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  1. Dkoellerwx
    What?
  2. Dkoellerwx
    100 (+) cities, by the end of the year. Not 100 days. Just clarifying.
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    The little one is Sprint, the large one has multiple carriers. Many many many towers, in fact most have more than one carrier on them.
  4. Dkoellerwx
    Nope, the difference is one tower is solely Sprint, the other has every other carrier and then some on it.
  5. Dkoellerwx
    It depends. The signal you are connecting to know could be from a distant tower, hence the weak signal/slow speeds. As more towers are completed, it is likely that your signal will get better, and speeds with it. Buildings to knock off quite a bit from your signal strength, but if you get a decent 3G signal inside your house, than your LTE signal will be usable as well. However, if you are at home and have WiFi, than there is no reason to have your phone on the network.
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    That's not a bad signal. The signal I had at home in KC hovered around -105 and gave me great speeds. -120 is when it starts to get really weak. I believe it's anything -95 or better that is considered a strong signal. AJ might have to correct me on that.
  7. Dkoellerwx
    Maybe Sunday? They've done launches before on Sunday. I see the coverage maps have been updated. Looks like we'll be seeing the announcement for Chicago IL, Bourbannais/Bradley/Kankaee IL, Rockford IL, Gary IN, Hutchinson/McPherson KS, and a smattering of southeast Massachusetts cities that weren't explicitly called out in the "NV underway" press releases.
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    There's an outside chance they make the announcement by the end of this month, but I would say it is more likely that the announcement comes at the end of November. The coverage doesn't seem strong enough right now in central Boston for an official announcement. Any towers that are complete are already active, so the announcement won't change LTE coverage at all.
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    Do you have it set to upload continuously or WiFi only? That's all I can think of, is something getting lost if it doesn't get uploaded in a timely manner. Other than that, I have no answer for what you've been seeing. Maybe Sensorly can chime in?
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    Running Sensorly in KC, I would have it switch into LTE while running as well, but it is possible that it can delay the connection, and if you move through too quickly, or the LTE coverage is limited, it's possible to miss it. That's not to say it will always happen, just fair warning.
  11. Dkoellerwx
    It may seem to be behind, but it will not end up like WiMax. NV is active in the NOLA market, and Sprint will upgrade it's entire network in the next year and a half, especially with the new help from SoftBank.
  12. Dkoellerwx
    Pulling from another thread: Sometimes having Sensorly actively running while moving can delay or prevent your phone from detecting or switching to LTE. Sensorly often requires an active data connection, and it's possible for your phone to not scan for/not switch to another band (LTE) while it has an active data connection. I would always start running Sensorly after I connected to LTE. Doesn't mean there was LTE, just letting you know it might make it easier to miss!
  13. Dkoellerwx
    The only downside is you can't map that wonderful 4G LTE coverage with Sensorly.....
  14. Dkoellerwx
    There have been many reports of 3G/2G data collection not updating on the Sensorly maps. I'm not sure what the bug is, but it doesn't seem to be location or device specific. However, every 4G data point seems to update without an issue across all devices.
  15. Dkoellerwx
    Sometimes having Sensorly actively running while moving can delay or prevent your phone from detecting for switching to LTE. Sensroly often requires an active data connection, and it's possible for your phone to not scan for/not switch to another band (LTE) while it has an active data connection. I would always start running Sensorly after I connected to LTE.
  16. Dkoellerwx
    Still a lot of work going on in the area, so the dropped call issue that developed as NV worked started will probably continue a few more weeks. I imagine that as 800 voice is activated in your area, that call quality and dropped call issues will disappear.
  17. Dkoellerwx
    When Sprint announces Chicago, most likely only about 60% of the towers will be completed. It will take until December or early January for the market to be completed. Any tower that is completed is being released into the public so far as we can tell, so announcing the market won't change anything if you still aren't getting a signal. Only when the towers nearest you are completed will the signal finally settle down.
  18. Dkoellerwx
    You do indeed have a very nice phone. If you can hold out 6 months or so, perhaps sooner, you should start to see 4G LTE start to light up in your area, and then your phone will suddenly become even sweeter.
  19. Dkoellerwx
    4G WiMax and 4G LTE are two completely different things. Your Android was a WiMax phone, your iPhone is an LTE phone. Hence your WiMax phone does not work on LTE, and vice versa. Capishe?
  20. Dkoellerwx
    Columbus, Ohio does not have 4G LTE. Everything is working fine.
  21. Dkoellerwx
    I'm right next door, so if I get a chance this weekend, or maybe next I may make a road trip over to see if anything is going on.
  22. Dkoellerwx
    At some point in the near future, any tower that is complete should be activated, if they follow the trend in SF, Chicago, and Boston. So if you don't have LTE in the next few days, likely this means there are no towers completed in your area, and an official "launch" isn't going to change anything. In areas which have been soft launched such as LA, the trend has been for Sprint to release towers into the wild right away, with limited exceptions.
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    I'm curious as well since I believe the length of the panel is dependent on the type of signal, so all NV panels should be of similar length since they are all designed for 1900/800. I'm not sure how the short ones would work... ? Unless they are actually longer than they appear.
  24. Dkoellerwx
    Ericsson from Texas. More here.
  25. Dkoellerwx
    Samsung seems to upgrade large clusters all at once, so it's possible that what you are seeing is part of the NV upgrade. However, I'm sure there are other reasons for the issues as well. And I would take anything that a Sprint representative tells you with a grain of salt.
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