JossMan

Doctor House

Oh okay that's cool. This makes me want to do some driving around to figure out where the towers are in my area.

Yeah SignalCheck has a side effect, it turns normal people into wireless nerds, that coupled with S4GRU and your on a straight path to wireless signal and site hunting addiction, you've been forewarned!   

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Folks, if you reply directly after another post with massive images, you do not need to quote those massive images -- or even that post at all.  We will get the drift.

 

Capisce?

 

AJ

How do these images get so large anyway?  Most images I see on here are a respectable size, but after looking at those images I thought I was looking at a billboard. 

The closest Sprint tower to my house is about 3.5 miles away. In between are hills, trees, a handful of houses, and fields. However, I do have line of sight. I can see the blinking light of the tower in the distance at night. I do not think Sprint has deployed any LTE at this tower. When they do, is it possible that the LTE signal would reach my house?

 

Right now I have a Moto X, but I may go back to the Q10. I do pick up eHRPD at my house. What frequency is that on? I'm thinking Sprint's 800ish mhz LTE band might. Not sure about 1900 though..

 

Thanks

eHRPD as stated runs on the 1900MHz PCS band, eHRPD is just a software overlay of 3G EV-DO to allow smooth transitions from 3G to LTE or vise versa.  If you are receiving an estimated -96dB on either 1x RTT or EV-DO/eHRPD then you will be very very close to the edge of 1900 B25 LTE roughly -105 to -115dB, the newer the technology the more fragile the signal becomes. Anyone could take a stab at what your signal could be but it would be a guesstimate.  Band 26 800 LTE would be the better experience for you once its deployed at the site you have described due to trees, hills, and obstructions that are between you and the site.   

 

Mike/others can correct me if I am wrong, but if you look at the PCI value, and then look at the "Neighbor cells", a lot of times I will see the same PCI listed twice with 2 slightly different RSRP (strength) which, to me, would indicate that multiple frequencies were being broadcast. Once i get back to Boston which has LTE2500 I can check to see if i pick up the same PCI 3 times.

 

Salman

Seeing the PCI twice (the one your connected to and the neighbor cell) is normal.  An example:  Say your on Sprint's 1900 LTE band with a PCI of 100 and you see the same PCI (100) under "neighbor cells" with the signal strength this is PCI 100 on Sprint's B26 800 LTE.  In my market I will see the same PCI for 1900 and 800 LTE so this is normal, I don't know if this is the same with Sprint B41.

I am still trying to figure out all of the great information that this app provides. And at the same time I am a little unclear about data at 800 megahertz with Sprint. Does this screenshot suggest that I'm getting data on 800 megahertz? I was under the impression but there was very little of that in the market yet.

Yes according to SignalCheck your picking up Sprint's Band 26 which is the 800 band.  

SignalCheck provides a wealth of information on signal strength, which band your currently connected to, provides alerts when connected to Sprint's 800 voice service, etc. the list goes on and on.

GCI = Global Cell Identity, specific ID which can uniquely identify a cell in the whole world. 

PCI = Physical Serving Cell, this provides which sector your currently connected to on a site when on LTE.

TAC = Tracking Area Code, identifies a tracking area within a particular network.    

Has anyone else noticed a PLMN change in there market?  As of last Friday my PLMN went from 310120 to 312530 while on B25 and B26 LTE.  The pictures below are from the same site that just had LTE 800 flipped on sometime last week.  This new PLMN is showing up on every site I connect too whether I am on B25 or B26.  

Before 

After

I don't know why but on my G2 Sprint thinks it's a good idea to display 1 bar for anything lower than -102dBm...when I get to -104 dBm, I have NO bars. xD

 

Sent from my LG-LS980

I picked up an LG Volt though a independent Sprint store on Black Friday, activated it walked out and I get the same experience you have...LG must have high standards.    I stay at 1 to 2 bars if I hover within -102 to -107dBm while on B25.  When it connects to B26 the bars jump once it gets sub -99dBm.

Sounds good. The sites use 310410 as reported by your app and mikejeeps but my SIM is 310150.

 

Can't wait for the HSPA mapping! Been bored on mapping lately and want to figure out their pattern on the HSPA side. But of course, no hurry.

That's what I am doing in my area, mapping HSPA+ and once I finish up I'll switch over to LTE.  Finding AT&T sites can be somewhat of an annoyance tracking them down since I don't have a map of where they are located.  

So on my galaxy s5 I am not too sure if it is displaying neighboring pci values. I have the setting enabled but have never seen it show up on SCP beta.

This could be due to Samsung blocking certain information from being displayed to SignalCheck, if so then this is completely out of Mike's hands.  When I had my S3 it wasn't until the 4.4 update that I could see TAC and GCI info on SCP.  

I am behind on this thread but I can pm you the pattern I found on HSPA cells. They also translate to the LTE side of the site to match things up.

That would be great.  AT&T seems to use patterns of 8 here when it comes to the PSC, i.e. 32, 40, 48

Pre-ordered mine as well, this will be replacing my 2-year old Roku player.  

when your told "are you sure you don't work for Ericsson," when you stop and talk to a contractor at a Sprint site.  

Before 2001 we had two incumbent ISP providers here in Bristol, VA, Charter Communications and Embarq which is now called CenturyLink.  Both companies offered sub-par service at a high premium at the time; city residents were fed up with price hikes from both companies creating stale competition.  It was time for a new competitor to come to the plate in the form of BVU OptiNet. During the late 90s BVU was busy stringing up fiber to create there own network that would be used between local city government buildings, city schools, and telemetry for BVU owned electric substations.  Between 1999 and 2001 BVU actively pursued other ways to utilize this infrastructure to benefit the community. In early 2001, broadband and PCX telephone applications were introduced to local schools and government offices. As local businesses learned of BVU’s broadband capabilities, they began expressing interest, surveys confirmed that there was significant public interest, by local consumers, in BVU providing competitive telecom and information.

@JossMan lol you had better edit your post to spell "grammar" correctly

Lol, I did it on purpose...someone noticed 

We roll deep!!!

 

 

-Mike

Concerning SignalCheck Pro 4.26b, everything is good on the GSM side of things.  Right now I'm riding on HSPA+ I'll switch over to LTE later today on my Moto X and test it as well.  One thing Mike concerning grammar; do you think you could change "neighbor cells" to "neighboring cells?"

No.

 

But you can test out the beta one that should be available within a couple of hours..

 

-Mike

Can't wait 

How does one get the beta version?

 

Sent from my Nexus 5

Be in Mike's beta crew

SignalCheck Change Log

Alpha testing now:

• Added display of primary scrambling code (PSC) for GSM sites.

• Added option to display LTE and GSM neighbor cells. (Pro)

Mike do you think I could test out the alpha build that includes these features?  My Moto G, Moto X, and N5 would be very happy! 

S. Ali makes me eyes bleed fire... That is all. I shouldn't let him get to me, but he does. And now Robert has a new impersonator on fierce wireless. It's funny. Robert you are so famous that you have a impersonator now!

He is obviously a troll trying to get a bite from someone, however I did enjoy reading the very informative comment you posted regarding the matter!   

AT&T's LTE deployment has slowed but they are still investing in there network, and Sprint has been constant in there LTE deployment and rip and replace upgrades (some people are just impatient).  I keep an eye on RootMetrics and I have seen plenty of areas where Sprint has stolen the limelight away from Verizon according to RootMetric's reliability index. 

Love Bleeds...it's bringing me to my knees

I think we should refrain from comparing speed performance on home ISPs to cellular data networks. 

Mike, I am currently test driving my Moto G (2014 2nd Gen) and it seems like SignalCheck takes quite awhile to update itself, I will also test my Moto X (2014) on LTE as well in the coming days.  It's great to be using SCP once again! 

Also any of you that are familiar with GSM tech is the CID unique when connected to HSPA/HSPA+? I am trying to figure out the pattern (if there is any) to identify the sectors. 

A slow learner? Look what you have accomplished in the last 2 1/2 years! This app has become the go to for site spotting and reporting. I don't think anyone else can say they've been this successful in the practical app category.

Totally agree with you, I switched over to a Windows Phone and couldn't deal with the thought of not having SignalCheck on my device!  So here I am back on Android once again 

We are lucky to have Mike developing on Android, he is an exclusive