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About a month ago, I stumbled upon a site that gave me a listing of all the planned 4G rollouts in the next ~6 months and gave a completion percentage. Does anyone know where I can find that? I would like to see how close Indy is to being complete.

 

lol. You're posting on that very site.

 

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/212-network-visionlte-deployment-running-list/

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Do you know what you're talking about? All LTE performance is signal strength dependent. Even AT&T's. You only get 50Mbps on AT&T when you are on top of a LTE site with no one else on it.

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I got readings around -65 at the tower at 106 and college this morning and added it to Sensorly. The range is still very weak at this site though.I couldn't keep the signal as I traveled east on 106th towards westfield blvd and then north to 111th and back west.

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I got readings around -65 at the tower at 106 and college this morning and added it to Sensorly. The range is still very weak at this site though.I couldn't keep the signal as I traveled east on 106th towards westfield blvd and then north to 111th and back west.

You know it's funny you say that. Some of the sites will have great range like 2-3 miles and some seems the range will barley make it 3/4 of a mile. Must be the way the tower is setup along with the panels I'm guessing.
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You know it's funny you say that. Some of the sites will have great range like 2-3 miles and some seems the range will barley make it 3/4 of a mile. Must be the way the tower is setup along with the panels I'm guessing.

It also seems that the first time I find one, the range is poor. When I come back 3-4 weeks later I get much greater range. So it may be just part of the process of bringing them online. Also the tower design/height and surrounding topography may also play a big role, as they vary quite a bit in that regard.

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It also seems that the first time I find one, the range is poor. When I come back 3-4 weeks later I get much greater range. So it may be just part of the process of bringing them online. Also the tower design/height and surrounding topography may also play a big role, as they vary quite a bit in that regard.

I mapped a little bit at the 38th and Binford site yesterday. Terrible range. I actually thought the tower wasn't online for the passed couple weeks but you can only get it if you are on Binford not the west side of it.
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What's this? This is me pulling up in front of my house tonight. The speed definitely didn't match what Sensorly is showing related to signal strength. All I know is it isn't coming from "my" tower across the street. I guess I will be spending part of my Thanksgiving mapping my neighborhood.

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newboyx Member Level: 4G WiMax

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Found the source of my faint LTE signal. Looks like 146th and River Rd. I laid down some new tracks on Allisonville and on River Rd.

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And a few speedtests while heading north on River Rd

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Hey all this is my first post on here. I bought the Galaxy S3 on black Friday and was able to connect to 4G at Sam’s Club in Mishawaka which was great! So I was expecting to be able to connect to 4G here in Indy as well. I live by Keystone At The Crossing and work downtown on Virginia Avenue. According to the Sensorly app I should have had a 4G connection driving through Carmel over the weekend and also on my way to work driving down 465 on the East side to 70W and then downtown however I have not had any 4G signal at all since leaving South Bend. Have others been able to connect to 4G in these areas over the last few days?

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Happy to see Anderson, Pendleton and way out east south of Markleville being lit up. I was shocked to see LTE when I bought my LG Optimus G this past week and had LTE at work in Daleville and Home southeast of Markleville.

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Hey all this is my first post on here. I bought the Galaxy S3 on black Friday and was able to connect to 4G at Sam’s Club in Mishawaka which was great! So I was expecting to be able to connect to 4G here in Indy as well. I live by Keystone At The Crossing and work downtown on Virginia Avenue. According to the Sensorly app I should have had a 4G connection driving through Carmel over the weekend and also on my way to work driving down 465 on the East side to 70W and then downtown however I have not had any 4G signal at all since leaving South Bend. Have others been able to connect to 4G in these areas over the last few days?

 

Try turning airplane mode on and off.

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Try turning airplane mode on and off.

 

I tried that last night at my apartment but wasn't able to get a signal.

 

I just took a walk around downtown for lunch. I started from work on Virginia and headed North up Virginia, once I got in front of the brazillian steakhouse I was able to get 4G and it remained constant all the way to Circle Center Mall. After eating lunch at the mall I headed up illinois but did not pick up a 4G signal unitl Georgia street. I had a constant signal all the way down Georgia up Pensylvania to south st. Sometime I on South St i lost hte 4g signal and it never picked up again by the time i got to work which is weird because South St has been mapped on sensorly.

 

 

Can anyone help me with Sensorly? Whenever i click to report i get a an error. "Error 405 (other 0 This endpoint only supports GET)"

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Sitting at my desk right now and just saw that I'm now connected to 4G! 3.4MB down and 1.7 Up <img src='http://s4gru.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

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At this point I can pretty much confirm the Sole tower in Wilkinson Indiana is Lit up with LTE. It is the only tower I connect to at home and I get LTE in just north of Shirley Indiana. I have been mapping like crazy on Sensorly in that area and will continue to do so. I will Map in and around the tower this evening

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At this point I can pretty much confirm the Sole tower in Wilkinson Indiana is Lit up with LTE. It is the only tower I connect to at home and I get LTE in just north of Shirley Indiana. I have been mapping like crazy on Sensorly in that area and will continue to do so. I will Map in and around the tower this evening

 

The Indianapolis area Sensorly LTE map is filling in nicely.

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At this point I can pretty much confirm the Sole tower in Wilkinson Indiana is Lit up with LTE. It is the only tower I connect to at home and I get LTE in just north of Shirley Indiana. I have been mapping like crazy on Sensorly in that area and will continue to do so. I will Map in and around the tower this evening

What kind of speed and signal strength are you getting? There is a site that has been confirmed about 3 - 3.5 miles from there for awhile
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Looks like a new site went live by Morse Reservoir

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They really are moving along in Hamilton county. I think you guys on the North side have the most by far. West side Hendricks is getting shafted
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What kind of speed and signal strength are you getting? There is a site that has been confirmed about 3 - 3.5 miles from there for awhile

 

Getting about 10 down and 6 up. I will do another speed test when I go map around that tower this evening to get a more accurate speed test. My house is pretty close to the far edge of coverage.

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It does not seem like the Wilkinson Tower is the one that is feeding LTE in my area, I drove by and was about 100yard away and still had some pretty poor signal. I still had LTE but barely. there must be another tower nearby that I dont know about and that is not listed on network.sprint.com. Anyone have any info so I can go scout out this phantom Tower?

 

Netmontior info

Operator 310 04135 (Sprint)

Carrier Sprint PCS

Type LTE

NID : 31 BID: 5009

Signal -92 (dBm)

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It does not seem like the Wilkinson Tower is the one that is feeding LTE in my area, I drove by and was about 100yard away and still had some pretty poor signal. I still had LTE but barely. there must be another tower nearby that I dont know about and that is not listed on network.sprint.com. Anyone have any info so I can go scout out this phantom Tower?

 

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Operator 310 04135 (Sprint)

Carrier Sprint PCS

Type LTE

NID : 31 BID: 5009

Signal -92 (dBm)

 

As a sponsor, you have access to the exclusive master maps at S4GRU that essentially show all Sprint towers, because they all will be upgraded sooner or later. Look at the interactive Indianapolis map to see what Sprint towers are nearby that might be live. You also have access to the NV Sites Complete maps that show which Network Vision sites have been accepted by Sprint's project management. (These might or might not be live with LTE, but likely are.)

 

None of the IDs from Netmonitor have anything to do with LTE. These are 1x CDMA IDs. Correlating these CDMA IDs to physical towers is possible, but it takes some trial-and-error field work. But that still won't show you where the LTE signal is coming from, because the LTE signal might originate at a different site than the CDMA signal does. Also, the signal strength shown in Netmonitor is the CDMA 1x signal, not the LTE signal strength. This thread shows how to find your LTE signal strength. Then you have to do the field work at a tower you suspect have the LTE, by getting close to it and logging -- or failing to log -- a strong LTE signal. If you really are ambitious, you can survey around the tower to log the strength of each sector radio.

 

Another resource is the Sensorly site, that shows hospots where others have found strong LTE signals. You can run the Sensorly app yourself to contribute to that crowdsourced data.

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It does not seem like the Wilkinson Tower is the one that is feeding LTE in my area, I drove by and was about 100yard away and still had some pretty poor signal. I still had LTE but barely. there must be another tower nearby that I dont know about and that is not listed on network.sprint.com. Anyone have any info so I can go scout out this phantom Tower?

 

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Operator 310 04135 (Sprint)

Carrier Sprint PCS

Type LTE

NID : 31 BID: 5009

Signal -92 (dBm)

Sponser section my friend. Click on "Interactive Maps" then "NV Sites Complete"
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Sponser section my friend. Click on "Interactive Maps" then "NV Sites Complete"

 

Yes, I have been there, problem is, there is no way any of the towers listed on that map can reach me. there is a missing tower on that map that is feeding me my sweet sweet LTE. The closest tower to me on that map is over 10 miles away

 

The tower i listed above 5009, is only about 3.5 miles away from me. I was pretty sure that was the one but now not so much

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