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I literally think we were driving right next to each other at one point. I saw some purple just near me that I don't think was me.

Just made my first purple! How sweet it is! Decent speeds but not super fast yet. Oh boy.

mapping as I drive right now.

Whoa. 2nd kenner site? Any info on which one? I will have a chance in the morning to check it out if I know where to look. Haven't had time to navigate the sponsor section yet so maybe that is hindering me. But if you have any specifics and want me to swing by shoot me a pm (i think we can do that here). I will also be at the upgraded Laplace site tomorrow and will report if anything has been turned on there.

When you put in the dialer command *#*#4636#*#* there is no cdma/LTE option. There is a CDMA, LTE option but when I choose that all I get is 1x signal. The setting I have it on now is getting really poor speeds so if anyone with an EVO LTE could open this command and see what their preferred network setting is that would be much appreciated. Eta: never mind. Mkenny gave me the answer right above my post! Thanks man.

Can someone tell me what the default preferred network setting should be for the *#*#4636#*#*? I stupidly changed to LTE only without checking to see what it was set to before I changed it and would really like to make sure I put it back to the correct setting. Thanks

So david...you were able to connect with your Evo I see. Did you have to toggle airplane mode or anything or did it just switch over on its own?

Nice! That is a welcomed sight right there. Thanks for posting that!

Haha. I was driving by there earlier and I was getting close to the tower and glanced up and swore I saw the cables and thought "there are the cables mkenny mentioned". Then as I got closer and pulled around by the cage the cables were nowhere and there wasn't anybody around to have done anything with them. Weird. My minds playin tricks on me. But yeah the place was shuttered so I am not expecting anything until after new years now I guess. But you never know.

Yes, you can see this tower from I10. So anyone driving through kenner can get a glimpse of it. There are 2 towers real close to each other. One looks to be att and one sprint (thanks digi).

Stopped by kenner location on way home and got no 4g. Just to confirm the findings of the poster ealier. There was a guy in the cage on the phone pacing back and forth. Not sure if that was a good or bad thing. lol.

Maybe he is remotely adjusting downtilt? See, your post was educational.

Sweet. Excellent post. Gonna read again and try and absorb some of that again. A guy walked in my office and said "you looking at cell tower porn?".

Nice. Let us know. I am going to be driving straight through there in about 2 hours.

Now that I think about it I was sitting at the red light at this intersection last week and I was looking at the towers near it and thought "that looks like Sprint RRUs...nah probabaly ATT. No, too many panels must be Sprint. On s4gru they said that ATT only put up an few panels and this one has 3 on each side that is alot. I should get some pics for S4gru and ask them. Oh well you don't know what you are looking at or talking about. Besides if that was Sprint someone would have reported it by now since it is in a heavliy trafficed area (same area that WIMAX works btw)." Then the light turned green.

Wow. I am going to be at the kenner location right after work. This is where my parents live and where we have been staying while our house gets repaired. I can't believe I didn't pick it up last night. Gonna have to toggle on the way home!

Holy smokes. That is great news! Hope someone can find it. Thanks for the update.

Ok so I finally brought my good camera out to my (being rebuilt) house in laplace. These are images of the tower on I-10 close to hwy 51. The new panels. One more view of the panels... And another from underneath And here are the boxes, there are 2 others but I believe these are the new ones. I have about 6 more pics like these if any more pics are wanted by anyone. This location was flooded by hurricane Isaac and I believe that is the main reason why this tower has been upgraded. Previously the data speeds on this tower were terrible and it hardly ever got any attention. Now the speeds are significantly better but I have not been able to pick up anything other than 3g up to this point. I was trying hard the other day as when I drove by there was a truck sitting by the entrance to the site (think it was an Ericson truck) but nada.

Wow that is just terrible! Hope it is simply a oversight or something.

Well my 3g suddenly improved a little bit in areas where it had previously gone downhill. Hopefully a good sign of better things to come!

Something is going on in the metairie/kenner area this evening. Can't even complete phone calls. Get busy signals or call failed message. This was confirmed on 4 different sprint phones. Of which not one of them can get above 50 kbps 3g data speeds. Hope they get it sorted out soon.

My 3g has been absolutely terrible the last 2 days in the elmwood area. Almost unusable. Like 15kbps bad. Strange because I have been running ehrpd for a while in this area so not sure what could be going on. Just thought I would share and to see if anyone else in then area is seeing the same thing.

So I took some pictures of a tower very near my house today. Unfortunately I did not have my good camera with me because it was unexpected to see anyone working there honestly. Not completely sure this is a Sprint tower but pretty sure it is by looking at maps and seeing a sprint truck there a long while ago. Anyway this tower is on I-10 in Laplace near I-55. There were about 5 trucks and certainly some new panels being hung today. Some of the smaller ones in the middle are the new ones as I know they were not there previously. Anyway these are the best pics I could get with my phone. Anyone want to take a shot at what we are looking at? Is it even a Sprint job? The site won't let me embed the pics for some reason but..... You can see the guy up on the tower in the first pic. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2iVpYAHcxNXM1JmVWkwRU41aGM https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2iVpYAHcxNXSjUyVlRDNzBlZW8 https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2iVpYAHcxNXdDVDWVAwRjN6Y2s https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2iVpYAHcxNXeW9ETFR6dDh3NWM

hey nice. thanks for the update and pics.