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Psh, that is still excellent considering what is typical of Orlando's 3g. Getting closer to me :)

 

Yeah I posted to my FB a speed test with 8 down and 3 up and someone was like "you think that's fast?" Had to explain to them how that's like 20x or more the normal 3G speed. :lol:

 

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Yeah I posted to my FB a speed test with 8 down and 3 up and someone was like "you think that's fast?" Had to explain to them how that's like 20x or more the normal 3G speed. :lol:

 

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Well they are probably so close to their tower of course the speeds are fast. From what I read, sprint's multimodal towers will have muchhhhh better coverage because, well its an all in one tower. So I'd happily take a consistent 8 down 3 up until they start pumpin out more juice and getting the rest of towers up and going. Seen some sprint lte tests on youtube that soar over AT&T and Verizon, so I am not worried at all.
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I'm not worried about the speed for now. Its the only tower in the area and its getting taxed pretty hard. I expect faster speeds when more towers show up because it will relieve the pressure on that one tower. I must say though, that tower has some impressive range. It reaches all the way to forsyth.

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I had to look up where that is...just moved here a month ago... And that is pretty impressive, assuming we were both looking at the same tower. Thats the kind of range I want to have, so I don't have to compromise because of the location I am at, or the building I am in..

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Had a 4g signal for about half a minute at the intersection of 17-92 in Deland this morning. My buddy in Daytona also sent me a screen shot of his iPhone5 getting 4g near the speedway in Daytona.

 

I knew I hit LTE somewhere over there! Just couldn't drill it down to where exactly I got 1KB of usage.. Ill drive over there today to find and map if there is any..

 

Its most likely the tower @ fentress infront of the speedway.

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Just finished mapping the length of international from 95 to daytona state college, plus side streets.. Toggled airplane mode over 60 times to keep the fragile connection alive behind big buildings like the hospital and the Volusia Mall. I mapped around 900+ points of LTE.

 

Speedtest at the parking lot of bestbuy infront of the tower:

 

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/225u3gd5xv6aj5j/2013-05-08%2015.10.38.png

 

Pic of tower:

https://dl.dropboxus...%2015.10.12.jpg

 

Antennas and RRU's are visible just right around the treeline, Explains the really fragile coverage, even though I mapped a large area, it was still a pain chasing the signal. the tower at DSC would possibly give a boost to indoor coverage at the Volusia Mall and other parts of international. I got into the center of the food court before my S3 decided 3g over 4g, I walked to where the skylight is in the food court and it got 4g for 5 seconds and it spazzed out back to 3g.

 

Edit: Speedtest infront of daytona ale house near i95 right at the edge of signal: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u2xdpe2zaerrj2v/2013-05-08%2015.01.26.png

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I've been mapping stuff on sensorly and it recently hasn't been showing up.

Its been down until last night. Should be up to date by this weekend. Any mapped area will not be lost, its just a couple days behind.

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Its been down until last night. Should be up to date by this weekend. Any mapped area will not be lost, its just a couple days behind.

Thanks for passing along that info. I've mapped so much lol.

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I went over to the loop area and it seemed to have LTE all over but kept on showing and leaving the most consistent one I found was the cvs at the loop which is in hunters creek

 

This is the pic with the LTE in it:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/psisiczak4biyqg/2013-05-06%2021.49.51.png

 

This is the pic with the speed test ( I forgot to take the picture of it when I took the test so this I'd just the results):

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2a1l10y5ltrthcv/2013-05-06%2021.59.21.png

At 1:20 am I was driving west on the 417 just west of JYP. Looking south, my attention was drawn to a flag style cell tower that was lit up with flood lights and I observed a crane with basket against the pole. This cell tower is exactly like the new one that was just installed along I-4 near Par and Princeton. Unknown if this is a Sprint tower, but I do remember reading somewhere that some of Sprint's upgrades were occcuring overnight. Keeping my fingers crossed. It would be nice if somone could provide this towers id number. I believe the tower was located near Town Center Blvd and Hunter's Vista Blvd.

 

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At 1:20 am I was driving west on the 417 just west of JYP. Looking south, my attention was drawn to a flag style cell tower that was lit up with flood lights and I observed a crane with basket against the pole. This cell tower is exactly like the new one that was just installed along I-4 near Par and Princeton. Unknown if this is a Sprint tower, but I do remember reading somewhere that some of Sprint's upgrades were occcuring overnight. Keeping my fingers crossed. It would be nice if somone could provide this towers id number. I believe the tower was located near Town Center Blvd and Hunter's Vista Blvd.

 

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Yes. This tower is managed by WesTower and is right by the HuntersCreek maintance services building. Last I drove by it all I saw was AT&T decals.

 

This is supposed to be a colocated location as shown in the map of those which are supposed to be upgraded. I will not be around that area until next week.

 

But when I was there I saw 2 WesTower trucks. As the techs were inside the restricted area I was not able to approach them. If anyone else gets a chance to drive by maybe you can find out if they are doing NV work.

 

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There were WesTower trucks at the tower behind the Winter Park PD on Monday & Tuesday, but since they are behind the secure parking lot for the PD, I couldn't talk with them.

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There were WesTower trucks at the tower behind the Winter Park PD on Monday & Tuesday, but since they are behind the secure parking lot for the PD, I couldn't talk with them.

 

Now why do they have to be in areas WE CANT REACH.... like a PD building... or somewhere a dirt road my little Hyundai should not be on...

 

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There were WesTower trucks at the tower behind the Winter Park PD on Monday & Tuesday, but since they are behind the secure parking lot for the PD, I couldn't talk with them.

 

The parking lot should be available for access, thats where I parked at when I was taking photos of the tower. I'm good friends with a few of the watch captains and patrol sergeants at WPPD so I'll try and stop over there sometime this week.

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Interestingly, the White Road tower has kicked back to EVDO rev. A, but the speeds are actually good. I'd love to think it was NV work, but I have yet to see WesTower return.. uploadfromtaptalk1368107122116.jpg

 

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So the Network Deployment Running list says:

 

Orlando

...Sites Complete = 29%; Anticipated LTE Launch = Spring 2013 (Palm Bay/Port St. Lucie launched 4/18)

...Original Scheduled Completion = May 2013; Current Production Rate Completion = February 2015

 

2015? Please tell me this is a typo.

 

Link here:

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/212-network-visionlte-deployment-running-list

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So the Network Deployment Running list says:

 

Orlando

...Sites Complete = 29%; Anticipated LTE Launch = Spring 2013 (Palm Bay/Port St. Lucie launched 4/18)

...Original Scheduled Completion = May 2013; Current Production Rate Completion = February 2015

 

2015? Please tell me this is a typo.

 

Ouch! I hope Florida isn't this bass-ackwards.

 

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That 2015 date is just a result of the algorithm factoring the current rate of site completion and extrapolating that out over the remaining sites. Since work has slowed way down recently, it would make sense that the completion date would suddenly shoot way out into the future. Once work picks up again, you'll see that date change. It is in no way an actual forecast, it's simply there to give an idea of how quickly work is progressing over the last couple of weeks.

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