AcctDeleted_Merlin

Hey I got a question. So the couple towers in northglenn that are lte and have been for a few months be online and the rest of Denver not? Or how about this way, the few towers that are online with lte work and the rest of Denver not online?

 

Yes?

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

hand you a brick and say go.

Yep.

... Sprint has no plans to deploy a 10x10 FDD (to my knowledge).

5g perhaps ... :]

Qualcaumn test devices (which I'm assuming Sprint engineers would definitely have access to) would have practically every conceivable setup available to mess around with. Definitely wouldn't surprise me if they're testing carrier aggregation between different PCS blocks considering they are now refarming unused PCS spectrum for additional carriers. 

No, it would not surprise me either.

Either carrier aggregation or your test setup is running 10x10 fdd-lte I'd say

 

Sent from my Nexus 5

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.

Not sure what you're trying to say?

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.  

Yeah, that's the max of a 5x5 FDD-LTE. So either you have a different setup, or the speedtest server is whacked out.

From another thread...

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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).

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Maybe this?

Then it must have a different set up? I'm wondering how you are seeing speeds over 37.5Mbps? 

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

What are you testing? That doesn't sound like PCS LTE...

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 there were such a thing as a small, portable camera that you could snap a photo of the screen with. Could you imagine how awesome something like that would be? ? ;-) Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

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*

1x800, 800 LTE, 1900 LTE?

 

Which do you mean?

 

When they fire up your cluster, 1x800 should be active, as well as the improved PCS 1x and EVDO.

 

If 1900 LTE is ready to go, it will be activated as well. Not all sites are ready for LTE, waiting on proper backhaul to be delivered. 800 LTE is a wildcard. It's possible it will be activated as well, we just don't know yet. Maybe Merlin does

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.

I suppose you could make an argument for dense air (low altitude) vs thin air (high altitude) or dry vs moist air, but the difference to the end user is pretty much negligible. The employee you talked to probably had no idea what they were talking about.

Any boost due to density is immediately canceled out by the high atmosphere turbulence we experience.

Translation: it's windy.

Merlin,

 

Maybe you could shed some light on this. I have wonder why the NV upgrades seem to have started outside of Denver and seem to be working there way in, instead of starting with the city and working it's way out into rural areas?

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.

Saw some LTE today, Quebec and I70 and East... Along Parker Rd too. Did we findly come online? Or testing?

 

I would guess that both sites are pretty close to live.

I had to call tech support tonight because my service was working ìntermittenly throughout the day. The tech said three towers in the Bennett area are down and the repairs should be completed by weds (01/08/2014) around 5pm. She also said the Bennett tower is scheduled to go live LTE by January 12 and it sounded like some of the other towers in the area should go live too. She said a tower in Elizabeth on County Road 17 is live LTE but Ihave not been able to recieve the signal. Has anyone noticed a change? I was told about a month ago the Denver market should be completed by Feb 2014. She said there was a trouble ticket for the tower outage and that I could view the progress online. Does anyone know how to check the status of the trouble tickets?

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.

North Glenn Colorado. I25 and just south of 104th.

Hmm. You sure that is a NV site?

Durango people here. Out to do some sensorly mapping now. Any updates on the area? Would be ecstatic to see LTE but nothing here thus far. 

Your equipment is there. You will probably go live in late spring when they can get all the fiber in.

 

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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.

That makes sense. Thanks anyways.

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. 

hey i was wondering if anyone has an idea on exactly where the denver-englewood switch is and what does it consist of? thanks

That's classified. :]

3-4 years for deployment 

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

I thought Rule #1 was don't believe anyone who works at Sprint Customer service.  Since most of us were told we were getting LTE in our area in less than six months and that was two years ago. 

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.

:-)

There's some lte at edgewater by 20th and sheridan buy no signal

Sensorly, or it didn't happen. :-)

Getting 4G here in South Metro. I hope they turn on Parker soon

 

Thanks Merlin for all your hard work. Happy Holidays!

You're Welcome

They say that to everyone on the sprint boards, don't ask me why they are trained to say that( or told to say that)

Rule number 1) Don't make promises, people get butthurt.

Merlin, do you have any info for us folk in Grand Junction.  I am pretty sure that we have equipment on the towers but so far nothing is active.  Are we also waiting for backhaul?

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.

I will be driving by tomorrow morning, I'll try to map as much is possible

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.