Joski1624

How in the world did you get band 41?  I can't figure out how to enable it on my Nexus 5.

Like digiblur mentions, most places are covered with more than one roaming partner.  And a lot of the removes just don't exist anymore.  Like Alltel and Revol.

 

Robert

    Wow, I had no idea that Revol went belly up recently.  Guess that explains the PRL removals if Sprint now owns the spectrum anyway.  I sometimes wondered how they managed to stay in business and yet never seemed to grow much beyond their native coverage areas.

The difference between what we hope for on this side of town vs. what we've had with Sprint had better be dramatic, and soon. I can't believe I'd ever be ready to gamble on the other bargain/upstart carrier but here I am. I'd be willing to spend the several hundred more with Sprint over the life of a 2-year contract if I'll get good coverage and a good top-end triband handset that doesn't necessarily end in -ung but right now that's far from sure.

It's coming soon, fortunately. The network rebuild will be completed first and the LTE will be right behind. I've noticed that most of the upgraded sites recently have had LTE turned on within a couple weeks. A lot of the rural areas around greater Cleveland have LTE service now and that's only largely happened within the last couple of months. Sprint can't afford to drag their butts anymore as the deployment has already taken longer than planned. I understand your frustration with paying through the nose and not getting anything better than 3G. Heck, I'd look forward to trips to Cleveland just so I could use the WiMAX on my old phone; I was paying for it after all.

I wish they'd start work on the east side. We're like left in the dark...

I bet they're still working on the east side too. I think we'll instead see bursts of NV launches instead of individual sites now due to equipment incompatability with the old Motorola stuff. A majority of what's left is the more urban areas in Cuyahoga and Summit counties, so they probably want to keep the service disruptions to a minimum and only throw the switch once all equipment is in place.

So Driving to my Avon office this morning I picked up LTE all the way down Lear.  Galaxy Tab told me so.. Forced my N5 to LTE and mapped until I lost signal after turning left down schwartz.  The tower appears to be to the East of Lear, perhaps the tower on the golf course between Bradlee and Crocker?

 

I then turned Left onto Chester, halfway up chester, my Galaxy Tab once again picked LTE and the signal kept getting stronger.  Switched N5 back to LTE/CDMA/GSM/PRL/Auto and it picked up the LTE (CSFB Active) Speedtest  on Sensorly showes 14.66 down and 5.28 up!).  Galaxy tab speedtested the same (at -108dBm).  I can see the Colorado ave tower from my office, so I don't think that is the tower which is list with LTE.. Perhaps the French Creek tower is active?

 

I"ll try to map some more when I go out to lunch today..

 

my marks show up on sensorly already.

I only wish I had a better idea of the locations since I am not that familiar with the west side.  I've found the first sensorly plots seem to trump any subsequent plots-even ones with significantly stronger signal strength, so I've stopped plotting what I call "residual LTE".  Otherwise,   I have to cover the same spot a bunch of times to try to correct the plot when local LTE comes along.

Well went from steady 3G at okay speeds and good bars to dropping calls the last few weeks. Now today not getting any steady data. It's connecting to eHRPD. But giving no steady data and saying "unable to establish a wireless data connection" .This is in Elyria. Any ideas guys?Sent from my HTCONE using Tapatalk

My local tower was doing this too around the time they were doing the NV upgrade. The intermittent data issues continued for about another week until they lit up LTE.

I drop calls every time I come into streetaboro. Why would that happen? It just started to happen after LTE was deployed.Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

I had the same problem when adjacent sites were NV upgraded and my home tower was not. Once my local tower received the NV build-out, the hand off problems and dropped calls went away. All I can say is try to be patient with the NV rollout. This region has really picked up steam, but there's still a lot to be done in urban areas. It's pretty exciting to see the recent progress made on the sponsor maps.

On a positive note for me, the recent NV build out of the local site here has definitely helped cover some of the gaping holes to the southeast of the site (directly south of Burton) that the closer Parkman and Middlefield sites fail to reach due to the terrain. My phone stays connected up to roughly 10 miles away now. It used to bounce between about 6 or so sites on the SR-168 corridor. We'll see how well the LTE coverage is when it is fired up. I kinda doubt it will cover well in south-central Geauga County, but it'll be better than what's available now. 3G speeds and connectivity have been all over the place since the transition. I sure hope it's only a temporary problem.

I'm not optomistic for band 26 in this area either. It'd be nice to actually be able to hold a phone conversation around here. I was pretty mad when Sprint removed the ability to force roaming. I knew why they did it, but I was not happy that I had to find innovative ways to make my reception so terrible that it'd actually go to roaming, just so that I could make a reliable continuous phone call.

Nextel had extensive coverage in Gesuga and Ashtabula counties? Did Sprint forefit their 800MHz privileges when iDEN folded?

With the exception of about a 1/4 mile span where I only had one bar, LTE reception was 2+ continuously from where the LTE coverage started in Painsville till at least Madison via the US-20 corridor.  I'm willing to bet most of the towers in Lake county east of Painesville are now lit up with LTE

Look back about five pages. I believe it was being discussed in detail.

 

 

Five pages back puts it back to December, well before any sites in the Youngstown area were lit with LTE (maybe with the exception of Salem/Lisbon...about 20-25 miles away)  My inquery only spans back to when they started lighting up lots of LTE in Trumbull and Mahoning counties.  That only started happening about a week ago.

Question for you Youngstown folks...Is there really LTE downtown yet, or is that splotch on Sensorly some kind of anomaly?

I found that un-checking "map freshness" in the general section of the settings menu largely corrected my issue of Sensorly not updating for a day or more at certain zoom levels.  It says the downside is slower loads, but I haven't really noticed a significant change in performance other than I see updates within minutes at all zoom levels now.

Looks like Sprint is lighting up LTE in rapid fashion in Warren/Youngstown.  Hot spots on Sensorly have popped up in Niles, near Salt Springs Road and in Austintown just over the last two days.  A buddy of mine said he's got a stronger LTE signal in Southington (adjacent to the southeast of Parkman) yesterday.

I know this is an unpopular position.  I must admit that I'm pretty dismayed that broadcast television may lose more spectrum (even if it's "volultary"-a peeve I have with national corporate station ownership) when they already got the 700-800Mhz chunk yanked with the switch to digital television only a couple years ago.  Over-the-air broadcast television is very cramped now in some geographical areas due to repackaging.  Acquiring public spectrum only to offload it for a huge profit shouldn't even be entertained anymore, and I think the FCC should come down on those who purposefully do this.  There's only so much RF spectrum-the most valuable not even being 1GHz wide.  What it's going to eventually boil down to is to continue finding ways to effectively use existing allocated spectrum.  Give licencees so much time to utilize their spectrum.  If they don't use it then they should have to forefeit it to another user who has use for it.  It may not be a lot, but I'm sure there is spectrum outside of broadcast TV being sat on and underutilized.  Why not have a push to repackage existing cell spectrum like terrestrial broadcast television had to do instead of giving limited RF spectrum out like candy to the highest bidder?  That's been something I've been pondering for years.  I have yet to hear of this being done except for Sprint's 800MHz allocation that got chopped.