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Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)


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Looks like there's a micro cell at VA Reno.

Most VA Centers have Sprint DAS systems. Good find. :tu:

 

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The gear for LTE 800 is already up there?

 

yes......it's been said from the very beginning that all that's needed is a carrier card and some minor modifications to the existing equipment... 

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Did I miss something or am I understanding something incorrectly?  I drove from Sacramento to Davis this morning and wasn't disconnected from my phone call.  Does that mean West Sac was cluster launched, or I was possibly connected to Davis towers from way out in the Natomas/West Sac area?

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Did I miss something or am I understanding something incorrectly? I drove from Sacramento to Davis this morning and wasn't disconnected from my phone call. Does that mean West Sac was cluster launched, or I was possibly connected to Davis towers from way out in the Natomas/West Sac area?

You only have a high chance of a dropped calls if both legacy and network vision sites are on the same channel.

 

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At this point I am willing to put up with dropped calls from not cluster launching. I don't usually talk on the phone while I'm driving around town. I wonder how many other people are in the same boat.

 

 

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You only have a high chance of a dropped calls if both legacy and network vision sites are on the same channel.

 

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By channels do you mean inside the frequency range?  is it Dynamic?  This is literally the first time I haven't lost data or a phone call crossing the causeway since Davis was cluster launched.

 

At this point I am willing to put up with dropped calls from not cluster launching. I don't usually talk on the phone while I'm driving around town. I wonder how many other people are in the same boat.

 

 

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The problem with this is if they just launched every one as it came up, you'd have dropped calls from sitting still a lot of the time, since your phone can randomly switch IDs at a moment's notice.

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By channels do you mean inside the frequency range?  is it Dynamic?  This is literally the first time I haven't lost data or a phone call crossing the causeway since Davis was cluster launched.

 

 

A channel is basically a specific sliver of spectrum that a EVDO or 1x carrier is situated on. You can have one evdo channel on one end of a PCS block and another on the other end of the PCS block. If you have a call or a data session on one of these channels and switch to another channel (diff frequency) then your call or data session will have a good chance of handing off. The issue is if you swap between the same two channels on the same frequencies. This is where the chance of a dropped call or data session is extreme.

 

This is more of an issue on lower capacity sites where only a handful of channels are deployed such as the two sites between davis and west sac. 

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Sweet! Lol can't get to the one at the woodcreek gold course.

 

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Go ahead and post it in the In Progress thread to take credit! 

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I was plesently surprised to pick up b41 at the kaiser by Arden today (had to force LTE on my n5,using the .13 radio) even with a weak signal I got a pretty good speed.

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