Report Shentel LTE Sightings Here

[S4GRU]

We have a core member from Waynesboro who spends a lot of time in Hagerstown. He has reported 30Mbps+ speeds in areas with strong signals. If you never get speeds above 8Mbps anywhere around H-town regardless of signal strength, then you may have a problem with your device.

 

Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

 

 

[Phil2577]

Yeah, I was thinking RSSI numbers...

 

If you want answers on why the speeds are slow off that tower, you'll need to call shentel or sprint for troubleshooting.

LMFAO!! I bet they will willingly share tech. info with an end user smh

[pyroscott]

LMFAO!! I bet they will willingly share tech. info with an end user smh

 

It will notify them that there is a problem. They might already know, but there is a chance they are oblivious of any problem.

 

Edit: or as Robert stated, it could uncover a problem with your phone.

[rwhittaker13]

I see that sensorly picked up LTE in Altoona, PA. Just found this out

[S4GRU]

I see that sensorly picked up LTE in Altoona, PA. Just found this out

 

It's been on the Sponsor maps and Sensorly for about three weeks now. Shentel is now working up in that portion of their coverage now too.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 on Tapatalk

 

 

[rwhittaker13]

 

 

It's been on the Sponsor maps and Sensorly for about three weeks now. Shentel is now working up in that portion of their coverage now too.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 on Tapatalk

Good. Glad to hear they are making more progress!

[chamb]

Chambersburg, PA LTE Report ---

Was at the new Longhorn Steakhouse Saturday evening to see how the food would be. New steakhouse, I had to test it out.

The food was superior.

Laid my Galaxy S3 on the table with the speaker off and it vibrated on an incoming e-mail.

When the screen lit up, I had CDMA 1X bars all over the place. I had a 4G indicator too. Yes, Chambersburg is covered with LTE.

The steakhouse is brand new, well built, probably a little tough to penetrate with a cell signal. Not real close to a cell site either.

But I had to keep asking for more napkins to clean up the LTE flowing out of the phone. LTE can be a mess when it gets into your basket of bread on the table.

When my wife was not watching, I ran a speed test. 8 meg download and 7.2 meg upload. It was steady too. How can you not sneak a speed test when you encounter something like this??

 

Check out Sensorly.com

Chambersburg city is well covered and the LTE is moving out into the rural areas too. It just keeps getting better. Multiple cell sites are converted to the new Network Vision product in Chambersburg with more improvements coming in the area.

[DCC233]

Chambersburg, PA LTE Report ---

Was at the new Longhorn Steakhouse Saturday evening to see how the food would be. New steakhouse, I had to test it out.

The food was superior.

Laid my Galaxy S3 on the table with the speaker off and it vibrated on an incoming e-mail.

When the screen lit up, I had CDMA 1X bars all over the place. I had a 4G indicator too. Yes, Chambersburg is covered with LTE.

The steakhouse is brand new, well built, probably a little tough to penetrate with a cell signal. Not real close to a cell site either.

But I had to keep asking for more napkins to clean up the LTE flowing out of the phone. LTE can be a mess when it gets into your basket of bread on the table.

When my wife was not watching, I ran a speed test. 8 meg download and 7.2 meg upload. It was steady too. How can you not sneak a speed test when you encounter something like this??

 

Check out Sensorly.com

Chambersburg city is well covered and the LTE is moving out into the rural areas too. It just keeps getting better. Multiple cell sites are converted to the new Network Vision product in Chambersburg with more improvements coming in the area.

 

Glad you are experiencing LTE for the first time. Chambersburg has been lit up with LTE for a few months now, and as you noted Shentel has been expanding into "more rural" markets in their service area with their NV updates. Have you picked up any new towers or areas that have not been mapped on Sensorly? If not it would be great if you mapped the new areas and reported the towers to Robert.

[chamb]

Glad you are experiencing LTE for the first time. Chambersburg has been lit up with LTE for a few months now, and as you noted Shentel has been expanding into "more rural" markets in their service area with their NV updates. Have you picked up any new towers or areas that have not been mapped on Sensorly? If not it would be great if you mapped the new areas and reported the towers to Robert.

DCC233 - Yes, I am quite heavily involved with cell site hunting and doing Sensorly mapping. I have done over 90% of the Sensorly mapping around Chambersburg myself. (Also some other towns, cities, Villages,etc) Robert knows me well.

Wish I had more time to do a better job.

 

And, Saturday evening at the steakhouse sure was not my first time with LTE but maybe I gave that impression. I have LTE almost everywhere thanks to the great Shentel work.

[S4GRU]

chamb is our go-to guy for South Central PA and H-Town. He has provided so much field reconnaissance for S4GRU.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 on Tapatalk

 

 

[ggalmin]

We have a core member from Waynesboro who spends a lot of time in Hagerstown. He has reported 30Mbps+ speeds in areas with strong signals. If you never get speeds above 8Mbps anywhere around H-town regardless of signal strength, then you may have a problem with your device.

 

Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

 

Exactly I ran a speedtest in H Town near the outlets driving by at 65 mph and pulled 22mbps download without breaking a sweat. Just need these people to get closer to Frederick and fill us in!!

[kg4icg]

 

Exactly I ran a speedtest in H Town near the outlets driving by at 65 mph and pulled 22mbps download without breaking a sweat. Just need these people to get closer to Frederick and fill us in!!

 

Frederick is part of the Sprint's DC market, not part of ShenTel's network.

 

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[Mustang46L]

Last night I did some mapping on I-83 S between Harrisburg and York, coming over Reeser's Summit I had LTE and held until I exited in North York, so it appears a tower near Etters is now online.

 

Again, I have to admit some shock that Etters, PA received LTE coverage before downtown York, PA.. especially because according to Sprint LTE is launched in York.

[chamb]

Last night I did some mapping on I-83 S between Harrisburg and York, coming over Reeser's Summit I had LTE and held until I exited in North York, so it appears a tower near Etters is now online.

 

Again, I have to admit some shock that Etters, PA received LTE coverage before downtown York, PA.. especially because according to Sprint LTE is launched in York.

 

 

LTE is "launched" in York, it just is not totally "complete". So many things can complicate an upgrade at a particular site. Delays happen for many reasons. I am positive that Shentel is well aware that central and southern York in particular still needs some upgrades. It will come. Etters may have been a site that was comparatively easy to upgrade, so why not do it if York sites are being difficult. Ahh, and thanks for your Sensorly work on I-83.

[S4GRU]

Also, in the Sponsor section members can see which Shentel sites are complete, and which ones are In Progress. There are several sites being worked on in the York area at the moment. I imagine they will be live soon,.

 

Robert

[bakedc4]

I FOUND SHENTEL!!!!! I also got passed by two Sprint trucks today.

 

The bad news is I still can't connect down in Front Royal and I've seen lifts sitting in front of a few completed sites around Winchester.

[tuminatr]

Ok I got 4g in Woodbury,MN on highway 94 and I would also like to report that it seems that sprint has compleated there 3g upgrade in western wisconsin. I was in La Crosse, Sparta, Thoma, Black River Falls, Marshfield, Wisconsin Rapids, Wausau, Reilander, Shawano, Merrel, Ashland, and a few more this week and speeds went from a pathetic 50-100k to 500k to 1400 and it looks like they are still working on the network upgrade but it is now faster than my verizon phone in Wisconsin

[leozno1]

Ok I got 4g in Woodbury,MN on highway 94 and I would also like to report that it seems that sprint has compleated there 3g upgrade in western wisconsin. I was in La Crosse, Sparta, Thoma, Black River Falls, Marshfield, Wisconsin Rapids, Wausau, Reilander, Shawano, Merrel, Ashland, and a few more this week and speeds went from a pathetic 50-100k to 500k to 1400 and it looks like they are still working on the network upgrade but it is now faster than my verizon phone in Wisconsin

 

Wrong thread but good news regardless.

[RCM]

 

DCC233 - Yes, I am quite heavily involved with cell site hunting and doing Sensorly mapping. I have done over 90% of the Sensorly mapping around Chambersburg myself. (Also some other towns, cities, Villages,etc) Robert knows me well.

Wish I had more time to do a better job.

 

And, Saturday evening at the steakhouse sure was not my first time with LTE but maybe I gave that impression. I have LTE almost everywhere thanks to the great Shentel work.

 

I was tooling around on Sensorly and noticed someone in that area went totally nuts with mapping. Excellent job! B-)

Thought I'd check here first hoping it might be a S4GU member so I could commend their work.

[chamb]

http://www.ydr.com/rss/ci_22410231?source=rss

 

Cranes in York mean Sprint phone network upgrades, possible interruptions

 

Sprint is replacing old equipment on the smokestack off Philadelphia Street in the city.

By TIM STONESIFER

Daily Record/Sunday News

Updated: 01/19/2013 06:09:12 PM EST

 

 

York, PA -

 

For better phone service around York, Steve Hagen said, you just need a couple of cranes, some safety belts, and few guys willing to set up shop in a basket suspended 160 feet over the city.

"It's not so bad," he said, angling his head back for a better view. Then, chuckling: "You just wouldn't want to fall."

The work along West Philadelphia Street -- at the former Met-Ed steam plant -- is part of a push by Sprint to upgrade its network, according to Tom Whitaker, vice president of operations for Virginia-based Shentel. Those upgrades include replacing old copper cable with fiber optics, he said.

"The signal is stronger, more powerful and will provide better coverage," said Whitaker.

Shentel is in the process of merging the Sprint and Nextel networks in much of the mid-Atlantic, Whitaker said, "smashing them together" at more than 500 locations to create one, stronger phone network. That work is about halfway complete, he said, and is taking place at both standard cell towers and other sites, like the smokestack in York, where antennas are placed. The upgrade will mean 3G service is replaced with 4G, he said.

"We're basically putting up brand new equipment," he said.

Dave Keech, a broker with Rock Real Estate, said the building and smokestack belong to York-based Space Leasing Inc. The former steam company building is about 28,000 square feet, he said, and houses several businesses. Crews are currently working to put in a CrossFit gym, expected soon, he said.

"They're moving in equipment now," he said.

Whitaker asked for patience, as crews work. There could be some minor network disruptions, he said.

"They're impossible to avoid," he said. "But when we're done, you'll have a much better performing network."

For Hagen and his crew, there are other rewards. He smiled at the group's workspace, suspended dizzyingly above.

"When you're up there like that... the view," he said, shaking his head. "It's pretty nice."

@timstonesifer; 771-2032

[leozno1]

That's great news! Thanks for the post.

[XAntonio917X]

I've notice that when I run speed test where it says network type it says cellular but doesn't say LTE. I have an iPhone 5 and I have LTE signal where Iive any thoughts?

[S4GRU]

I've notice that when I run speed test where it says network type it says cellular but doesn't say LTE. I have an iPhone 5 and I have LTE signal where Iive any thoughts?

iPhones say cellular no matter what technology it's connected to.

 

Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

 

 

[XAntonio917X]

iPhones say cellular no matter what technology it's connected to.

 

Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

oh ok thanks for clearing it up

[Smashed Ixnay]

I see ssome guys working in lakeland, FL, off of Old Combed Rd. They are putting towers in now, but I don't know for what company. I took some bad pics with my cell and sill upload them tomorrow. If I work at this jobsite tomorrow I will bring my camera to take pics.