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Quote Where is the 1 LTE Update...is that the Highway 193 one? I see 8 CDMA 800 up north by redding and then the 9th over along 80 before you get to Reno? Is that right? Or is there another LTE one?

I have noticed that data speed's for 3G have slowed down all over the Sacramento area. When at work and at home 20 miles apart...from two different cell sites I used to get about 0.75-1.0mbps down and up with 150ms or below ping times on 3G. Now both at home and at work that has slowed to a low 0.15mbps for down and up with 500ms+ Ping Times on 3G and this is from two different cell sites which is like slower then dial-up. It could be that the tower by home is connected to the same backhaul network as the tower near my work 30 miles away. I hope this is signs of work progressing more agressively now.

Testing Hopefully for a site that will get 4G Accepted in Rancho I hope!

Need some Sensorly mapping done along Highway 193 between Lincoln and Newcastle......

TimeWarner and Integra do not offer a residential type of package up here in Northern California. They offer services to business's that need private network links/large capacity internet links. Were talking 1GB Internet/10GB WAN Links and other variations below that down to 10MB that consists of fiber/ethernet direct connections to the premise/in-building. Here at my work in Rancho Cordova we have two separate 200MB Ethernet Internet Links provided from Integra and another from TimeWarner. A total of 400MB for capacity, but in case one goes down for redundancy the other 200MB is still active on a separate companies network. We have various other 10GB MAN Links from Rancho Cordova to Roseville provided by the same two companies as well to link offices together in the Sacramento Area.

The Coloma and McGregor Site has all new NV equipment installed. They are probably waiting for advanced microwave or fiber backhaul to be installed. The city of Rancho has actually been pretty busy with TimeWarner, Integra, and AT&T pulling fiber everywhere. I would think by now since they have had the equipment installed since May that they would have the fiber. It all depends on when they placed the order for backhaul to be installed. A normal order for installation of fiber requires a 120 day window before completion....That's 4 Month's so maybe the McGregor site will come online soon...

GPS Antenna's being replaced or adjusted on the tower you are connected to dictates your phone's time. They must be adjusting new GPS Antenna's on the tower you are connected to so therefore your phone pulls down the time from some other GPS Source further up the line. Although I would think your phone's own GPS Antenna would help dictate the time as well, but it is all probably related to the tower undergoing work.

Yesterday and today there have been severe issues with data in Rancho Cordova. I'm having trouble getting e-mail and texts out, although I have not had any problems with calls. When trying to send a text or do anything data related my phone will drop to roaming. I hope this is actual NV work going on and not just a capacity issue.

Anything South of International is going to be the 4G Accepted Tower way out by Jackson Road again.....What you want is to watch for 4G signal somewhere North of International....

If your in an area near the outskirts of Chicago there are alot of sites that are still waiting advanced backhaul. Where in Chicago are you getting bad 3G Speeds like ericdabbs said....

Just cause a site is NV 3G Accepted does not mean it has advanced fiber or 24Ghz Microwave Backhaul setup. It probably has old backhaul (Bonded T1's etc..) What you really want to look for is a NV 3G/4G Accepted Site to test 3G Speeds on because then 3G will be running over the newer high capacity backhaul.

Yeah that is you connecting to the tower way down off Jackson Rd South of Mather.....

Hmmm...hopefully they will be using that lift to start some type of work soon. They usually don't just keep the lifts around if there isn't any planned work. They usually have the lifts ready beforehand meaning they are going to start some type of work soon....

Oh great! Crosses Fingers....

They may have dropped off the lift this last weekend for work to begin this week! I might be able to drive by this tower on my lunch break today to see if anything is happening....

Kiefer Blvd, Mather is down right by the 4G Accepted tower off Jackson Rd. This is 4G Signal from that tower.

Sprint Currently is using 1900 (not 1800) for LTE, EVDO, Voice. Sprint is rolling out 800 for Voice (CDMA 1xA), EVDO, and LTE. Lilotimz correct me if I am wrong...Also Sprint will eventually roll out 2500 for just LTE... so 800/1900/2500 when complete. You are correct in that 800 has larger coverage/in-building penetration. Lilo can probably add more....

Lilotimz, Do we know if any of the 4G Accepted Sites have gone 3G Accepted as well? Is there another report to find out when some of the 4G accepted sites get accepted for 3G?

That is ATT on the very top with 1 RRU and then TMobile right below with 6 Ericsson AIR Panels.

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Yeah we need pictures of this tower and some close-ups of those antennas/panels....If its a big tower then someone needs to definitely take a decent camera with them and not a cell-phone camera to get what we need for this one.

There is another tower close-by that has had a permit issued that could be it as well. Between Franklin Blvd and Laguna Park Drive (not Laguna Blvd) down Tegan Rd on the Northside of Tegan Rd. It looks really close to Wackman Park. It would be on the southside of Wackman Park and Northside of Tegan Rd somewhere.

These are awesome pictures.. no Samsung equipment on this one yet though...Definitely Sprint on the 2nd rack down from the top. Looks to be a Nextel Synergy rack. Sprint Legacy 3G is the smaller white panel amongst the bigger Nextel gray ones. Total of 3 Sprint Legacy 3G Panels on this one...1 per Sector. I wonder how they will upgrade this one. Maybe they will take down some of the Nextel panels on 2nd Rack and put up the Samsung Gear alongside the Legacy 3G Panels...or maybe they are waiting so they can just strip the whole 2nd Rack......

Looks to be a California Family Fitness right near by as well......just for a landmark.

It could be the Sprint Tower off Laguna Blvd/High Tech Ct. Between I-5 and Franklin. See if you can find this tower and check it out and take pictures. Tower looks to be right at the North end of High Tech Ct.