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I definitely get the weakest speeds in my house compared to my neighborhood. I took a 15 minute walk from my house off of Big Horn Blvd to the Misty Meadow Way tower by Wackman Park in Elk Grove. I was averaging 12-15 mb from the minute I turned the corner of my street right up to reaching the tower. Sorry I don't have the engineering screen.

I just got Signalcheck lite. I'm not sure if this is the right screen or not. Off of Big Horn Blvd/Meadowspring and Brockenhurst Dr on 3/28. See it pop up randomly for 20-30 minutes.

I got LTE today as well in 2 very different, opposite parts of Elk Grove. 1. At my relatives house close to Bond Rd /Bader Rd, and it wouldn't leave LTE until I left that neighborhood. I don't know how to post pics but my speed test was 3.23 down, 1.38 up. Over the last 2 years I would average .05 down in that neighborhood. 2. At my house by Big Horn Blvd / Meadowspring Dr just past Laguna High School. Noticed LTE late last night and then again this afternoon but then switched back to 3G after a few minutes. Speeds were around .50 mb down. This was the first time I've ever seen it light up in this area.

I'm in the AIRC on the weekends and the last few days data and voice just turn off completely for hours at a time, especially data. It really blows not having a student login for wifi, it's flies around 50mb.

Has it gotten worse there since the 1990s? I lived in Stockton as a kid in the mid 90's and I was part of a failed kidnapping attempt. Turns out those guys worked at my elementary school and never got caught. There were parts of Stockton that were upper class living but for the most part I saw some crazy things in Stockton back then.

That is impressive for Elk Grove. I was getting around 1.5mb down when I ran speed tests on Saturday night at that intersection, but since then its been back to .3-.5mb down. I will say that many parts of Bruceville can have close to 1mb down, which is much better than the average of .3-.6mb in most of Elk Grove. The only part of Elk Grove that I have seen consistent 1mb since early 2012 is if you live close to the Franklin/Elk Grove Blvd intersection. As far as the speed boost off of Big Horn/Bruceville, could there be some 3G data speed upgrades going on instead? Because I live less than a quarter mile away from the Tegan tower and I'm averaging .3-4mb down. That's much closer to that tower than the Big Horn/Bruceville intersection.

My sister was in Monterey Bay this weekend and I asked her to check for 4G before I checked Sensorly. I then noticed that there was nothing mapped for 4G in Monterey but she got back to me and said 4G was running for her and she was averaging speed tests around 5 mb down. It was surprising since there was none mapped whatsoever. I had began to think that almost always someone will have mapped it if there was a live connection.

What a cruel joke that would be if those Spring issued permits just end up expiring. Does that happen often?

True, a camera phone won't get a good pic on that tower. I'm in Davis until 9 the next 3 days and I can only take pics from my phone.

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.

Glad to see some 4G light up in that area off Laguna, the permit was issued for quite some time. Anyone run a speed test? --------------------------- Update: I went down to High Tech Ct, I live 2 miles away, and I couldn't pick up a signal on 3G and wasn't able to run any data. I know. But I couldn't help myself.

Can any of the moderator's give us an update on Elk Grove? A couple permits have been issued for quite some time now.

Sweet mother of jesus, it's about as bad as Sprint can get in that 24. Youtube will never load, Pandora can take up to 5 minutes to load, speeds around .03-.05 mb every time I go. I live off of Big Horn and I never get over .6 so it takes a special kind of slow to get me agitated.

I highly doubt it's the permit on Mack Rd close by Franklin. I drive past that one 3 days out of the week, and it's still a horrible 3G connection when I park next to it. .05-.30 mb speeds.

Wow that is pretty far. I can see how that would be, now that I look at the map. I did a speed test at the same spot today and it came up as 5.09 mb download. A lot of new 4G has been mapped on Sensorly, I can't wait to see something in Elk Grove.

I don't know why you can pick up 4G on just that 1 mile strip but it must have been picking up from vacaville or fairfield. It was a lousy speed but honestly my Galaxy works just fine with anything over a 1-2mb. Sometimes I feel like a slower 3G data connection responds much quicker than when I'm on a faster wifi data connection. The Galaxy S3 is such a fast phone, but with Sprint's 3G data I feel like I'm driving a high performance sports car on a flat tire. Getting slow 4G speeds would be like throwing a spare tire on the car. It's not optimal but at least I would be getting around comfortably.

I picked up 4G today for the first time. It was on 80 headed west toward Davis, that elevated highway/bridge section (Yolo Causeway) when driving over that flood section. I noticed someone mapped some 4G there on Sensorly, so my friend was watching for 4G as we were driving through the same area. Luckily there was some traffic so we had time to do 3 speed tests. The 4G ended before passing the Chiles Rd exit. Speed tests were 2.8mb, 4.1mb, 2.2mb download. Not impressive speeds but I was delighted just to see it for the first time. Compared to what I normally get in Elk Grove (0.2-0.6mb) it was exhilarating. I honestly didn't think that my phone would have picked up the signal at all.

What happened to that list that had all the cities and 4G Rollout % complete? I forgot where it was and can't find it.

Yeah Im just there to use the 24 hour study room on the weekends right outside the west/east quad, but I have noticed that the speed varies. Im looking back at my speed test history and I took 4 tests straight and got 1.08, 1.45, 1.85, 2.34. The tests that I run cover the the area from the west/east quad all the way down 1st street to the Davis Amtrak station and it's rarely ever under 1 mb. I'll try doing more tests at one sitting when I'm there. But as far as real time browsing and refreshing apps I have no problems at all when its over 1.5 mb. At this point I'm just hoping LTE can get me steady speeds over 3 mb and I bet I'll stop spending so much time on speed tests.

Im at UC Davis 3 days a week now and the data speeds there are the fastest I've ever gotten on 3G. I average between 1.5 - 2.0 mb download all throughout the day. That's pretty sweet compared to my home in Elk Grove. The highest I get at home is maybe .8 mb on a good day (off of Big Horn blvd). Although recently its gotten to a steady 0.05 - 0.10 mb