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So I am eligible for an upgrade on March 1st. Rumor is subsidies will go away sometime in the near future. I was looking forward to the new HTC. would not buy it at retail price. So looks like a have a small window for the subsidies option.

 

 

If I buy a Nexus 5 from Google. How do I get a sim card? What are they running?

I ran the test several times and all tests were below 100. Pretty good ping considering it was rush hour at that intersection

 

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That is a very good sign of fiber. Mine was about four good test over a couple of minutes. Haven't gotten below 100 since then.

definitely fiber. I don't think sub one hundred pings are possible on anything else.

 

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I think you can. I have gotten as low as 76 down here in Alamogordo and we are not on fiber.

 

Just curious if there was any change in cruces. The one accepted tower near I live, I hope, was upgraded to fiber so would it have stayed accepted during the upgrade process?

What are the pings you are getting off that tower?

I heard a big sigh from Albq. area.

If they install the 800 RRU now (like they are doing up in ABQ & Clovis), then it's just a matter of stopping back by and installing the Band 26 LTE carrier card at the RBS and integrating it with the network.  Pretty simple stuff.

 

Robert

 So this is what went up last month. Are these the 800 RRU?

Not necessarily. The capacity of one LTE carrier is equal to four EVDO carriers. And since there is probably only one or two EVDO carriers at the site in Alamogordo now, this will be an exponential amount of data capacity.

 

Additionally, I believe Alamogordo is just outside the IBEZ if memory serves and can receive a Band 26 LTE carrier too, doubling LTE capacity even further.

 

And if it is not enough, I believe the WiMax Protection Site is on a different tower. Sprint can convert that to NV and add even more capacity. And if Sprint adds Band 41 to this site, or both, the amount of capacity for a city the size of the Fat Cottonwood would be astronomical.

 

So it's not as bad as it may seem. One LTE carrier will likely provide fair to good service. And Sprint has lots of options to increase capacity further.

 

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Thank you Robert. I knew I did not have the whole picture. I did not know sprint had the option to upgrade the WiMAX site. I hope they do. I think that they need one more site here if they want to keep good speeds in the future. We are outside the IBEZ. So I hope the 800 comes with or shortly after LTE. Will they need more hardware upgrades to do that?

If Alamogordo only has one tower, will fiber and LTE be any good? Won't the pipe just fill up with all of the bandwidth hogs? I can get pings below or around 100 and downloads close to 2mb. Peek hours pings go up to 150-200 with downloads drop to 130kbp. I am wondering how much better it is going to be with only one Tower that will be 3G/4G?

I think you are right. I think they are pushing their new smartphone buying plans. I am wondering how quick they will have sprint spark up and going after the light up the LTE? My wife needs that 800 at work, she can not maintain a signal and it just kills her phone.

Well my wife's phone just received the text from sprint. She is interested in getting the HTC one max. I am wondering about the next HTC one, I really liked my LTE EVO, Just not sure what to expect in the next couple of months for phones.

I just don't see it happening. I guess we can hope. What is interesting is that more and more I see towers have legacy removed.

 

They pulled the legacy cabinets about two weeks ago down here. Contractor told me they still need back haul and the AAV installed. Do not know what AAV stands for. I was hopeful f the back haul was close when CL marked all their lines near the tower (about 100 yards away) then remarked them about a month ago. Nothing has been done since.

The top rack is like the one here in Alamogordo. The second one is not. Speeds are down and pings are high again. I guess the crew last week did not fix the problem.

So if a tower is NV, is it also capeable of 800 lte and voice? What is the delay for turning those on too in areas not close to the border?

So I got this text message from sprint

 

SprintFreeMsg: Over the next month, the new network will be largely completed in your area. See new phone offer at http://sprint.us/upgrade1 Reply S to stop.

 

Now what am I to believe? I sure do not think there will by any LTE in Alamogordo, or even Las Cruces either.

It may not be as bad as it sounds. Sprint has contracts for backhaul at all sites already. So there is a backhaul vendor assigned to that site. If you had access to the Sprint database, you would see that each site has an anticipated backhaul ready date. The backhaul vendors periodically update Sprint on their progress and those get updated in the master database. If the backhaul vendor has not provided a schedule date yet, it says N/A or TBD.

 

The "manager" you spoke to said what he said because in the schedule for that site it has no information. It says backhaul ready date as N/A or TBD. He is interpreting that to mean it is not even scheduled yet. And that may be true. But it is also possible that a date will pop in there only a week or a month before backhaul arrives. It also happens that backhaul is installed without a date ever being put in that field. It really comes down to the backhaul vendor.

 

N/A or TBD in the backhaul ready date field just really means that the backhaul vendor has not provided a date for the site. Not that work has not been scheduled for the site. They may be finishing up their plans or waiting for crews to become ready from another state before finishing up their schedules.

 

And one final thought. The one time I talked with a field crew manager and he showed me his schedule, it was almost 60 days old. Meaning he had not printed an updated schedule for along time and it was way out of date. It is possible also that the a site does have a scheduled date now, but did not the last time he received an updated printed copy for his sites.

 

I'm not trying to get your hopes up. I'm just trying to give you some more background info to give you a more complete picture.

 

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You know he was talking about alarms with dates of November 2013. So I know the tech was working off old items. Not sure what the field manager was looking at. What does the AAV look like. At least when I see that I. I know they will be getting closer. Also hoping that once Albq. Gets lit up the rest of the state will fall in quick. I was figuring that Roswell and Hobbs would come online soon after Clovis since they are platou wireless also. That does not seem to be the case. Just kind of bummed that we are the land of mañana. Not blaming sprint just wish they had a bigger fire to lite under some *****.

Ugh, got some bad news for Alamogordo. Ran into techs on site working on some alarms, talked with him for a few and he called the constructions manager. Found out that the AAV has not been scheduled for the site yet, same for the back-haul. Guess we are looking for a late 2014 for LTE.

We'll now that all of the holidays are done. Let's hope for some LTE integrations to start. Still no sign of back haul in Alamogordo, I have been getting an occasional ping below 100, most run from 115 to 200. I am greatful for the fix on data connection problems.

I was in San Angelo as they went live with their LTE. I was able to see LTE in SignalCheck app but the phone was not connecting. Anyone seeing LTE in the app?

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I ran this test on the 26th near Coors and Quail. 

 

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This one was on the 24th off Montano in Taylor Ranch.

 

Those sure look like pings done on fiber.

Looking like they may have fixed the problems here in Alamogordo. Been getting 1 to 2Mbps download off peek. Pings are under 200. So if peek speed are above 400, and no data connection problems things will be good until LTE

I'm not sure a repair ticket will do much.  If it's most of the area experiencing problems, which it seems is the case, I would bargain it has to do with NV.  Maybe they are preparing for LTE integration?

Might be true in the Sants Fe, Albq. area. I do not think they have started back-haul down here yet.

So this is what my connections shows. I am unable to load any web pages and can not get a speed test to preform. Tells me network communication problems. Sprint has a repair ticket on it. Been this way since the integration. Hope they have it fixed on Monday as promised.

Service is really bad at the airport. I always get a full service and date,but its been at least a bar or two outside and a lot of no data connection. Also see it on coors and Eagle Rance.

It is real bad down here in Alamogordo, I was in Hobbs last week and the same thing. Very poor data connection and Constance drop in 1x signal strength. Hope they fix it soon we had reasonable data speeds before.

So I'm new to the site. But while I was shopping for small Christmas presents at the Walgreens on Tramway/Indian School, I decided to do a quick speed test and got this on my iPhone. I knew upgrades were coming, because my service was interrupted, and I talked to Sprint customer service, and they said:

This outage is related Network vision which is going to complete on 12/17th. Once this get completed, you would be able to see LTE coverage there.

Obviously I know that's not going to happen, but my speeds are definitely changing. I've never seen speeds like this on 3G.

 

Sure wish our NV upgrade had shown improvements, off peek use to get over 1M download and peek would get around 200kb. Now can't even get a good data connection durning peek times. Hope it gets fixed soon. They guy who did the intergration said the fiber box has not been installed yet. So let's hope that is not far behind.

Well they have started on the integration on the only tower in Alamogordo. He had no information on the fiber back haul. So it is sit and wait.

Will I be able to see any LTE with signal check? I know I wouldn't be able to connect