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I just want to see LTE somewhere in the general Metro/Milwaukee area in the near future. As long as it's within like a 10-15 min drive from Greenfield, that will be enough to hold me over for a while.

Herman, is that you???

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

Get on booooooaaaaard the Herman Cain train!! It's a lot better slogan than "Step on in to the Ron Paul shower stall"

I'm happy to report that there was a very, very short blip of LTE near Southridge Mall (76th and Layton Ave). Can't say it was much of anything... I was stopped at a light reading a quick text and ready to hit the expressway. I have to be back there tomorrow so I'll run Sensorly to try and nab it while I get a cone from Kopp's.

Ohhh man. This is getting good. I'll have to check out where the nearest towers around Southridge are and scope em out tomorrow.

It means exactly what it says... Some Sprint managers have access to a reporting site that shows Network Vision and 4G progress in various markets. The Milwaukee Market (essentially southern Wisconsin) is divided up into smaller areas. Overall though, the Milwaukee market is forecast to have 91 towers live for LTE in 90 days. Again, I stress "forecast", and one of those towers is on or at Oklahoma Ave and Beloit Rd. Its the plan. And as with all plans, that can and could change.

 

Its the info I have.

I live right around Hwy100 and Beloit. The tower you're talking about is on 92nd street between Beloit and Oklahoma. It's right next to where I went to grade school! St. Matthias. There are two towers right next to each other, one of them has an AT&T sign on the gate, so I'm guessing it's the other one.

I'll start going by there every few days or so and check for progress. That's probably the tower I'm connected to when I'm at home, so that would be good news.

haha. Yea, I'm not expecting big batches of LTE in the Milwaukee market quite yet. I'm guessing a few will trickle in here and there for the next few weeks at least, then we might start seeing handfuls per week.

I caught a blimp of LTE by farm and fleet last night....

In Madison? Or Milwaukee?

Where did you find which towers are completed?

In this thread.

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/622-network-vision-site-map-minnesota-dakotas-milwaukee-and-north-wisconsin-markets/

You're right. They are not appearing on the map for me right now. I will go back and reload them later today when I get a chance. Sorry about that!

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

Hey, it's no problem at all. I'm just happy the Milwaukee market has started!

Oh, I see in the other area Robert listed the locations... Darn! The first towers completed in the Milwaukee market are nowhere near the city of Milwaukee!

I'm so happy! I think I'm going to cry!

I still don't see anything on the sites complete map though I'm guessing Robert just didn't have time last night or something. I'll be checking back often today!

I can't explain the delay, but from something that Robert posted a while ago, it sounds like the Milwaukee and north Wisconsin markets would see upgrades at the same time, just lie the Michigan markets. This week north Wisconsin sites started going live, so I'm guessing out won't be long before the Milwaukee markets starts to see sites go live with LTE.

 

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Well, like Dkoellerwx said, I think it is encouraging to see that an LTE accepted site popped up in Northern Wisconsin. I'm sure Sprint is well aware of their data capacity issues. I bet the little cash bump from Softbank will give them the ability to speed up the process a little bit and maybe have more crews working at the same time. It's been a long wait for Milwaukee, but it'll be coming soon! And it will be worth it. I was like a little kid in a candy store when I went down to Chicago for a weekend recently and got to experience the LTE down there.

I'm in Milwaukee and yea, I put up with it because I'm on a family plan with something like a 20% discount. It's weird, depending on where you go around Milwaukee / Waukesha, sometimes you get farily decent speeds, like 500k even up to 1.5Mbps or so. But usually it's crawling at sub100k speeds. It's real frustrating when it takes like 5 min for the traffic info to pop up in google maps. I never have problems with texts or voice though. I know people with AT&T around milwaukee that get dropped calls all the time, but I never get that with Sprint. I've just been kept alive by the hopes that LTE will be here soon! But really, it comes down to the price, the unlimited data, and knowing that LTE will be here at some point in the future. That's why I've stayed with Sprint. Even though unlimited data doesn't help at this point with terrible speeds, I know I will be happy I have it once LTE rolls through.

I was in Chicago this last weekend with my Evo LTE and oh man, was it glorious! I just kept running speed test after speed test. I can't wait for that sweet sweet LTE goodness in Milwaukee.

Sweet! I'm getting real excited now! Sprint loves putting cell towers on rooftops in the Milwaukee market it seems. There's another one like that in Brookfield at goerkes corners.

Man, it's so discouraging to see pretty much every other market around Milwaukee getting work done and sites in progress, but not a blip in Milwaukee yet. Even Iowa has a bunch of work starting... IOWA. I'm pretty sure there are more farms than cell phones in Iowa (I lived there for a couple years and I lived across the street from a corn field)

I'm crossing my fingers that any week now we'll see a Milwaukee tower marked as "in progress" or 4g complete in the weekly update. I just got a second job where having LTE and a slightly stronger signal would greatly help!

I'm not checking all the towers, but I'm not seeing any permits being pulled in the Milwaukee area.

Well... I wonder how they're going to approach the Milwaukee market. WIth ones like Chicago, they started on the outer edges and worked their way into the city... So I wonder if they would start way out on the western edge of the state and work through Madison, then Waukesha, then Milwaukee. I sure hope they just start right around Milwaukee and the suburbs. I live in Greenfield and work in Waukesha.

So excited! I was getting ehrpd yesterday too! Did it happen for the whole market? I did a speed test out in Waukesha, Brookfield, and then Greenfield and got ehrpd on all of them.

(I took this screen shot today, so this is a speed test from yesterday)

one tower in the market permits

http://www.city.fitc...778Blizzard.pdf

Sweet! I'm glad to see something happening in the Milwaukee market, even if it is out by Madison. I'm guessing the next "Evo" phone will be out by the time LTE rolls around to the Milwaukee area so I won't even have to worry about the LTE connection issues with the Evo LTE. I guess that's a positive....right?

Someone in the Milwaukee market should start doing permit searches and mapping like our Phoenix members are doing. I bet permitting is already underway.

 

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How would I go about doing those searches? I would have no idea where to start....

I sense a new beer coming out of Milwaukee when Sprint starts work.

 

Aww man, don't say that! We don't want our LTE to be watered down!

okay, thanks for the feedback, I downloaded speedtest this morning and tried a couple of tests (with my work wifi hotspot off). From my desk I get 217 kbps down and 16 up and seems I have to orient my phone just right to get a signal. The building I work in is pretty much a concrete bunker and I'm about 25 feet from a window. Friday someone left the company, his cubicle is right at the window. Ran a test there, 394 down and 105 up. I can probably live with that, especially with a more consistent signal until LTE arrives. I guess I better inquire about changing offices before someone beats me to it !

 

the technical information on this site is impressive, and at this point mostly over my head, but I'll learn !

I worked for the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office downtown in the Safety Building and during the daytime, 3g speeds were not good. I usually got like 25kbps download or so. I'm sure it didn't help that the safety building is like a steel trap, but I think that area of downtown Milwaukee is pretty saturated. I've since gone back to my old job in Waukesha where the 3g speeds are pretty good... anywhere from 300kbps to 1.3mbps

That's just data. I've never had a problem with voice calls with Sprint anywhere I go. Voice is usually fantastic, it's just the data that was slow for me downtown.