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LTE800 won't help if your phone doesn't support it :-(

 

they still have MASSIVE holes in JAX's coverage, like all of Kernan, Hodges, and San Pablo. And south of Beach Blvd along the beaches.

 

the upgraded towers out side of Mayport have made a WORLD of difference on base, especially within buildings.

 

The biggest concern I have is that there are coverage holes for even just voice calls surrounded by 4G towers. I know they have to build out new towers to cover some of those areas, but you would think that would be a priority to at least get voice coverage. And no, many of those dead zones have zero roaming options. When you struggle to get better than -95dbm good luck if you stand in the wrong spot to make a call.

So LTE does no good if there is no signal to begin with. Where there is LTE the speeds are good. Unless 800mhz can magically go twice as far as the current signals can, Sprint will have some patching to do just for voice.

 

 

Two more towers confirmed live in OP, the one at college and banding the other at banding and constitution.

 

 

Does this include NV or just LTE? I noticed full bars and 1mbps+ download speeds over 3G on college the other week during a late night taco bell run with some friends. I live in Fleming however and the reception in Eagle Harbor is still terrible

 

Yeah Fleming Island is still very spotty even with 3G.

I have been getting better 3G speeds, but I can test that one by taco bell today foe you.

Looks like Blanding is covered from 295 to Brannan Field road

I'm still seeing some coverage holes even when I get 4G signal in Clay County. I'm hoping the upgrades get the 3G out farther at least. I know that its not launched or completed yet, but hoping it does get better in some spots.

Argyle elementary is a dead zone still. While I got excellent 4G in Oakleaf and 4G off of Collins one morning, there was barely a signal on 3G at Argyle. My wife works at Argyle Elementary and she has always had a weak 3G. IConsidering that area is served by the two towers I got excellent 4G on, I'm still skeptical about that spot.

The other spot is my neighborhood. The utilty company has to have some major bleedthrough on frequencies. I can get -90 signal or better, but within a 1 block radius it can get well above -110 on 1X.

LTE when it's on gets -105 to -125 RSRP in that same stretch.

Its been tough getting an engineer to actually read street level values in that area.

Other than debug screenshots and a map of signal readings, is there a better means to show Sprint?

Otherwise I'm very happy with Sprint and its NV upgrades.

New tower live in OP, solid 4G from College all the way to 295 on blanding. I think it might be the tower on Kingsley Ave. that is live.

Could be. I bounce from 4G to 3G to 4G (and 0 to 5 bars) on old jennings between blanding and branan field.

It doesn't help that the water utility is killing reception in that area with their wireless communication. It is also stuck between the one on kingsley, the one off of 220 and the one out of Oakleaf.

If anyone else in the area gets a chance, can you confirm what I see there? I want to open another network ticket on the signal.

I pulled 4G near Old Jennings/Blanding Blvd area this morning and mapped it with sensorly. 5/2Mb speeds which is pretty dang impressive for this area.

Sitting at Walgreens at Blanding & Brannan Field with 4bars on 4G. 3.5 down, 1 up. Not the best, but its in tgis small area at least tonight.

I've been mapping my trip from Middleburg to downtown via Blanding daily. This morning was the first time I caught any 4G north of 103rd. Faint, but it has been mapped at least.

Btw, 3G is dog slow from 103rd through riverside at times. I mean dialup slow. Be glad when they get that area done.

I caught 3 to 4 bars of 4G on Old Jennings between Blanding and Brannan Field last night. Nothing this morning though. I wonder if there is any power or equipment at that tower there. Hard to even see from the road and with SR23 road work going on I cannot really just park and walk over.

I can get some decent 4g speeds up in Orange Park, but once you get south of Knight Boxx I struggle to get anything on 4G. If you look at sensorly at Blanding and Old Jennings I mapped 4G at 1 bar and barely 1mbps.

Until they light that tower at Old Jennings and Brannan Field, that area is stuck with 3G including the new St Vincent's hospital. Backhaul is not an issue with that hospital being there. Just north and you grab Oakleaf and 4G or nw into Orange Park, or east to sr220 and college, or south into Middleburg.

I keep getting random 4G out in clay county. Some days driving down Blanding through Orage Park I can keep 4G from Wells to college drive area.

I have yet to find anything out though on that tower at old jennings and brannan field. I cant get time to stop by and take a peek at the base, but my house less than 1 mile away still only gets 2-3 bars on a good day.

3G speeds are still very hit or miss down I10 and 295 through the westside and the few times ive mapped in sensorly I get only 3G.

I was able to map a little 4G with sensorly on Blanding and down to Old Jennings so its getting out my way.

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The tower on Blanding and old Jennings is already built. It's the flag pole on the corner. BTW clay county has more active towers than any other area in the Jacksonville market. I ditched my WiMAX phone back in May. I don't miss out at all. WiMAX was a big headache and not worth the battery drain. It won't be long before LTE is more wide spread.

 

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Is the tower live? I don't see any equipment on it, and when I am at the intersection there I don't get anything better than ok signal, I do get a stronger signal as I get closer to the one in Oakleaf.

That tower at Old Jennings is owned by Sba Towers III LLC

http://map.sbasite.com/SiteInfo.aspx?SiteCode=FL14573-A

The regular network vision site shows (of course it does not show LTE) no work on that site, but does show:

The tower up near College/Blanding had a voice upgrade.

The tower near Oakleaf Plantation/Brannan Field had a voice upgrade.

The tower off of 220 had voice/data/capacity.

Does anyone live near Branan Mill Plantation and/or Whisper Creek and confirm strength if any?

Opensignals shows nothing.

Thanks for all the helpful information here. I have a brand new Note 2 that is not yet activated. Why, you might ask? The Sprint tower in my area of Orange Park is over saturated and I cant even get 3G coverage. This has been confirmed by Sprint numerous times over last 2 months. So I am having to still use my HTC EVO 3D as Wimax works great with great download speed. So just waiting on LTE in my area of Orange Park. From info here it is getting close to me. So thanks again for all your encuraging reports on the progress.

I live out near Blanding and Old Jennings. I'be been working with their Dan@Sprint team to get network to fix signal issues. I finally have 2 bars on my street, but it fluctuates between -80 to -95 signal strength.

The 3G speed sucks bad still, so I am hoping for better speed too as I am always up in OP.

There is the new tower at Brannan Field and Old Jennings, but I've yet to get any date as to when that will be built out as i am in a dead zone, even for Wimax when they insist my neighborhood should have both 3G and Wimax good coverage.

The wife wants to get a new phone, specifically the S3, and they have the BOGO offer, but I lose my Wimax if I do upgrade. So i am in the same boat as you. Upgrade for a much better phone, but suffer slow speeds anywhere near us.

Without a LTE phone, I am reliant on this forum for tower upgrades, and when there are enough to cover my area and commute downtown, I will easily jump to a new phone.

I have been working with the dan@spint "executive escalation team"???. So far they have been very responsive, and I do have a ticket in for my house/neighborhood.

I've been trying to get them to roll an engineer with signal equipment near my house to check signal rather than just saying the tower is fine. Signal is never a perfect circle. I had to explain that 1/2 mile either way of my house was 3-4 bars minimum, while in my neighborhood was maybe 1.

Like Gopher says, patience helps. I've been very cordial talking to them, and that gets more assistance than being irate.

I have gotten some credits so far, expect more once everything is upgraded.

But back to signal strength & speed.

Downtown Jax between the Landing and Acosta Bridge.

Right now, I have 5 bars of signal on 3G.

67kbps down, 1841kbps up. Would post more, but that is the best one so far @ 2:05PM EST.

4G WiMax 2 bars and drops randomly.

1750kbps down, 1673kbps up.

Would love to have even half of that. What part of town?

It's very hit and miss from downtown through the westside and down towards middleburg.

Orange Park is good (from I-295 to about College Dr on Blanding). I haven't been over towards US17 down to Fleming Island recently, so no idea there.

Here are the tests from 8/1-8/3 that I took to show dan@sprint. As you can see, when the speed is good, it works fine. But just a mile down the road and coverage is hit or miss.

I did every test when I had 5 bars of service. I did not do any WiMax tests.

I'm not sure if they are upgrading these towers or not currently.

These tests are pretty much down I-10 west to I-295 south to Blanding Blvd and south towards Middleburg, this is down a major corridor, not a country rd.

DATE	   TIME   Speed	  Latitude	Longitude  D   U  Ping
"2012-08-03 10:22","EvdoA","30.32517","-81.66049",123,171,789,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-02 19:25","EvdoA","30.11440","-81.80464",258,216,210,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-02 19:22","EvdoA","30.14300","-81.76927",34,295,653,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-02 19:21","EvdoA","30.14300","-81.76927",375,218,196,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-02 19:20","EvdoA","30.14300","-81.76927",88,243,393,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-02 19:19","EvdoA","30.14300","-81.76927",241,352,458,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-02 19:00","EvdoA","30.14300","-81.76927",399,104,200,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-02 18:58","EvdoA","30.17088","-81.74814",267,17,411,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-02 18:57","EvdoA","30.17088","-81.74814",418,531,146,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-02 18:55","EvdoA","30.17088","-81.74814",351,240,173,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-02 18:53","EvdoA","30.19312","-81.72578",627,52,146,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-02 18:52","EvdoA","30.19865","-81.74336",219,24,326,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-02 18:51","EvdoA","30.19865","-81.74336",69,54,404,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-02 18:49","1xRTT","30.24512","-81.76326",94,124,875,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-02 09:56","EvdoA","30.32603","-81.66468",133,192,628,"Jacksonville, FL"
"2012-08-01 18:07","Unknown","30.28966","-81.62933",1587,1632,77,"Macclenny, FL"
"2012-08-01 18:05","EvdoA","30.28966","-81.62933",98,94,228,"Jacksonville, FL"

The attached pic is from my back porch near Old Jennings/Blanding Blvd intersection which should have 3G and WiMax coverage.

Right now on 3G, I get 20kbps on one test, the next I get 200kbps in downtown Jacksonville.

Just my experience.