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BSID numbers shown in Field Test and Netmonitor do not come up in Sprint Databases. I need the Sprint Site ID# or Cascade ID. These are shown on our maps. Robert via NOVO7PALADIN Tablet using Forum Runner

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Maintenance? I have no idea. But I can tell you with virtual certainty that Network Vision is not under way in the Cleveland market. Robert via NOVO7PALADIN Tablet using Forum Runner

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The Hampshire cluster runs from Elgin to Marengo. They have been working on this cluster since February. There have been lots of issues. It's amazing this cluster still is not completely live. Robert via NOVO7PALADIN Tablet using Forum Runner

We do have a NYC Market update article planned soon. There have been a few sites already converted there. There are maps available in our S4GRU Sponsors section where you can zoom in and look at completed sites. You should consider becoming a sponsor. You get access to additional content and help support one of the best wireless sites ever created. Robert

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This is not accurate. This ACS post came out when Sprint said that all new devices being released from there forward will have LTE. So there must have been some wires crossed. Sprint has never said that they will support LTE on WiMax devices. And they can't make that claim. Because it is impossible. Sprint's existing WiMax devices run on TDD in 2500MHz only. Sprint's LTE will run on FDD in 1900MHz. It is impossible to get WiMax TD-2500 devices to run on Sprint's FDD-LTE 1900 network. It cannot be done. WiMax device holders are at the end of the line technology wise. While it may be possible to get a WiMax device converted to maybe run on Clearwire's LTE network in the future, Clearwire will not have their LTE network running until Summer 2013 (and then your device will be so obsolete, that it won't matter). As for the Sprint Rep you talked with, this is not the first time I have seen a misinformed rep say this. But I can tell you unequivocally that Sprint is not going to provide some magic OTA that will let WiMax devices run on the LTE network. That is the stuff of fairy tales. Robert

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Excellent info. Thanks for a little background. For people outside S4GRU, they must be really confused in Chicago. Because Chicago is not even an announced market by Sprint. Robert - Posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

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It would have to be in LA. There is active deployment going on Downtown, the 110 Corridor, Hollywood and San Fernando. There is no activity in the Riverside market yet. Robert - Posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

Wow...how did I miss this thread tonight??? Just to clarify, the GNex article stated that the first LTE devices will be shipped from OEM's with LTE turned off. It can be turned on by the customer with the toggle. Much like WiMax. It is not locked out. In June or July there will be OTA's that will introduce LTE self discoverability to devices. This setting will allow your device to intermittently turn on LTE itself and look for LTE and then turn itself off if it can't find it, thus saving your battery over just staying in LTE mode. Robert - Posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

Another thing that provides a little validity to the accuracy are the Upload speeds. We know that Clearwire limits their WiMax upload speeds to 1.5Mbps. I can occasionally get it up to 1.6Mbps, but never 1.7Mbps. If that had said something like 2.0Mbps, or 2.5Mbps, then we know there was a significant problem with these results. Also, that EVDO upload speed also is not out of whack. Robert

I have talked with Kevin at RootMetrics about this in the past. RootMetrics uses the same servers for the most part that Speedtest does, but it searches out the best server it can locate before it starts running the test. It's doing that while it is running the signal portion of the test. When it settles on the best server, it then starts speed testing it. I think RootMetrics is a more reliable speed tester in my opinion. The results are accurate. It is sending files to the remote server, and this is the speed actually observed in the transfer. If you were streaming video from that same server, it would be moving at the indicated speed in RootMetrics. SpeedTest app (and the FCC app is also made by Ookla too) are a little too user dependent in choosing a server. Often, people are not using the best server. And they are just oblivious to it. Typically, people will choose the same server they use at home. Which is never a good idea, because wireless backhaul is likely routing its destination to the internet differently every time. And it will likely hit the internet a very long ways away from where their home and work ISP's do. That's why I'm always recommending that people who use SpeedTest to use several different servers when they get a really slow speed result. With apps like SpeedTest, FCC, and even RootMetrics it's not the fast results that are suspect. It's the slow ones. It can't register faster than the connection it actually has to the server on the other end. Every time I can think of where I had a fast RootMetrics speed, I was able to recreate it on SpeedTest if I kept hunting around on different servers...eventually. Robert

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