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Well speeds are still good..but you can barely do anything if the speeds only come in periodic bursts.

I'll try to get a test with lte later this afternoon. I wonder if a trace route or something would help identify the choke point?

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3G only slows down, or LTE also?

 

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I'll have to see about LTE (not picked up today) but 3G for sure. I'm looking at ping times more so than speed as I've noticed low ping times results in a better experience regardless of speeds....you can even see it with the speed tests as the connection remains very stable with a low ping while when you have higher latency you tend to have more peaks and valleys.

Right now on 3G I have a ping of about 285ms through my phone to the server. When I wrote my post at 6am I had a ping response of 85ms through 3G. Since last month, something has changed that is now causing an additional delay of 200ms.

What could it be?

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The LTE network cannot be struggling under load yet. However, there is a lot still going on. The network is still in an unlaunched state in the LA market.

 

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I'm not saying LTE is the issue but I am observing that the network on a NetworkVision'd site is performing poorly during the day compared to one month ago. The network also returns to the fantastic performance of one month ago late at night and early in the morning.

I'm aware the bottleneck might be at a core or something else. Whatever the problem is, I suspect it is not at the cell site. We'll see if it improves in the coming weeks and months....I hope it does.

ay, I really hate to say it but I'm starting to notice the network struggling during the day.

About two months ago I was getting great pings and speeds during the day. Now I only see that type of performance late at night. Having said that, I am having a consistently better experience using data regardless of what a speed test says.

I'm pretty ok with 2mbps right now. ts fun to see the fast speeds but its damn nice to be able to browse, download apps, and stream w/o frustration... Latency seems to remain low too which I think makes everything feel quicker too.

Its back. Not any better than before though ( I'm right on the border of coverage)

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No 4g here since early morning and i am once again having trouble steaming all day. They must be working on something.

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I don't think this is always the case. My phone runs AOSP the bars always line up exactly with where my LTE strength lays following your instructions. In fact, I can watch my LTE go down to 0 bars, disconnect and then reconnect in 3G with full bars.

It is probably AOSP. I just looked and it seems the Galaxy Nexus showed data coverage in the bars until a sprint provided update in July changed it to voice coverage.

Good speed test results. Thanks for posting. But with LTE, the bars don't mean anything. http://s4gru.com/ind...ignal-strength/

 

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I don't think this is always the case. My phone runs AOSP the bars always line up exactly with where my LTE strength lays following your instructions. In fact, I can watch my LTE go down to 0 bars, disconnect and then reconnect in 3G with full bars.

it seems testing. Don't think they have done a soft release either

I've had a few areas where I've seen strong consistent signals one day and then next there is no sign of LTE whatsoever.

Sprint and Google seem to have a pretty good relationship so I'd be surprised if Sprint doesn't end up with an LTE version eventually. I think Google just wants to be able to sell that particular version of the nexus device at that price through the play store and they also want to sell one that they can push upgrades for. Both of those things won't happen on the Sprint version (if it does come).

Also- those photos above...I thought they were supposed to have a google streetview type viewer?

I think this is going on today all around LA..at work i have a direct view to one of tue sites that usually gives me almost 2mbps and today just gave me up to 500kbps and I did speettest all the day while i was at work.also my school is in North Hollywood with a great LTE signal.super strong and today all the way to here no even one LTE signal.I updated the PRL.did the airplane thing and nothing.I believe many sites have been turned off.

I've noticed a few places that once had LTE no longer do. I also noticed a couple more today so you are probably right. I was able to nag 38922kbps down over by Universal yesterday. Not too shabby.

FWIW, Hollywood/highland area was 1x for me the day or two b4 lte lit up. Keep in mind I was just driving through so it may not be relevant.

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Did any of you map the area in Marina del Rey on Sensorly? I noticed that Lincoln Blvd, between Washington Blvd and the 90, was not covered. That seems a tad odd to me that the area in question doesn't have LTE coverage with the nearby areas surrounding other NV-completed towers having LTE coverage.

 

Then again, how much do I really need to know about LTE coverage since I am still 7+ months away from my renewal date. LOL

Build out of lte is hardly complete so nothing really odd about areas not having coverage. Both my home and work is within one block of stable 4g. In hoping the build out continues at a nice pace to fill in the gaps.

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I just had 4g in sfv studio city

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Low pings are always a good sign IMO

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Right now i am in west hollywood and the voice coverage 1x has the 6 bars..well i am practically on downtown..santa monica and in glendale works fine voice and data is better than ever.

Personally I've experienced spotty coverage around Fountain just east of Crescent heights and Fairfax. I can't hold on to a call driving through that area anymore or if I do the conversation turns into "What? Can you hear me? Hello? Hold on give me a few seconds to drive out of here "

I just Talked with a Sprint costumer service person,and he told me before the end of october we will be getting some LTE signals and that in glendale(where I live) it will be pretty much covered and he also told me something about West Hollywood I couldnt understand,if he was saying that west hollywood and that zone will be the first to go live.

I can say that West Hollywood voice coverage has become much more spotty in the last three months or so, and there are even some new dead spots that used to not exist.

Google contact pull issue (now.. if this one has it too, I'll know its a software issue in these phones).

visit your phone's forum on xda-developers.com. If there is an issue, you'll find it there.

I'm getting ehrpd in a new location now but it still drops to EvDo while I'm commuting so I'm thinking that it must not be prevalent enough yet throughout Los Angeles to hold.

On the other side, I've been able to successfully stream music while at work for the first time in a long time despite slow speeds. I was also talking to some other people who have sprint who mentioned how bad the network has been in the last 3 or so months with more dropped calls and dead spots. Sprint would be wise to educate its users that it is upgrading the network or else I can see some leaving b/c of the upgrade pains.

SFV is a definite Network Vision deployment area.

 

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SFV has great coverage for me. The Westside however is worse than ever in some areas. I'm between the only two towers that are set and have apparently completed 3G network vision per your maps and I can barely do anything using 3g data. I'm really hoping the backbone hasn't been upgraded yet.

We are talking about launch. LA will not launch in September. However, I think that some sites with start going live this month. They just probably will come and go until launch.

 

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I hope they do this again. I remember Wimax was active in my area well before launch.

Fascinating. What happens if you boot again into safe mode?

I was all up and down San Francisco and north of San Francisco (San Anselmo) and I could not even get eHRPD. All this work must just be taking place south of San Francisco.

FWIW - I'm on a Galaxy Nexus and I get eHRPD in my area but as soon as I hit a non eHRPD area, my phone reverts to EVDO even where I previously was on eHRPD. This persists until I toggle the lte/cdma setting.