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I don't think its backhaul has been upgraded. And I don't know if it has all three bands deployed.

 

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Indeed, pretty sure band 41 hasn't been deployed on that tower yet, probably has to do with the backhaul like you mentioned.

Whoa. I live right by you then. Small world. Its the tower that's on Max Rd that just got updated. I don't know if it has b41 but I know on the coverage map it isn't a "turbo" tower.

 

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Yea small world man, the fastest I've seen from that tower is around 25mbs down and 9mbs up on band 25. Im extremely happy it was such a coincidence when i moved into our house that sprint tower was right around the corner lol.

Im from pearland as well, The LTE Coverage here has vastly improved over the past 6 months. I wondered how long it would take them to get it going around 288. I live close to the Foodtown off 518 and very fortunate to be right in the middle of two towers. I did find it funny that im starting to connect to Band 26 over band 25 at my house, I would have close to -90DBM inside my house.

Just call someone and have them put their phone up to the radio... perfect streaming over 1X.

Lol, the same could be had if they were in a LTE area.

Well after alittle digging I found out the Tower with the single set of antenna's on it is registered to New Cingular wireless and the tower with the mutiple antenna's is registered to T-Mobile. New Cingular is now AT&T eh ?

Kinda hard to tell in those pics...

 

Could you get some like this guy did?

 

http://s4gru.com/ind...dpost__p__62215

 

http://s4gru.com/ind...dpost__p__82421

I uploaded the new pics, I know there not as good as this guys, but its a start. You have any idea what the rest of these panels are Digi ?

Here are the updated photos, hope they help.

Here are some more that i took this morning, I forgot my Digital camera at home again so i took pictures by the fence, also notice there is another spot for a Monopole to be installed. That has been there for atleast 6+ months since i looked back there, im assuming Sprint had plans to be at this site or the managment company put it there with the intentions of leasing it out ? There is a AT&T sign on the fence, below that there is a Orange tube that has "T-Mobile Site Plans" on it so atleast T-Mobile and AT&T are on this site.

Anyways, here are the pictures. I'll do my best to remember my camera tomorrow lol.

Just the opposite. The lower the frequency, the longer the wavelength, the larger the panel.

 

AJ

Roger that, I donno why when i was viewing this video on SBASite.com i thought it was the other way around. Incase anybody novice wants to check it out, its a very nice overview video of how a Site is managed with alittle technical info as well. http://ir.sbasite.com/#

Kinda hard to tell in those pics...

 

Could you get some like this guy did?

 

http://s4gru.com/ind...dpost__p__62215

 

http://s4gru.com/ind...dpost__p__82421

Will do digi, but no way from my EVO LTE lol. I'll take some pictures tomorrow morning with my Canon.

My first thought regarding the crow's nest installation on this site is "bang the drum slowly."

 

 

AJ

lol, looks pretty messes eh ? Im assuming the Red Lighting bolt drum thing is a Microwave backhaul ?

The bottom set of panels look to be Clear Wimax.

I was under the impression that the higher the frequency the larger the panel ? If not, i stand corrected.

I took a few pictures of two towers side by side near my work that i see every morning when I stop at the Valero, I believe the tower with the single set of panels is owned by T-Mobile and the tower with way to much stuff on it is owned by Clearwire.

I believe what im looking at is T-Mobiles 4g HSPA+ Panels on the single tower. On the other tower Im completely lost.

My question is one of these towers is slated to recieve LTE, My question is what should i look for when they start with the upgrades ? Also this tower is * for those who have access to the maps.

What makes you think you know what LTE tower you are connecting to, and where? There is no tool known that empirically maps LTE towers on the fly. Are you referring to a tower site mapped on the S4GRU's own maps? Post the location and Sprint ID of that tower, but not in this particular forum. (Non-sponsors could not understand such a comment because they lack access to the interactive S4GRU maps.)

Yes the Interactive map in the sponsor section is what im referring to when im trying to locate the tower. I'll start up a new post in the Sponsor forum for further advice.

Have you received the new EVO OTA that started being pushed the other day? People are reporting improvements with connecting to LTE since they installed this latest OTA.

 

Robert

Indeed I have, also have up to date PRL. The connection is all kinds of weird. Another example is I work at Johnson space center off of 4th street and per the diagram in the sponsorship forum there is no live LTE tower near me I should be able to connect to, Yet Im connecting to a tower that is supposely onsite that I have physically searched for and haven't found. Its almost like my building has an antenna on top of it that I don't know about lol.

The problem I have with my HTC EVO LTE is i can be right next to a tower (59/288 area, Im talking Line of sight, 100yards away close) and my damn phone won't switch over to LTE, I mean Im directly in line with the tower and the phone doesn't switch. Now this morning I forced the LTE connection and verfiyed that was the tower i was connecting to and BAM 25megs down,12megs up...

Also when the phone is unlocked it will never switch to 4G unless I lock it, wait about 30 secs and unlock it while remaining in the same place. Very strange indeed.

Can't Freaking wait for the update for the HTC Evo, lets hope its good and not detrimental.

I hope the OTA will be passed onto other LTE phones soon, I just called Sprint yesterday (For a third time) and they keep telling me the houston market is expirencing outages all over. I get LTE at my house off Binz and 288, spotty at best but atleast i know its working.

Donated some coin, keep up the great work !!! I love all the techincal articles yall have, much more informative than anything sprint reps have told me.