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Click on a Cascade ID for a coverage map of that site.

Update 6/15/2012, all maps have been updated to better reflect antenna configuration, this is still just an approximate guess as to coverage YMMV.

 

Interactive maps for sponsors can be found here

 

I will be maintaining coverage maps of LTE sites that people are able to or have been able to get a connection to. Please report in this thread if you are able to get an LTE connection along with the site location, Screenshots are helpful in verifying connection.

 

Even if you can no longer connect to the site please provide the information as the coverage maps will include those as well.

 

Hopefully this will allow for more efficient LTE site hunting.

 

Sites that I know of So far

 

I will get caught up on it this week.....

 

Atlanta

AT25XC056, Reported by danielholt, now blocked

AT25XC068, Reported by themuffinman, now blocked

AT03XC088, Reported by slackblade, allowing connections

 

Kansas City

KC03XC133, Reported by kckid, allowing connections

 

Houston

HO23XC275, Reported by techwrench, now blocked

HO33XC479, Reported by techwrench, now blocked

HO03XC425, Reported by techwrench, now blocked

HO03XC328, Reported by Latinoboi30, now blocked

 

 

Working on finding a way to display multiple .kmz files with image overlay on an online map. Any Ideas?

 

*DISCLAIMER, This is an approximation of coverage and no guarantee is provided that coverage will be there when you are so do not whine that its not correct, I only have tower height data for Atlanta at this point so all other towers will use an assumed height of 35 feet for urban sites. Antenna configuration including down tilt may have serious effects on actual coverage.

Working on finding a way to display multiple .kmz files with image overlay on an online map. Any Ideas?- This can be done in Pitney Bowes Mapinfo Software using layer control and then exported to kml. The different Layers can be created using either excel sheet of information and converting them to .TAB files further editing the image if necessary..Multiple kml files can be opened at a single time and can be saved to "My places" to control the different layers in Google Earth. If google earth Pro is present then the layers can directly be created in that software. Please let me know if that answers your question-thanks

OK. I think I have typed this 50 times now in several forums. So I have decided to consolidate this in one thread and direct people here...

 

Did you know that with Sprint LTE Android devices, the signal strength indicator at the top does not show your LTE signal strength? Even if 4G is displayed next to it?

 

This signal displayed here is always your 1x (voice signal), and it is not your 3G EVDO signal strength, nor your LTE signal strength. Regardless of whether it says 3G or 4G next to it. This is the cause of a lot of confusion. Also, third party apps like NetMonitor and CDMA Field Test do not show accurate LTE signal strengths. They also only show the 1x signal strength, even though they may reference being connected to LTE.

 

The purpose of this thread is to help educate the masses, because many people think they have a strong LTE signal, when in fact they do not. And then they are unhappy, thinking that Sprint LTE is really slow, even with a strong signal. LTE performance is very signal strength dependent. So, when you have a weak signal, you can expect much slower than peak results.

 

There is only one accurate way to get your LTE signal strength, and that is from your LTE Engineering screen in your Debug menu. And we will discuss the different ways to get that below.

 

...In the EVO LTE, LG Viper & Motorola Photon Q LTE:

• Go in to your phone app, and dial ##DEBUG#
  
• Select LTE Engineering
  
• Go down to RSRP. The number under RSRP shown in dBm is your LTE signal strength.
  

...In the Galaxy S-III, Victory LTE & Note II:

• Go in to your phone app, and dial ##DEBUG#
  
• Enter 777468 for your lock code
  
• Select LTE Engineering
  
• Go down to RSRP. The number next to RSRP shown in dBm is your LTE signal strength.
  

...In the Galaxy Nexus:

• Go in to your phone app, and dial *#*#DEBUG#*#*
  
• Enter 777468 for your lock code
  
• Select LTE Engineering
  
• Go down to RSRP. The number next to RSRP shown in dBm is your LTE signal strength.
  

The LTE Signal Strength Scale:

 

Now you have determined your actual LTE signal strength in dBms your device is receiving, you can use the following scale below to determine its strength:

• Better than -96dBm is a great signal
  
• Between -97dBm and -107dBm is good
  
• Between -108dBm and -114dBm is fair
  
• Worse than -115dBm is poor
  

Feel free to link people to this thread for explanation. Hopefully, this will clear up some confusion out there!

 

NOTE: It appears that the iPhone 5 does show LTE signal strength in the status bar, when the LTE icon is displayed. So this does not apply to the iPhone.

Also another factor for good download speeds is the latency which determines the time taken to connect to the IP-Backhaul and backbone. The RSRP is good measure to find out the signal quantity but for signal quality SINR value needs to be accounted which shows a clean signal . below are the approx ranges for that metric

22 dbm-30dbm--- excellent

11dbm-22ddm--- decent

0dbm- 11 dbm--- bad