Craig

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. 

You. Are. Killing Me!

Nothing confirmed through S4GRU. I did see work being done on a tower just south of I-70 on Colorado a few days ago, so look for that one to potentially light up soon (hopefully).

I am getting 4G right now Downtown at 17 & Broadway.  

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!!!

Try to see if you can get it east of the Genesee exit. I cycled it via the Signal Check Pro app as I was approaching it from the east. The first hit I got was pretty much at the exit as shown on my Sensorly info.

Someone with a Sensorly app should take a drive up I 70 around the Genesee exit.......Just sayin

Done. Just sayin'

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

Wonder if another tower is getting active, I got lte by I-70 and Quebec

To borrow from someone else's signature line "Sensorly or it didn't happen". Just sayin. :-)

Is it true, unless they fully turn it on, 4G will be on and off here in Castle Rock for testing?

Maybe, maybe not. Some sites are turned on and that's it, they're on. Others may have fine tuning to do. If the tower has been accepted, though, I would not expect much if any cycling off and on. 

Another tower is live off of highway 85 & weld county road 14 in Ft. Lupton.

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. 

About two weeks back, I ran a speed test while on Pena going over Tower. Got just shy of 40 down and 12 up. Started the test with about -80 signal strength and it finished in the mid 90's. Not too shabby for a moving target a mile plus from the site.

It seems as though another tower has gone live. It is in Brighton off of Bridge St. & N 42nd Ave.

Yep. Shows up in the sponsors maps quite nicely. 

Signal Check Pro app. You can set it up to alert you when you connect to LTE or an 800 tower. 

Sa-weet! 800 is already making its first appearance in CO. Had my first voice call over 800 a few days ago at ORD. Didn't really think there was much difference with quality of the call, but I certainly did have better reception in what used to be marginal signal areas. 

I missed that he had the One. The Evo 4G LTE is notorious for being a poor LTE performer. 

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.

Did they accept a new 4g location? I was at 1-70 and Peoria at the McDonalds and got a little 4g signal for about 2 minutes. I wasn't running sensorly though cause I was almost out of battery. 

Look up a few posts. I mentioned the newly accepted tower near 88th and Pena. If you contribute a few dollars to the site, you'll get access to better maps that show accepted towers. It's very handy and you can contribute as much as you like. Easily worth $5-$10. 

Close. 3G accepted doesn't mean backhaul is in place. It usually means it is not in place, actually.

 

Most of the time when you see only a 3G acceptance, it is connected to legacy backhaul. 

Interesting. I would have thought that the backhaul would have to be in place to accept it as NV 3G. So do they go through and retest it once the backhaul is upgraded, or is it pretty much plug and play?

Newly accepted LTE tower at 88th and Tower. That explains the better signal south on Pena.

A question regarding site acceptance: are 3g acceptances for full NV equipment, attached to legacy backhaul, or is it some other factor that makes it not a full LTE site acceptance? Are they still testing the LTE equipment in these 3g accepted locations?

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. 

That's a very odd tower. Not sure who it is, but it isn't Sprint. There are no Sprint towers within 1/2 mile of that intersection. Hate to burst your bubble(s).

Looks like we got another LTE tower recently...its south along tower from the previous one.  Sensorly is showing more coverage along peña blvd now.  

 

I talked to some of the Ericsson guys the other day.  They seemed to be convinced NV would be done in the next 6 months or so.  That falls in line with what I've heard at one of the stores I visited about a month ago.  As always...take with a pile of salt.

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.

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.

I'm predicting three more LTE towers in the Denver area soon. Area has been EV-DO most of the day. I have no real basis for three towers, just a WAG.

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.

have you used it?  near as i can tell from your innumerable posts you've never had lte appear on your device.

my experience, as someone who uses it literally every night, is that the speeds are tremendous.

I think he's still ranting about the deployment rate. Let's just ignore the trolls.