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Seems to be about the same peak speed I've seen in Denver. I like it. Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

We have IPV6 in Centennial, CO now. Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

So there's this new Band 41 site in Centennial. My location is at Quebec and Caley. It's from a Sprint site, signal check pro doesn't show B41. So does this mean this site has the new 8T8R panels?

That's weird, Sensorly shows some 60+ Mbps LTE tests done around Lakewood, that's Sprint Spark speeds.

It's great that it likes 1x 800, I like the signal boost.

My phone has been hanging to 1x800 all morning long here in Greenwood Village. Are they testing? I've cycled through airplane mode several times, defaults to 800.

lol anywhere that I sit for long periods of time does not have an active LTE tower close enough, yet.

Well, I'm connecting to B41 at work, but the performance isn't good like it was before, I'm getting results for less than 1 mbps on a signal that would give me around 16 mbps before. Perhaps because eCSFB is online and more triband devices are connecting automatically.

You mean throughout the city? They all uses to be on, I was getting great speeds at work forcing LTE on my phone until some time ago in June. Then nothing. A few weeks ago I started getting B25 at work, not very good, weak signal. Work is at centennial, Quebec and Caley. I'll see if I can pick up B41 tomorrow. I was bedridden today.

Home is around 72nd and Hwy 2 in Commerce City.

Finally picked up some B41 sitting at home. It's on the fringe, still a 4 mbps dl with Ookla. The upload is meh. I think this counts as progress though.

I kind of figured all the 70+ markets they released for wimax would end up being spark markets. Dan Hesse mentioned that they could always go to LTE on WiMax equipment if the industry went that way with a "software upgrade". I've already done speed tests with 60+ Mbps at some spots in town, very near the upgraded backhaul site obviously. I know AT&T is doing soft launches for VoLTE markets, what is Sprint's take on this? Are they waiting for the 600 MHz spectrum to work on this? I'm quite happy with existing voice coverage, don't quite understand the whole fuzz about VoLTE.

Is this then opening the way to upgrade the old WiMax antennas for the new Band 41 equipment? Are they going to finish upgrading the coverage with new Band 41 sites? I read in one of those business sites (don't remember which one) that Sprint is planning to do CA with 40 mhz of their 2500 MHz spectrum, are they speculating or is that planned down the road?

You make it sound like you will be disappointed with the LTE service Sprint will provide. Sprint has already provided ample bandwidth for HD streaming with its previous 4G iteration. It stands to reason it can deliver more ample bandwith with a technology like LTE and the 3 different bands of it. I'm not making a case for myself. I understand it is unnecessary to have a 6+ Mbps broadband connection on a mobile phone. The constant bashing of sprint from people that demand more than 3 Mbps for their phone is unreasonable. You asked for a reason why anyone would need more than that and I gave it to you. I only said I was hoping for 6, made no demands for anything more than that. I'll take 3 Mbps, hell I've managed with 200 kbps so far. After all, it's the mobile phone and texting capabilities that I even need a phone. Though if Sprint wants to keep its business it will have to deliver those speeds to those unreasonable people that demand 30 Mbps because Verizon or AT&T have it.

You'd need around 5 for watching HD videos without buffering. That said, I'm hoping for 6 after all is said and done. Reasonable for everything I like to do with my phone. Which is around what WiMax was giving me.

Also check your signal strength, if you're not near the tower broacasting LTE and only have 1 or 2 bars you can't expect 10 mbps. Everywhere that I've been with active LTE here in Denver my speeds are 12+ mbps if the phone has full bars. As it goes down to the 2 or 3 bars I get like 6 mbps.

If this market was still Qwest I believe the backhaul would have been completed in that time frame, as badly managed as Qwest was. In my time as a contractor I have never seen a company that holds on to pennies as much as Centurylink does, and they're even getting paid for the work, imagine if they weren't. Out of 40 ISP jobs I did for them only a handful were completed and the rest were pushed back because of budgeting.

DTC area is around the cities of Greenwood Village and Centennial. I too have not been able to connect to band 41 forcing LTE. Lately data has been sketchy, it will switch between 1X and eHRPD. I just attributed this to towers in the area being worked on. Haven't seen any crews though.

As fast as the data has gotten these past few weeks, it's the voice and text delivery that has really surprised me the most. Where as texts would lag to leave my phone a while back, they leave almost as soon as I hit send now. Very impressive.

Here are those screenshots.

Hi there. New forum member, though I've been lurking for a few months and finally decided to sign up. Anyways, driving home this afternoon I saw two vans, unmarked, at a site by the US-36 and Federal interchange. I believe I had seen updates posted on the Sprint coverage map at this location before the LTE upgrades began. Also, a few months earlier I had seen a crew boring towards the site, probably providing the ingress point for the fiber back haul. My phone has been randomly picking up LTE at home and dropping it right away. I can pick up LTE in LTE only mode, doing around 5mbps dl and 1 mbps ul with practically no signal. I'll upload pics later. It's exciting I can get that kind of data on very weak signal, I can stream Netflix. Can't wait for full coverage.