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    Sorry for my excitment but this has been literally 5 years in the making.
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    The tower is river rd and meeting house rd. And my work building is about 100yards from the tower. When LTE first came I couldn't get it inside my office. Then suddenly a week ago or so I got good LTE in my office. So I am curious as to what happened. I am hoping for LTE at my house.. That is the final piece to the puzzle.
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    Can anyone confirm any updates on the Denton M.D. tower? I now have stong LTE in my office building where I did not before. Was wondering if b26 had been implemented. Still no LTE at my house though.
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    Well something has happened today... I have -95db of LTE in my work building now. 28mbit down 10up.. I've rarely if ever had LTE in here. This would be off the Denton tower, River Rd x Meeting House Rd. I am in the Choptank HQ building which.. if you know the area I can hit the tower with a rock from here. My wife reports she still has about -100db of 3g at the house though... Legion Rd x Engerman Ave. which is not that far from the tower.. just across town.
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    Is the eastern shore of MD mostly B25? What kind of bureaucracy has to be carried out in order to lite up B26?
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    Thank you all for answering my questions. How exactly is a site optimized? I am curious now. I also noticed that the coverage area for this location is visibly worse. Is the map really this dynamic?
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    I wonder what the time frame is on this. 800mhz would carry a lot better.
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    Yes I can confirm LTE has been in and out since last week. This prompted me to switch back to Sprint after a two year hiatus. Can someone find out what spectum this tower is using? It sure doesn't carry very far. I live about 2 miles as the crow flies from the tower and I get weak 3g. LTE works outside of my work building but not inside with the tower right outside the building. I am hoping they are still going to light up 800mhz.
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    Hello, thanks for the replies. No not a rant... Just a topic I am passionate about. Sprint trenched in fiber to their equipment they insalled at the tower site years ago. I figures LTE was right around the corner but no. The fiber is still dark I assume. I also assume the same, that the microwave is temporary.. but it's also been installed for some time with no LTE service or rise in 3g speeds. So now I don't know what's going on.
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    So its been years.. yes.. about 2 years since the NV equipment was placed on our tower.. then fiber trenched in.. now microwave dishes have appeared. I can only imagine this is a back haul issue. The fiber is dark? The legacy T1 speed is abysmal. 3g speeds of half a mb or less. Its been years of this. Anyone have any information? zip code 21629
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    Well I heard back from spint on the problem with this NV tower. Mind you it took 5 trouble tickets to get to this point. I can only assume you are correct S4GRU and the new backhaul is not in place yet. I am curious as to what their backhaul options are. Company Name: CHOPTANK ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE Sprint CTMS Ticket#: 19356068-121113 Problem Location: 10384 River Road, Denton, MD Issue Reported: Mobile Broadband Card, Slow Data The serving cell site for your trouble ticket has been deemed to be capacity related and is being analyzed for the specific capacity relief needed, as well as a specific estimated date of completion. Someone from the capacity ticket management group will contact you soon to provide some additional information. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please contact us at the number listed below so that we can answer any potential questions/ concerns you may have.
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    The tower is completely surrounded by our property on all sides. Unless they had a peice of dark fiber to the tower which predated me being here, 10 years, they didnt trench anything new to the tower. It is entirely possible that they did have dark fiber to the tower for that long.. I am not ruleing that out. There was very little activity at the site at all.. one day there was an Ericsson tech there, the next VZW LTE was lit up. A week later there was a team out there installing the NV equipment for Sprint.. then an Alcatel truck.. then that was it for Sprint. The only differents is I can now pull down 20+ mbits on my VZW equipment and only 0.09 or less mbits on my Sprint equipment. Sprint says the site (and surrounding sites) all had a speed increase within the last 6 months. Our site was the last to be done though it is the ONLY one of the sites to have NV equipment installed. It is also the oldest of all the surrounding sites. I know that both VZW and Sprint were using T1 backhauls to this site.. because when we have trouble (quite frequently I might add) with our Verizon t1 lines ( 9 of them ) the tower will sometimes go down as well, VZW and Sprint at the same time. I had often wondered what type of backhaul VZW or Sprint would use to upgrade this site.. we (Choptank Electric Coop) can not get anything over a t1 at this location or many of our district offices and substations throughout the eastern shore of MD. In fact we are still using frame relay in some places. So what VZW is using at this site is still a bit of a mystery seeing as how we have been asking for anything better then a t1 for years now. The only other carrier would be Comcast.. we do have a comcast business connection here for internet.. but even that is still copper as they dont have fiber in this area either. Like I mentioned before, a year ago we could pull down 1.5mbit via Sprint no problem.. Then something happened and it has gotten slower and slower and slower to the point that its not even usable at all now.
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    Hate to resurrect an old thread here but I am on a mad hunt to understand Sprints backhaul situation. The tower here was just recently upgraded with NV equipment but the data speeds are horrendously slow. In fact even slower then they were before. We were getting around 100 - 120kbps and now only 10 - 30kbps.. slower then dial up This is specially a problem for me since we use some ( 30 or so ) Sprint data cards at work and I work in IT. I get 30 people complaining to me. SO.. I live in a rather rural area in Maryland.. Zip 21629. The Sprint tower is right outside our HQ building.. the tower actually has the same address as our building. The speeds from this tower have been getting slower and slower. A year ago we could pull down 1 - 1.5mbit, was is actually faster then our VZW equipment (VZW shares the same tower). We would get 600 - 800kbps through VZW. For the last year however speeds via Sprint have been dropping dramatically to their low now of what I said.. 10kbps at times. I always blamed this, in my mind, on copper to the tower site being poor/over loaded. I know for a fact its a huge hassle trying to order t1's for our substations etc. In fact a T1 is the only thing available.. no T3's etc. BUT.. then a few months ago VZW lit up LTE on this tower outside.. and I can regularly pull 16, 18, even 20mbit via VZW LTE equipment. So that blows my T1 theory out of the water. There is no microwave structures on this tower.. so how is VZW able to get those speeds? Why is Sprints equipment crawling from the same physical location? When I start looking back at our helpdesk requests I find a pattern. The Sprint network started getting slower as VZW deployed more LTE sites on the shore here. Is big red perhaps prioritizing traffic to VZW sites? Bottom line is I love Sprint.. and I really want to use them as our provider So far we have switched 30 or so data cards from VZW to Sprint out of 130 cards or so total.. but of course now I have hit a brick wall with these slow data speeds and we are actually going BACK to VZW to take advantage of LTE. I have opened several trouble tickets with sprint and they are all promptly closed stating.. "A technician has verified the state of the cell site and everything it working as designed". I guess I am on my own with this one... Just wanting some answers. Thanks -Matt
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    Thanks for the reply. Its defiantly not the device. These screen shots were taken from my work laptop, however, my personal Sprint phone acts the same way.. as well as a co-workers. We also have 30+ out of 200 or so data devices on Sprint at work ranging from USB, PCMCIA, and embedded cards.. they all act the same. (The other 170+ devices are on a different carrier). Unfortunately I work in IT so I am getting daily calls from those 30+ users asking why their cards do not work in this area. Which also brings me too another question. As said, my personal device is a Sprint device (Evo 4g LTE) and my work issued phone is a Verizon device (ugh). Both cell sites are on the same physical tower structure, actually located at my work. I could have hit it with a rock during those speed tests. I am now at my house, as the crow flies about 1.5 miles or less from that tower. My Sprint phone is showing a signal of -103dBm which is not good at all, while my VZW device is near perfect at -83dBm. Is this really just the difference between the 800mhz spectrum vs 1900mhz? That seems like an awfully big difference to me. That's marginally poor service vs excellent service from the same physical structure. To add insult to injury I can pull down 18.22Mbps from the work phone. Don't get me wrong.. I am a Sprint fanboy all the way.. just trying to figure things out here. When I first switched to Sprint from ATT 3 years ago I could get consistent data speeds of 2 - 3 Mbps.. and I swear the signal was better also.. but over the years its slowly degraded to what you see in the screen shots. I got very excited when they started NV work.. but I am a sorely disappointed and I think rightly so. Sorry if this seems like a long rant but I have gone round and round with sprint support for the last year, both consumer and business support and have gotten no where.
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    Just got off the phone with sprint. The trouble ticket had been closed. The tower was operating normally according to them. NV upgrades complete. This is our new NV tower. A new ticket has been opened. The tower is not constantly dropping now.. but throughput is... yeah.. just take a look.
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    Thanks for the reply.. there seems to be two issues with this tower. First is the tower itsself, degraded signal which has been going on for quite some time. As the crow flies I live 1.5 miles from the tower can only get -100 / -105dBm standing on my roof with one foot. Right now I am literally 100 yards from the tower at work (its right on our property) and am only getting -97dBm. Ever since the NV work the tower bounces up and down up and down.. with periods of GREAT signal strength.. but most of the time its on par or worse then it has been. Second is data speeds. On the best day at the times this tower is up.. we can see throughput of around 20 - 30kbps.. with a ping latency around 800ms or even over 1000ms at some times. Dialup speeds here.. The tower has had these barely usable data speeds for over a year. many many complaints have been filed with CS When I saw NV work at the tower I was excited that these would be resolved.. but it seems like they are waiting on something. Perhaps the copper to the tower is not up to par to carry the needed bandwidth? At this point I don't even know which equipment is active. I really hope its not the new NV equipment. Would the CID or LAC change when the new equipment comes online? We were told the issues would be fixed last night at 6pm. and so far... the tower has quit bouncing.. BUT.. with degraded signal and barely usable data speeds. IE: it takes 30 seconds to load google.. and pandora wont stream at all. Old equipment back online? Do they test data throughput when they setup an new NV tower?
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    Well..... Physical tower work (which was indeed a NV upgrade) has been completed for 2 weeks now, and for about 2 weeks the tower has been boucing up and down. The tower seems to go down about 4 or 5 times every hour. Up for 5 minutes, down for 10, up for 5, down for 10. Etc. This has been going on for 2 weeks now like I said. I don't mind waiting paitently for an upgrade in service.. but only being able to carry on a conversation for 5 minutes at a time is getting a little old. The signal (when the tower is up) is also very degraded. Any ideas what may be going on? My co-workers and I have each called CS.. and they give us a time at which the problem should be resolved.. but that time comes and goes and nothing changes. Anyone have any ideas what may be happening?
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    Thanks for the insight. I am looking forward more to enhanced coverage with the 800mhz spectrum then LTE personally. I am hoping all these improvments will bring a much needed boost in network speeds.. like I said before we are lucky to get a tenth of a mbit out of this tower most of the time. Where as speeds from surrounding towers are usually approching 2mbps for 3g service.
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    I may just do that if I have a chance. We have some Sprint devices here at work so I just pinged my Sprint rep to see what he knew. He said that tower is scheduled for NV upgrade the end of this month. With that news I am pretty positive thats what they are doing work for. It looks to me as though they are pulling a fiber backhaul up the tower. I am really hoping this helps with the signal quality. In theory it wouldnt.. but I think something is wrong with the current array. As you can see from the picture I am but a few hundred yards from the tower and the signal is only -97dBm. At my house about a mile away its non existant. My VZ work phone off the same tower location gets near full signal at my house. Crossing my fingers. I believe VZW is using a 700 or 750mhz spectrum while Sprint is 1900mhz? Hopfully they will start using the 800mhz iDEN spectrum soon.. that would also help. specially in this rural area. Correct me if I am wrong in any of this.. I am mostly guessing.
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    I have been a Sprint customer for about 4 years, switched from ATT due to an extended tower outage. My co-workers and I have been patiently awaiting the arrival of LTE on our personal Sprint devices. VZW lit up LTE here a couple weeks ago. Anyway, enough of the back story. The tower outside of where I work is both a Verizon and Sprint tower. The VZW equipment, being housed in a small building, and Sprints outdoors in a couple small cabinets. Today a truck rolled up with a trailer and a few large spools of cable. My excitement started to build as 4 guys got out and started working around the Sprint tower equipment. They first opened up all the equipment, then dug a hole, now two of them are climbing the tower pulling a line up with them. Could it be true? NV work in progress here in rural Maryland? Or perhaps just some repair work? This tower has been EXTREMLY slow as of late. Degraded signal and data throughput of around 15 - 20kbps sometimes even less. From what I can see the logo on the truck just says TOWER and like a radio signal radiating out from it. I have noticed some Ericson trucks (and one Siemens) going to and from the site in the past week or so as well but I believe those are for the VZW LTE rollout. I dunno about the Siemens truck. I believe the Sprint north east rollout is being done by Alcatel-Lucent no? I have attached a pic for fun.... What I believe to be Sprints cabinets (small gray) has coaxial which runs to the bottom smallest array. Above that I believe is the VZW array, the coaxial for that comes out of a building which I know is Verizons because we lease space from them for our communications equipment which shares the same tower for its antenna (too small to really see lol) I do not know whats at the very top. That arrays coaxial comes out of a different building. Can anyone confirm or deny my excitment!? lol Thanks -Matt
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