Network Vision/LTE - Miami/West Palm Market

[Dre007]

I tried mapping it on Sensorly, but it was acting screwy today for some reason

[Moropo]

Question: Whats the expected ping of LTE given good RSRP signal strength and decent speeds?

 

Im asking because I thought it was supposed to be sub-100ms but:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7f3zx6i9rny7yvv/Screenshot_2013-01-24-00-23-56.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0ql194eo6k8ibkx/Screenshot_2013-01-24-00-23-06.png

 

Is ping related to signal strength or are there other factors that could produce good signal (-93 RSRP) and decent speeds but 178ms? If pings under 100ms are not supposed to be the norm then ignore me...

 

Just wondering.

[S4GRU]

Question: Whats the expected ping of LTE given good RSRP signal strength and decent speeds?

 

Im asking because I thought it was supposed to be sub-100ms but:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7f3zx6i9rny7yvv/Screenshot_2013-01-24-00-23-56.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0ql194eo6k8ibkx/Screenshot_2013-01-24-00-23-06.png

 

Is ping related to signal strength or are there other factors that could produce good signal (-93 RSRP) and decent speeds but 178ms? If pings under 100ms are not supposed to be the norm then ignore me...

 

Just wondering.

 

Try more speed test servers. Sometimes the server you may normally use can get bogged down and it may contributing to the reduced pings. Sprint requires of its vendors a ping of 90ms or less for LTE.

 

Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

 

 

[Moropo]

Try more speed test servers. Sometimes the server you may normally use can get bogged down and it may contributing to the reduced pings. Sprint requires of its vendors a ping of 90ms or less for LTE.

 

Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

 

Thanks.

 

There's 4 speedtest servers in Miami. I tried it with the other 3 (Towerstream, Comcast, Lime) and I got ~45ms from all 3. The one giving the high ping 178ms was FPL FiberNet.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ww7j1yf3pzfd70i/Screenshot_2013-01-24-01-44-23-1.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/w184ky08gxe2qt2/Screenshot_2013-01-24-01-45-24-1.png

[Fifth313ment]

broffe18 I feel sorry for you bro. I live within like 6 towers and I'm hoping once they update the towers near me I won't need my buggy Airave anymore. Right now I get 100+dBm in my house without the Airave. I don't really need LTE in my house as I have a very fast home internet connection but just being able to make calls using the actual Sprint network would be great, lol.

 

I've been having some pretty bad issues this past two weeks on my EVO LTE. I sometimes have a great signal and when I check I'm on EVDO but the net won't work. Also this happened on LTE the other day where I had a great LTE signal but the speed was next to useless? Has anyone else been having issues on 3G or 4G in the South Florida area?

 

Robert any news on that article on phones and network signals? Perhaps just the data would be good until you could do the full article?

 

rjw thanks man! I'm going to try to find those sites you listed! Whoot!

 

5th

[Marcos7165]

I have seen LTE signal in the Hialeah Gardens Area, by Ockeechobee and Hialeah Gardens Blvd, but that is it. Any update for the great city of Hialeah? Seems to be the last place on earth that Sprint remembers. Zip codes 33012-14 etc? I thought that at least by West 49st by the Mall it would have 4G already since its a very highly populated area, but no.

[rd261]

Miami-Dade deployment has been very slow all over. Not just Hialeah. This week seems like another weak week according to sensorly. Gotta wait and pray they get back on their track.

[Jaggrey]

Yea using data on Sprint down here has really been an exercise in patience. There are random pockets that are decent but it seems in many areas I frequent it's almost unusable. I even noticed on my bill that I'm using less data than I used to.

[gman561]

I hope to pick up lte when I go to the animal hospital in boynton today.

[Moropo]

Even in the last update that 14 towers got added, judging from my memory of the locations of previous towers, the 14 towers must of been in broward/palm beach because I couldn't recognize any new one in the actual Miami area.

 

Hopefully it picks up soon. Today I experienced unusable 3G and can understand when people bitch on this site about it. Webpages not loading, and when they did, more than 2 minutes to load a simple mostly-text page. On the other hand, I have also experienced the fast speeds of LTE so that keeps giving me hope.

[Dkoellerwx]

Even in the last update that 14 towers got added, judging from my memory of the locations of previous towers, the 14 towers must of been in broward/palm beach because I couldn't recognize any new one in the actual Miami area.

 

Hopefully it picks up soon. Today I experienced unusable 3G and can understand when people bitch on this site about it. Webpages not loading, and when they did, more than 2 minutes to load a simple mostly-text page. On the other hand, I have also experienced the fast speeds of LTE so that keeps giving me hope.

 

That "14" also includes 3G updates, so some towers just switched colors. There were not 14 towers added to the area.

[gman561]

I wish erricson will pick it up but I know what they are doing takes time.

[broffe18]

So i live right between 2 towers and still cannot get LTE in my house! I dont get it? If i go outside, I'll get 4G to come on but the speeds are kinda weak (maybe 4 mbps down). I was waiting for these 2 towers to come live and now that they are, this is really dissapointing. Is there still hope for me? Or is my neighborhood in a "dead zone". Theres one more tower a mile or so north of my house so i'll wait til that one goes live...

[mm2kay]

So i live right between 2 towers and still cannot get LTE in my house! I dont get it? If i go outside, I'll get 4G to come on but the speeds are kinda weak (maybe 4 mbps down). I was waiting for these 2 towers to come live and now that they are, this is really dissapointing. Is there still hope for me? Or is my neighborhood in a "dead zone". Theres one more tower a mile or so north of my house so i'll wait til that one goes live...

 

I don't know the big deal about having LTE inside the home. Unless you're going to abuse LTE using tether and wifi your pc with your cellphone. I prefer to have LTE at work, or outside somewhere. LTE will eventually blanket and penetrate everything when they finally have 800mhz lte

[broffe18]

I don't know the big deal about having LTE inside the home. Unless you're going to abuse LTE using tether and wifi your pc with your cellphone. I prefer to have LTE at work, or outside somewhere. LTE will eventually blanket and penetrate everything when they finally have 800mhz lte

 

its not about lte in the house.. its about building penetration. if i cant get lte where i live in a small house/building sandwiched between 2 lte towers, how am i gonna get lte at a mall, arena/stadium, where i work in a large building in downtown ft lauderdale. its definitely concerning.

[rjw]

its not about lte in the house.. its about building penetration. if i cant get lte where i live in a small house/building sandwiched between 2 lte towers, how am i gonna get lte at a mall, arena/stadium, where i work in a large building in downtown ft lauderdale. its definitely concerning.

Those would be different locations and tower spacing may slightly differ at those locations. You can't use your home as an example for how the entire NV deployment will turn out. Plus if you're getting a decent 3G signal now you will likely get a decent 4G signal in your home once NV is completed. Patience is the key, a 4G tower was recently activated nearby two of my homes and initiallyI was unable to get the signal and both homes, but recently I can pick a 4G signal from that same tower at one of the houses. This tells me that Sprint is still adjusting and working on the towers as they add more coverage.

[Hugo]

I don't know the big deal about having LTE inside the home. Unless you're going to abuse LTE using tether and wifi your pc with your cellphone . . .

 

. . . or a lot of your work is online from home, your connection is not 100% reliable, and LTE is kept as a backup internet provider (as per Sprint guidelines).

[gman561]

As of late I have been getting crazy fast 3g speeds I got a speed of 2.43 mnps down. Im not sure whatz going on in boca but I have done 20 tests an got pings under 90 an speeds that are not usual. Here are some pics.

 

http://db.tt/jFl24G8m

http://db.tt/ZuOOQKN9

http://db.tt/Nnv9pepn

[flycuban]

Maybe the city of Hialeah is taking their time approving permits..

[flycuban]

its not about lte in the house.. its about building penetration. if i cant get lte where i live in a small house/building sandwiched between 2 lte towers, how am i gonna get lte at a mall, arena/stadium, where i work in a large building in downtown ft lauderdale. its definitely concerning.

 

NV isn't even 50% done. As Robert mentioned before, as more NV sites go on air, and are adjusted for spacing coverage will increase and get better.

[gman561]

The other day I went to boynton beach to take my cat to a animal hospital an I picked 4g by this tower but I also noticed this extremely small pole with panels on it right next to the big tower. I got a pic of it but what are these mini towers used for?

 

http://db.tt/060zcyLS

Thats the mini tower

 

http://db.tt/UNZqpURK

 

This is the tower I guess I was getting lte from. These two towers are on seacrest blvd an woolbright road boynton beach

[Moropo]

Anyone recognizes if any of the 8 towers added in yesterday's update are actually in Miami and not in Broward or Palm Beach?

[mm2kay]

They can be towers that got 3G added to the 4G.. So it's possible no new LTE towers.

[Moropo]

They can be towers that got 3G added to the 4G.. So it's possible no new LTE towers.

 

True, I always forget that.

 

But definitely there weren't 8 new yellow markers so there were new towers but maybe just a couple and they were in Broward / Palm Beach and easy to overlook.

[rd261]

Another weak week. Wonder what's going on with south Florida. Probably backhaul related since the weather down here couldn't be any better.