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Yeah, I've noticed that too.  There has to be a reason.  One thing that jumps out is it appears most of the purple sites are King Co.  I wonder if this is a permit issue.  Anyone been watching the purple sites?  I wonder if legacy panels are still located on the site.  It may also be a Samsung vendor issue. It is interesting.

There speculation elsewhere on this site that the purple sites are problematic with tri-band devices, and that going forward, Samsung will be bringing up 3G and 3g/4g sites, not 4G only sites.

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-357-nexus-5-and-lg-g2-experience-temporary-sprint-lte-connectivity-issues-due-to-circuit-switched-fallback-technology/

There's also speculation that the Samsung areas were delayed do to this issue.  It looks like new deployments will be 3G/4G.

It appears that Samsung has gotten very busy in north Tacoma.  They really bringing these things up in clusters. 

I noticed I had 4G at home the first time this morning (south end of Maury/Vashon Island in Puget Sound), and sure enough, I see this evening that on the NV Sites Complete map in the sponsors section, Vashon/Maury now has three 3G/4G towers. 

I thought we'd be dead last in the Puget Sound area...

Visitor from Milwaukee in town for the Brewers Mariners series. Both 4G and 3G was pitiful at Safeco. Actually 4G seemed worse! I know it is high traffic time but you think with 4G upgrade Sprint would have more bandwidth to at least make it usable. Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2

I believe there's an eventual NV site at Centurylink Field. No progress on it yet, however. I hope it will be able to acommodate game day bandwidth requirements.

Im wondering if anyone knows answers? Im obviously in Silverdale. I get 4G outside. Then I walk indoors. I loose the 4G signal. Or that the 4G is weak in places. I would like to recieve 4G indoors. Can anybody explain this?

LTE is on a frequency that doesn't penetrate buildings very well. If it was on the old Nextel frequencies, then building penetration would be much better. The lower the frequency, the better signals carry.

Well white center has 4g now

I see on the Sensorly map that the City of Seattle has purple areas extending barely across the city limits, both in Lake City and White Center. It's good to see the purple swatches growing...

I got a pretty good LTE signal on the ferry ride from Fauntleroy in West Seattle to Vashon Island this morning. The speeds and quality diminished the closer we got to Vashon, but speeds were very good just offshore from the Fauntleroy dock. I took this screenshot of my LTE Engineering screen, if it helps identify the tower. I suppose it's the tower in Burien. Mapped on Sensorly.

 

I think I can definitely report that this is the Burien site that I'm seeing from the north end ferry dock on Vashon Island. This morning, I had a solid 4G signal until a ferry boat landed, blocking a direct line of sight to Burien, at which point the 4G signal dropped and 3G signal returned. When that boat left and the line of sight returned, so did the 4G signal. The distance appears to be slightly over six miles, as the crow flies.

Signals carry much farther over water. It can be from almost anywhere. Even Burien.

 

Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

I'm thrilled to have it, no matter where it's coming from. The ferry commute is quiet, thoughtful, productive time. It helps extend the workday, and LTE on the boat will mean that much less time that work is intruding into family life on the island. There's no downside.

I got a pretty good LTE signal on the ferry ride from Fauntleroy in West Seattle to Vashon Island this morning. The speeds and quality diminished the closer we got to Vashon, but speeds were very good just offshore from the Fauntleroy dock. I took this screenshot of my LTE Engineering screen, if it helps identify the tower. I suppose it's the tower in Burien. Mapped on Sensorly.

Efficient eHRPD routing+under capacity EVDO carrier+new fiber backhaul+under burdened LTE core = screaming 3G ping.

 

That's about as good as it can get on 3G. The airlink cannot support anything much faster than that. In ideal situations, the airlink cannot get faster than 50-55ms. And then add the rest of the travel once it gets beyond the tower. Theoretical best ping on 3G would likely be 55-60ms. And that will be extremely uncommon. So you've got a good thing there!

 

Robert via LG Optimus G using Tapatalk

This is the fastest 3G Ive seen, No 4G yet (this was taken on the north end ferry dock on Vashon Island), but these speeds are a big improvement.

Edit: Screenshot didn't attach...

Sensorly is showing a small blip right by the junction of SR 512 and I-5 in Lakewood

There's a similar smudge just southwest of SR167/Kent Des Moines Road. It looks grey, not purple, but there it is...