pchalla90

The tower near Best Buy in East Brunswick on Route 18 just went live for LTE! I have an iPhone; otherwise, I would have Sensorly mapped it.

I've noticed that large sections of the region where I used to get signal, even just mere weeks ago, I am unable to get signal or data. In some places, the phone defaults to "No Service" as if I were in the middle of the ocean. Other areas of the region, it refuses to pick up data and I cannot send iMessages or go on the Internet. Is this one of the early stages of NV buildout? Zip codes of general areas. If you guys want specifics, I can do that in a bit of time. 08816 - East Brunswick 08901 - New Brunswick 08854 - Piscataway

Argh. Why aren't they updating this market quicker?! I spent the holidays in Atlanta and now non-LTE networks seem so slow. Alca/Lu, get your act together! Robert, I know you still have this listed as a First Round market in the running thread, but is this still actually a first round market? When I look at Sensorly maps of the first round markets, this is the only one that doesn't have much work going on. I think many of the second round markets are actually ahead of this. Or do you have some private information which says that they're just building it and they're going to turn on the entire region overnight soon? Thanks.

Hey guys! Didn't have a chance to post this before the storm and it slipped my mind after (a tree fell on my house), but now that I'm at a public WiFi, I thought I'd update you to my LTE speed test in this area! I went in the late afternoon (around 4pm) to a location that Sensorly said was dark purple (near the intersection of County Rd 615 and Winding Wood Drive) and amazingly, my phone connected to LTE. I immediately whipped out speedtest.net's app and starting testing. After about a dozen tests, I got about 5mbps down (somewhat consistently) and anywhere from .5 to 11 mbps up.

I'm from East Brunswick. After the storm, I also noticed that there was little to no Sprint service while VZW had coverage everywhere. I was successfully able to roam and send texts while roaming (although it may have taken a few tries), but while on Sprint, I was unable to receive or send texts or make or receive calls. While roaming, I cannot make outgoing calls because I get the "Pay with Credit Card" message that someone posted in a previous reply. I can receive calls while roaming. In Central Jersey, at least, Sprint took quite a hit. It still isn't back up in full. (Then again, my house still doesn't have power. It's Friday 11/2 at 11am when I'm posting this) Stay warm, guys!

I forgot to mention this earlier. While I didn't get connected to LTE, I still got to try out their new (I'm assuming) Network Vision 3G towers over there. I got a respectable (at least when compared to Sprint's usual performance) speed of 2mbps down and 1mbps up according to speedtest.net's app. Other places I tried (East Brunswick Rt 18) had me at less than 0.5mbps down and up (if I was lucky. The average is probably closer to 0.2). Do you have any idea why they chose Central Jersey for a Round 1 NV/LTE location? Thanks for your help and for the site!

I was there an hour ago. I parked in the Wawa parking lot and tried to connect to LTE. I drove around the area, constantly checking to see if my phone (iPhone 5) would connect to an LTE tower. I parked at the corner of Maple St. and Jeri Ln. near the Wawa. That intersection is bathed in LTE according to Sensorly. I didn't connect. I drove south on 18 until 9, and went south on that until the Lowes Hardware and then came back north, regularly checking to see if my phone connected to LTE. No such luck. Is it an iPhone problem or did they turn the towers off again? And before anyone starts the iPhone/Android war, I don't care. You buy your phone, I'll buy mine. They both have their problems. However, they're both very good systems. This is my first iOS device after about half a decade of Android. (Original Evo and Motorola Photon, if anyone cares.)