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Looks like San Antonio is getting some Carrier Aggregation love...

 

 

 

 

Seems to be about the same peak speed I've seen in Denver. I like it.

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Looks like San Antonio is getting some Carrier Aggregation love...

 

We have IPV6 in Centennial, CO now.

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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?

I live in Lakewood and have yet to see any LTE except Green Mountain in limited areas and occasionally along 285. In fact I was on Kipling south of Alameda today and had 1x data. Not even Pandora could work with that. It's usually 3G along that route so I'm taking that as progress that changes are being made on that main thoroughfare. I've been on this forum for over a year following the progress and would otherwise be agitating at work for a different carrier. It would appear that Lakewood will be the last neighborhood in the last major metro area to receive Sprint Spark.

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

Once you are connected to 1x800, your device won't look for a 1x1900 signal until it needs its. Only the iPhone actively seeks out a PCS signal over 800.

 

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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.

I guess I'm lucky then [emoji3] this is at home

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

Yes, I just got LTE on band 41 at home today in the afternoon, that's why I was wondering

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.

I wonder if they activated all the band 41 towers?

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.

Where is home?

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.

The vast majority of WiMax sites have been upgraded to Band 41. Denver will likely be fully launched as a Spark market when it is finally launched. Sprint has just started to add Band 41 equipment to existing Sprint sites, and that will accelerate through the end of the year. Yes, they are planning to start using carrier aggregation on Band 41 by later this year or early next.

 

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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.

Equipment installs, yes. It's basically complete. LTE will lag for some time it appears.

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?

Call me odd but I stream HD at home or in the office when I'm on WiFi. Can't think of a time when I've been off of a WiFi signal that I needed or even wanted to stream HD. I understand that the situation arises but again put emphasis on whether or not that is a strong enough need to necessitate a strong disappointment in network performance. If so, then the previous comments about waiting for broader acceptance of LTE still stands.

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.

I challenge anybody to prove that they actually NEED more than that.

 

I'll echo what others say. Until every tower is done, you have congestion issues. Not only that but that's light speed compared to what we saw all over town 4 months ago. Progress it is.

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.

I got the following text from Sprint yesterday-

 

Which links to-

 

We do indeed get LTE at home (near cheesman park) but speeds are less than impressive, around 3mbps.

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.

Even that is a little hard to fathom for me. When you think about the fact that backhaul orders were placed probably 13-15 months ago, and this is all we've got so far... -_-

 

Sorry to be Debbie Downer

 

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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.

Sorry, I don't really know where that is. Do you know what band of LTE you were getting before?

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.