jd777

I doubt you will get LTE in Farm and Fleet. The signal level on 51 between Pflaum and Buckeye was about -116dbm

I'm using a SG3 with SignalCheck Pro. The phone does switch over to LTE on it's own without toggling airplane mode... usually. After I lost the signal behind the ridge it did not reconnect even when I could see the tower. Toggling airplane mode caused the phone to immediately switch to LTE. SignalCheck plays a happy little tune whenever the phone switches to LTE. It surprised the heck out of me the first time it happened

I made a Sensorly loop around the McFarland tower. Near lake Kegonsa I passed under a small ridge and lost the LTE signal despite being fairly close to the tower. It seems that the 1900Mhz signal is very line of sight. ~800ft from the tower I ran a couple speed tests... they averaged 19Mbs down and 9Mbs up. The surprise came when I was driving back into Madison on 51 when the phone flipped over to LTE between Pflaum and Cottage Grove Rd. While stuck in traffic I tried a speed test, 500kbs down and 60kbs up (better than the typical crappy 3G service in Madison). It's an interesting experiment to map a single tower out. You get to see exact footprint of the tower without getting readings off of the other towers nearby.... that said I'm looking forward to more towers.

I made a quick drive down to the south side of McFarland. LTE is active! From the edge of the cell area I ran a speed test, ~10mb up, ~4mb down. I didn't have much time so I didn't drive deeper into the cell to do further speed tests... a project for another time. I was running Sensorly so check out the glorious purple (you might need to zoom in a ways... fresh traces seem to take a while to bubble up to the zoomed out views.