Chicago and Boston LTE discoverable on Sept 21

[ffstosh]

 

How do you post images here?

 

The imagine has to be hosted third party on something like imageshack or photobucket

[Billydakid91]

How do you know which towers have been upgraded to support LTE.

[gr8nuguy]

How do you know which towers have been upgraded to support LTE.

Look at the "close up pictures of panels and RRUs" thread, and if you see similar stuff on a tower near you, it may be upgraded already . Or the EASY way is to become a sponsor and look at the completed sites map

 

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1195-information-about-s4gru-sponsorship-levels-and-how-to-become-a-sponsor/

[abepilot]

Chicagoland update. The 4G LTE bubble on coverage.sprint.com is very accurate. I drove on Lake-Cook Rd and then NW on 12. to Lake Barrington. 4G signal is solid and consistent. When leaving this "bubble" only 3G is available. So this coverage map is very accurate. In fact, the small area on highway 14 in Palatine worked and then went to 3G after leaving this area.

 

 

How do you post images here?

 

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Edited September 25, 2012 by abepilot

[dhunt4949]

Chicagoland update. The 4G LTE bubble on coverage.sprint.com is very accurate. I drove on Lake-Cook Rd and then NW on 12. to Lake Barrington. 4G signal is solid and consistent. When leaving this "bubble" only 3G is available. So this coverage map is very accurate. In fact, the small area on highway 14 in Palatine worked and then went to 3G after leaving this area.

 

 

How do you post images here?

Edited September 25, 2012 by dhunt4949

[dhunt4949]

To add images just upload screenshots

[mc_gusto]

I was in Batavia, IL yesterday for a 5k and there was plenty of LTE. My fastest speedtest was achieved at the Costco parking lot in St. Charles.

 

 

 

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Did you map out your 5k run with sensorly for all us coverage nerds?

 

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[Zman1369]

getting faster,, best speeds for me yet. In Sensorly, in area code 02760, all the purple is me.

 

EVO-LUTION 4G LTE

[BroadcastJunkie]

so when is skokie suppose to be lit up? the north side of the chicago? this just seems hopeless

[chrysokos]

Villa Park, Illinois. I have been picking up LTE for over an hour now.

[chrysokos]

Btw, I'm using a Motorola Photon Q.

[chrysokos]

Villa Park, Illinois...Motorola Photon Q

[lockportrver]

Just got LTE at 167th & I-355. Full 5 bars 16.3 mb down 18mb up. Thank you Sprint!

[S4GRU]

Just got LTE at 167th & I-355. Full 5 bars 16.3 mb down 18mb up. Thank you Sprint!

 

With a 16Mbps speed, you probably had less than full bars. Probably more like 4 out of 5. But your signal strength indicator never shows LTE signal strength even when the 4G icon is shown. We have written about it here: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/2040-bars-lie-for-lte-signal-strength-how-to-determine-your-actual-lte-signal-strength/

 

Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

[taubut]

With a 16Mbps speed, you probably had less than full bars. Probably more like 4 out of 5. But your signal strength indicator never shows LTE signal strength even when the 4G icon is shown. We have written about it here: http://s4gru.com/ind...ignal-strength/

 

Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

 

You can make your signal strength indicator show LTE by putting your phone into forced LTE only mode. Yeah, you wont be able to make calls or texts, but if you really want to see some bars this is a good way of doing it.

[nene1973]

Just woke up to 4G Lte on my Gs3..Chicago Norwood Park Area

[irev210]

You can make your signal strength indicator show LTE by putting your phone into forced LTE only mode. Yeah, you wont be able to make calls or texts, but if you really want to see some bars this is a good way of doing it.

 

I've done that on my EVO 4G LTE and it just displayed no bars, period.

[taubut]

I've done that on my EVO 4G LTE and it just displayed no bars, period.

 

Thats odd, my GS3 actually shows bars with it turned on.

[boomerbubba]

I've done that on my EVO 4G LTE and it just displayed no bars, period.

Thats odd, my GS3 actually shows bars with it turned on.

 

Nothing odd, really, because there is no standard whatsoever. Handset OEMs, carriers and even custom ROM developers are free to display whatever "bars" they want, based on whatever metrics and intervals they want.

 

Bars = BS.

[MassStash]

 

 

Nothing odd, really, because there is no standard whatsoever. Handset OEMs, carriers and even custom ROM developers are free to display whatever "bars" they want, based on whatever metrics and intervals they want.

 

Bars = BS.

yup always a nice feature of custom roms to have the bars tweaked to display ACTUALLY signal reception as opposed to carrier lies haha

 

~ TF101 on Revolver4.2.1

Currently OC'ed to 1.4, with Guevor's v22.6

[Billydakid91]

New Sprint slogan, "More bubbles, in more places."

 

Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

 

Make sure you get a copyrIght on that

[gusherb]

Hi! first post here! Got the iPhone 5 the 21st. Exchanged it last Wednesday for the SGS3 cuz the iPhone was having a terrible time staying connected to LTE and holding a signal all together. the S3 hangs onto LTE MUCH better then the iPhone did.

 

Here's some speeds I saw on the iPhone and then a shot of the S3.

 

First photo is right near a tower, second is in my bedroom and the third was taken while driving out of my neighborhood

 

Edited October 2, 2012 by gusherb

[dcalvillo506]

I've got full fledged 20+mbps down lte in Batavia and Geneva. Sadly I'm stuck on evdo at school in aurora. Flip the switch already! Lol

[delta772er]

I got this while on I90 near the airport in Gary, IN last Friday...

 

I'm not complaining.

 

[mazza31]

Picked up 4G LTE in Watertown,MA very fast 31.32DL 12.23UL Ping 34 Mbps