Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

[JustinRP37]

I just took another look at the NV Maps, and no there is no site inside the campus. Fordham U relies on local surrounding Macro sites. 

 

I am near the grand concourse and 177 street. But I travel between Bedford park and 133st on a regular basis and have no issues.

 

That's great. I do not have issues either normally. Where I live it is perfect. But there are macro sites just off the campus. If I had to pinpoint which site it is, it would be the one on 191st. And come to think of it, they are rebuilding the chillers on the roof so they probably had to disable that site temporarily. That makes the most sense. I should have looked at the maps first to see if I could figure it out. That means I'm most likely getting service from 187st or off Webster Ave. This makes sense as if you walk towards the zoo side of campus the speeds become insanely great, most likely from the Crotona Ave site. 

[orangeblue]

Verizon seems to have the same issues too according to the down detector

[nexgencpu]

Just experienced my first small cell in battery park.

 

Hit 50mb down 15mb up GCI is similar to B25 starting with 129.

 

Also did speed test at observatory deck of the world trade hit 110mb down.

[ingenium]

Just experienced my first small cell in battery park.

 

Hit 50mb down 15mb up GCI is similar to B25 starting with 129.

 

Also did speed test at observatory deck of the world trade hit 110mb down.

Next time you see one can you post screenshots of SCP and/or engineering?

 

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[nexgencpu]

Next time you see one can you post screenshots of SCP and/or engineering?

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http://imgur.com/7rWYg8Q

http://imgur.com/87S2mMp

[ingenium]

http://imgur.com/7rWYg8Q

http://imgur.com/87S2mMp

Last question: do you have GPS coordinates or a Google map link to the approximate location?

 

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[nexgencpu]

Last question: do you have GPS coordinates or a Google map link to the approximate location?

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https://goo.gl/maps/yJawPwd75EU2

[Paynefanbro]

14 Battery Pl

 

https://goo.gl/maps/yJawPwd75EU2

Awesome! I might head over there today and check it out myself!

 

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[dkyeager]

14 Battery Pl

 

https://goo.gl/maps/yJawPwd75EU2

Awesome! I might head over there today and check it out myself!

 

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I would like to see photos of the small cell and RSRP taken right next to it. Thanks!!

[Paynefanbro]

This is the only small cell I can find here. My signal isn't particularly strong next to it but my speeds are 56-60Mbps down on my single carrier device.

 

 

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[nexgencpu]

This is the only small cell I can find here. My signal isn't particularly strong next to it but my speeds are 56-60Mbps down on my single carrier device.

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try walking (east) around till your signal gets stronger and stronger so you can track it down.

[ingenium]

This is the only small cell I can find here. My signal isn't particularly strong next to it but my speeds are 56-60Mbps down on my single carrier device.

 

 

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What's the approximate address or GPS coordinates for that?

 

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[Paynefanbro]

What's the approximate address or GPS coordinates for that?

 

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I'm pretty sure this is one of Crown Castle's DAS but it's at the address that nexgencpu gave.

 

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https://goo.gl/maps/X7e7ibdMGCt

 

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[Palan]

I upgraded to the 6S from my 6 couple days ago, It says unknown sometimes when I do a speed test instead of 20mhz or 5mhz. Is that CA 41?

 

EDIT: Not speed test I meant the info in the network diagnostics. 

Edited July 22, 2016 by Palan

[Paynefanbro]

I upgraded to the 6S from my 6 couple days ago, It says unknown sometimes when I do a speed test instead of 20mhz or 5mhz. Is that CA 41?

 

EDIT: Not speed test I meant the info in the network diagnostics.

Sometimes that field isn't populated and you need to close it down and open the app back up.

 

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[mirskyc]

Just got this update from Gunther about JFK. Pretty interesting new. Im going to try to find out about Penn Station next. n

 

[RAvirani]

I upgraded to the 6S from my 6 couple days ago, It says unknown sometimes when I do a speed test instead of 20mhz or 5mhz. Is that CA 41?

 

EDIT: Not speed test I meant the info in the network diagnostics.

No. I have had a 6S since they first came out and I have never been able to make that field populate. The field test on the iPhone 6S just doesn't work reliably.

[nexgencpu]

The area I highlighted in black is the small cell coverage I was able to find.
http://imgur.com/a/T9ZHC

 

Quite impressive, I narrowed their locations, but they are well hidden. I got signal as high as -60dBm in about three different spots around the highlighted perimeter. 

 

Speeds were good (30-70mbs) even when signal was not very strong -110dBm still hitting 20mbs. 

 

One thing I found interesting (that will make tracking these damn things a lot more difficult) no matter where the signal came from the GCI never changed. 

So I'm assuming they all shared one host connection.

 

Once Sprint deploy's these bad boys everywhere its gonna be a doozy.

[Paynefanbro]

I noticed that too! While walking around the only thing that kept changing was the signal strength. All other values remained the same. Also, they're hidden so well even after walking around for a while and getting my signal pretty strong, I still couldn't point out exactly where it came from.

 

I feel like a lot more has been done than we could imagine.

 

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[ingenium]

It could have been an ODAS as well. That's exactly how the ODAS setup in SF behaves (though with equipment from the 2011 era if I remember correctly). Was B25/26 only. https://goo.gl/photos/T7pV37px7DpmWpFg6

 

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[Paynefanbro]

I went to Hurricane Harbor today and had LTE during my entire trip with the exception of just outside of Jackson, NJ. The park itself has a site that serves it and does so really well. I was pulling speeds around 15 Mbps the whole time.

 

Despite it being in a pretty remote area of NJ, the presence of Six Flags made it so that site has Band 25, Band 26, and 2 Band 41 carriers to take on the heavy network load and it appears to be doing its job pretty well.

 

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[Palan]

I was hitting around 85mb/s yesterday around west 12th next to Luna Park. Im gonna assume thats 2x CA because my old 6 would pull around 40.

[Paynefanbro]

More than likely.

 

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[Paynefanbro]

Update: This is the strongest I could get the signal and these are the speeds I got. Wherever that small cell is, I must've been right next to it but pretty much unable to find it.

 

There are a ton of what look like the Crown Castle DAS's down here on pretty much every third light pole but I still can't figure out where exactly Sprint's is. This is a mystery.

 

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[lilotimz]

Update: This is the strongest best I could et the signal and these are the speeds I got, wherever that small cell is, I must've been right next to it but pretty much unable to find it.

 

There are a ton of what look like the Crown Castle DAS's down here on pretty much every third light pole but I still can't figure out where exactly Sprint's is. This is a mystery.

 

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https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7031645,-74.0144406,3a,75y,250.04h,83.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_c3g8GmfsAo11xCWrBbSPQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7031604,-74.0143913,3a,75y,339.97h,92.42t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sgjlW_9-070kyGMbYCdHzyQ!2e0!5s20141001T000000!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

 

 

It's the one from earlier. Looks like it's one of those former clearwire Wimax small cells / odas converted to B41 LTE.