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    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    I hope so! Very exciting if it is! I am so ready to be able to consistently stream my Spotify radio stations in the mornings on the way to work. That's pretty much all I even care about.

     

    The other day I was getting about 15k down most of the way home (from downtown to Folsom). Streaming sucked so I speed tested it. Yes I know I shouldn't do that while driving my traffic was slow and heavy.

    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.

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    TimeWarner? I hadn't heard that and a quick google search didn't turn anything up for me... Is Comcast going to get some competition? AT&T has been a bust for my house... one street over got U-verse more than 2 years ago, but not my street. =/

    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.

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    Don't know if this is old news, but I got lte while working ata jobsite next to Foodmax on sunrise in citrus heights. Only had 2 bars while in the parking lot.

     

    On another note - when is Rancho gonna get lte?! Not "new Rancho", but Olson & Zinfandel Rancho. Cordova High Rancho. I drove up to a tech working on a tower back in May (Coloma & McGregor) and he said it would be live in "2 weeks". Yeah right. One of my clients is a Sprint employee who originates/retains Sprint business customers. She indicated by the end of August.August is outta here in 4 days..

    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...

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    so what kind of tower work dictates that your phones network believes it is in the mountain time zone and adjusts accordingly?  that is what is happening up here in nor-cal and we have been told its tower work.  hmmmmmm

    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.

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    Ooh, ooh! Running Sensorly this morning and I had LTE just south of International on Zinfandel. So far, 69 hits on 4G signal on Sensorly.

     

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    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....

    How is NV 3G?

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    3G here in Chicago is awful :td: . Love being in an LTE area which Chicago land is getting alot more of, but once it drops back to 3G I put the phone away, cant even stream Spotify or Slacker.

     

     

    Which area of Chicago are you in when you get poor 3G speeds?

    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....

    How is NV 3G?

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    So all the towers around my current location are 3G NV.

     

    I did some speed checks, and the results were abysmal.

     

    Signal = 76dbm   (for 3G, obviously, unsure where the wimax comes from)

     

    Bottom results 3G, middle = wimax, top = home wifi

     

    All tests taken from same location (my bed!)

     

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    Come September, Ill give Sprint a ring if the results continue to be this bad.

     

    I swear the 3G was better pre-NV.

    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.

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    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    Nothin' and nothin'. The lift is still parked on the street, though.

     

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    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....

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    That's been the case in a lot of areas that haven't had 4g acceptance yet. I had that at my work and at my kid's school last week and was excited, only to have it drop back down to 3g if I breathed wrong. The signals are being worked on.

     

    On another note, I drove by the giant Sprint tower in Rancho just a few minutes ago and didn't see any work at the actual tower, but there was a lift parked on the street very nearby that hasn't been there before. Since it's the weekend, I'm hopeful it is being used on the tower, since it is in progress. Joyous day had by all...at least in Rancho.

    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....

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    The only reason we jumped on the S4 now is because of the great deals they currently have - I guess they may be trying to move stock to make room for the Tri-Band S4, who knows.  Basically with discounts, and some corporate credit for switching lines, the S4 would be free.

     

    I've been trying to google and find out info, but you probably know this.  LTE 800 vs. 1800 - the 800 should penetrate buildings better and have larger coverage right?  So Sprint would probably have to build less towers to cover the same area that 1800 currently covers right?  What are the advantages of 1800 over 800 band then?  Higher data speed within the covered area?

     

    So the LTE 800 roll-out also includes CDMA 800 roll-out it seems - so voice should improve once that's rolled-out right?  What spectrum is Sprint using now for their voice?

    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....

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    The east Davis Sprint site has already been physically upgraded. It's a waiting game for whoever it is that was contracted to do the backhaul for the site in order to fire up upgraded 3G & 4G. 

     

    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?

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    Yea I live in that area, I am a 10 minute walk away from it and walk by a lot. It's actually a very large electric tower on the very southwest end of Wackman Park. There's a single long walking pathway that goes through that park and if you follow it all the way to the very end it leads you right to that tower, but the tower is separated by the park by a large fence so you're unable to get right up to it. But it's not like you need to since the tower is huge.

     

    Don't take Tegan Drive, take Misty Meadow Way and you can literally park your car 10 feet away from that walkway at the end of the park. The tower is right there. I tried going down Tegan once to see the view from the other side, and see if the cell site could have been anything else, because the permit marks the permit just south of that tower. But it's too much land to be able to tell, and the permit location is just too close to the tower.

     

    I didn't pick up any 4G from that one yesterday, but the 3G at that park has always been close to 1 mb down. Once I walk back to my house I am back to .10-.30 mb down. I think Sensorly would have already mapped 4G by Wackman Park if it was really that tower. I do speed tests by that one often. The sponsors forum says the permit for it was issued in April, but the one off of High Tech Ct was issued almost a full month prior to that. Please post if you are able to recognize Sprint on that tower, I haven't learned how to differentiate between the equipment.

    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.

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    Nice, thanks.  Its always interesting to see who and what makes up these towers.

     

    Wonder where that LTE signal was coming from then?  I noticed it briefly yesterday when I drove down High Tech, but it quickly went away.

    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.

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    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......

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