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Only way to know is by the 1x and EV PNs. Me and another local mapped these out several years ago on a Google Maps project . Sad thing is I have most of them memorized along with my LTE IDs. Geekkkkk.

I dont see any information about any sites downtown. I could be wrong but I think I know what building it is, just a little too high too see the panels

Only curiosity can tell.

Hey I think there is a site in downtown tyler, I get full bars and really great speeds usually, is there a "ghost" tower that is not showing up in the systems?

how about those 3g speeds tho

I figured it was to good to be true -_- darn haha. I think the south tyler ones will light up soon though.

Only curiosity can tell.

Well I don't know, I won't be able to tell, because of a mis type of my account number while paying, it has caused me to "temporarily" lose service. Human mistakes are the worst when you need them not to happen

Not sure if you Tyler guys saw my post about the new 4G LTE site here:

 

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/579-network-vision-site-map-new-orleans-memphis-gulf-coast-east-texas-mississippi-and-louisiana-markets/page-171?p=171427&do=findComment&comment=171427

I meant to upload the pic on the last post lol Athens, Tx Lte

Yeah I went there a few days ago, saw similar stuff. I love the roaming while connected to 4g haha. It was only near downtown that i was getting roaming voice

I knew T-Mobile was stepping up their game. I do agree T-Mobile does have fewer towers in Tyler than any carrier. Here at my Apartment T-Mobile is useless. I might get 1 bar of 4G if i go outside. Not only that but this is a big college apartment complex. Old Omen and University here. Surprisingly T-Mobile is the only carrier that gets service in my house in Rockwall. They've stepped up in the past 2 years and added more towers in the area. Let's hope this continues into the Tyler area as well. I hate to say it but i'd rather see them get ranked number 3 in the U.S.

They do not even have a T-mobile store out here. I think it will take too long for t-mobile to build out here anymore. I honestly think our market has very few T-mobile customers. Hopefully since sprint has the help of softbank, they may be building out their footprint. I just do not see T-mobile moving up with their limited footprint, and lack of good roaming. I think sprint could add a few towers out near me, I live by lake palestine, but I don't see any plans for them to build out any thing near me. I connect to a tower that is in Tyler city limits. But that is what I get for living in a "Rural" area. I hope they will lease some space off of an AT&T tower that I have Line of sight to(near the new loop 49 and 155). It would benefit a Ton of people on the Loop 49

Has anybody checked to see if the site between Lindale and Mineola is broadcasting LTE?

I went to check it, and It is Not broadcasting LTE signal. It has poor 3g signal, but 1x is perfect. I think it is either having issues with LTE or has never had it

Yep it was them. They aren't an option for me as they have less sites than Sprint here and that's pretty bad.

yeah they have very misleading information. They use the "actual coverage might be less clause" to their advantage. Their "good" 4g coverage actually means 2g everywhere ive been. Same for Verizon's extended 4g coverage usually means a 3g connection

Pretty quick for their work needed. I saw a crew in and out in less than a day doing one upgrade. The backhaul is already there and the old equipment isn't touched. Bolt on willy and hit the road.

That was for t-mobile? I had them before sprint, and I dropped them because of their lack of sites, they had 2 sites near me, but only had edge :/ In town they were goodish. Had a few bad spots, where there is a ton of traffic

I find it sad but, T-mobile I think is having LTE testing northeast of Tyler,near the UT health center. Saw they had a blip of LTE on sensorly. Thinking sprint Needs to get it in gear, as well as AT&T haha

From all I could tell, it has an 800SMR beacon, which means it just scans for 800 networks from what I understand. It doesn't broadcast in 800SMR.

 

 

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Well I am thinking that in the future, pretty soon, that there will be neighborhood devices like these. Small cells in use for sprint. If these could be placed outside and cover an area, I would not mind running it off of my internet for the better of a "hood" haha. They could give small discounts to people who lend their bandwidth to operate a device like this, and it would probably help out small dead zone areas. But it would need to have the ability for possibly more capacity on the device, and a better hand off. And it would be cheaper than building actual small cells, with its own backhaul

Another Airave for Sprint was approved by the FCC yesterday. Hopefully soon a new model is released soon. This is the 3rd or 4th since the Airave 2.5 was released. I sure hope this is a sign that they are trying hard to work all the bugs out and they are going to release a good one finally.

Any info about the specs it will have, I doubt it would carry LTE, but 800SMR use, or anything like that?

Has anybody checked to see if the site between Lindale and Mineola is broadcasting LTE?

I havent yet but if I get a chance I will soon

So does anyone have any updates about tyler?

Yeah I know. I just moved here for School. From Rockwall

Well LTE will be across the country sooner than later. I think LTE will be an advantage to more carriers than just the big 2. No need to worry about speeds anyways. After a certain speed, unless you are torrenting or downloading a ton/watching tons of HD videos,you can't really notice a difference. Pings will be low enough to be similar to cable or fiber internet 

There goes my hopes of getting LTE here in Tyler before I move back to the DFW area. Been here for two years. Absolutely insane. 

Yeah sorry, but in Tyler and longview have been a weird instance for AT&T. Dallas has great LTE for AT&T so no worries

Anyone know when the AT&T spectrum deal with Verizon is to be completed in the Tyler area to turn on AT&T LTE? By the examples of the speed tests done on the Sprint Network, T-mobile is by far faster. I would like to see Sprint gain faster speeds especially on LTE. No wonder they rolled out unlimited plans for life. Then, when you fall off their network you "roam" on Verizon for example using lower 3G speeds. Whereas on AT&T you fall back on 4G HSPA+ which a whole lot faster than getting 1-2 mbps down. Verizon in East Texas by far has the most advanced network speeds judging that I'm using an iPad.

 

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I would guess the deal will see approval in the next month or two. Stick with At&t it will be worth it. If you want unlimited go with sprint. They have awesome roaming, which is better than no service with t-mobile. Sprint will be a major competitor soon! Once they get money from softbank, and the clearwire Spectrum. Their LTE will be amazing then! Oh yeah and once The FCC has the supposed 600mhz auction, which they will probably let sprint and t-mobile get most of. Sprint will benefit greatly, given they can get ahold of some good blocks of spectrum 

I think you are looking into things too much. They would need to work on any legacy equipment unless they were doing some legacy upgrades since the site wasn't scheduled for network vision for quite a while.

 

Speeds are such a dynamic thing as you have no idea what others are doing. So it's hard to go by. And definitely in an Ericsson market the legacy equipment status means almost zero on LTE rollout status.

Well It looked like they were removing it or something? I just know some stuff was being done to the old stuff, maybe it was an old wimax panel. But we already have the new equipment up, and all just weird to see something done to an existing panel.

Sites won't be immediately cut over to 3G even if the backhaul is there.  LTE will go first then later 3G will be accepted then actually later it will switched over.  Of course this is different per site.  For instance a site in my area was brought online as 4G back in May and a few days later 3G accepted as well, still today legacy is still doing its thing for EVDO.  To be honest I never noticed anything different with 3G speeds when LTE was in the process of being fired up.  It was slow all the time for most sites anyways though.  And in most cases the crews will try to not have any impact on legacy equipment unless they have to move it for some reason.  They are there to install the network in tandem with the legacy to cut things over as possible so no T1's are cancelled etc until the equipment is ready to be pulled.

OK I was curious because some crew were messing with some legacy equipment and have a rectangular shaped box that had wires running to the legacy panels. Every since then the speeds have been weird, and jumping all over the place. I think the ones in tyler have been 3g accepted, but not LTE. I am thinking the LTE should go live very soon.

It isn't really a ring per say. Just a redundant connection which is normal since they probably have a reliability agreement on the contract of the connection.

 

Connecting to a POP to a larger backhaul is normal as well as every ISP does this.

Ok that makes sense. I know for sure the 3g has dropped off recently, like the past few days. Used to be around 1.5 to 2.5, now it is barely .5 I have heard they are keeping some t1 lines active to sites as a backup. Sound right? If so I bet they are completing the rest of the backhaul and are using the T1 lines until the work is done?

Sounds like when a site will receive backhaul for LTE

Have you heard of cities or areas doing like a fiber  "ring" like connected an area with fiber, then it all going to a bigger "pipe" that goes to the headend?

Sounds like when a site will receive backhaul for LTE.

Oh cause that is what they said is all that was needed for LTE to be turned on. Aren't 3g speeds over 1.5 already have the proper backhaul?

Any one know what an LTE switchover is? supposedly it is what the people are working on right now. "ETA of this month" is what I have lastly heard. FIngers crossed

I wanted to join this thread along with ya'll. I was doing some research to find out when AT&T is finally getting LTE in Tyler but have had no luck. Tyler and Longview are stuck without LTE. Its pretty funny looking at it on the map. No offense but if Sprint or T-mobile gets LTE in Tyler before AT&T I'm just gonna have to leave the big blue carrier. That would be a sad story. I do not own anything Sprint. I have a Verizon iPad running LTE and a T-mobile 4G HSPA+ hotspot pre paid device. I live near the UT campus. T-Mobile is the only carrier that has poor reception where i live. I have heard from many people in Tyler that Sprint is the worst in this area. I suppose this could be lack of towers or data? I've looked on the root metrics map that gives the rating and Verizon is #1 for this area. 

 

I'd be more than happy to check for ya'll if anything has been done or even take pictures. I'm a college student taking online classes therefore leaving me plenty of time in the day to swing by and get more information. Thanks Richard 

Well I have actually had all of the carriers. T-mobile is the worst I have ever seen. Once you get out of Tyler, it is gone, Their voice is terrible, and have horrible customer care/tech support. Sprint's voice is one of the best Ithink. And the 4g won't be 30+ megs all of the time, but who needs that on a smartphone. 

         But relating to AT&T they are waiting to flip the switch on when the verizon AT&T spectrum deal gets approved and switched over. Smith and Gregg counties only have 5 by 5 MHZ in 700 and AWS. So they are going to wait until they get 10X10MHZ to turn it on. AT&T has the best reliability , for me, I had no issues with them. Verizon I know I have had plenty of issues, and the voice was absolute terrible on an elite device. And once sprint gets to be able to use the 800 Spectrum service will be even better. I would say sprint is Doing well, considering they have not put in the same amount of money into the rollout and upgrades as the 2 Big giants