S4GRU Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Merged topics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxfieldd Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Merged topics Thanks. I have not been able to get it in my area and it just started connecting today. I known the tower is on the west side of Mopac, just south of Parmer. Very exciting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomerbubba Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 FYI for Sponsors, there is quite a lot of Austin news being reported in this thread over the past few days, with appropriate maps and details. Also, I just looked at Sensorly and see several tracks in North Austin filling in areas that were recently blank. In fact, I had driven those areas last week and found no LTE signal. So stuff is definitely progressing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanMan5000 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 My phone literally JUST picked up a 4G signal, North Austin . It's super fast as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxfieldd Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 My phone literally JUST picked up a 4G signal, North Austin . It's super fast as well. Are you able to make calls when your phone says you are connected to 4g? My phone so far will not. I remember seeing something about this on the forums - or on xda- but I can not find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansltx Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 I was able to make and receive calls while connected to 4G on my GSIII a week or two ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanMan5000 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Calling works for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxfieldd Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 It took a few hours but I was finally able to make a call while connected to 4g. I am not sure what the deal was, but it could have been a combination of toggling airplane mode and my customs Roms option for 4g only. All's well... I hope it stays this fast, it was worth the wait! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansltx Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 LTE-only won't allow you to make calls. Maybe that was your issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony_ansley Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 i35 and Parmer : starting to see LTE go up and down occasionally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zionzr2 Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 There are a lot of towers in Austin that have already been upgraded but may not yet be turned on. As of a few days ago. I could only confirm 3 that were live. Only one of which is in South Austin. (On South Lamar. Supposedly the one right behind Matt's El Rancho.) The range that the signal can be detected can be over 5 miles from a single tower. When Posting sightings it would help if you could get a screen shoot or share the results of the LTE debug menu mentioned in another thread here: This gives not only the LTE signal strength but also the Tower ID. All the Signal hits I have in SouthWest Austin have all been from Tower ID = 399. This might help in determining if additional towers that have been turned on verses a current tower available in an un-mapped area. Just Looking Forward to more consistent filled in 4g in Austin and wanting to help track the progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomerbubba Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 There are a lot of towers in Austin that have already been upgraded but may not yet be turned on. As of a few days ago. I could only confirm 3 that were live. Only one of which is in South Austin. (On South Lamar. Supposedly the one right behind Matt's El Rancho.) The range that the signal can be detected can be over 5 miles from a single tower. When Posting sightings it would help if you could get a screen shoot or share the results of the LTE debug menu mentioned in another thread here: This gives not only the LTE signal strength but also the Tower ID. All the Signal hits I have in SouthWest Austin have all been from Tower ID = 399. This might help in determining if additional towers that have been turned on verses a current tower available in an un-mapped area. Just Looking Forward to more consistent filled in 4g in Austin and wanting to help track the progress. What is Tower ID? Where are you reading that? Apparently you are referring to the Serving Cell value on my GS3's LTE Engineering screen. That ID seems to refer to a sector, not to a tower, which typically has three sectors. As far as tracking details in Austin goes, as a Sponsor you have access to this thread, where we recently have published many details of live LTE rolling out in Austin, along with the privileged S4GRU tower mapping data that we really can't discuss in this public forum. We have correlated several towers with multiple sectors to the exclusive S4GRU Sponsor maps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zionzr2 Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 What is Tower ID? Where are you reading that? Apparently you are referring to the Serving Cell value on my GS3's LTE Engineering screen. That ID seems to refer to a sector, not to a tower, which typically has three sectors. As far as tracking details in Austin goes, as a Sponsor you have access to this thread, where we recently have published many details of live LTE rolling out in Austin, along with the privileged S4GRU tower mapping data that we really can't discuss in this public forum. We have correlated several towers with multiple sectors to the exclusive S4GRU Sponsor maps. Thanks for the Correction. I was under the impression that Servicing Cell was some sort of Tower reference code. Thanks for the Link as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkang96 Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Hi I was wondering if anyone else here have been experiencing not being able to get onto the 3g network here. I have been getting spotty 4g LTE signal off of i35 and parmer. But as for my 3g signal, it goes back and forth from 3g to the circle. I don't know if this is due to the upgrades that are going on or if it's a system wide issue. right now, I can't really use my iphone 5 on 3g. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priyavadan Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I recently picked up a 4G LTE signal in the IBM complex off research blvd. I am still unsure on when LTE will be available in Austin metro... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock_Paper_Scissors_ Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 San Marcos is minutes away from one of the greatest BBQ towns in America: Lockhart, Texas. I'm getting weepy thinking about Black's BBQ where I had the best smoked beef ribs of my life. Texas BBQ and LTE, a match made in heaven. Blacks BBQ is the best. Ive been eating there off and on since the early 70's. My dad, even longer. My kids have eaten there and Im hoping my grandkids will too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossman Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I live in Lakeway and I picked up a LTE signal for the first time last night between 8:30 and 9pm. It went off around 9 and has yet to come back on Ross 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug526 Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 New member here. Was bored today and went around Austin looking for some LTE on the iPhone 5. Found a live tower off 183/McNeil (on Technology Blvd) which was transmitting LTE. Got around 23m/8m w/~55ms pings on Speedtest. I saw some crews upgrading a tower across the street from my apartment near Pleasant Valley and Riverside a couple weeks ago. So far no LTE signal from there, but I hope they light it up soon!! I'm excited... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomerbubba Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 New member here. Was bored today and went around Austin looking for some LTE on the iPhone 5. Found a live tower off 183/McNeil (on Technology Blvd) which was transmitting LTE. Got around 23m/8m w/~55ms pings on Speedtest. I saw some crews upgrading a tower across the street from my apartment near Pleasant Valley and Riverside a couple weeks ago. So far no LTE signal from there, but I hope they light it up soon!! I'm excited... Welcome to S4GRU. You might check out this thread over in the Sponsor forums, where we are collecting and documenting such detail about live towers in Austin in a shared spreadsheet. Your contributions there have already helped! (We knew about this tower, but we had not captured the full Cell Identity for this sector. I just harvested that detail from your post for the spreadsheet.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hook3m Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 I work at 183 and Oak Knoll and have seen 4G go up and down the past week. I'm assuming it is from the same tower Doug is reporting. I also got 4G at Taco Deli today at MOPAC and Duval. Speed was a little slower then what I get at work 9.5M but still fast. boomerbubba I tried to get into the sponsor forum you linked to but it is asking me for a forum password. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomerbubba Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 boomerbubba I tried to get into the sponsor forum you linked to but it is asking me for a forum password. You need to become an S4GRU sponsor to access that forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dag552 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I go to the University of Texas at Austin and picked up 11 mbps across the river! The pace is so slow though! Is it gonna stay at 3 towers a week? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Running speed test from my hotel at Congress street bridge on the 11th floor facing south, I only get 385ms ping, 1.15 down and it shows nothing going up. Anyone else having issues in Austin lately? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S4GRU Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Running speed test from my hotel at Congress street bridge on the 11th floor facing south' date=' I only get 385ms ping, 1.15 down and it shows nothing going up. Anyone else having issues in Austin lately?[/quote'] In that location you would have a pretty weak signal. What is your LTE RSRP from your Engineering screen in the debug menu? Robert via Samsung Note II using Forum Runner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordanlong20 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Running speed test from my hotel at Congress street bridge on the 11th floor facing south, I only get 385ms ping, 1.15 down and it shows nothing going up. Anyone else having issues in Austin lately? I live nearly equidistant from the tower and im pretty surprised you even had a signal, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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