how is inside coverage, in houses, not buildings so much.

Anyone on Wind get the 4.1 update rolled out to their Gnex yet? I've never played around with rooting, roms, etc, and don't want to mess up my device by attempting a diy.

if its offically out, then its nice.. if its port roms or cooked roms, them you get random FCs...

Couple of people on howardforums said that they got the update on their stock wind gnex. fingers crossed..

i dont have any problems inside houses. buildings would depend on the size of the building. (ie, friend's apartment, 13 or 14th floor. i lose reception in the elevator and takes a bit to refresh automatically once i exit the elevator) the only time i have problems is the dead spot where the coverage doesn't reach.

I'm good in houses. I actually live in a basement on a hill, and I'm good. Like ImpulseX says, elevators are a bit sketchy, but that's to be expected when the company doesn't have a low-band for penetration like RoBelLus' 850. Hopefully that'll be fixed in the coming years with the 700mhz bandwidth expansion.

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just switched over to wind from mobi. im in south surrey and service is 10x better. My data speeds are faster than wifi.

best bet, and this is what i did to ensure that you won't always be in a dead spot, is ask the wind rep where the towers are, and how strong the signal should be in your home. when i signed up, i just chatted with the guy about the reception, and how he feels about it personally. he told me about his own experiences and brought up a map and asked me where my home area would be. and showed me that the nearest tower is here or there, and that i may or may not have troubles with the reception. but even with that, i haven't had troubles being at home.

recently moved to a condo in south burnaby but had asked about the reception in this area when i signed up for wind (december) and the guy told me it'd be iffy. i only have little to no reception if i'm in my washroom which would be the middle of the entire strata. other than that, no problems.

well, one example i can give you is when i'm skytraining to downtown to go to steve nash, i always lose reception like everyone else going from stadium to granville, and i usually get reception again by the time i get up to dunsmuir automatically. and if it doesnt connect by then, then i'll have reception by the time i get to the sports club.

when i'm leaving downtown on skytrain. i'll usually be connected as soon as the train arrives to the platform, or jsut as it leaves. the times vary but i find the reconnection is fairly quick.

Most, if not, all of Vancouver, Richmond and burnaby areas are definitely covered. Surrounding areas are mostly covered...

I got coverage all the way up until Point Roberts boarders, so tsawwassen area looks like its covered pretty well... I was surprise... Winds coverage has come along ways...

i head to point roberts a lot, will i get coverage in point roberts?

no, you will be in roaming... a few feet after you cross the boarder it will die and kick into roaming..

You won't get any coverage in Point Roberts but I get coverage past the truck crossing boarder for like a few km.

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im guess it would still be in roaming... sometimes it quick to connect, sometimes take long time..

just acquire the network manually and see... i always go when no traffic in either direction, I hate waiting

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the day i switched to Wind I got on of those spam text messages, and this coming from a brand new number I was using for a few months coming over from another carrier where I never got any of that....

pretty convinced that Wind sells your numbers over to spam companies, I mean what are the odds that this happens literally hours after I ported over...

and yes coming over from Mobilicity, I can ACTUALLY stream my fcking Tune In Radio while driving in my car now without it constantly cutting out every 10 seconds....

i have never received any spam msg, except for wind and their promo shit but I called it in and told them to F-Off with those msg and havent gotten another one for almost a year.

I have no problem playing radio when im at work.. hmm...

on weekdays, DONT go between 7am-9:30am... your gona be stuck going there... I went at 10am and to get gas and came back within 1hr.. Im guessing from 10am-1pm or maybe 2pm if you want to push it...

i had spam msgs with Rogers

and the only spam i get with WIND is winds own operator msgs

maybe mobilicity sold ur number the moment u ported away

don't have any spam at all. which is weird.

welcome to wind. you'll find that you'll enjoy their services much more. i stream tunein a lot and rarely have problems =D

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Porting isn't a hassle. Walk in to the store with your current company's account number. let them do their thing. Walk out with a temporary number and get a text message a couple hours later that says "Congratulations! You're now our customer!"

Also, if you port now they're offering up to a $200 credit. So it said on the window when I walked by today.

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im not sure... my wind # is the same one i got when i signed up with wind when they first launched and kept it..

I think its 604-700-xxxx...