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Yes?

800LTE card spotted and ACTIVE in the Springs. Happy hunting.

Yep.

5g perhaps ... :] No, it would not surprise me either.

Could be running 10x10. We really don't get the specs for the phones. They are nasty bricks designed for statistics and information only. They provide the benchmark that we compare a customer phone to. This lets us quickly determine if a complaint/problem is caused by a device or a site. Wouldn't surprise me if it is pulling 10x10, but I can't confirm one way or the other.

37 Mbps on 1900 and 37Mbps on 800. And the test phones are not regular phones, we're not running shitty OOkla on these things. The test probably pulled from both bands at the same time.

From another thread... " Maximum bandwidth of a single EV-DO carrier is ~3.2 Mbps. Three sectors/carrier makes that ~9.6 Mbps. Maximum bandwidth of a single 5x5 FDD-LTE carrier is ~37 Mbps. Three sectors/carrier makes that ~111 Mbps. Multiply that by two (as Sprint has a 5x5 on 1900 MHz PCS G Block and a 5x5 on 800 ESMR), to get ~222 Mbps. I have no idea what the bandwidth of a 20 MHz 3:2 TDD-LTE carrier is. Someone else will have to answer that (so I can memorize the answer and how the math works). " Maybe this?

How? I don't know. Is that supposed to be a theoretical max?

It is. We have a fully operational NV cabinet/rru/antenna setup inside the switch loading bay. We use it for training, and tinkering.

If only it wouldn't be suspicious as hell, and most likely traceable back to me. There is a reason the screenshot is disabled.

If only I had a sprint phone, I could show you the speeds at our test site (located inside the switch). 45ish MB down, 25-30 up. The test phones have the screenshot function disabled. :-/ *for those wondering... it wouldn't make sense to have a personal phone on the network you are fixing*

If you want to play with 800LTE a little early you will have to make a trip to our windy neighbor state to the north. I have only seen 800LTE cards in the wild up there. Most of the NV sites here have an approved purchase made for the 800LTE card, but they have not shown up as of yet. Any boost due to density is immediately canceled out by the high atmosphere turbulence we experience. Translation: it's windy.

A few pages ago I was talking about the "network ring" that just got completed... that is the reason. Those outer sites are not part of the same "network". They are provided bandwidth by whoever provides the fiber to the site or site-chain. The network ring in Denver will be directly connected and will share bandwidth. Why, you ask? Because of large congregations of people using their phones. Think a stadium worth. In the past the sites near these congregations would be massive, 2 cabinets, fully stocked with control cards, only to be used infrequently. This ring allows the entire network to share the burden and not get demolished during a traffic jam (literately). Those who live/work near i25 know this well. During rush hour near that hell-hole you might as well not have a phone. This will not be the case with this new setup. Trust me, it's sexy how it works. and in a few years the other carriers are going to be wishing they had gone this route.

I would guess that both sites are pretty close to live. Aren't microwave chains fun? As far as I know, you should be going live very soon, the microwave issues are actually a good sign. I don't think there is a way to check status on tickets for the public. Even if I were to look it up I would only be able to see if it is complete or not. I wouldn't be able to get a status update.

Hmm. You sure that is a NV site?

Your equipment is there. You will probably go live in late spring when they can get all the fiber in. 1) Where is this? I need to look into why it was installed incorrectly. 2) It's not nice to take pictures of naked stealth poles. They get self-conscious.

I was joking. I can't really tell you where the switch is. I know where it is, but really shouldn't be telling everyone. As far as what it does.. it switches. :-) It is the central connection between the network that connects the sites and the network that controls the phones. It distributes bandwidth, and handles transfers from site to site during voice calls while moving. It facilitates connections to the larger networks of Sprint and other telephone companies.

That's classified. :]

This is still the plan. Initial deployment is on schedule from when they started it, which was late by about 1.5 years.

I'm gonna be harsh here for a second. 1) They didn't lie, that was the initial plan and project completion date. Samsung dropped the ball from what I am hearing. 2) NEVER trust anyone who wants to sell you something. Period. Do your research. 3) Keep bringing that up, in only makes Sprint lose subscribers and makes maintaining and adding bandwidth next to impossible if their market share decreases. :-)

Sensorly, or it didn't happen. :-) You're Welcome Rule number 1) Don't make promises, people get butthurt.

Not sure what is going on. There are no more legacy sites out there. My guess is that have to wait for extensive backhaul. Most of the sites are microwave bounce sites. Probably going to be an "all at once" type switch over to fiber once the most remote sites are complete. Other than the sites in the small towns all other sites are mountaintop pain-in-the-GSM sites to reach. Combine that with clay soil that turns to mashed-potatoes-mixed-with-glue when wet and crews not wanting to venture into the wild and it looks like late spring, early summer for you.

The site I'm thinking of is extremely high up and doesn't appear to be pointed down. Those exact streets may not be the coverage area.

Pretty quiet day in the field. Merry Christmas, folks! BTW, resources have been slowly shifting north of Denver and the metro area NV sites are in the "clean-up lose ends" stage. Wont be long before we see a few more green lights on the LTE cards. I've already visited a few that are live but are not on those pretty little sensorly maps. Get to it. *cough CoBLVD and I25 cough*

Christmas is one of the highest call volume days of the year. Most of the time a site need only to be reset remotely, but every now and then we get some trouble alarms.