AT&T and Miller Park

[brewtown82]

I have been extremely frustrated by the service, particularly for internet inside Miller Park, but it looks like this will be fixed for Opening Day!

 

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/146198285.html

[PrinceEatMeat]

Yes! This is fantastic news. I've been incredibly frustrated in the past. I'm glad that's finally over with.

[BradWI]

Should be interesting to see if it actually works when all the people are there using it.

 

Personally I sit in the club level, close enough to the press box that I can use their WiFi (I get the password from a connection with the team ).

[Oldcity]

So what about other providers? I don't have AT&T, and mine is pretty bad there at times.

[RightFieldCoder]

The password is also taped to the wall, in case anyone ever wants to take a ballpark tour.

[hawing]

I was going to ask what experience anyone's had with Sprint inside the keg. Friday will mark my inaugural game-with-a-smartphone.

[Tailgat0r76]

Sprint is nearly useless as far as internet goes once inside the stadium; at least for heavily attended games. You can send texts and receive calls just fine, but 3G is extremely slow or doesn't work altogether.

[1992casey]

Where does Verizon stand?

[Oldcity]

I was going to ask what experience anyone's had with Sprint inside the keg. Friday will mark my inaugural game-with-a-smartphone.

Mine too, actually. I had enough trouble with a U.S. Cellular dumbphone in Miller Park, and U.S. Cellular never has reception trouble.

[dlk9s]

I have no experience with cell reception at Miller Park, but some places are just bad spots for coverage. My graduate school was one - it was hard to even get a voice signal there. There's also a stretch of a couple hundred feet on my former commute when I would always lose reception, no matter the carrier.

[KCBrewerfan34]

If you have a 4G device try accessing 4G, also turn on your Wi-Fi, this should help you. More enhancements coming for Sprint, it will take some time though.

[MJLiverock]

I've never had an issue with my Verizon phone at Miller Park or Camp Randall, either 2G or 3G. Both places I have had friends with me using AT&T who have been unable to send or receive texts or access data. I don't know anyone who has Sprint so I can't speak to their service and U.S. Cellular and Verizon have a network sharing agreement so I would expect their service to be fairly similar.

 

One thing that is gaining popularity at stadiums and large crowd venues is the setting up of a local network that aggregates the traffic from the cellular networks and puts them on the WiFi network and/or sends out the info from the stadium via a hard wired internet connection. Countries where bandwith is expensive and crowded like the U.S., Japan, and Nordic countries are offloading more and more traffic from the "cellular" airwaves to the Wifi and then physical routes.

[Bigblast]

I've never had an issue with my Verizon phone at Miller Park or Camp Randall, either 2G or 3G. Both places I have had friends with me using AT&T who have been unable to send or receive texts or access data. I don't know anyone who has Sprint so I can't speak to their service and U.S. Cellular and Verizon have a network sharing agreement so I would expect their service to be fairly similar.

I have an the exact same experience at miller park, my Verizon Phone works great and the friends that have at&t have issues.

[reillymcshane]

My iPhone with Verizon works fine in miller park.

[Invader3K]

I have had US Cellular for years, and never any issues at Miller Park.

[AZBrewCrew]

I have T-Mobile and have always had horrible service at the Keg, or any ballpark for that matter.

[thebruce44]

Will someone with Verizon LTE let me know how the service is in MP? 3G was always solid.

[Mike Felder]

I have a Sprint smartphone (BlackBerry) and got terrible reception/coverage during last year's playoffs (which is the only time I really tried to use it there - between innings to text friends, etc.). Texts would not send, calls were impossible to make, etc. I'm hoping that's improved soon.

[AZBrewCrew]

I'm currently running on 2G right now. Couldn't get data to work in the parking lots (Tmobile)

[PrinceEatMeat]

Well, AT&T worked pretty badly for me at the park today. Didn't notice any improvement.

[brewtank34]

My US Cellular Mesmorize stunk up the joint today, kinda like the Crew. No reception at all.

[PrinceEatMeat]

I'd attribute the bad reception today to the big Opening Day crowd. Mainly because it seems like people on all carriers had problems.

[thablingster]

I can actually say I noticed an improvement today for AT&T. Last year my iPhone 4 basically was a brick. Today I was able to tweet/text throughout the game. Uploading pictures, etc. didn't really work, and I didn't try anything that would really pull data, but for what I'd use my phone during the game for I was able to eek through.

[chuckiehacks]

AT&T stunk for me all day, but my girlfriend had no problem right next to me with the exact same phone on Verizon.

[hawing]

I'd forgotten until Friday that our terrace seats are next to one of the stairwells. So I had no luck with my Sprint phone yesterday, but would like to get away from the concrete corner before I declare it a brick anywhere in MP. Next chance comes in the loge on Sunday.