Network Vision/LTE - Chicago Market

[Hmight]

Has b25 received 10mhz CA or is it still 2 5mhz?

[tongboy]

A lot of areas are 10mhz now in band 25. I know they concentrated on towers that did not have band 41 initially.

 

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[RAvirani]

Has b25 received 10mhz CA or is it still 2 5mhz?

CA will not happen in B25 - at least in the forseeable future.

[Hmight]

CA will not happen in B25 - at least in the forseeable future.

Anything holding them back? Hardware issues?

[tongboy]

CA is not the same thing as a 10x10 carrier. Did you mean that? The 10x10 is all over the place now.

 

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[radem]

Anything holding them back? Hardware issues?

If both 5x5 bandwidth slices are beside each other, Sprint combines them and makes them into a 10x10 which improves top end speed, edge of cell reception, etc.  If the 5x5's are not beside each other, they will stay as 2 separate 5x5's as Sprints equipment is not configured at this time to be able to perform CA on B25.  2 5x5's means that you get double the total shared bandwidth but not double the top end speed.

 

In as many cases as they can, Sprint is trading some of their bandwidth with other carriers so that both end up with more contiguous bandwidth.  Both carriers can then change to 10x10, 15x15, or 20x20.

[Hmight]

If both 5x5 bandwidth slices are beside each other, Sprint combines them and makes them into a 10x10 which improves top end speed, edge of cell reception, etc. If the 5x5's are not beside each other, they will stay as 2 separate 5x5's as Sprints equipment is not configured at this time to be able to perform CA on B25. 2 5x5's means that you get double the total shared bandwidth but not double the top end speed.

 

In as many cases as they can, Sprint is trading some of their bandwidth with other carriers so that both end up with more contiguous bandwidth. Both carriers can then change to 10x10, 15x15, or 20x20.

Great explanation. Thank you, you and tongboy.

[gusherb]

This thread has been abandoned for long enough...

 

Yesterday I discovered a brand new sprint site on this T-Mobile owned tower:

 

From top to bottom it goes: T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T and the bottom is presumably Verizon (it's brand new too).

 

I guess that means sprint is adding sites in my area. Though I don't remember this spot being weak to begin with.

[lilotimz]

This thread has been abandoned for long enough...

 

Yesterday I discovered a brand new sprint site on this T-Mobile owned tower:

 

 

From top to bottom it goes: T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T and the bottom is presumably Verizon (it's brand new too).

 

I guess that means sprint is adding sites in my area. Though I don't remember this spot being weak to begin with.

 

Location? O_O

 

Could it be a former Clear site or Maybe even an old USCC vacated site?

[gusherb]

Location? O_O

 

Could it be a former Clear site or Maybe even an old USCC vacated site?

Good question, definitely not Clear, I don't think USCC either but they took those sites down pretty much the day after that was shut down so I could be wrong.

 

It's at 61st and Taft st. Merrillville, IN.

[lilotimz]

Good question, definitely not Clear, I don't think USCC either but they took those sites down pretty much the day after that was shut down so I could be wrong.

 

It's at 61st and Taft st. Merrillville, IN.

 

OOooo. That was a former Nextel location so a nextel conversion!

[gusherb]

OOooo. That was a former Nextel location so a nextel conversion!

Wow I didn't realize they were still doing those. That's cool.

[lilotimz]

Wow I didn't realize they were still doing those. That's cool.

 

Well it's more of a new colocation at what used to be a Nextel site but a new site none the less!

[WiWavelength]

 

 

That is one fugly, ramshackle looking tower.

 

AJ

[tongboy]

Now you hurt its feelings!

 

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[WiWavelength]

Now you hurt it's feelings!

 

Hurt it is feelings?

 

I can has cheezburger?

 

AJ

[tongboy]

Hurt it is feelings?

 

I can has cheezburger?

 

AJ

Ugh! My bad... Now its feelings are really hurt!

 

I can't tell if the middle row is abandoned with the cables in place or if something is there...

 

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[WiWavelength]

I can't tell if the middle row is abandoned with the cables in place or if something is there...

 

Somebody needs to get all of those sectors aligned.  The proper orientation is N/SE/SW.  As it stands, that tower looks like a first grader put it together.

 

AJ

[gusherb]

That is one fugly, ramshackle looking tower.

 

AJ

This ones worse:

 

 

 

Ugh! My bad... Now its feelings are really hurt!

 

I can't tell if the middle row is abandoned with the cables in place or if something is there...

 

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IDK what the deal is with that center rack, I see a few towers around with those kinds of setups still. IDK if it's a WISP (do they even have setups like that?) or if it's from a defunct carrier.

[tongboy]

This ones worse:

 

 

 

 

 

IDK what the deal is with that center rack, I see a few towers around with those kinds of setups still. IDK if it's a WISP (do they even have setups like that?) or if it's from a defunct carrier.

Those remind me of some of the US cellular setups we had around here in the north eastern Illinois area. A single tiny antenna per sector.

 

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[gusherb]

Those remind me of some of the US cellular setups we had around here in the north eastern Illinois area. A single tiny antenna per sector.

 

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That's what they all were around here too. I thought the towers were abandoned or something. Guess they didn't need more then that considering they only ran PCS 1x/EVDO. 

[PythonFanPA]

Had a connection flight through O'Hare today with a ~3hr layover - is service normally as bad as I experienced today?  There were 1-2 times I would get LTE connections, but mostly I kept changing between eHRPD (with !@#$ or something along those lines underneath), 1x, and no signal.  This was in the terminal with L gates (didn't have to move between flights much).   I was really surprised since in all other airports we hit on our trip (BWI, LAX & PDX) we had excellent/consistent coverage.

[conquereddroiduser]

Had a connection flight through O'Hare today with a ~3hr layover - is service normally as bad as I experienced today? There were 1-2 times I would get LTE connections, but mostly I kept changing between eHRPD (with !@#$ or something along those lines underneath), 1x, and no signal. This was in the terminal with L gates (didn't have to move between flights much). I was really surprised since in all other airports we hit on our trip (BWI, LAX & PDX) we had excellent/consistent coverage.

Must be something that broke. Service has been consistently great there in all my experience the last few years.

 

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[WiWavelength]

Must be something that broke. Service has been consistently great there in all my experience the last few years.

 

You broke it, you bought it.  PythonFanTN, you now owe Sprint eleventy billion dollars.

 

AJ

[runagun]

Some "update" must have happen. Cause I'm being sent to ehrpd much more then I've ever been in the past year..

 

Had a connection flight through O'Hare today with a ~3hr layover - is service normally as bad as I experienced today? There were 1-2 times I would get LTE connections, but mostly I kept changing between eHRPD (with !@#$ or something along those lines underneath), 1x, and no signal. This was in the terminal with L gates (didn't have to move between flights much). I was really surprised since in all other airports we hit on our trip (BWI, LAX & PDX) we had excellent/consistent coverage.