xdalaw

Where in the Boston area (both city and surrounding) have people successfully connected to a LTE tower? I am in the lower mills area bordering Milton and seem to only get decent 3G speeds.. i drive through the city everyday for work and never pick up an LTE signal... I also work at Somerville Hospital and don't get anything there but really slow 3G speeds... is something wrong with my phone or am I just not in the right area where there is a LTE tower?

I have a friend witha SGIII and he's getting LTE pretty consistently in Peabody. I'm in the Lawrence/Methuen/Haverhill area and I've never gotten an LTE signal, but have been seeing eHRPD for months.

I was getting an eHRPD signal all around Haverhill, Methuen, Lawrence for weeks, Last few days only EVDO rev A. A sign of anything in particular?

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Yes, eHRPD will substitute for EVDO to facilitate handoffs from LTE connections. Non-LTE phones would probably just see EVDO.

 

You might try CDMA Field Test instead, which actually captures the connection type in its log. FWIW, I don't like Netmonitor anyway for privacy reasons.

Thanks for the suggestion. For some reason, the Play Store is saying that CDMA Field Test is not compatible with my Sprint Galaxy Nexus? It will, however, let me load it on my Toshiba Thrive Tablet, so I guess I can locate the .apk and sideload it on my Nexus and give it a shot.

Was not aware of privacy issues with Netmonitor, so thanks for the head's up.

What did it switch from?

 

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I'm not sure, as I just began to use Netmonitor and that was the first reading I got. The tower readings seem to show EvDo rev.A (Sprint) when they're not showing eHRPD, if that helps.

Just noticed that my phone switched to eHRPD today in the suburbs north of Boston.

I've been seeing that in the Haverhill area, too, for a week or so.

I went and looked at a few that were upgraded but didn't have LTE - the speeds were all over the map. I then went to the sites that had 4G (not able to connect) but they all had 2mbit+ 3G speeds.

 

None cought the eHRPD yet, so it was still EVDOrevA.

 

My best guess is that they need backhaul before they can light up LTE - but the hardware is there. I saw no difference in antenna/RRU setups between LTE site and non-LTE site.

I'm seeing eHRPD in Haverhill, MA, but no speed increases on my 3G or live LTE yet.