drlovety Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 I snapped a photo driving home last night (yes, it was sunny in Seattle) and figured this maybe a 4G buildout tower. This has been the second tower I've seen with a crane working over a tower. I believe Seattle is in the second phase of Sprint's deployment. I've attached a photo, how can I confirm? Go up and ask what they're working on? Look at their cell boxes? Photo Link: http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/jj518/drlovety/SprintTower.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jefbal99 Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Where is that tower located at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beejis Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Be interested to know this as well. I live up north in Everett so I'll be checking out the local towers in my area to see if there is anything similar going on up here as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drlovety Posted June 20, 2012 Author Share Posted June 20, 2012 The location is I5 at 196th in Lynnwood. A crew was also working on the tower near 145TH in N. Seattle across from Jefferson Golf Course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Newhart Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Good to hear something is going on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S4GRU Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 We will have a schedule update article soon for the West Washington market. Stay tuned. Robert 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RacerX Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Cannot wait for the update. Finally joined after lurking for ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oversight Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 We will have a schedule update article soon for the West Washington market. Stay tuned. Robert Looking foward to that update... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndroidBoy Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Hi Everyone, I have been monitoring this site for a while for updates about Network Vision. Yesterday I started noticing that I had a stronger 3G signal from my appartment in south Seattle and ran some speed tests to confirm. Up until this week, I was getting an average of 400-800Kbps downloads. Sprint must have pushed some magic 3G button because when I ran the tests earlier today, I was getting upwards of 2 megs =) -Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S4GRU Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Hi Everyone, I have been monitoring this site for a while for updates about Network Vision. Yesterday I started noticing that I had a stronger 3G signal from my appartment in south Seattle and ran some speed tests to confirm. Up until this week, I was getting an average of 400-800Kbps downloads. Sprint must have pushed some magic 3G button because when I ran the tests earlier today, I was getting upwards of 2 megs =) -Joe Upgrades that are being done as a part of network.sprint.com can have really fast speeds after completion if they have AAV backhaul. Congrats on the upgrades. Network Vision has not started in the Puget Sound area yet. We will have an update article soon with dates you can anticipate NV/LTE in the area. Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerxx Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 up until now, have you also been getting a lot of dropped calls....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndroidBoy Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Voice quality has been hit and miss. I have never had an issue with dropped calls however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerxx Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Yay for backhaul updates! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReyBanz Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Hi Everyone, I have been monitoring this site for a while for updates about Network Vision. Yesterday I started noticing that I had a stronger 3G signal from my appartment in south Seattle and ran some speed tests to confirm. Up until this week, I was getting an average of 400-800Kbps downloads. Sprint must have pushed some magic 3G button because when I ran the tests earlier today, I was getting upwards of 2 megs =) -Joe It might just be the EVO LTE because in my area I get speeds like that too but I'm the only one experiencing them. All of my friends with other phones still have terrible speeds while my pages are loading as if on WiFi. We've even run a speed test and my EVO gets higher speeds and lower latency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerxx Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 It might just be the EVO LTE because in my area I get speeds like that too but I'm the only one experiencing them. All of my friends with other phones still have terrible speeds while my pages are loading as if on WiFi. We've even run a speed test and my EVO gets higher speeds and lower latency. The speed of the phone helps a lot. Ive noticed that from going to the OG Epic to GSIII....but those speeds indicate a good backbone and minimal network saturation. Ive received 2.5mbp down and 1mbp up on a 3G tower in the country with a new backhaul and probably nobody connected to the tower. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Forum Runner 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlkiDweller Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 I have been monitoring this site for a while for updates about Network Vision. Yesterday I started noticing that I had a stronger 3G signal from my appartment in south Seattle and ran some speed tests to confirm. Up until this week, I was getting an average of 400-800Kbps downloads. Sprint must have pushed some magic 3G button because when I ran the tests earlier today, I was getting upwards of 2 megs =) Where in South Seattle? I work in South Park and I'm usually sitting at between 1 bar and nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndroidBoy Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Downtown through Rainier Ave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aalexander457 Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 I've noticed improved 3g speeds when I got my s3 I've been using an evo 4g it's nice to have a decent speed could that be because of the s3 radios. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paynefanbro Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 The speed of the phone helps a lot. Ive noticed that from going to the OG Epic to GSIII....but those speeds indicate a good backbone and minimal network saturation. Ive received 2.5mbp down and 1mbp up on a 3G tower in the country with a new backhaul and probably nobody connected to the tower. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Forum Runner According to Qualcomm, the maker of the Snapdragon chipset, the phones processor is also integrated with the way it receives the network. So if you have a newer phone, chances are your phone will connect to a tower better than with an older phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommy24 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Had some 1x around little darings to 3rd and bell and also around the mangled via duct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommy24 Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 Any word when the lte towers will go online, so far 3g is getting better. The best I got was 1.57mps down and up is .086 mps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 I've seen massive improvements in data speeds over the past few months here in University Place (west Tacoma), also... Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oversight Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Upgrades that are being done as a part of network.sprint.com can have really fast speeds after completion if they have AAV backhaul. Congrats on the upgrades. Network Vision has not started in the Puget Sound area yet. We will have an update article soon with dates you can anticipate NV/LTE in the area. Robert Good news. Looking forward to that update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommy24 Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Why isn't Seattle one of the cities in the new press release? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomerbubba Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Why isn't Seattle one of the cities in the new press release? Why would you expect it to be? S4GRU's projected schedule as of today still shows Seattle as a Second Round market with an Anticipated Launch in May 2013. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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