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Drove past Waukesha tower...still no LTE on EVO. Will report back tomorrow morning.

The Waukesha one on 164 is not broadcasting yet, as of like 7:20 this morning. I took side streets to work today instead of the freeway to see if it was live. I drove right past it with LTE discovery running the whole time.

 

I'm still waiting to see some LTE from the one near Loomis Rd and Layton Ave. That one's been accepted for almost a week I think.

What i have noticed with the EVO LTE is that the discovery app does not work...doing a PRL update near the tower you want to connect to reveals the LTE. Tri-Band devices can not come soon enough...

The Waukesha one on 164 is not broadcasting yet, as of like 7:20 this morning. I took side streets to work today instead of the freeway to see if it was live. I drove right past it with LTE discovery running the whole time.

 

I'm still waiting to see some LTE from the one near Loomis Rd and Layton Ave. That one's been accepted for almost a week I think.

I drive past the waukesha tower every day on my way to and from work. I will map the "crap" out of that tower if i get a signal today.

Looks like Brookfield has its first LTE tower lit up. Might have to check it out this week. 

I went to best buy yesterday to check out the 7" tablets. Im still on the fence. I have the iPad2 which i received for free. Im not sure if the 7" size is big enough. Any of you that went down in screen size that can give me your opinion?

That's even worse! You deserted us, then come back and yak it up in the Milwaukee forum! And you stole Greg Jennings too!

They can have Jennings. We have receivers that don't get hurt every other game.

On a side note...it sounds like the cluster theory might turn out to be true. It's just strange that no sites in larger cities like Madison, Waukesha, Brookfield, and Menomonee Falls have gone live when the panels and RRU's are just sitting there...

How is LG with their current LG Optimus G and G PRO??  Are they updated these phones?  Or are these phones still on their original software version?

This is what i want to know. How soon will updates come, and if Android 5.0 is released in Spring of 2014, will we get the update in the summer.

Uh, no.  Several us know how to interpret FCC OET authorization docs properly.  Now, in showing the antenna diagram, I may not have posted all of the info that I used from the LG G2 filing, but you can trust me that CDMA1X, EV-DO, GSM, W-CDMA, and LTE all share the same transmit path.  Simultaneous use of CDMA1X and LTE, even band 41 TD-LTE, is not supported.

 

AJ

I'm trying to understand this properly. I have an Evo LTE, when i turn off my data connection i still have 1XRTT. So that means i have 2 radios going at once right? While the G2 is either using LTE or 1X, but not both at the same time?

How does the LG G2 receive a phone call if you are using the data connection?

i smell an article soon on the wall

Im looking forward to an article on this phone. It may be my next device, but i want to see signal strength comparisons before i pick one up. I don't want to get another device with radio issues like the Evo LTE.

I did a road trip today to Rockford for a family reunion. Tons of LTE when I got to Beloit and into Rockford. I even got some 1x800 too. Really nice speeds and didn't have to worry about streaming music which was nice for once.

Interesting note, I was in East Troy near Alpine Valley and was picking up 1x800. I checked the map and do not see a tower listed as smr 800 complete. I have a ton of screenshots from my phone to post. Will do later.

That's legacy 1900 CDMA/EVDO, which will be left up until a month or 2 after 3g takes over from the NV antenna.  Also, with LTE most of the time they light them up one at a time in Minnesota, which is also a Samsung market.

I thought as much, thanks. I see small panels like that everywhere, i will keep an eye out for NV on those towers.

 

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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Anyone know what kind of panels the small ones are on the left and right?

Looks like 2 LTE updates for the MKE market today. Do not appear to be in the MKE Metro area though.

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. 

The interesting thing is, it seems the suburban/outskirts areas are getting lit up 1 tower at a time, yet the city centers have no towers. That is why i was thinking they would light up the city towers in clusters or multiple towers at a time.

Well, I had an interesting encounter on my way home today!  in Greenfield on Beloit Rd and about 124th st. It's on one of the radio station's AM towers. As I was driving, I saw a white work-truck parked in there. I couldn't pass up the opportunity, so I parked near the road and walked over to it. There was a guy sitting in an AT&T truck. I asked the guy if he was, by chance, working on fiber for Sprint. He said he was, and he will be done by Friday. So that tower should be ready for other work any time then!

 

I also asked him about other work going on around here. He said Sprint has 59 sites that are having fiber ran to them around the Milwaukee area. (I don't know if Sprint uses AT&T fiber around here exclusively or not). He said the Verizon site at the radio station used Time Warner fiber. Anyways, he said the fiber is ran to most of the sites in Waukesha already, like in the city itself. He said one of the first ones to be done was a site at the way western edge of Waukesha.(not sure which one) He also said the one at WCTC has the fiber done for sure. 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 said alot of other Sprint sites currently have like 5 or 6 T1 lines, and they're not bonded, so that limits bandwidth. I know Adding T1 lines was part of Sprint's band-aid phase to hold over until Network Vision came around.

 

He also made the comment that Sprint is moving pretty slow on this work. I don't see how though, if Waukesha's fiber is already pretty much done, and we already have LTE on the East side of Milwaukee, seems like a decent pace to me. 

 

I am going to keep my eyes open even more now. That was the first time I've seen any sort of anything being done at a cell tower!

Thanks for the great info. As far as Waukesha goes...wtf? Are they planning on lighting up most of the towers at the same time?

As for the 1Gbps vs 10Gbps...i think its fine. The reason VZW and ATT have 10Gbps is because they are not deploying on every tower and thus will have most of the traffic on a few towers. Sprint's deployment will more evenly distribute the load because every tower will have LTE. You may see 10Gbps on extremely high load towers. (ie. the Miller park tower)

I found a link i found interesting. I wanted to see what kind of performance Softbank's TD-LTE was getting in Japan. According to the link, Softbank is using 2.6ghz spectrum in a 30mhz channel. Pretty good performance i would say.

http://www.huawei.com/ilink/en/success-story/HW_195558#.UeQvY9hnaqk

For those that do not want to read:

Spectrum: 2.6ghz

Channel width: 30mhz

DL Speeds: up to 76Mbps

UL Speeds: up to 10Mbps

http://youtu.be/xRtCJmcw-6A

 

 

If you watch the video, it seems like the "middle" button b/w the up and down arrow is a FINGERPRINT READER I think.  I don't think that it is a button.  Pretty sweet if it works as advertised.

When this phone first leaked it looked like a fingerprint reader. But i have seen on multiple sites that it is just a power button.

Lunch time on S. Howell and I'm still getting 3 down 2 up. Not bad.

What was your ping/latency?

The one's I loaded in HD had no problem!

That's awesome. My fear was there would be some sort of throttling or lag. Can't wait to get LTE at work and near my house in Waukesha.

Speeds in Sun Prairie, Locations South Bird Street! Steady 4G for 1 Day Now!!

Can you test something for me? Try and stream a few 720p movie trailers on Youtube. Im curious to see if there is any sort of delay/buffering.

I'm very excited for Sprint's potential. They just closed the deal with Clearwire and Softbank, so I think Softbank will be very eager to pump some cash into Sprint and make Sprint's network the best around. With all that Clearwire spectrum, they have more capacity than anyone else!

Agreed. Im hoping to hear something in the next few weeks from Softbank on how they will make Sprint more competitive.

I have also noticed the speeds not being breath taking.

 

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the speeds will more than likely get better as these towers are just in their infancy. As more towers go up, the amount of phones connecting to a tower will be spread out a little better thus allowing for more bandwidth per phone.

 

I grabbed on to the Lake Mills tower off 94 about a month or so ago. I think this might have been one of the first few to go up in the Milwaukee/Madison market. Anyways, I was doing between 15 - 20mbps down. That also might be skewed by how little bandwidth is taken up on the tower in that small town though.

That is how i understand it as well. The more i think about it, the more i wonder what will happen to 3G once SMR 800 LTE gets deployed. I think it will make 3G pretty non existent as the LTE signal will propagate farther than 3G. I think Sprint's big "secret weapon" will be LTE on SMR 800.

Correct me if i am wrong...but is Sprint the ONLY carrier putting 4G on EVERY single tower? If not then i give props to a carrier that can deploy that quickly. Tmo seems like they are going in the right direction, definately my second choice to Sprint atm.

Looks like they may limit Everything Data at some point and are going to start throttling streaming video.

Yea, i refreshed the page, saw no posts and started my own! Just beat me to it.