subs. That is a bit odd. I didn't look into the handset codes that closely, but the WWC handset code makes sense insofar as they have no intention of selling GMS service 'natively.' DCOC and WWC do use the same handset system name displays for TDMA ("Cell One") - at least in MN, so I guess the use of "Cellular One DCS" by DCOC doesn't surprise me so much as WWC's *not* using it does surprise me - a bit... -Jon > Andrew > -- > Andrew Shepherd > cinema@ku.edu > cinema@sprintpcs.com > http://www.wirelesswavelength.com/ |
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