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Wouldn't be surprised if they did this first one as a test. And then there's a short pause before they turn on quite a few of them.

That's more than 169, but like you said before, we don't know the intervals they're using for Columbus. Only way still to know is if someone goes to where we know all 3 sectors are pointing and gets those numbers, then goes to one of the previously marked areas and checks there.

That's Sensorly, and yeah, certain landmarks show up as purple. Very disheartening to keep checking Sensorly before this to see if anything popped up and only see those things.

I understand what you're saying and if I lived or worked up there I'd do the steps you described. Hopefully someone else can so we can figure out for sure if the same tower is being picked up 5 miles away or if there are multiple towers live.

I mapped it out on Google maps and the Gahanna mapping is about 4.5 miles from Tamarack Blvd/Morse Rd. The furthest on Bethel is about 5 miles. Not inconceivable, but I didn't realize that phones would pull in a weak LTE signal combined with a strong 1xRTT signal. I figured most phones would flip to a closer 3G tower, though I'm not going to complain. It seems like if all that coverage is really from that same tower, even with sporadic coverage around the city in the beginning, that a lot of people should be able to get a taste of LTE.

Gotcha, I got really excited as that tower is at the end of my neighborhood.

That's gotta be about 10 miles. I'd think that any closer towers would override the tower on Morse. With how strong that purple is, has to be a second tower.

No way! That is my neighborhood! I'll be home soon and will run a speedtest. Can't map on Sensorly as have an IPhone. Wait, are you saying LTE is on at Lancaster and East Broad or are you just excited about what happened up at Northland?

I'm glad I don't live in that area, personally.

That's pretty poor signal actually, so if you got those speeds at that signal then that bodes well for others with better signal.

21 people reading this thread, including 7 guests. LTE is here indeed.

Not bad for the first couple days after launch. I'm sure there will be some fine tuning. Also, not bad considering you're behind concrete walls. Though I don't see why it's hard to post screenshots, I posted mine last night of 3G speeds I got at Easton. Just upload to imgur and copy the link here. Or use the img functionality online.

I'm going to assume it was the Hilton because it was full strength. That was at about 9:30 or so last night so not a lot of people on the tower, but still, those were about the maximum DL speeds for 3G on Sprint, from what I've seen.

Great 3G speeds at Easton tonight. The top result is from that. The really good one you see at the bottom was in NC last week on LTE. http://i.imgur.com/ZOMDy5wl.jpg

Or they might be waiting for Iden to be shut down on the 30th before launching a bunch of sites.

I'm guessing Sprint only uses AT&T for fiber when they have no choice. But just a guess.

I was talking more about the local companies handling the fiber like AT&T and Time Warner. Some of these that I've seen, they haven't even run fiber down the road yet and they're starting several blocks away before they can run from the driveway to the tower. But that's just the one I've seen in Gahanna. I wonder if the one on Lancaster Ave is done yet. I saw them run fiber close to the cabinets but don't know if they ran from the junction box type thing to the cabinets yet. Don't even know if new cabinets are there, but I know the antennas haven't been changed.

The billions the telecoms were given a couple years ago for updating infrastructure could have actually been spent on that.

I wonder why all the telecoms around here are so behind on their infrastructure.

Maybe Robert or thenight84 can chime in, but in addition to the other guesses, maybe it's some type of diagnostic equipment that Sprint will use for testing the tower. Maybe it's an old cabinet that they're hauling away?

Same, I get them on my Nexus fairly frequently still. 7 looks like it'll finally catch them up in some OS features and design.. Fall was the supposed release. That's so far.

I really wish 7 were out now. My sleep button on my 5 died the other day so I had to take it in to Apple to get a refurbished one. Problem was that I was jailbroken before and had to restore back to factory before I took it in. The one they gave me was on 6.1.3 and there's no jailbreak for that yet as they're saving it for 7. So now I'm stuck back on stock and it's just painful. I tweeted the other day that 7 is amazing, it's the best parts of Android and Metro. Which isn't a bad thing, stock iOS is pretty stale and outdated. I love my Nexus 7, but I like my iPhone hardware much more and I do like how stable the OS is.

Network Vision upgrades are occurring in the Columbus area, I'd expect that's at least part of the reason.

Awesome news!