Network Vision/LTE - Cincinnati Market

[bbow16]

This morning at work (Seward rd) I had 1 bar 4g LTE, i just returned from lunch and i now have 4 bars. All of the waiting is now starting to pay off! 

[swohiom4m]

Does anyone know what the DCI number is in the LTE section of SignalCheck Pro. I just noticed that changing from 08013C00 to 08017F02. Could that be a new determination of which LTE tower you are off of?

[UPdownLoAD]

Does anyone know what the DCI number is in the LTE section of SignalCheck Pro. I just noticed that changing from 08013C00 to 08017F02. Could that be a new determination of which LTE tower you are off of? 2014-04-28_13-55-25.jpg

Yes. That's how we track LTE in Columbus since there is no geocoding given off by LTE signals.

[kdupes]

Does anyone know what the DCI number is in the LTE section of SignalCheck Pro.

First 3 digits are market code, next three are site code, and last two are sector code. So the middle three are what you want to look at for to identify a tower.

 

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[ericwalton]

I went by few towers today.

 

The towers which I've seen that have 800 and LTE are: Bridgewater, Glenn Trace Ln, the tower near 747 and Princeton, and the tower on Pleasant avenue in Fairfield near John Gray.

 

The Factory Dr tower and the tower on seward near rt 4 are LTE now, but my phone wouldn't connect to 800 on either of them even though I'm on a prl with 800 priority. But both are doing LTE. So now you can get LTE end to end on bypass 4.

 

 

This was very close to the tower on seward.

 

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[Madcap]

This morning at work (Seward rd) I had 1 bar 4g LTE, i just returned from lunch and i now have 4 bars. All of the waiting is now starting to pay off!

 

Agree. After yrs of unusable service it's all looking up. 4 bars and consistent LTE since yesterday morning.

On another note I've been in Montgomery, Sharonville and West Chester today and the service is all over the place. Going in and out of LTE all day. Must be a lot of work going on.

[btrcp2000]

Thank you for the reminder of the light at the end of the tunnel. Forgot my hotspot today and twice had to leave the office to go stand next to panera so an email would go.

 

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[Jesito473]

Agree. After yrs of unusable service it's all looking up. 4 bars and consistent LTE since yesterday morning.

On another note I've been in Montgomery, Sharonville and West Chester today and the service is all over the place. Going in and out of LTE all day. Must be a lot of work going on.

All this goodness needs to spread south. Cincinnati is still crawling. On another note here off of Turfway in NKY I was able to maintain an lte signal for more than a minute, enough to barely squeeze in a speed test. Not much to brag about but its a start :-) it peaked at 11ish before it quicly faded.

 

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[Madcap]

On Walter Ave in Fairfield between Pleasant Ave and Route 4.

[jtf21]

This was in the West Chester hospital parking lot.

 

If only I could get this signal to my home. Even inside the hospital I was getting 12-15.

[jtf21]

Work currently in progress at the factory drive site.

Cabinet being lowered down by a crane.

 

Wonder what that means since the tower appears to already be live.

[ericwalton]

Well that tower is already doing LTE so it doesn't seem like it's probably Sprint... there are several carriers on that site.

 

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[UPdownLoAD]

They could be removing the old CABs.....

[jtf21]

They were definitely placing the cabinet into the site, I watched them lower it in and unhook it. I don't know what carrier it is for. And although my connection was strong the speed was not.

[swohiom4m]

Antennasearch shows only Sprint.

[jtf21]

An hour later they were gone... no idea why? Phase 2 possibly?

[swohiom4m]

Has the 800 equipment been installed yet?

[jtf21]

If it has it is not broadcasting.

[ericwalton]

While that cabinet does resemble a Samsung cabinet, that tower has been LTE active since probably saturday morning. For LTE to work, the new cabinets are required. There is no scenario whereby LTE works from the old ones, and as such the new one very likely has been installed for some time, near back when I reported that tower as being "in progress."

 

AFAIK, 800mhz doesn't use a second cabinet, it's all in one. I don't however know what happens when the old clearwire stuff is also on the same site as sprint, if that requires a new cabinet or not to upgrade the clearwire stuff.

 

But mostly, since there are like 5 or 6 carriers on that tower, who knows. But it doesn't seem like it's sprint and without more evidence I'm going to assume it's not. It's possibly for upgrading the clearwire site, but that picture is hardly going to tell us if that's the case.

[jtf21]

Does anyone in Fairfield have a tri band phone? Can anyone confirm band 41 on River around Sacred Heart church?

[Madcap]

My speeds continue to improve in Fairfield.

[jtf21]

My speeds continue to improve in Fairfield.

Very nice! What part of FF?

 

 

This was at the corner of Hicks and Holiday.

[Madcap]

Very nice! What part of FF?

This was at the corner of Hicks and Holiday.

Walter Ave and Slade.

[Jesito473]

Kinda jealous here.. but in a good way lol. Nice to see Sprint evolving :-)

 

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[ericwalton]

I've been feeling like once it's starts to move, it'll move fast. If you've been watching columbus on the sponsor maps, it seems like once acceptances start going, it's moves quite a bit.

 

I think that a lot of towers in our area are upgraded already, just waiting for acceptance. We don't really have anyone out getting proof of sites being upgraded for in progress status here in the Cincinnati market.