Network Vision/LTE - Raleigh/Durham Market (includes Fayetteville)

[theDrizzle]

I have been getting 4G off old apex road in between Maynard and West chatam. I stay connected every time I go to my girls apartment. Speed tested around 25 mbps. I also connected to 4G at Los Tres at kildair and Maynard, but only for a few seconds then it went away.

 

What phone do you have? I only pulled 7mbps down on old apex. Also I drive by los tres magueyes on my way to work. Haven't connected there yet. Anyone know if the galaxy nexus for sprint lacks in 4g picking up ability? haha

[spotmeterf64]

Lots of work going on at the tower near the corner of Rosemary Drive and Hillsborough St (very close to NCSU's campus). Witnessed workers installing the "half-circle" antennas (the ones seen on the tower on Meredith's campus near Whole Foods) and lots of new equipment in the "sheds" inside the tower's fence about 1-1.5 weeks ago. 4G LTE is coming to this tower very soon, if not there already. On a 3G BlackBerry for the forseeable future so I cannot confirm if LTE is live.

Edited January 20, 2013 by spotmeterf64

[theDrizzle]

What is this "BlackBerry" of which you speak?

[Sgt. Slaughter]

Lots of work going on at the tower near the corner of Rosemary Drive and Hillsborough St (very close to NCSU's campus). Witnessed workers installing the "half-circle" antennas (the ones seen on the tower on Meredith's campus near Whole Foods) and lots of new equipment in the "sheds" inside the tower's fence about 1-1.5 weeks ago. 4G LTE is coming to this tower very soon, if not there already. On a 3G BlackBerry for the forseeable future so I cannot confirm if LTE is live.

 

"...half-circle antennas..." ????

 

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[centermedic]

Lots of work going on at the tower near the corner of Rosemary Drive and Hillsborough St (very close to NCSU's campus). Witnessed workers installing the "half-circle" antennas (the ones seen on the tower on Meredith's campus near Whole Foods) and lots of new equipment in the "sheds" inside the tower's fence about 1-1.5 weeks ago. 4G LTE is coming to this tower very soon, if not there already. On a 3G BlackBerry for the forseeable future so I cannot confirm if LTE is live.

Might be worth a short drive....hmmmm

[spotmeterf64]

What is this "BlackBerry" of which you speak?

 

A very primitive device with plastic buttons and no touch screen. It does have a microSD card slot, and can multitask in meaningful ways, so in some ways they are a more advanced breed than iPhone, LTE notwithstanding.

 

"...half-circle antennas..." ????

 

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There are photos either earlier in this thread or another thread where one of our members showed these antennas being deployed on the tower near Whole Foods and Wade Ave.

 

By the way, this tower is very tall. Why does it need to be so tall? Does it also carry FM or TV signals as well as Sprint (and possibly other carriers)? Most of the Sprint antennas I see are in the bottom 40% of the tower's height.

[Sgt. Slaughter]

I have never seen any sprint deployed half-circle antennas... All are usually rectangles in shape.

 

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[S4GRU]

I have never seen any sprint deployed half-circle antennas... All are usually rectangles in shape.

 

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Unless he is talking about how the front of the panel is curved. Looking from the bottom or the top I could see why someone may call the AlcaLu NV panels as half circles.

 

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[spotmeterf64]

Yes, I mean the front panel is curved. I should have been more specific. They were laying on the ground when I drove by, not yet added to the tower.

[icculus]

New tower at Poole Rd/New Hope Rd as of 1/19

[nova46]

What phone do you have? I only pulled 7mbps down on old apex. Also I drive by los tres magueyes on my way to work. Haven't connected there yet. Anyone know if the galaxy nexus for sprint lacks in 4g picking up ability? haha

An Optimus G, consistent 20+ mbps download, 7-8 mbps upload.

 

Also, I tested NV 3G in apex off Salem St and hunter street in apex, got 1800 kbps down which is the fastest I've ever seen on Sprint 3G.

[icculus]

New LTE towers:

 

Durham (Farrington Rd & Ridgefield Dr) as of 1/22

 

Raleigh (Woodard Ln & Yates Mill Pond Rd) as of 1/19

[centermedic]

New LTE towers:

 

Durham (Farrington Rd & Ridgefield Dr) as of 1/22

 

Raleigh (Woodard Ln & Yates Mill Pond Rd) as of 1/19

It would be great if you could run sensorly.

[icculus]

2 more LTE towers as of 1/24:

 

Durham (just northeast of Sport Durst Hyundai on 15-501)

 

Garner (70 / 401 split)

Edited January 24, 2013 by icculus

[Sgt. Slaughter]

2 more LTE towers as of 1/24:

 

Durham (just northeast of Sport Durst Hyundai on 15-501)

 

Garner (70 / 401 split)

 

Debating the 70/401 split tower... I live right next to the thing basically.....yet no improved service at all...

 

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[icculus]

It was live for a short time but offline right now. But it is definitely there.

[Sgt. Slaughter]

It was live for a short time but offline right now. But it is definitely there.

<br /><br />Sure are reporting a bunch of random wide spread towers in this area.....you working on them.....with what contractor

[icculus]

Sure are reporting a bunch of random wide spread towers in this area.....you working on them.....with what contractor

 

Just a little birdie on the inside

[Sgt. Slaughter]

 

Just a little birdie on the inside

 

Inside of a contractor doing the deployment I guess...

 

Well I have yet to see a crane out at the 401 tower less it did all the work in the past 5 days or so. I will definitely drive by tomorrow...

 

I will note that while my speed on 3G is still horrid off it, the pings have reduced a lot...in the 300 range even. Yet only 0.07Mbps

 

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[icculus]

Inside of a contractor doing the deployment I guess...

 

No, but 100% good source.

[Sgt. Slaughter]

Went out to 401 tower today and there are 2 new cabinets installed but I didn't see the RRU stack up at the antennas... Tough to tell actually on that tower with the number of providers on it and some others have 1 RRU up there at their antenna already...

 

No LTE though even with toggle...

 

Ill keep checkin though

 

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[icculus]

got clarification this morning - the tower is actually on Wilmington St behind VIP formal wear.

 

Also, 2 more lte towers today:

 

Apex (holt rd)

 

Cary (carpenter upchurch rd/louis stephens rd)

[modplan]

got clarification this morning - the tower is actually on Wilmington St behind VIP formal wear.

 

Also, 2 more lte towers today:

 

Apex (holt rd)

 

Cary (carpenter upchurch rd/louis stephens rd)

 

2 towers every day or two, is this pace even possible??

 

Still waiting for something in the brier creek/RTP area, grrr. Brier creek has got to be the worst area in wake county in regards to having a near full signal but being unable to load google.com

[Keywon]

I saw a small blip lit up on new been ave on sensorly.

[S4GRU]

 

Debating the 70/401 split tower... I live right next to the thing basically.....yet no improved service at all...

 

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Which site is that? I've looked at the 70/401 split on the north side of Downtown Raleigh, and on the south side of Raleigh, and I don't see a site marked on our maps nor a blip on Sensorly. So I'm not certain what you're debating. Is this a member report I missed?

 

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