mirskyc

Not sure if anything changed but service in the subway has been terrible. Data is pretty much useless in the bigger stations. 
I hope transit wireless have a plan for 5G soon. 

Has anyone seen 4x CA on standalone 5G in NYC? I thought the z flip 5 was able to but I haven’t seen it yet 

I believe this site is now fully live and is also a gig+ site eNB 6269. 

20 hours ago, wispiANt said:

Threw this together today as I noticed it'd been a while since I had last updated the oDAS map. This should make it significantly easier to update in the future. I'm planning on implementing some basic filtering options later this weekend. 

Let me know if there are any features you'd like to be added (or if you have any older datasets you'd like to see included).

Came here to find the oDAS. A few weeks ago I noticed a new one on my daily walk to the train. This morning I saw workers tearing up the road and sidewalk to fun fiber from across the street. 

I just noticed N71 is 15MHz and B71 doesn't exist anymore.

I recall B71 being 10 MHz and N71 being 5MHZ. Then I thought they swapped to B71 5MHz and N71 10MHz. Then they leased spectrum from Dish and this allowed N71 to be bumped up to 15MHz but I thought B71 was stil broadcasting. 

Saw my first local keep site finally having work done. 31-77 32nd St Astoria.  This roof only had Sprint on it previously. All the sprint antennas are now gone and there is one sector with T-Mobile Antennas now.  

Interesting that this site actually relied on microwave backhaul, which is now also removed, from a near by Sprint site at 23-35 Broadway. T-Mobile was also located there. I wonder if they had fiber installed on the keep site

17 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

Spent some time on Roosevelt Island this weekend and managed to map almost all of the small cells on the island. In spite of all of these small cells T-Mobile's performance is really hampered by the lack of upgrades to their macros on the island. They technically have 3 macros, two are on Coler Hospital on the north end of the island and one on the Roosevelt Island Tram Tower in the southern part of the island.

Of the 3 sites only one has been upgraded completely with n41/71, the site on the far north of the island. This site doesn't even cover Roosevelt Island. Instead its sectors provide coverage to the Astoria Houses just across the water in Queens and parts of the Upper East Side in Manhattan. The other site on Coler Hospital that actually covers the northern part of the island is ancient with a single RFS and Ericsson AIR32 per sector. The tram tower that's meant to be the primary site for the southern half of the island has an AIR21, AIR32, and one of those older Band 12 antennas per sector leaving us with only Band 2/12/66.

T-Mobile isn't ignoring the tram site though. They actually took down the Sprint antennas on it recently. No idea why they're holding out on upgrading it. Verizon on the other hand has upgraded the site to have mmWave and C-band. While standing right in front of it I was getting just under 2Gbps on mmWave and over 200Mbps on LTE. This is in comparison to the ~200Mbps I was getting on n41 from the new site on Rockefeller University Hospital broadcasting across the water. On T-Mobile's LTE network alone, I struggled to get over 50Mbps in front of the macro. AT&T also upgraded both of their sites on the island with C-band so speeds were a consistent 100-200Mbps islandwide.

I wonder what the holdup is for T-Mobile on those two sites.

The Tram Sprint site was one of the first locations I found with N41 when it first launched. 

Glad to see I'm not the only one who doesn't have N25. I have a Galaxy Flip 4 and N25 doesn't show up in the *#BAND# menu.  A little annoying since they took away 5mzh of B2 LTE and put it with unused 5MHZ PCS to deploy N25 in NYC. I guess I have access to less aggregated spectrum now. 

On 1/20/2023 at 11:15 AM, mirskyc said:

just noticed this in Manhattan. Not sure if N25 is live yet though. 

Just realized why I haven't seen it yet. My Z Flip 4 doesn't have N25. It doesn't even show up in the band menu to enable for my T-Mobile Sim. Only N41 N66 N71 and N260/N261.

On 1/19/2023 at 1:44 AM, Paynefanbro said:

Band 2 just dropped from 20MHz to 15MHz here in Crown Heights. Looks like they're going straight for 10MHz n25.

just noticed this in Manhattan. Not sure if N25 is live yet though. 

Anyone know why Signal check Pro shows NR38 when connected to SA NR41? 

Recently in Astoria my phone has been parked on SA N41 100mhz + 20mhz. Made a few calls to see if calls go over 5G but the phone drops down to VoLTE. I've also started to see SA N71 Primary with N41 secondary on Long Island. 

16 hours ago, wispiANt said:

Found CBRS at another location in Manhattan, but haven't been able to test it just yet. Here's the Streetview.

 

Plus, one more Sprint convert in the Bronx:

• Sprint eNB ?? (40.86715407494202,-73.90311136271255) --> T-Mobile eNB 894795

 

wow very close to the site on 31st and Park.  Which also has CBRS but I've never connected to it. I believe the Fold 4 is able to. Maybe T-Mobile has the band disabled? 

14 hours ago, AirlineFlyer said:

So that’s what the inside of an NYC oDAS Omni directional antenna looks like! Crowne Castle node at Jay and Sands St.

Wow, how the heck did that even happen?!?!

On 8/13/2022 at 3:28 PM, T-MoblieUser207 said:

The DAS at Grand Central for the Lexington lines platform (4/5/6) has upgraded B2 for T-Mobile to 20 MHz. Also, 23rd, 28th, and 33rd Street stations on the 6 line have ULI (UpperLayer Indicator for anchoring a 5G band) turned on. 

My phone has been showing 5G at 33rd street for a long time. I think the DAS might be off or something since the the signal is never strong when I’m near the antenna. 

Its CBRS. I posted this site a while back. 

On 7/25/2022 at 10:52 AM, AirlineFlyer said:

This may take years to actually result in anything, but we can expect to see the carrier have access to MTA right of way to install antennas in the near future. They're going to be expanding the Transit Wireless network into the tunnels, but the contract also have a provision to build out carrier coverage on MTA ROW. So think something like antennas mounted on above ground structures, or monopoles on ground level sections. We shall see!

 

This can't come soon enough to Queensboro Plaza. Weather Sprint or T-mobile service has always been lacking in this area. On Sprint 3xCA B41 was also so slow as well as 100mhz of N41 now on T-Mobile  

Random update. Was all over Palm Beach County. New T-Mobile is way more solid then Sprint used to be. Here is a list of the network here. I only have a Galaxy S20 so I don't know if there are additional N41 carriers or N66 and N2 deployed 

T-Mobile

B2 HSPA

B2 20x20 + 10x10

B66 20x20 + 5x5

B41 20 + 20

B12 5x5

B71 5x5

N41 100

N71 15x15

Sprint 

B25 5x5

B26 5x5

Just spotted 100 MHz NR41 this morning in Manhattan. While sitting at my desk I now have access to 200Mhz (40mhz of LTE, 60mhz of LAA, and 100mhz of 5G) B66+B2+B46+B46+B46+NR41. If I had a newer phone I think I would be able to aggregate 5G and have another 10mhz.  Pretty sure my S20 Ultra doesn't support 5G CA with N71 and N41. Speeds at my desk which is on the 10th floor with no windows are ~500Mbps/60Mbps 

My only compliant since being on T-Mobile is the speeds on Transit wireless in the subways. They have yet to rearrange the spectrum. T-Mobile has yet to take over the Sprint spectrum and is only broadcasting 10x10 B2, 20x20 B4 and 5x5 B12. With the amount of Sprint users now on T-mobile this is nowhere near enough capacity during rush hour. 

1 hour ago, Paynefanbro said:

I'm really interested as well. I'd consider switching if they brought it to Brooklyn and the price is competitive. I'm paying $73 after taxes and fees for gigabit over coax (940/50) from Altice/Optimum. If I could get symmetrical gigabit (940/940) for $75 or less then they'd have my business.

Lucky, I pay $74.99 for 200/10 from Spectrum in Astoria Queens. My street doesn’t have Fios and I think RCN is only available across the street.  Spectrum wants 94.99 a month for 400/20. 1Gbps x 35  is 134.99 but I’m not even sure it’s available in my area.

I‘ve been hoping 5G home internet will be available at my address soon. My 5G is always faster then my wifi no matter the time of day. 

1 hour ago, Paynefanbro said:

That's super interesting that you weren't able to get faster than 400Mbps. At least two people reported those 2Gbps speeds there.

Thanks for the screenshot! It looks like they're actually only running 200MHz of n260 so not even the entire amount that they have in that band. I don't know where exactly you screenshotted this but your signal looks pretty weak at -111dBm. Maybe that contributed to the lower speeds you're seeing.

I didnt go into the store so thats why the signal is weak. Didn't know that the signal was coming from inside. Goes to show that MMwave really isn't good at penetrating walls and even glass no matter what verizon claims 

5 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

n260 DAS at the corporate T-Mobile Signature Store in Times Square. It was too good to be true!

 

I just went to the store to see if I could connect and test the site. Didn't know it was a DAS in the store until I came here to post. I was able to connect and run a speed test. Wasn't able to get faster then ~400Mbps   

I haven't connected to any Band 48 yet. I think the Galaxy S20 Ultra only has B48 LTE not sure about N48 5G.

Can these antennas be used for LAA/Band 46 or maybe the N41 antennas can? I am always connected to 3x20mhz of B46 inside my office which I didn't think had that much range and power to make it inside

I normally connect to

PC B2 20mhz

SC1 B66 20mhz

SC2 B46 20mhz

SC3 B46 20mhz

SC4 B46 20mhz

NR N41 80mhz

A while back this T-Mobile site got the full upgrade. It the site covering the NYC T-Mobile Corporate office so it's always getting upgraded. It has LAA and got N260 when T-Mobile originally launched 5G. Later on they added N71.  It also received N41 pretty fast once the merger was official. The first picture is once it received N41 and I think it received new antennas for the other bands at the same time. 

The 2nd and 3rd picture are from today and I noticed the additional antenna above the N41 antennas and I've never seen this setup before. Was hoping someone could explain what they are for.