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    Network Vision/LTE - San Diego Market

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    Is that unusual? I saw 2 carriers on the one small cell I saw in the KC area so far.

    Very. Relay fed small cells are single carrier only. Traditional backhaul fed sites are like finding a needle in a haystack so far.

     

    ^ actual first dual carrier small cell configuration confirmation right there.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

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    20 minutes ago, nexgencpu said:

    you need to investigate further, i have yet to see sprint use mm (sc cells aside)in midtown.

    I know that area fairly well, was covered by Clearwire site that crumbled under load during peak hours. I find it hard to believe they would install hc mm site there.

    What's hard to believe?

    Nokia removed the Samsung Clear eNB and replaced it with their own Nokia eNB while adding additional capacity at minimal cost. It's something seen in several markets that has been happening very slowly."

    MMR's (massive mimo radios) are not ready to be deployed for prime time at this time. 

    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

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    is this the same base station equipment of a normal MM but with 8t8r antennas?

    Not necessarily.

     

    Nokia mini macros and most small cells are all in one eNB that contain the BTS and RRUs in one compact unit.

     

    All it means is that there is an added mini macro to an existing site adding another additional 40 MHz of capacity based on the GCI ending.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

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    has anyone else ever come across this. this is the second time i've seen it. both times i was at a job site so i couldn't really focus on my phone. not sure if its just a SCP mistake .
     
     
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    Not a mistake. It means what it means. High capacity mini macro setup.

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Interesting design - from the marketing materials, these units are intended to be attached to overhead cable lines and include a built-in cable modem, or can function as an LTE relay where there's already LTE (presumably also band 41) for backhaul, among other interfaces: http://www.airspan.com/airstrand/.

    Yeah that's the airspan airstrand which is a strand mounted small cell using Docsis for backhaul.. 

    The other variant would be the Airpole which is a low powered standalone small cell you can put on a pole on the side of a house.

     

     

     

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    Official Magic Box discussion thread

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    2 hours ago, superbluepsd said:

    Got my magic box today. I have tried many locations but it will not complete setup. It usually detects the network but then says something to the effect of failed to complete setup at this location. I have placed it outside even where my phone a S7 reports band 41 signal at -99 RSRP and still no luck. Would it help if i take the magic box closer to the tower and try again so it can at least update firmware? Oh and this market does have the high/low spectrum split needed for b41 magic box operations.

     

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    Contact the MB support line. Could be the Donor tower needs a software toggle to support MBs.

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Is 8t8r equipment reusable if a tower is upgraded to massive mimo?

     

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    Yeah. Just put it into another macro site and doing a bit of work bringing it up.

     

    Again massive MIMO units will be in high density urban areas where it's impact will be felt the most. It's numbers will not make a dent compared to 8t8r and the mini macro / small cell units which would provide the vast majority of coverage and capacity.

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    No there are more 8T8R than anything else but mini macros are starting to become dominant

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    Mini macros are the same exact units used in stand alone small cell deployments and on macro sites.

    They're cheap, they require minimal work to configure, and are widely available compared to macro equipment and have the factor of being reusable if not needed anymore on macro sites.

    The vast majority of macro sites outside of rural or suburban areas will have 8t8r units with a few hundred in urban high density areas having massive mimo units.



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    sprint network 2018 predictions

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    I’d be almost willing to guarantee that won’t happen. I know the people working on the SoLINC LTE network, and none of that is in their plans.
    Yep.

    It'll be sprints own spectrum at the end with the CDMA 1x800 carrier pushed right up next to the LTE 800 carrier while Solinco does its own thing.

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    Network Vision/LTE - West Washington Market (Seattle/Puget Sound Region)

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    Here are a few Field Test screenshots from the 8T8R that’s broadcasting 6 carriers. I’ll head back tomorrow to grab more. 
    https://imgur.com/a/SnNVc
    Nice. That's the 4th carriers based on GCI indicators of 0C and 0E but the 40270 with GCI of 08 is a bit weird.

    Usually 00-02 is 1st, 03-05 is 2nd, and 06-08 is third for an 8t8r three carrier chain. Interesting.. Try and grab more of the GCIs if you can.

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    Network Vision/LTE - West Washington Market (Seattle/Puget Sound Region)

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    Ok, so driving through Seattle again today, I was able to confirm that several 8T8R sites are broadcasting EARFCNs: 40072, 40270, 40978, 41176, 41374. Thats 5 carriers with a possible (but unconfirmed) 6th at 39874 (as I have seen that EARFCN in Seattle before). 
    Maybe 8T8Rs are now broadcasting 6 carriers and small cells are using EARFCNs 40582 and 40780?
    What are the GCI of the cells?

    If it's 4/5/6 then it'll be sequential 0C/0D/0E and onwards.

    Small cells (Airspan) will be 01 and then 04(?).

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    AT&T Announces Plans to Start Rolling Out a True 5G Network by the End of 2018

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    I mean Verizon is deploying so called "5G" via higher order MIMO (4x4 MIMO / massive mimo + CA on all bands) & newer better performing antennas in addition to split sectors here. I doubt any carrier is ready to deploy NR anytime soon as most of it is appears to be backward compatible as software enhancement to a lot of existing equipment in addition to not being finished in terms of what will be in the final revision. 

    If anything, I imagine whatever ATT does will mirror that of verizon which makes sense considering both have been undergoing another  full site revision to 4x4 MIMO via new radios and antennas. ATT also has the additional plus of deploying a new 10x10 700 MHz Band 14 network layer for Firstnet and their own usage which makes usage of HPUE and is greenfield spectrum. 

    Sprint Home Wifi Router [Wi-Fi Connect][Asus AC66u]

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    1 hour ago, ericdabbs said:

    I have been trying to read up on finally updating my Sprint wifi connect router at the link below.

    https://www.snbforums.com/threads/how-to-sprint-ac-rt66u-to-stock-asus-firmware.25261/

    I am a bit confused as to which CFE file version to update.  I see in the zip file that there is a "Zentel_1.30_EU_To_US.bin" which I guess the file you are  suppose to update your MAC address to rename as "newcfe.bin".  Is there a dumb down tutorial that shows how to properly update the router to stock firmware?

    I also read that you should flash the 376.3626 firmware first to expand the rootfs partition from 32M to 64M after updating the CFE file before flashing any future firmware versions.

    I followed that exact guide and got mine flashed successfully. What changed since then was Asus (and other manufacturers) released new firmware that prevented firmware downgrades past a certain point due to abuses in transmit powers being adjusted and etc. So i would flash something before the 378 range first. 

    I've relegated my flashed AC66 running Merlin 380 version to my relatives place as a primary AIO router for their 30 / 30 fiber connection. It had a few connectivity issues initially but a couple of complete resets has made it stable. 
     

    I had to mess with my friends Sprint AC66 back in september  since its IPSEC "prioritization" would mess with the Airave 3 / S1000 femto cell IPSEC tunnel back to Sprints network (~300 kbps limit up / down). I would not be surprised if they'll drop the router soon enough too as it's redundant with the Airave 3 / S1000 being able to offer AC WiFi + LTE &/or CDMA without the ipsec tunnel conflict. 

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    Network Vision/LTE - West Washington Market (Seattle/Puget Sound Region)

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    Noticed something interesting as I opened up Field Test while driving through Seattle last night - there are 7 B41 carriers live throughout the city. 

    I saw EARFCNS 40072, 40270, 40582, 40780, 40978, 41176 and 41374. 

    Before I had only seen 40978, 41176 and 41374. 

    More investigation is definitely needed...

    You're probably seeing just different sites using different contiguous carriers. It's the same thing in SLC. Part of the metro uses B41H while other parts of it uses B41L.

     

    I have several sites here that operate B41L while the vast majority operates B41H.

     

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