NiteSnow

Whatcha doing out my way NiteSnow?

 

I live in North Ridgeville. I took this on Lorain Road over by the Drive in theater.

In North Ridgeville, Ohio

 

Encountered this yesterday near Route 30 in the Orrville-Dalton area (Wayne County), which is within the IBEZ and outside the Akron "crop circle." I found it quite intriguing. Didn't get a chance to turn off wi-fi and test data connection, though. Thoughts?

 

Note: I'm using a Nexus 6 on Project Fi.

 

It's nothing special, you won't see anything better for data speeds as you're still on 3G. The big thing to look for is LTE 800, that's what really matters to fill in the coverage gaps (however tiny they may be, they're still enough to drop you down to 3G if you get in an odd spot.)

Thanks for that information!

No problem. Other than the places that are out in the middle of nowhere which happen to also be bedroom communities sprint has rock solid coverage.

 

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Hows the service currently in Cleveland and around Ceder Point? I should be in town for a few days next week.

Cleveland is pretty decent. There are some dead spots in the southwestern suburbs 30-40 miles outside of Cleveland. Highways and any mildly populated areas have great coverage. Cedar point has 800MHz Voice and great coverage everywhere throughout the park.

 

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When I went back to Oak Park on Wednesday I ended up getting better speeds. Around 5mbit/s which is more than fine. I didn't have to switch back to 3G just to use data this time.

PRL update always helps. It's what I had to do in Florida to get LTE reliability. But yes, LTE really isn't that reliable in the Detroit market, especially Detroit. At my house I'm on 3G most of the time. It was excellent in Florida.

 

Yeah,  I did that to get better LTE service but it was still shoddy at most. I switched to 3G only and it worked perfectly. 

I'm not sure how you guys deal with Sprint up there. Every time I've been to Michigan anywhere near Detroit, Canton, Oak Park, Romulus, etc... LTE doesn't work worth a damn. I have to switch to 3G to get working service. Ann Arbor is nice though, Cleveland is still a lot better in terms of LTE speed and usability. For all I know it might be an issue with my phone being provisioned in another market. Can I get any conformation?

Not working for me on chrome, it's only producing a 420 x 315 image.

 

I noticed Sprint holds the first set of spark/turbo images in these directories:

http://coverage.sprint.com/MapTile/SparkDataMap/Tiles/spark_data/14/

http://coverage.sprint.com/MapTile/OverlayMap/Tiles/Overlay/14/

 

This is way beyond me, but maybe you would know. Is there a way to download (all?) files from the directory, even if you don't know the file names?

Yeah I noticed that. They switched to Google maps and open layers. It's just a tiled map. I can bring it outside of Sprint's website, I have to look around a little more first.

http://srv.so/CoverageMaps/sprint/index.php here you guys go. It's not all that pretty but it works.

I made a tool for this a long time ago. Let me get you guys a link.

I've been noticing lately that calls from Sprint to T-Mobile and vice versa sound really clear (not even using HD Voice), but Sprint to Verizon and vice versa sound like crap.

I'll try and check these areas out today. I'm excited to see band 41 lighting up.

Has anyone used the CDMA 800 sites around Sandusky lately? I heard a rumor that all the Cleveland 800 sites in the IBEZ were turned off. I'd love to get verification.

 

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I have used the ones in Sandusky at Cedar Point. I used them when they where first turned on. I believe I made a post about it too. There are also a few live in Elyria by I-90.

I constantly check this but since we all have LTE we are pretty content haha.

 

One thing I will say is that the towers are spotty. I never expected it to be so spotty, driving to work I'll constantly jump between LTE and 3g. It's kind of disappointing. But when I do have LTE it's pretty awesom.

It's spotty because there are still quite a few 3G only towers, on top of that the LTE towers haven't exactly been fine tuned yet. One everything is upgraded the amount of Swiss cheese will be reduced to almost none or eliminated.

We have band 41 in Brookpark now. I'm at The Home Depot with one bar getting 30Mbit/s down.

 

 

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How was LTE downtown with the Indians game last night?

 

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i thought that I read that we were in a unique situation here in the Cleveland market because of our proximity to Canada and the use of all the bands?

A carrier called Mike in Canada is still using 800MHz SMR for iDEN. I don't think Canada has approved LTE for use in the SMR band. If Sprint's LTE and CDMA network where to cause interference with iDEN I don't think iDEN would be able to mitigate the interference.

 

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so when us "cheapskates" all get new phones will we encounter the same issue??

I doubt it because by then more network upgrades should have been done. When people get phones that support Spark (Tri-Band LTE) network load will be pushed to other bands like 800MHz and 2600MHz so 1900MHz will be less congested.

 

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NiteSnow, i know my phone doesn't have LTE but if they have LTE pretty damn fast i'm hoping that 3G speeds would be usuable too??

3G will probably be pretty saturated by people who don't want to get new phones.

 

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Update: still the same here at 9th and Lakeside. Fast network at 7am and mostly unusable after 9am...and all of this is for 3G (iPhone 4S...not going to pay for a 4G phone until I'm sure I will stick with them and that the network works sufficiently).

LTE is pretty damn fast throughout the day in downtown Cleveland. I'll look for some speed tests.

 

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And the North Olmsted towers are now LTE Active (NO CSFB Yet), There have also been a bunch of towers activated (With CSFB active) starting at the airport, all the way to just before the Valley View (Constant STRONG CSFB LTE).. Yes, I know there were already some towers along that route active, but never this strong, and never with CSFB..

Since when? I have to drive out to Cleveland this morning so I'll definitely get to enjoy the LTE goodness.

 

I'm kinda disappointed with areas like Avon. They really need to put another base station on the water tower. Signal is so fucky on LTE in that area.

Found my issue.. Was a bug in CM11 last week which appeared to hose the sprint APN information... Had to completely flash back to stock to get CSFB to work again... Once I did that I was able to put the latest nightly of CM11 on and all is hunky dory now.:-)

 

This is the reason why I won't run nightlies.

Hmm.. maybe along the 480 corridor?.. I never hit the Westlake towers...  I haven't been able to use my phone in beachwood area without first manually switching to 3g only since tuesday.. and yesterday it was all over.. seemed like everyplace I was.. even went so far as to delete epst settings, flash back stock rom, and let the phone reactivate itself with no improvement whatsoever.. (you never know when Cyanogen will incorporate a bug in the nightly).  Hopefully it's fixed soon..

 

On center ridge. The tower on Columbia and Center Ridge has LTE, as does the one near Crocker Park. I was at Dollar Bank working on the roof. If you're interested go have a look at the new LTE antennas I installed.

Yikes looks like CSFB is turned off in North East Ohio.. Galaxy tab says 4G.. Nexus 5 only connects for a second and then drops to 1x and EVDO.. Not even eHRPD. Has been like this since 2:00 this afternoon and is consistent from Beachwood to North Ridgeville. Numerous reboots and network resets result with the same no LTE issue..

 

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Works just fine here. I was on LTE the entire time I was working in Westlake.