Jump to content

Network Vision/LTE - Nashville Market (including Knoxville/Chattanooga/Tri-Cities)

telefunken

By telefunken
in Markets

 Share

Recommended Posts

  • 4 months later...
  • Replies 771
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

S4GRU
S4GRU

I think I need to get a dislike button for the forums.   Robert

WiWavelength
WiWavelength

They are the towers of Barad-dûr and Orthanc.   AJ

tndank
tndank

The Greeneville tower was accepted a couple days ago along with one near Kingsport. Robert had them posted in the completed towers thread.

Posted Images

red_dog007 Member Level: eHRPD

red_dog007

Posted
Posted

I have not been able to test B26 yet, but 1x800 has recently went live here in Chattanooga.  The tower next to my house outside city limits has 1x800 up and running.  Some tower near the Chattanooga airport has 1x800 on it as well.  These are the two places that I have checked.  Fairly recent happening.

 

Sprint's coverage map now shows that it is a Spark market.  Kinda interesting cause they only officially annouced Cleveland, TN but Chattanooga is covered in it.  Hoping to get my N5 activated this week to test the waters out.  Some four or five months ago there was zero 1x800 or B26/41.  k

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • 1 month later...
shawneyboy123 Member Level: 3G EVDO

shawneyboy123

Posted
Posted

I've been all over Knoxville today visiting and not once has my phone connected to Spark. (iPhone 6 Plus)

I'm currently looking directly at a tower with Sprint equipment and what looks to be 8T8R antennas and all my phone is doing is jumping between 25/26. Is this a known issue around here or is my phone just refusing to connect?

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Link to comment
Share on other sites
JossMan Member Level: 4G WiMax

JossMan

Posted
Posted

I've been all over Knoxville today visiting and not once has my phone connected to Spark. (iPhone 6 Plus)

I'm currently looking directly at a tower with Sprint equipment and what looks to be 8T8R antennas and all my phone is doing is jumping between 25/26. Is this a known issue around here or is my phone just refusing to connect?

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Are you sure the site has B41 gear, if your certain it doesn't mean its turned on yet. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
JossMan Member Level: 4G WiMax

JossMan

Posted
Posted

i cannot say that I was 100% certain but I didn't catch any Band 41 the entire trip.

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I can't give out certain specifics but I can tell you if there was any B41 it would be on the southern end of Knoxville.  

Link to comment
Share on other sites
ddaniels3968 Member Level: 3G EVDO

ddaniels3968

Posted
Posted

From my experience in East Tennessee band 41 is active most everywhere and was easy to connect to, lately band 26 has been turned on most everywhere and your phone is locking on to that instead of band 41. We aren't allowed to give specific tower information in this thread though. Sprint's website does give a good idea where you should be able to get band 41

Link to comment
Share on other sites
NanoVirus Member Level: 1x Advanced

NanoVirus

Posted
Posted

I've noticed Band 41 pretty much all over Knoxville and the Tri Cities. What pisses me off is the tower near my job that has Band 26 turned off. I either have to drop to 3G or use wifi if my phone doesn't drop to Band 25. This tower is in between 2 towers broadcasting Band 41. Has anyone noticed that Band 41 is not broadcasting in Athens, Tn lately?

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • 2 weeks later...
red_dog007 Member Level: eHRPD

red_dog007

Posted
Posted

There's a lot of B26 in the Chattanooga area now. You should be able to get it on your N5.

Yeah, the market is a lot better with B26 and some B41. Seems like on my side of town B41 deployments stopped. However I have seen crews working on Sprint racks installing new mounts for the new 8T8R antennas.

 

What stinks though is it seems to be backhaul limited now. B41 always pegs out at 40Mbps. Then my local tower I used to get ~30Mbps before B26 all day every day. Now after B26, either band pegs out at ~15Mbps.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
S4GRU Member Level: LTE Advanced

S4GRU

Posted
Posted

 

 

What stinks though is it seems to be backhaul limited now. B41 always pegs out at 40Mbps. Then my local tower I used to get ~30Mbps before B26 all day every day. Now after B26, either band pegs out at ~15Mbps.

I recently discussed this in another thread. The same explanation is relevant in this experience as well: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6782-backhaul-for-8t8r-band-41/?p=416094

 

The same amount of backhaul is being spread around more carriers. It will improve when the backhaul at the site gets upgraded.

 

Using Moto X² on Tapatalk

Link to comment
Share on other sites
NanoVirus Member Level: 1x Advanced

NanoVirus

Posted
Posted

Was in rural Western North Carolina. My phone said it was roaming, but I noticed that the tower location said Sprint with a North Carolina address.I wonder if Sprint is adding towers there.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
ddaniels3968 Member Level: 3G EVDO

ddaniels3968

Posted
Posted

I've noticed Band 41 pretty much all over Knoxville and the Tri Cities. What pisses me off is the tower near my job that has Band 26 turned off. I either have to drop to 3G or use wifi if my phone doesn't drop to Band 25. This tower is in between 2 towers broadcasting Band 41. Has anyone noticed that Band 41 is not broadcasting in Athens, Tn lately?

I live near Athens and work in Athens every day but since the deployment of band 26 I rarely connect to band 41 so it's hard to tell if band 41 is working or not. I did connect to it outside one morning this week just west of I75. There is only one tower in Athens with band 41 active and the tower in Riceville has band 41, as well as the one in Niota
Link to comment
Share on other sites
JossMan Member Level: 4G WiMax

JossMan

Posted
Posted

The Sprint tower on the South end of Athens is still 3G only if you can imagine that. It has band 41 panels on it but no LTE of any kind has ever worked on that tower

Wow, that site is ready for 800/1900/2600MHz LTE and no new high-speed backhaul has been brought to that site?  I have never heard of NSN installing B41 gear on a site that currently does not have LTE.  

Link to comment
Share on other sites
ddaniels3968 Member Level: 3G EVDO

ddaniels3968

Posted
Posted

I posted pictures of the tower with its new panels last Fall. It's an odd site. It was 4G accepted at one point but was later pulled from acceptance. Not sure what the issue is. There is backhaul to every other tower in the area so I know availability is not the problem.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
JossMan Member Level: 4G WiMax

JossMan

Posted
Posted

[attachment=12957:Screenshot_2015-05-02-19-57-09.png

Band 41 in Athens Tennessee

You should post your screenshot along with the coordinates, site ID, and market in the premier section for LTE 800/2500 so lilotimz and Mr. Nuke can get it added to the map. 

 

Just make sure you get a screenshot of the signal strength at -90dBm or better for LTE 2500, and -85dBm LTE 800. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • large.unreadcontent.png.6ef00db54e758d06

  • gallery_1_23_9202.png

  • Posts

    • topdownat4
      Keep a Word, Drop a Word #7

      By topdownat4 · Posted

      Fury Gran Coupe (My First Car - What a Boat...)
    • dkyeager
      Dish Network/Boost Mobile cell/5G buildout thread

      By dkyeager · Posted

      Definite usage quirks in hunting down these sites with a rainbow sim in a s24 ultra. Fell into a hole yesterday so sent off to T-Mobile purgatory. Try my various techniques. No Dish. Get within binocular range of former Sprint colocation and can see Dish equipment. Try to manually set network and everybody but no Dish is listed.  Airplane mode, restart, turn on and off sim, still no Dish. Pull upto 200ft from site straight on with antenna.  Still no Dish. Get to manual network hunting again on phone, power off phone for two minutes. Finally see Dish in manual network selection and choose it. Great signal as expected. I still think the 15 minute rule might work but lack patience. (With Sprint years ago, while roaming on AT&T, the phone would check for Sprint about every fifteen minutes. So at highway speed you could get to about the third Sprint site before roaming would end). Using both cellmapper and signalcheck.net maps to hunt down these sites. Cellmapper response is almost immediate these days (was taking weeks many months ago).  Their idea of where a site can be is often many miles apart. Of course not the same dataset. Also different ideas as how to label a site, but sector details can match with enough data (mimo makes this hard with its many sectors). Dish was using county spacing in a flat suburban area, but is now denser in a hilly richer suburban area.  Likely density of customers makes no difference as a poorer urban area with likely more Dish customers still has country spacing of sites.
    • dkyeager
      SignalCheck Beta Crew Forum

      By dkyeager · Posted

      Mike if you need more Dish data, I have been hunting down sites in western Columbus.  So far just n70 and n71 reporting although I CA all three.
    • S4GRU
      Keep a Word, Drop a Word #7

      By S4GRU · Posted

      Nissan Coupe
    • Paynefanbro
      Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

      By Paynefanbro · Posted

      Good catch! I meant 115932/119932. Edited my original post I've noticed the same thing lately and have just assumed that they're skipping it now because they're finally able to deploy mmWave small cells.

  • Recently Browsing

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...