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How much would a donation cost in order to access those forums?

I send small amounts to keep it under the wife's radar! And try to send when I can. Anything helps keep these awesome maps/site/knowledge floating.

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More of a Northern Wisconsin market thing but just to show how impressive 800SMR could be.... I was in Cleveland, WI and was receiving 1x800 from the tower in Manitowoc, WI which is approximately 13 mi away. It wasn't strong but it worked! (mostly line of sight over water. Once the Sheboygan towers go 800SMR, Sprint could be useful at our lake house)

(rough approx on the tower)

Snapped the screen shot before full connection but it did connect.

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like this http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/2293-animated-maps/

Rats, I could have done that from the beginning when we had zero towers, would have been really cool to see them pop up one by one in the state.  I'll try to start now, although it won't be as impressive I guess. Plus you can just collapse them all down to a gif instead of requiring Flash Player. 

Would great to be able to see a time lapse video of the Milwaukee area. Who has skills?

Like time lapse of pins going up on the sponsor map? That would have been a good idea. I could try to start that from now on with daily screen shots, then make a gif.....for the sponsor side only of course. Not sure if Robert would be okay with this.

Madison is back to eHRPD this morning. EV-DO for the past couple days.

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Hmm.  Looking at the map.  West Bend and north of Port Washington maybe?

I'm pretty sure that 39/90 at 51 near Stoughton/Madison is at least one of those towers. 

I'd assume LTE will only be active on that tower when a cluster of towers are ready to go live. I drive past there every day. I'll let you guys know when its active.

Not necessary for a cluster to be ready.  Many of the towers have started all by their lonesome....ie, the McFarland Tower was the only one active in our area, then Oregon, then Sun Prairie, etc. etc.  I think they just need all the pieces to be in place, then whammo, turn it on. 

Since you work in the Greenway area, head out Greenway until it hits Pleasant View, then turn right, after you pass the golf course turn in, keep an eye to the left and see if you see any work going on if there's a tower there or something  .  I'm interested to understand these guys' pattern for work.  That High St. tower is ready for juice as far as I could tell last night, so I'm sure they've moved on to the next tower.  That antenna I posted is what you're looking for with the the two RRU's on them. 

Here's that Middleton tower. Not broadcasting LTE yet, but I believe that's a 1900 and an 800 RRU on there, so when they do light it up, it'll be glorious.

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(I don't know if Sprint uses AT&T fiber around here exclusively or not). He said that Sprint is only going with 1Gbps whereas AT&T and Verizon and so on, are putting in 10Gbps usually. He thought that was kind of shotty that Sprint was only installing 1Gbps instead of 10. That can easily be changed though.

 

He also made the comment that Sprint is moving pretty slow on this work.

The fiber here in Fitchburg has AT&T on all the flags. The switches are easy enough for them to swap out from 1 to 10 Gbps in the cabinets. I do think that's lame they aren't putting in 10s right away. Hopefully that's not everywhere.

I'd say their slow! They have hundreds of towers to do!!!! :-)

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Unfortunately, no LTE available from the High street tower. I was running LTE discovery mode .

Rats. I'm sure it'll be on in the coming days. Accepted doesn't always mean broadcasting. Eitherway, exciting things are happening!

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I work by greenway station. That tower is not broadcasting lte as far as my discovery test is concerned. I take airport rd on my wsy home from work. I'll be sure to run discovery and sensory when I go home.

Well, cruise east on Airport Rd until it turns into Century....then turn north (left) on High St. If you hit Hawkridge Park, you've gone too far  

No, that wouldn't be your tower. You are a S4GRU member, head over to the maps for your closest tower.  The one I'm referring to is accepted for 4G, but until we map it, there's no way to know if its broadcasting.  Airport Rd. and the Beltline is pretty generic, its really a little northeast of there.  But at Airport and the Beltline, you'd probably get some signal. 

Whoops, you aren't a sponsor....you should become one and then see the maps and join the fun!!!

It is marked as a 4G accepted site on the NV sites complete map in the sponsor forum. A question about the acceptance process: will all sites eventually turn green on that map?

From purple to yellow to green is how I've seen most of the sites going on those maps.  Yes, all sites in Madison will eventually be GREEN, meaning they are 3G/4G/800.  That's a complete NV build of a tower and all our sites will get the NV updating.

I live near Greenway station and I would suspect this tower would supply LTE for me and I do not have LTE   I do go by that area a lot and will check it out.

No, that wouldn't be your tower. You are a S4GRU member, head over to the maps for your closest tower.  The one I'm referring to is accepted for 4G, but until we map it, there's no way to know if its broadcasting.  Airport Rd. and the Beltline is pretty generic, its really a little northeast of there.  But at Airport and the Beltline, you'd probably get some signal. 

I'm not in the middleton area...I work on the West Side of Madison (research park area).  When I saw the permit for the site on Tokey I was happy as hell, because that's right behind where I work...but as of right now..nothing.  All of Madison is pretty much sucking when it comes to LTE.  There's a little work on the beltline, but that's about it.

My wife is right there as well, in Research Park. I keep asking her to tell me if her phone sees 4G symbol ever, but she doesn't like to play our little obsession of LTE game.....glad someone else will be able to notify us of a LTE signal when that Tokay tower goes live. 

MIDDLETON TOWER IS UP! LTE, LTE, LTE! 

Someone map that SOB! 

Near Airport Rd and the beltline.  I would be out there tonight, alas I am not going to be able to make my softball game tonight. 

 

 

Sprint really needs to get these sites up and running.  I am on the west side of Madison, and can barely look at facebook because the data speed is horrible.  Attempting to stream Pandora is a complete joke.  The downtown area of Madison is even worse.  I roam when I am down on State Street by Campus Barber Shop.

So the Sprint tower is right on top of the Towers Apartments about 1/2 of a block from Campus Barber shop (above Urban Outfitters).  I get my hairs cut there about every 5 weeks and was in there just last week.  I had 300kbps up and 100kbps down.  It really was remarkable speed for that area compared to what I usually see.  I think that the antenna hang off the side, but they aren't real visible to what updates were done yet and they're not on that permits list.  Downtown Madison needs a few more towers for my liking.....800MHz or not, it's a little sparse down here.  They could definitely use one or two more over by Camp Randall.  Real dead zone on my way home down Monroe.  I don't think that 800MHz is going to save that either since its a little valley there.  Edgewood HS has antenna all over their roof, but none that belong to Sprint. 

You're out in Middleton, right?  Did you have any luck finding permit reports in Middleton?  There are only a few towers there, and their city website is not helpful. The tower on Everglade is at least on the west side! 

Also, I should say that I have had no updates from Verona or from Fitchburg on permits.

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Well, my tower (Seminole Hwy and McKee in Fitchburg) had two trucks at it's base on Friday morning.  The base is pretty occluded by brick walls and a power station....and then a new building that the power station built to further block my snooping.  By Friday afternoon the utilities must have labeled all the buried cable around that area from the bike path north of McKee to just adjacent to the tower.  However, there were flags heading directly to the tower that were already marked for "Fiber Optic Cable".....so my question is more, if there is already Fiber leading to the tower, do they need to add more Fiber?  or is this different Fiber that's needed?

This obviously could be totally unrelated as there are a lot of utilities through that area...but I like to dream. Something has to start on this tower!!!!  gah!  

Someone asked earlier about Madison Towers and these are the ones that have approved permits from the City of Madison. I've visited several of these towers and I can't say that they've really had any work done on them.  The Tokay one looks like new antennas, but nothing has happened since, can't get real close to that base (at the News station tower). 

Permit reports from the City of Madison, none of these towers are spitting LTE at this time. 

Well, there isn't anything accepted in Madison as of yet. The tower at 30 and 51 looks like it has some new antennas on it for sure. Wasn't able to stop and check the base. That might be next to go live? That's in Madison proper.

Drove up past Beaver Dam today and Beaver Dam has 800 voice kicking and solid LTE. 33 up, 12 down!

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and where is this madison tower located?

It's the second Sun Prairie tower by the Skate Park out there. It went up on Thursday, I think. 

Madison proper now has 9 towers with approved permits. It's coming.

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no more ehrpd showing up in Madison any longer. it all evdo rev-a now

Well, all the towers I've been snooping around show no improvements unfortunately.

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Ha. Sauk City, Mount Horeb and Wisconsin Dells just got their LTE fix as well, Dells is reporting 2 towers with 3G/4G.  The ring around Madison is now almost complete! Come on Sprint! Upgrade our towers.  The ones by me have NO movement on them (Fitchburg, south Madison). 

The speeds in San Francisco are widely variable. You can see that my LTE signal is -108 and I am indoors. However, data is actual usable, which differs from Sprint's 3G. I have done outdoor tests and it's not really any better.

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I'm out in San Francisco now and there's LTE everywhere! But the speeds are not great. Hoping to see Wisconsin improvements when I return!

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