hockeyfamily737

I got my M8 today, anyone able to point me in the direction of some band 41 yet???

How's things going up in the Locks / East Windsor / Enfield area?  I haven't been paying much attention.  I ended up jumping to AT&T back in October.  Grabbed a G2 on a $60 Go Phone plan, but I'm curious as to the progress.  Also curious how you like the M8?  I've been giving it some serious consideration, but meh the camera.  That was the only thing I hated about the M7.  Despite the great low light sensor 4MP just isn't enough.

I saw people on the tower above the Windsor Locks police station last week. I assumed it was NV, but couldn't verify.

 

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I saw them too. Likewise, I couldn't tell what they were doing.

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I'm skipping the note 3,even though I just spent 6 months planning to get one, until poof, no triband. Get a triband. That's all I'm sayin

 

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That's what my gut tells me too.  I was just curious as to what other people in our market thought.  My knowledge base is mainly on the root, rom, kernel side of things and this is the first time I'm really looking at how to make the most use of the network as opposed to how easily can I unlock my bootloader and build roms.  Basically, my needs have shifted to just having a phone that works lol.

Let me ask you guys something.  Given the state of our market right now, anyone thinking about upgrading to a Note 3, considering it's lack of tri-band radio support?  I'm really torn here. I want that gigantic screen and s-pen, and I find it hard to believe that we'll be seing LTE at 800mhz anytime soon, but I sure would be pissed if I was wrong. 

I was able to get LTE on 91 South again tonight and it mapped.  Just north of the Jennings Rd exit heading into Hartford and then again just South of the Founders Bridge heading out of Hartford.  I wish the antennas on this HTC One were a little better.  My daughter's S3 holds onto LTE a lot better, so I think I'll take that to work with me tomorrow night and see if I can get a little more. 

I noticed I had 4g on 159 this morning in Suffield by Bridge street. Also right on 159 by the prisons and the Suffield- Windsor Locks line. Hopefully they can keep lighting up towers because the area really needs it. Now i'm just wishing that the Springfield market will fill in. Still lots of gaps in the area that has officially launched.

Yeah, dstar2002 mapped that the other day. I had it for about 30 seconds on North St in Windsor Locks this afternoon and a couple of random spots on 159 south of the 140 bridge. Haven't been able to connect in Hartford at all since that one little blip the other day, which didn't even show up on the map.

4G?... In Hartford!.... Really? Don't tease us like this, .

 

Hockey, did you make sure it uploaded all the data? I just checked mine since I did some mapping earlier and it had some waiting to upload for some reason.

On your advice, I just checked and had 180 messages waiting to send. I'm still not positive if I actually caught it. Was literally less then 30 seconds between the time I noticed it and got bounced back to 3g.

Yeah I tried mapping it too but as soon as I tried opening up Sensorly it reverted back to 3G. Came back tried again and gone.. Hasn't came back since :'( lol

I actually had my mapping on already, because I never shut it off when I left the Enfield site. I wanted to see if I got a glimpse anywhere else.  So hopefully we'll be able to see it on the map, fingers crossed.

Finally picked up LTE in Hartford. It's coming and going so they must've just hit the switch on the tower!

I thought I was losing my mind when I looked and saw LTE on 91 by the Science Center, I had mapping on at the time, but I'm not seeing it on the map yet at any zoom level.

yes sir. I'll probably hit more this week and fill in the entire area that isn't mapped. Unless someone beats me too it lol

 

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I mapped some out west of the river on RTE 159, came across the river turned onto Depot Hill Rd and dropped it, picked it back up at the top of Depot Hill rd and went up Mullen Rd to the where you cut across.  It didn't hold well at all on Mullen Rd.  I had to stop and toggle airplane mode constantly.  Had my HTC One and my daughter's S3 with me.  My wife swears she had LTE this morning in Windsor Locks on Elm St, but I couldn't replicate her findings.

Mapped some of it in my travels today, seems to have a nice radius of LTE broadcasting. Can't wait for more to fill in the rest of the area

 

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I ran a good chunk of King St, Old King St, Weymouth Rd, Post Office Rd, South Rd, Oliver Rd, and Rte 91 and hit a few smaller side streets, but it was raining heavy and visibility was terrible. Data is still uploading.

There's LTE live in Enfield on the king street tower mapped some of it.

Nice job. I'll head out that way and try and map a bit more.

I feel better now. My wife and kids hadn't mentioned it, so I just assumed it was my phone lol.

Man as if my service wasn't already bad now I'm dealing with random moments of roaming for ten to fifteen minutes before my service comes back or my 3G would freeze from time to time and just keep blinking the up arrow till I toggle airplane mode on and off. Is this what tower upgrades look like? Because man I been harassing Sprint all week and they swear up and down nothings wrong in the area.

I can confirm, absolutely no progress started on tower at Bradley Airport. Saw up close and personal. People i saw a few weeks ago were working off panels connected to metro pcs cabinets (tmobile now right?)

 

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Does anyone know of, or has anyone seen any work going on in the Cromwell / Portland area? I've noticed over the last couple of months data has gone from abysmal to nonexistent. Now it's gotten to where I either have to reverse tether or force roam. FWIW, I'm about a half mile from Rte 99 where signal is still somewhat usable.

It's maddening to buy a new flagship device every 6 months or so, then drive up and down Rte 91 between Windsor Locks and Cromwell with no LTE and barely acceptable 3G.  Once I saw LTE light up heading into Agawam a few months ago, I thought for sure it would keep moving into CT, but it just never seems to progress.  Here we are again; heading into Q4, new devices on the horizon with Snapdragon 800's and another big decision to make.... stick it out or jump ship.