AcctDeleted_Merlin
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Again, the tower is overloaded with connections. High ping + Slow DL + much higher UL = overloaded. Keep in mind that until that site gets fiber the entire site us most likely sharing 3 T1s. 3xT1 = ~ 4.5 Mbps to share with everyone else. It might be a bigger site and have a T3, but that is still sharing 45 Mbps with everyone. A site that size and location can easily have a few hundred connections rolling. Throw in some people playing pandora, spotify, iheartradio... and it's gone. The old equipment was never designed to prioritize traffic and thus it can't.
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Follow up. 1) Your "good" test is literally in the morning shadow of a site. No competition there. 2) The Mesa mall is a deathzone and is very hard to work with. It is directly in between sites and there is (most likely) a sprint store/kiosk repeater inside. Those things are fantastic and hellish at the same time particularly due to signal noise that they generate just outside of their usable range. I have been in that mall several times with multiple carriers and there really isn't much that can be done for any of them. FYI, when I was in there with Verizon I couldn't even send texts in some places. My advice would be to move to a part of the state with running water and indoor toilets.
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Not to be a dick about this, but... 1) Your speed tests were taken 5 days apart 2) Based on your locations you are connected to two different towers. 3) The "bad" speedtest is inside a damn mall on a SUNDAY during Christmas shopping season. 4) That upload speed and ping tells me that you are on an overloaded tower (ie, mall) Your test is bad, and you should feel bad. That in mind, I'm still going to look into the issue for you.
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Stealth towers cost more, are usually single carrier (resulting in more "stealth" towers), aren't as good for signal clarity, lower to the ground, cause more heat related issues, and just are a pain to work with. The only ones I don't mind are the fake trees. Highlands ranch also severely limits mounting antennas to buildings.
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1) Yes, Zayo is handling a bit of the fiber. Most of their connections are from existing network connections to sites. Century Link is also handling quite a bit more connections. It's hard to explain exactly the relationship between the two. Basically, whichever network of fiber is closer gets connected up. Zayo is a bit ahead of CL in this game. 2) Highlands Ranch is tricky because they don't allow non-stealth towers. Good luck telling which sites are which.
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What I meant was that you are running on the VN equipment. If you experienced the speeds like you did it means either 1) you were the only person connected and pulling data on that site but the site is still running garbage T1s, or 2) the site has its fiber connection and was either being tested or wasn't being used very much by anyone else but you. Also, the switch side speeds are being throttled down until the full network is ready, this id to prevent some serious issues with the network as they move from the old switches to the new ones. Have no fear, Grand Junction is going live very soon. But know that you really only have one tech out on the entire western slope taking care of business, so they try not to kill him by bringing all the sites up to speed at the same damn time.
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This. And the equipment roll out is nearly done. Acceptance phase is fast approaching and will move slow-ish. The acceptance of a site takes a bit of work. Vendor, Sprint, installer, and Ericsson all have to be on site at the same time to sign off on a rather large checklist. Takes about 2-3 hours per site if everything goes smoothly. At most 3-4 sites could go live per day. Acceptance is on hold until back-haul catches up.
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Here's the skinny, or at least what I was told. The devices need a firmware update to access the TD-LTE side. Most of the clearwire sites are up and running but no new sites are being upgraded/installed. Rumor is that once the NV cabinets are complete and running sprint will begin to shutdown the CW cabinets and move them to the NV cabinets. This would be a bit of a process and will probably coincide with the 800LTE rollout. If that makes sense, yay, if not, blame the guy I got the info from.