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Sprint workers are gathered by the college working on towers im betting this week full 4g here in ventura or at least a good portion

 

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Try to get some pictures of the antennas that they are working on.

Since I get better 3G signal at my house does that mean 4g is getting closer to being worked on.

It's being worked on everywhere.....it's just a matter of time when it's more widespread.

Well it just randomly came on on my way down johnson but the weird thing was as soon as it come on my pandora stopped

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I'm guessing your phone ended up connecting to an unusable signal. When data is active, the phone won't switch to LTE...which is why people map using LTE Discovery to cycle airplane mode.

This thread will be a discussion for all of those lucky enough to be awesome enough to have LG's G2.

 

First impression: it's awesome.

 

And.. go!

Once you start using it more, let us know how the radios compare to other devices you've used.

Thanks!

I had 4 bars and ive gotten strong lte on my phone before I got 25 mbps it was amazing locally I have gotten 7 but at my house I have yet to have a strong lte signal but I do notice a high rise in 3g now im getting around 1mbps before I was getting around 200kbps highest being 500 Sent from my SPH-L720 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2

Use the debug screen or something like Signal Check to see what the signal strength actually is. My phone will hang on to an LTE signal down to -118 or so and I've seen as low as -122. When the signal drops that low on my phone, it's not useable.

The bars typically show what your 1x signal strength is.

Interestingly I picked up LTE for about 10 seconds on the 101 yesterday after work, just near the Victoria onramp. At first I thought it was from a site that was closer, but it was the southern Camarillo one.

My phone has been doing that lately, but I'm always on wi-fi.

I just assume that they're doing work.

It looks like the mapping I did yesterday is showing up on the Sensorly website.

Someone mapped on Wooley and there was some signal picked up on Harbor.

You work right there by like winco and the dmv and stuff right? Like right where midtown begins

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No, near the intersection of Victoria and Olivas Park.

Just an update...I did a little bit of mapping at lunch time.

It hasn't shown up on Sensorly yet. I picked up LTE for about 10 seconds when I was at the intersection leaving work.

Just picked up lte on my way to work going through port Hueneme. Got it from channel islands and Ventura road all the way down to the Mandalay shopping center.

If you get a chance, map it on Sensorly.

I'm going to try to swing by the area later at lunch.

Well for the last couple weeks ive been getting 4g on and off through there, but the same thing is true for Camarillo

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I can see it being hit and miss on the 101 passing through the southern part of Camarillo....that site is a couple of miles away from the freeway. I was able to keep the signal all the way to Wood/Hueneme road when it first went live. I don't think I'd be able to map that far if I tried it again, since it seems like the site has been adjusted to cover less area.

The second one though you should be good every time....although you might need to cycle airplane mode since the phone might not scan in time while passing through at 80mph.

is that the one by your work?

 

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Yes, it is.

If network.sprint.com is accurate, LTE might be available in Oxnard near Community Center Park. I drove by the other day, but no luck with LTE.

I'll probably try to swing by again tomorrow to give it another try.

 

Found a full build site in North LA. I was keeping track of it, since it's down the street from my work.

 

The guy I talked to was pretty friendly and said they've been working all over So Cal. Their last job was in Indio and were glad they were in Ventura since it wasn't 100 degrees here.  

 

He said it should take them about a week to finish then they'll fire it up to test. I'm sure I won't be able to connect to LTE for a while, but good to know full build sites are starting/have started in North LA.

 

 

 

Just an update on this site. It's been waiting on for fiber from ATT since it was accepted back in July.

It looks like the fiber might be ready, although the junction box could very well be just installed without the fiber pulled to it.

so the one by your work is suppose to go live soon?

 

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I don't think so, there was no fiber there last week when I checked. The site is about a mile away from my work.

Even though it was one of the first full build sites to go live in Ventura, I don't think it'll be one of the first to get LTE.

Ok how long does it take for AT&T to get the back haul ready for sprint 4g

I don't think anyone knows outside of Sprint or ATT how long it takes for a circuit to go live from the time the orders were placed.

For my work, it took about 8 months for them to get the fiber live. The actual physical work was done about a month after the contract was signed. We were told there was a backbone project that needed be done before we could go live.

Typical install times are supposed to be 90-120 days.

Since cellphone companies get fiber from telephone companies we have some in my area like AT&T and charter for telephone and internet providers. Does it matter where they get the internet from for cell towers cause AT&T sucks for speed. I was just wondering cause using charter for Internet aka server to get to Internet on phones is lightning fast. Charter gets between 30 and 100 download and AT&T like 1.5 MBs download.

It doesn't matter who they get it from, as long as has the specs they require.

They aren't using the same sort of connection that you get for home service. Those generally don't have the SLA's that they need for uptime, etc.

I think Digiblur answered your first question already:

0 days to 15 months so far.

As for backhaul, no idea.

So santa paula is getting 4g next?

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No idea.... In Alcatel Lucent markets, 3G is generally accepted first, then LTE goes live sometime after.

Permit I just saw on the Ventura county website:

Modification/Upgrade to an existing
wireless telecommunications
facility-Remove 3 existing antennas and
install 3 new antennas. Install 1 fiber
junction box, retrofit 1 modcell equipment
cabinet, install 6RRHs. Install 2 new
liquid tight conduits from MMBTs to
J-Box, Replace GPS unit.

928 CUMMINGS RD, SANTA
PAULA, CA 93060

So will they work on it in Santa Maria for 4g or do they want to wait for more to be accepted to do more than one tower.

They will work on it once backhaul becomes ready. They do not need to bring up 4G in clusters.  

So once 3G is accepted. 4g will start which they get the fiber from whoever in nipomo area. So my earlier post way back ago has 3G been oked

Yes

If I remember correctly, only 1 full build site has been accepted in Santa Maria.

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I think were going to get it in ventura here in the next month the pace they are going.. me beimg at the east end I might be able to get some of oxnards if another tower goes live

That's sounds pretty reasonable since they are a fair amount of sites that are 3G accepted already. I'm guessing all waiting on backhaul to fire up LTE.

Great are they working from Oxnard up to nipomo then.

No, they are working sites wherever/whenever they are ready. They are not working one particular area then moving to another.

There have been less completed full build sites up north than there have been in the southern part of the market.... at least so far.

Very exciting news today for ventura county I got 4g all the way into oxnard today went strong until about halfway between vineyard and rose but its exciting to see that and yes I mapped it

 

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This site was probably the one that went live. I saw them working on it mid August and it was 3G accepted a couple of weeks after that.

Now if ATT would get fiber to the site near my work, there would be LTE in Ventura.....it was 3G accepted way back in July.

Well I went all over Santa Maria no 4g unless its in orcutt. Santa Maria and orcutt are one city.

The site was 3G accepted only, so no LTE yet.

Unless Alcatel Lucent changes how they do things in our market, 3G will be accepted first on the sites.