Can the Sentinel be given the same band width as an Assault, even though the Sentinel does not have an equipment slot?

In Pub matches were no one is dropping Uplinks, I am sometimes forced to switch to another fit to place some uplinks. Once that is done I spawn in again in my preferred Sentinel fit after dying or finding a Supply Depot.

If the Sentinel has no bandwidth I will be stuck playing a suit that has bandwidth in these situations, because my team needs an uplink or they will be red-lined.

Nono, as long as you respawn in a Logi again, they stay up.

Yes, you made a decision to sacrifice one advantage for another, or you can choose to not do that. That's kind of the point.

If you spawn back in a logi suit...your equipment should persist from the previous life.

if you spawn in an assault...equipment from your previous logi life should pop until you get down to your current suits allotted bandwidth.

We can switch to a scout, heavy, log, assault and commando while giving up the strengths and weaknesses of our previous suit for the strengths and weaknesses of a new suit.

Logis are no different, their strength being a lot of equipment, weakness being general combat ability.

With respect Fox being suck playing a suit with bandwidth if you want to have equipment deployed at any given level is exactly the point.

Well, a few things about that, first the direct method described is stacked rather than objective.
In the game under a BW mechanic you would not need to take the time to destroy those deployed items nor would you be facing a team free of the same mechanical constraints you are operating under.

Leaving that aside what you describe is frankly non-problematic, those players in as logi stay as logi and actually play the role as opposed to the current method of spawn once, deploy everything ditch the logi suit and play only heavy on that point defense throughout the match from then on, because really once you have already self logi'ed rep hives and uplinks why wouldn't you just play heavy on that point? And if the best way to run logi is often to not even be in logi suit for the majority of the match then what is the value/point of the suit/role?

Like Juno Tristan said " RE frisbee technique is throw then detonate, rinse and repeat. ", also the current RE already need 4 second to detonate, so I don't think RE spam is a big issue.

But the 4bw for each RE will limit the AV potential, and forget about jihad. Even with 2bw, no one has enough bw to stack 7 RE except logi.

It will reinforce each suit having advantages and disadvantages.

Players bypass logi weaknesses by changing suits while enjoying the benefit of equipment spam.

It makes dedicated logis utterly unnecessary and largely superfluous. This needs to change.

the point. It has flown over your head.

Warpoint spam from uplinks and hives IS a benefit from logi suits. crap them out, swap suits, trash stays, warpoints free of effort or concern flow in. No risk, since you swapped back, you're in no danger of losing an expensive logistics fit. and since you can drop asstons of hives, why not make two fits? one to spam hives, another to cover 75% of your team's uplink limit by yourself, then swap to a useful suit and go kill people?

THAT'S what I'm talking about when I say bypassing logi weaknesses.

It's not tactical flexibility. it's farming.