Joeynach
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Yeah, I will. The tower helps out in many areas I frequent, bars/clubs along Hubbard and the shopping on N Michigan Ave by the Nordstrom there. Once the tower on NW Memorial Hospital receives it upgrades the 3G only holes in the crowded River North and Streeterville area goes away.
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Network Vision/LTE - Miami/West Palm Market
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Curious about the Boca Raton area. I will be traveling there soon. I see from NV sites complete its a mix of LTE active towers, but also quite a few legacy sites still; Yamato Road, Clint Moore, near FAU, Hillsboro Blvd in Deerfield, etc. So is the South Florida area saturated with LTE? How are your speeds on B25 (Im not Tri band). Are you guys still seeing daily and weekly LTE activations on the legacy towers or has the slowed? -
Chicago got two LTE activations on Robert's latest update. One of them is a tower I have been waiting for months for because it covers River North.
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Do you have B41 enabled on that?
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I wonder how we had such different experiences. I had no problem making/receiving calls, but I had literally non-usuable data on LTE. All Apps and websites timed out and said check network connection. Dropped to 3G a couple times and same.
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REALLY? Do you have a tri-band device? I was also at the auto show today and had un-useable data speeds on LTE. I even had pings of 1500+ ms when trying to speed test.
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Well the more time he spends dropping knowledge in the Chicago forum the more super-duper he gets!
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Robert has told us many times never to refer to Sprint's coverage maps for anything worth a damn. Sensorly is accurate for coverage, no band detail there though. The NV sites complete and premier sponsor maps are your best bet for which towers are broadcasting which bands. There is no LTE800 anywhere in this market yet, so no surprise you only see the 1x800 voice carrier.
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If anyone cares a new downtown site just received its LTE activation. Its in the West Loop near Ogden/Washington, not too far from the UC either so that's good for the crowds. Now just waiting for the tower over by where the new Google building will be near (Fulton & Morgan) to be activated. Once that's finished downtown west of Wacker will be done. Hopefully, next on the list are the N Michigan Ave towers, our wonderful Mag Mile.
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No, just a regular Sprint one that I updated with probably a week ago.
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Really, where were you? I spent most of the night over by Irving Park and Lake Shore Dr, and was experiencing something weird. Voice roaming on Verizon with 1XRTT, with a very strong signal, and LTE connected on Sprint (as usual), with also a very strong signal. I found this to be when both indoors and outdoors, so weird, and I am having trouble explaining it. Any thoughts. Pic Attached. Also, I searched for the second carrier between Lincoln park and East Lakeview. Didn't see anything other than Upload channel 26665 and Download channel of 8665. I believe that's just the original PCS G blocks of Sprint's. Were looking for a new value that would signify a change to PCS B block right?
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NOOOO, man u guys are making me look like a dummy, well not that its that hard to do. I was just saying those locations Vince was talking about are NOT some of those remaining 3G only holes on the NV Sites complete map for Chicago. Those locations are all surrounded by LTE sites so I wasn't sure why his service was bad.
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A little off topic for this forum but I am dying to know why Sprint errr Softbank I guess, wants to buy TMobile. When ATT wanted TMobile they wanted their spectrum, and they had compatible networks to absorb their subscribers. Sprint has already made a series of acquisitions designed to gain spectrum assets (Nextel & Clearwire & USCC midwest) and fulfill their LTE goto market strategy of Network Vision and Tri Band LTE. I don't understand what Sprint wants from TMobile, does Sprint really want Tmobile's AWS that bad? Because I doubt they want the HSPA and HSPA+ network that bad, it isn't compatible with anything Sprint has. Am I missing something here? Is this just a move to remove a competitor?
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When I said I didn't see any LTE holes in coverage I meant by the NV Sites complete map, but I didn't want to be that specific b/c I am still confused on what I can reference from sections that are for paying customers. Was just hoping Vince inferred that cuz he knows I am PREMIER NOW!!!!
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Very interesting thanks for the info. Interesting about Oak Brook and your 47th/Pulaski locations, I don't see any holes in LTE coverage near either location. Everything is lite up. Any thoughts?
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What is your in building coverage/speed like while connected to B41. Not just your home, but shopping centers, grocery stores, office buildings, high rises.....I am really curious Vince. And don't make me take you to a Bulls game to find out how it works inside a stadium like the UC!
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Alright I will cool it on the speed tests. Though I am still curious if experiences are vastly different neighborhood to neighborhood, not just burbs to city. I am on the same thought process as you on Tri-Band. Unfortunately, budgetary constrains don't allow me to make an out of pocket upgrade to Tri-Band device and I got 10 long months to go until I can upgrade. I keep telling myself, oh you had to take that two week vacation across Europe and now you are stuck with the dang GS3 from 2012. Oh well, trip was worth it. I have already told my Tri-Band friends with N5's to hang in there for the relief on B41, they are waiting for the MSL push for live B41. And I have also encouraged them to get their a$$es to this site and become a (premier) sponsor so they can reap some knowledge and stop bothering me for explanations (which sometimes are wrong).
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So I stepped outside my building to get a better LTE signal and run some speed tests. Not recommended as its 27 degrees with 40 MPH winds right now, but welcome to Chicago winter. Anyway, so as I was alluding to earlier, when I go outdoors and my signal strength improves I get between 50-200K in and around downtown Chicago and surrounding neighborhoods. I did two tests standing at the corner of Washington & Clinton around 3PM. One with -74dBM LTE, received 50K DL, one with -62 dbM, received 200K DL. Thats pretty typical for the performance of 1900LTE over the last 4-5 months around here. Like I said before, I am sure our suburban folks have a different story to tell, but that's not my domain. If anyone else has other stories to tell from different parts of the city I would love to hear.
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Huh, didn't know that. I thought Bars was voice only. Still learn something new everyday on this board. I updated my Android a couple weeks ago so there ya go. Obviously, I am not pleased with such a low LTE signal, especially knowing from NV sites complete there are 3 LTE towers 1500 feet or less from my location. I am beginning to think Spark deployment and a Spark phone is the only thing that can save me, but its expensive. I can do some speed testing with stronger signals when I get on the EL platform later or while walking home, but in my experience even with better LTE signal strengths I have still been seeing ISDN like throughput's, 50-200K IIRC.
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Bars show voice signal strength only, right? I can't speak for my friend and his N5, but my signal strength is indicated in the top left since I use Signal Check Pro. -102dBm LTE for me, which according to the scale puts me in the "good" range. Better than -96dBm is a great signal Between -97dBm and -107dBm is good Between -108dBm and -114dBm is fair Worse than -115dBm is poor
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This is no joke, perhaps you have missed some previous conversations. I can share speed tests with you if you would like, but take my word speeds are literally below dial-up on 1900LTE for large chunks of downtown and near downtown neighborhoods. This is where I spend most of my time. Sometimes I pull below 10K DL. Left picture my GS3 at CitiGroup Center (right now), right pic is my friends N5 at this home in West Loop from a few days ago.
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Really still, ya know Robert made an update to the LTE800 maps. A huge upgrade at that. Go take a look again, I believe there is one site in your hood that may be active. And to everyone else, I recently donated enough to become a Premier Sponsor, with the information and maps on LTE2600 and LTE800 it is will worth the investment. I highly recommend, I think that investment alone has changed my 2014 attitude about Sprint after looking at some of the maps.
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Lucky you, I know you are a premium sponsor so you will know where your B41 towers are located. You must have drove right up to a B41 site to get that kind of speed. Cheater . Still nothing to report on your quest for B26? Does the new Spark update for the G2 activate the B26 LTE as well? Too bad they haven't pushed the Spark update the N5 yet, two of my buddies have those. They have been complaining since they got them since they have been stuck on the slower than dialup B25 LTE service for a couple months. I will let them know to go through the software update (MSL) when that device gets it. They are city folks like me, so I will be asking them to provide me speed test and Signal Check screenshots from downtown locations once we get there.
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U gotta check out the two dudes having it out in the comments section of this article, its freaking epic!
