Network Vision/LTE - Northern & Southern Connecticut Markets (includes all cities)

[banananuts87]

Southern CT has yet to be launched. Consider yourself lucky to get the speed increase. 3G on the west end of Meriden is awful! 0.09mBps down....

[JimBob]

I did not measure, but 3G seemed improved in a backwoods area of Hamden compared to 3 years ago.

[The Root]

Some good news!

North Stamford and Stamford CT are getting a Network Vision tower very soon. It is being built and worked right now.

 

[Our regular 3G tower has gone completely Kaput here, it was NEVER properly fixed after Storm Sandy which took it down, apparently just a temporary fix. I had 5 bars before Sandy and only 2 after (of course I JUST got a new phone and blamed the phone). When it went completely out 2 weeks ago, I called and bitched, they opened a ticket, It was fully fixed for ONE WHOLE WEEK. And guess what 5 bars!! So I told customer service obviously it was never fully repaired after Sandy and it was NOT my phone not receiving the signal and I was not paying for 5 months of 1/5 the signal i should have had. After not backing down, I recieved a $75 credit to my account. Sprint REALLY needed to get a team out there again at some point during the 5 months and properly repair the tower. That was a big FAIL]

 

The service (3G) was down again completely (still is) as of Monday this week, about a week after the "fixed" it. I called again, got another ticket opened and they already had tickets opened due to others reports. This time the tech explained to me what they were doing and gave me the scheduled restoration times which is tonight at 11pm. Then she said, that does not include the Vision Network tower, that has a date further out. I didn't care when that date was so I didn't ask, I just wanted my signal back.

 

So I can absolutely say that they are workng right now on a tower that will serve the North Stamford area and probably others near it that serve other parts of Stamford.

 

I think they may be working on Vision sites up through Norwalk because another tech kept mentioning a ticket on a tower that served Stamford through Norwalk (there is no such 3G tower, I don't know if there is such a thing as a super Vision tower, but maybe it was one ticket for a series of towers). I will have to find out what the anticipated completion date is the next time I call Business Technical support.

 

I have no idea if these Vision sites will be deployed as 3G or 4GLTE.

 

That's great and all but doesn't this belong in the Southern CT thread?

[dstar2002]

So, for the sake of spurring discussion, anyone want to make a guess on when the first Northern CT LTE site will go up, and even more brazen, pick which one?

 

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[Kevster1321]

So, for the sake of spurring discussion, anyone want to make a guess on when the first Northern CT LTE site will go up, and even more brazen, pick which one?

 

Sent from my Galaxy S3

I'll say two weeks somewhere in Hartford

[dstar2002]

I am going to go with June 15 we start to see some, and my prediction is some sites near the casino, but not at the casino. That being said, I have no idea why Sprint calls southeast CT the Northern CT market, but meh, so it goes. I would love to see some LTE by July 1 in and around the Hartford area, most hopefully, north of it

[S4GRU]

OK, I'll say the week before Memorial Day, and I'll guess it's in the Hartford metro area.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

[JimBob]

I would like to see 4G LTE in Hartford, Bradley International Airport, and UConn area.

[dstar2002]

I work at Bradley in my primary job, and to date, havent seen or heard anything going on at the tower on top of the hotel. Trust me, I am watching like a hawk. There are 2, presumably GMO sites near BDL that are marked 3G complete, one is on top of the mountain next to Bradley. I actually wonder if that tower will get LTE, because getting backhaul up the mountain side might not be economical, though, that tower could easily cover half of Hartford County if they wanted it too, nothing is higher within a 15 mile radius.

[RayTrue04]

Not sure if this means anything but after 5 months of owning my Note 2 and Evo LTE this is the first time I see 4G data usage on my account from any of the two LTE decides. It's only 1kb but if it's showing on my Evo LTE's usage I'm assuming a tower must had been switched on for at least a quick min to pull that 1kb lol

[z250kid]

Okay past week i have noticed LTE live in newtown/sandyhook area! I mapped with sensorly how ever long that takes to show and also naugatuck is live also!!!! Avrage down load is 15-18 mbps!!! And up load is 5-8. I'm more than happy with these speeds! I can load an hd you tube video without buffering.

[thomashadden]

North side of Wallingford (from Meriden line to just past Walmart) live as of last night. 11down/3up.

Will try sensorly later today

[JimBob]

Excellent. Hope to have LTE when I visit my family in Southern CT this summer.

[dstar2002]

If anyone sees work in progress in North central ct can you shoot me a PM? I want to get some pictures of them working to try and build some emergency response scenarios for fire/ems training. So far, I haven't caught action in Windsor Locks, East Windsor or Enfield. But I have to imagine it's close, I saw a lot of stuff on the state database.

 

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[z250kid]

Sensorly isn't working I mapped it twice and its a no show! But its sure nice to see the 4g symbol on my s4

[Dkoellerwx]

Sensorly isn't working I mapped it twice and its a no show! But its sure nice to see the 4g symbol on my s4

 

Sensorly is undergoing upgrades. The data is stored and will be displayed when the servers begin processing again. Please see the Sensorly thread for me details.

 

Sent from my HTC ONE

 

 

[S4GRU]

Had a member report to me that the sites in Torrington that came online the other day are purring data nicely. Glad to see other areas in the state starting to go LTE beyond Meriden and New Haven.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

[z250kid]

Had a member report to me that the sites in Torrington that came online the other day are purring data nicely. Glad to see other areas in the state starting to go LTE beyond Meriden and New Haven.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

newtown ct and Naugatuck ct are live only one or two towers! But its a start!!

[shmget]

If anyone sees work in progress in North central ct can you shoot me a PM? I want to get some pictures of them working to try and build some emergency response scenarios for fire/ems training. So far, I haven't caught action in Windsor Locks, East Windsor or Enfield. But I have to imagine it's close, I saw a lot of stuff on the state database.

 

Sent from my Galaxy S3

 

Good to know. I go by the tower on Moody Rd in Enfield frequently, and also the towers along I-91. If I spot anything I'll post it here. I can't wait for things to get better, my wife keeps nagging me about switching to Verizon as her data speeds are very slow (so are mine). I guess a few towers in Hartford near where I work have been upgraded, but I'm not seeing more than about 600-700kbps download/upload speeds.

 

In looking at the siting database, I only see the tower in East Windsor and the one in Enfield at exit 46 so far slated for LTE. I guess its a start.

[dstar2002]

There are 4 towers in East Windsor, only 3 are on the sitting database, those 3 have the slate for the upgrade.

 

East Windsor 15 Chamberlain Rd 41-53-52.33 41.897869 72-33-7.28 -72.552022 Sprint Crop Production Services WT 104.00 122.80 138 replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas 4G/LTE upgrade 04/05/13

 

East Windsor 50 (160) Plantation Road 41-52-32.3 41.8756389 72-33-53.1 -72.56475 Sprint Dean Rasmussen wt 126.00 135.00 replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas 4G/LTE upgrade 02/07/13

 

East Windsor 236 South Main St 41-52-37.8 41.877167 72-36-38.8 -72.610778 Sprint Balch Bridge Street Corp. ssl 120.00 188.00 56 replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas 4G/LTE upgrade 04/16/13

 

Now the fourth, at 96 Prospect Hill Rd is not on the sitting database, at all. It simply isnt there. This tower has Sprint, Verizon and ATT on it, its the big water tower you can see from the highway. There is no way this tower wouldnt be getting the upgrade that I could envision. Why it isnt on the database at all, anyones guess. I dont think every single site out there is on this state database. Actually, I know they arent, because the one on top of the Sheraton Hotel at Bradley Airport isnt listed.

 

I typically drive around East Windsor looking once a week intentionally, then of course I live within eye sight of the 96 Prospect Hill Road Tower, and havent seen anything indicating start yet.

[z250kid]

they turned 4g of in newtown! It was on for a week why did they do that?

[banananuts87]

For the record, upgraded speeds for 3G in Meriden have been wildly inconsistent on the West end. Some mornings I Can stream ESPN. The rest of the time I'm lucky to get 0.09mbps down....

[S4GRU]

they turned 4g of in newtown! It was on for a week why did they do that?

 

Because they needed to for some reason. This is not uncommon in unlaunched markets.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

[S4GRU]

For the record, upgraded speeds for 3G in Meriden have been wildly inconsistent on the West end. Some mornings I Can stream ESPN. The rest of the time I'm lucky to get 0.09mbps down....

 

There is no way to stay connected to one site. Your devices can move around from site to site. You likely either sometimes get a site that hasn't been upgraded, of doesn't have upgraded backhaul yet. It will get better.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

[z250kid]

Because they needed to for some reason. This is not uncommon in unlaunched markets.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

I was at work showing I have 4g and went to show someone and was like just kidding after cycling airplane mode. Off one tower 4g went so far!!! What is sprints current 3g frequency?