Craig
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I'm thinking you're just getting a very weak signal from a tower, be it through the opposite side of the building, or distant in the general direction you're looking out toward. When I have a very weak LTE signal, my phone tends to behave this way, switching from LTE to 3G almost as soon as it connects to LTE. If you install Signal Check Pro, that will give you an idea of the strength and quality of your LTE signal and would be beneficial to know.
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Oh hell YES! Glad I live in the Denver MEGAPLEX and not Colorado Springs. It's amazing how one guy can keep pushing back LTE rollout down there by weeks, one week at a time. Maybe one of these days I'll go through this thread and count the number of weeks he's single-handedly delayed it for the rest of COS. Edit: Not seeing any sensorly LTE hits in downtown. Upload that mess. NOW!!!
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No pictures to back it up, but the tower immediately south of I-70 on Colorado Blvd in Denver had a cherry picker and crews up in the tower as I was driving to the zoo around 1130 and they were still there on the drive home about 1600. It is a Sprint tower as I confirmed it on the sponsor maps. https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m8!1m3!1d3!2d-104.940662!3d39.775016!2m2!1f291.18!2f90.18!4f75!2m5!1e1!2m3!1sseHwCyFjJtXGsDp3WuxTCg!2e0!7e11&fid=5
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I'm telling ya, drop a couple bucks and become a sponsor. You can see where all the towers are that are accepted as soon as Robert gets the acceptance reports entered in, which has been quite steady lately. This tower is in fact showing up on the completed map for sponsors. You can donate as much or as little as you like and it gives you access to better info and helps keep the site alive.
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Another suggestion might be to get a phone that doesn't have a known issue with poor LTE reception. I don't know if the HTC's have it, but the Samsung's have a file that logs what 3G tower you are connected to when it gets an LTE hit. It seems to reference this file and when you are connected to that tower again, it scans for LTE with a much shorter scan interval. I know I had to force my S3 to find LTE via airplane mode the first time when I was on Pena, now it finds it consistently at the same spot with no intervention.
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Maybe someone will clarify if I am mistaken, but the 3G acceptance means the NV panels are installed, backhaul is in place and all of the 3G side has been tested and checked as working correctly. The LTE is still in process/testing, but may be active. Basically, I understood that if a site is accepted as 3G, it is up to NV 3G standards, meaning backhaul is complete, pings are sub-100ms, etc, etc. The LTE side might have some tweaking to do, or they may have a more technical issue to sort out before it goes live.
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I noticed the improved range and strength of the LTE in the southern regions of Pena last night on my drive home. Notice some very faint hits on Colfax just W of 225. Maybe the tower west of Pena that was in progress has been brought to life? I'd love a 6 month roll out in the Denver area (IAssume they were talking about the Denver area?), but I'd bet it will be closer to a full year before all the towers are ready and turned on. edit: It's just a single blip at Peoria and Montview, not multiple hits.
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Just to make it more likely that I score a success, let's call it all of the front range (minus Colo Springs of course since one man has single handedly pushed that deployment back weeks). I honestly have no idea, but there have been a lot of EV-DO reversions lately and last time that happened, we got out first taste of the LTE love.
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I was in Minneapolis Monday night and was across the street from an LTE tower near the Mall of America. Inside with no direct line of sight to the tower, I got 26 down / 11 up w/ 50ms ping. I'm not worried about speeds once build out on all bands is complete. Back in Nov, I saw a tower near I-70 and Quebec with a cherry picker lifted up to it. I can't tell if there are NV panels installed as I'm flying by at 60MPH, but that is my guess for the next tower to be turned on.