Network Vision/LTE - Chicago Market

[S4GRU]

Im getting a strong signal this morning in Chicago's near west side at Racine and Lexington. I live two blocks from the tower and Im getting an OK signal from my front stoop. About 4Mbs. As I walk across the park towards the tower the download rates rocket to 20Mbs. Wow!

 

The issue is Im getting next to nothing in my house and my phone is still fairly unusable on the issue. I hope that changes. I still need to play around with this new development.

 

Yeah, LTE performance is very signal strength dependent. With the slower speeds you had a pretty weak signal. But as you were getting closer to the site, your speeds went up. We discuss how to determine your actual LTE signal strength here: http://s4gru.com/ind...ignal-strength/

 

Robert

[Secretaznman46]

Drove out to my parents house and picked up 4g on I-88 from I-355 to Rt 53 lost the signal but picked it up again by Naperville Rd. Was pretty consistant from there until my exit on Eola Rd. I hit a couple blips here and there afterward, but I'm extremely happy with the progress. Also on an EVO 4g LTE and never had a problem picking up signal. I was watching my signal strength on the about screen and whenever LTE popped up the signal was between -115 and 105db. On the new 2.13 OTA base it shows LTE signal strength properly in About>Network. Never had to cycle my phone to receive LTE like I did before.

[CriticalityEvent]

Confirmed- 4G at the Sox game right now! Just recorded some Sensorly data from the east-facing seats. Couldn't pick it up from the north-facing ones though...

[S4GRU]

Confirmed- 4G at the Sox game right now! Just recorded some Sensorly data from the east-facing seats. Couldn't pick it up from the north-facing ones though...

 

I see it on Sensorly. Yeehaw!

 

Robert

[CriticalityEvent]

Confirmed- 4G at the Sox game right now! Just recorded some Sensorly data from the east-facing seats. Couldn't pick it up from the north-facing ones though...

I see it on Sensorly. Yeehaw!

 

Robert

 

Correction: couldn't get it from the south-facing seats.

 

This has been the one positive event at this game so far...we're getting thrashed. :-(

[Bird_Chicago]

Im getting a strong signal this morning in Chicago's near west side at Racine and Lexington.

Multiple reports of LTE in the city! Finally! I live in the Lakeview/Wrigley area and take the Brown Line every day. Something changed this week as I finally was getting a 3G signal most of the way into the Loop. The picture below was taken from Old Town down to the River and is a 100% improvement on what I have been getting for the entire year. It's not in this picture, but at one point during lunch near City Hall I broke 1Mbps! The next month or two of improvements are well welcomed.

 

[shotymedan]

I was in Batavia and aurora today and hoped to fill in senaorly a bit more. Unfortunately, not monitor showed lte and stuck that way but I had no internet at all. I rebooted multiple times, airplane mode, CDMA and back to let mode. Still nothing. After heading west of elburn,I finally got back into evdo. Could've been something with the cm10 ROM, couldve been the lte? Either way, sorry mission not accomplished here...

[S4GRU]

I was in Batavia and aurora today and hoped to fill in senaorly a bit more. Unfortunately, not monitor showed lte and stuck that way but I had no internet at all. I rebooted multiple times, airplane mode, CDMA and back to let mode. Still nothing. After heading west of elburn,I finally got back into evdo. Could've been something with the cm10 ROM, couldve been the lte? Either way, sorry mission not accomplished here...

 

Bummer. It's the reason why I'm avoiding custom ROM's for awhile. Until Sprint LTE is more mature and developers live in coverage areas and try them out themselves.

 

Robert

[Vince]

Hello, I'm new here and thinking of switching to sprint from Verizon for the fact of getting unlimited data. The progress and speeds are looking very promising. One question. Is there a physical difference in the appearance of a NV tower? Do they look different? Or are the upgrades only on the internals? Thanks everyone.

[wtsguy]

Hello, I'm new here and thinking of switching to sprint from Verizon for the fact of getting unlimited data. The progress and speeds are looking very promising. One question. Is there a physical difference in the appearance of a NV tower? Do they look different? Or are the upgrades only on the internals? Thanks everyone.

 

The NV upgrades are entirely different. There are pictures in various threads around here. Generally, the NV antennas look like a 5-6 foot long dark gray rectangle with a small 2 foot square box attached on its side. I'll try to post some pics of the tower by my house that has them. Once you know what they look like they're really easy to spot on any random tower.

[PolloLoco]

Multiple reports of LTE in the city! Finally! I live in the Lakeview/Wrigley area and take the Brown Line every day. Something changed this week as I finally was getting a 3G signal most of the way into the Loop. The picture below was taken from Old Town down to the River and is a 100% improvement on what I have been getting for the entire year. It's not in this picture, but at one point during lunch near City Hall I broke 1Mbps! The next month or two of improvements are well welcomed.

 

I live right by Diversey stop, and am almost always on the tower that covers part of Wrigley. You're right... speeds here are usually unbearable but improving recently. They're especially worst Thurs-Sun at night.

 

Tonight I'm actually able to stream from Google Music. Amazing.

[Vince]

Excellent. Yes, please post a pic. I live near a bank of cell towers (1 block away) in willowbrook, il and sprint lists this as one of their tower locations. One of them has a whole bunch of new stuff protruding from the top. Different than usual. I don't have sprint yet so I have no way of knowing if its LTE or not. Thanks.

[Madfelon]

Excellent. Yes, please post a pic. I live near a bank of cell towers (1 block away) in willowbrook, il and sprint lists this as one of their tower locations. One of them has a whole bunch of new stuff protruding from the top. Different than usual. I don't have sprint yet so I have no way of knowing if its LTE or not. Thanks.

 

Drove to the party city and toys r us over in Downers Grove on 75th and wife iPhone was lit up with LTE. Ran multiple speed test and it was very good. The highest d/l was 27 and lowest was around 6. Very jealous of you guys in the burbs since the Southside of Chicago is a 3G nightmare.

[wtsguy]

Very jealous of you guys in the burbs

 

Really now?

 

 

West burbs'.

 

But yes, I'm jealous of the other burbs too! Waiting for the Winfield / Wheaton cluster to fill in is extremely frustrating.

[S4GRU]

 

Really now?

 

West burbs'.

 

But yes' date=' I'm jealous of the other burbs too! Waiting for the Winfield / Wheaton cluster to fill in is extremely frustrating.[/quote']

 

Yes, I'm sure it is. And probably saying something cliché like "well, someone has to be last" won't help you feel any better.

 

At least you can take comfort that I will be one of the last to experience Network Vision.

 

Robert via Samsung Galaxy S-III 32GB using Forum Runner

[mellimel2212]

 

Drove to the party city and toys r us over in Downers Grove on 75th and wife iPhone was lit up with LTE. Ran multiple speed test and it was very good. The highest d/l was 27 and lowest was around 6. Very jealous of you guys in the burbs since the Southside of Chicago is a 3G nightmare.

 

Where at because I be on 124th and state and I stream Pandora and Netflix just fine

 

Sent from my White Epic 4g Touch rockin Jellybean

[ffstosh]

 

Drink it in.....

 

This is a new system being turned on slowly, it'd be foolish to think there would be no hiccups

[ffstosh]

 

But I think its going to be worth it

[outlaw7478]

ever since i was able to get 4g at my house in joliet a few days ago I've used almost 3 gigs of data in speedtests alone! I try to stop but its hard!

[Y2Dre]

I was out and about in Tinley Park when I caught a 4G signal. I was at the Arby's in the strip mall at 191st and Harlem. The signal lasted from Arby's to the intersection of Vollmer Road and Harlem.

 

Sent from my EVO 4G LTE using Tapatalk

[ffstosh]

ever since i was able to get 4g at my house in joliet a few days ago I've used almost 3 gigs of data in speedtests alone! I try to stop but its hard!

 

I'm not getting the LTE at my house in Joliet, but when I've been out and about getting it, I've gone through just over a gig so far

[outlaw7478]

 

 

I'm not getting the LTE at my house in Joliet, but when I've been out and about getting it, I've gone through just over a gig so far

what side town are you on. I stay buy family fun zone on cedar wood and Theodore

[ffstosh]

what side town are you on. I stay buy family fun zone on cedar wood and Theodore

 

I'm in the "western dead zone." It seems if you go west of 59 the signal drops

[outlaw7478]

 

 

I'm in the "western dead zone." It seems if you go west of 59 the signal drops

I was just on 59 at portillos didn't even check for 4g cause I'm sick switching to airplane mode all day on my evo. It makes trying to map wth sensorly a pain I'm the ass. I got my evo posted on Craigslist right now!

[outlaw7478]

 

 

I'm in the "western dead zone." It seems if you go west of 59 the signal drops

are Any of those towers behind portillos sprints ?