Shentel / Sprint LTE - (was ntelos - West & N&W Virginia)

[KD8JBF]

Funny thought....Random...lol... but we shall now call this thread.... The "ShenTelos" thread......heh...

[RAvirani]

I wonder what kind of errors sprint will see by using 310120, I wonder if they use GCI's on the back end to identify towers and if they will start to send some of that data out to New Jersey to the wrong site. Hopefully they have static IP or use the site name to identify what site gets what data sent to it.

 

On a side note I ran through nTelos yesterday I did not connect to lte. But I had my phone set to "lte only" and I saw something strange south of Morgantown WV I saw a 10 by the BW. So maybe 10x10 in Morgantown when lte comes on for sprint users.  

 

That's bang in the middle of the PCS D block and B block...which exact spectrum holdings did nTelos have?

[lilotimz]

That's bang in the middle of the PCS D block and B block...which exact spectrum holdings did nTelos have?

Look at the plmnid. 310-410 is Att.

 

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[Flompholph]

Sorry saw 310470 all day similar to what I saw awhile ago. https://www.dropbox.com/s/aj2gdkrqc0o8lf0/2015-05-21%2015.46.37.jpg?dl=0

 

Now I am not sure how far 310470 is spread if my phone could show AT&T PLMN in lte only.

[RAvirani]

Look at the plmnid. 310-410 is Att.

 

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Whoops I misread that I thought it said 310-470.

[dkyeager]

No significant change noticed by our market members passing through.

[pablumatic]

Got a very weak LTE signal out in the parking lot of my work office up in the Northgate business park in Charleston, WV. Indoors nothing, but that is the same for all cell signals up here at Northgate.

 

Speed test showed about 300KB a sec.

[S4GRU]

Got a very weak LTE signal out in the parking lot of my work office up in the Northgate business park in Charleston, WV. Indoors nothing, but that is the same for all cell signals up here at Northgate.

 

Speed test showed about 300KB a sec.

Now that's promising. So far away from a native Sprint signal, that must be something good in the works. If you can next time when you connect, please take a screen shot of SignalCheck Pro and post here. Thanks.

 

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[pablumatic]

Here you go. 

 

Edited September 11, 2015 by pablumatic

[RAvirani]

Here you go.

 

Screenshot_2015-09-11-13-29-09.png

312-190 is one of sprints like unused mcc-mncs right?

[dkyeager]

312-190 is one of sprints like unused mcc-mncs right?

 Yes, it is assigned to Sprint: http://www.imsiadmin.com/ByHNIns.cfm

[JohnnyP]

I just got this at the Sheetz at exit 94 of I64 near Fishersville. It started out and said nTelos as the provider then it changed to Sprint.

 

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[JohnnyP]

To me the weird thing is that this time and the last time I got this random Sprint signal is that when I run a speed test I get slow speeds. This time I got 1.3 by 4.1. However I was able to watch 2 Youtube videos in 1440p with no buffering and started almost instantly.

 

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[Galaxyguy]

Try a different speed test app or a different server and see if it changes.

 

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[S4GRU]

Try a different speed test app or a different server and see if it changes.

 

Sent from my Note 4.

 

Exactly.  Sounds like the speed tests being run were not accurate.

[davidtm]

So, this was unusual today - SCP showing connection to nTelos tower WITH location. I've never seen that before. Gotta wonder if something's happening . . .

(More wondering)

(Thought I took a screenshot, apparently did not)

EDIT: Here ya go - shows up on notification, but not the full screen:  (2nd EDIT - I found the setting in SCP that allows BSL address when a Note is present.  Duhhh!!!  OK, move along, nothing to see here . . .))





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[JDP121]

I have the same thing showing up as well up in Greene County. Never noticed it till I happen to see yours and checked mine. Always had the BSL on to see where the towers where btw. 

[Jeremy]

An employee called my sprint phone from her Ntelos phone at 8:30pm and we both had HD calling. I had spoke to her 2 hours earlier and we didn't so I guess they just turned that on in the Martinsville/Collinsville area tonight. The BSL address started showing on the towers here recently to.

[anthonyrinaldi]

I can verify there's LTE in Staunton!

 

 

Here's a comparison: LTE in Richmond

 

Normal nTelos

 

[bbostwick8]

I can verify there's LTE in Staunton!

 

 

Here's a comparison: LTE in Richmond

 

Normal nTelos

Getting good speeds off of it?

 

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[anthonyrinaldi]

Getting good speeds off of it?

 

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It seemed like it at the time. I had stopped to grab lunch on the way to richmond and noticed it.

[JohnnyP]

I got back to Waynesboro again and ran a speed test this time I got 14 x 6. Thats more in line with what I had hoped to see the other times.

 

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[mrancier]

Anybody in the Roanoke area stuck at 1x ? 75% for the past week my phone is on 1x.

 

 

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[JohnnyP]

Nope. I haven't had any issues.

 

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[davidtm]

Yeah, nothing in C'ville, either

 

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