Network Vision/LTE - Minnesota Market

[Nateb.jennb@gmail.com]

Well in the local area of 694 and Rice street, sprint had a tower down so nothing worked for 3 days  PITA.   looking at sensorly the lte ends at 35e and 694 and starts again right after rice street.  Can someone confirm weather or not they have a upgraded a tower for the area and if there would be 4g lte at that intersection? Thanks guys.   Anyone in the area want to run a senorly attempt going up rice street from 694?   I have a HTC one but it doesnt seem to work anywhere in the metro haha

[mozamcrew]

Oh, ok. And I also found something a little interesting. I am in Park Rapids/Nevis for vacation, and as I was driving through town I decided to check sensorly for WiMAX. It showed nothing, but I turned on 4G anyways. Sure enough, there is WiMAX in Park Rapids! Thought it was  strange it wasn't on Sensorly. 

It's on the clearwire map, it's a protection site.

[aliensporebomb]

It's easy: you just have to look at the tower and see that there's NV equipment there in some form or another and then check your phone.  If the hardware is there and it's not LTE it's because they're either waiting on fiber or some similar other "we need to wait for X item".  It will come.

[aliensporebomb]

The site nearest my home location had cabinets delivered late last week.  Today we have men on the tower right now, guy wires everywhere.  Pictures forthcoming.

[monkeyw]

I called in the issues I was having in EP and Chanhassen.  They found a data issue on both cells, and a different site down in EP.  So hopefully next week things will improve in the area.

[aliensporebomb]

Shots from the site nearest me: 

 

Cabinets arrived late last week, this is day three of them being on-site.  Seems like it's one or two individuals involved in the installation - it appears that they're deinstalling some of the old Nextel gear to make way for the NV equipment.

 

So far on-site are cabinets, batteries and some antenna brackets.  No sign of NV antennas or RRUs but that will come I'm sure.

 

At this particular site the top rack is TMobile, the next rack down is Sprint.

 

If there are too many pictures I apologize but I figure those of you not in the paid sponsor section should see some of what shows up there to a certain extent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 3, 2013 by aliensporebomb

[njjdnt]

At this particular site the top rack is TMobile, the next rack down is Sprint.

Nice pics, 

Clearwire is on the bottom. 

[aliensporebomb]

Today we have more people there, a pickup truck, a sedan, a van - lots of people arriving.  I wonder if antenna and cabinet work is going to be done today?  Must be in a hurry, this is the second time on a site where I've seen work on a weekend.

[AA/FC]

Today we have more people there, a pickup truck, a sedan, a van - lots of people arriving.  I wonder if antenna and cabinet work is going to be done today?  Must be in a hurry, this is the second time on a site where I've seen work on a weekend.

 

What is the location of this site? I hope when this tower goes live it will give me 4G at my house.

[boomerb5]

Shots from the site nearest me: 

 

Cabinets arrived late last week, this is day three of them being on-site.  Seems like it's one or two individuals involved in the installation - it appears that they're deinstalling some of the old Nextel gear to make way for the NV equipment.

 

So far on-site are cabinets, batteries and some antenna brackets.  No sign of NV antennas or RRUs but that will come I'm sure.

 

At this particular site the top rack is TMobile, the next rack down is Sprint.

 

If there are too many pictures I apologize but I figure those of you not in the paid sponsor section should see some of what shows up there to a certain extent.

 

 

Is this off Terrace Drive in Roseville? It looks like those buildings, and I got the NV email recently (live about a mile south of there). And the guys at the store on Snelling are super slow activating phones today because of network maintenance.

[Mooeydj]

Is this off Terrace Drive in Roseville? It looks like those buildings, and I got the NV email recently (live about a mile south of there). And the guys at the store on Snelling are super slow activating phones today because of network maintenance.

 

I think it's in the south metro somewhere.

[aliensporebomb]

Is this off Terrace Drive in Roseville? It looks like those buildings, and I got the NV email recently (live about a mile south of there). And the guys at the store on Snelling are super slow activating phones today because of network maintenance.

 

94th Street and Penn Avenue South in Bloomington.

[aliensporebomb]

Before:

 

After (this afternoon):

 

 

The Pizza guy is here!

 

Antenna guys have to eat too!

 

 

Note they've dismantled most of the old antenna array:

 

 

Edited August 5, 2013 by aliensporebomb

[AA/FC]

94th Street and Penn Avenue South in Bloomington.

Nice! This tower should cover the area where my house is. Thanks for the pics and updates.

[aliensporebomb]

Almost 3 hours later - they're still there but finishing up for the day:
 

First sectors installed. in the northeast corner.  Also the northwest.  But is this new antenna sectors or is it the old ones pointing downwards being put back into place temporarily?

 

In the top picture you can see two crew members standing on the top array and someone standing below on the clearwire array.

 

 

You can see how big the antenna segments are - look to the left - it's as wide as the workman's arm span:

 

 

Placing the segments into place:

 

 

 

 

Night falls - better get down from the crow's nest guys!

 

Edited August 6, 2013 by aliensporebomb

[blakebaa]

Willmar tower, NV in place, out by foot lake.

[aliensporebomb]

My server with the pictures is offline until 11 tonight sometime according to the power company.

[jrccomputer]

Any updates about elk river or st. Cloud??

 

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Edited August 7, 2013 by jrccomputer

[njjdnt]

Any updates about elk river or st. Cloud?? Sent from my SPH-L300 using Tapatalk 4

Both of those cities have LTE live.

 

St Cloud is on Sprint.com 's coverage map for LTE.

[jrccomputer]

Both of those cities have LTE live

Awesome. Do we know if and when Zimmerman might get LTE ??

 

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[njjdnt]

Awesome. Do we know if and when Zimmerman might get LTE ??

 

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Sensorly.com shows LTE in Zimmerman.

[jrccomputer]

Sensorly.com shows LTE in Zimmerman.

Well there is not any. Trust me I live in Zimmerman.

 

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[supert0nes]

Well there is not any. Trust me I live in Zimmerman.

 

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If i had to guess, I would say Zimmerman is waiting on backhaul.  They seem close on 4g, but it's been in that state for over a month I believe.

[jrccomputer]

If i had to guess, I would say Zimmerman is waiting on backhaul. They seem close on 4g, but it's been in that state for over a month I believe.

I hope it comes soon. I can't wait. I use my smartphone as my main internet device.

 

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[supert0nes]

I hope it comes soon. I can't wait. I use my smartphone as my main internet device.

 

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I did that for 3 days till my Comcast modem arrived.  Awful.  Never again.  And I had Sprint LTE, which is quite fast.