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I think I see att ruus also but they put there ruus below and panels in my area and sprint puts theres behind the panels

I'm breaking out the top shelf tonight!!! Made my week

Yes, the bottom rack is Sprint NV mixed with legacy panels.

Yes I have been keeping a close eye on that tower and I was passing by it and something looked different I went there and seen the new equipment and my heart stopped lol. I guess I should report this to Robert because he doesn't have it mapped yet.

That's most definitely a NV install.

 

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http://db.tt/gu6oVUxE

The second pic isn't working.

 

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Site by my work. It looks like NV panels and ruu's are installed I believe. Took this April first https://www.dropbox.com/sc/yy77jafv0mrund2/KbZmgIyAv6 and took these today https://www.dropbox.com/sc/y85ehfy3olbugj6/OjpWIbZMH2. Sorry the crappy rain weather plus the combination of the evo lte camera does not mix well on that second pic. But comparing pics they have definitely added ruu's and new panels to the bottom row which I believe are Sprints because I've seen those Ruu's before they have bright green lights on the bottoms of them. It fits the profile. Can anyone tell me if I'm right.  

My eHRPD speeds are actually worse than my evdo speeds somehow. I will show you proof if I need too. Also I'm not free. Its called a contract and I'm not paying to leave them because there service deteriorated over time. That same tower I took the evdo speeds on I used to get 2-2.5 down at 3am on evdo or ehrpd. Throw a false coverage map saying I have best coverage for LTE when I have none and tech support that I have more knowledge than and I get fustrated. The nexus 7 LTE will resolve my experience with Sprint but no release date on that has me aggravated like the world does not want me to have LTE on any carrier

The first screenshot is EVDO and most-likely not from a NV site. .70mbps isn't terrible either, not for EVDO and especially if the site you were connected to isn't a NV site. On ALL NV sites I've connected to on eHRPD, I get consistent speeds of 1.5-2.5mbps. Whereas, with Verizon I don't get anything near those speeds, most of the day.

 

It's kinda obvious you don't want to be with Sprint at this point and its really starting to show. You're free to go to whatever carrier will make you the happiest.

My ec/lo is between 0.5-1.5 and my dBm is usually on evdo around 68-87 dBm and I rarely get speeds like that. It is a legacy tower though so yeah http://db.tt/wh5NGV7H

It looks like they do, on my device at least. Currently running a CM10.2 (Android 4.3) ROM on my Galaxy Note II. My 1X signal is -103, and my EV-DO signal is -104 (both right on the normal edge of usefulness, from my experience), but the "bars" show it wavering between two and three bars. And, it seems they're right; my Ec/Io for each is -3.0 dB and -2.5 dB respectively (just saw EV-DO jump up to -1.5 dB), which I understand means there's almost no interference at all between my device and the site, and I'm probably the only user on the entire sector.

 

That being said, EV-DO actually works very well at a signal of ~-103 dBm, with an Ec/Io of about -3 dB. I just did a speedtest and got this:

 

And yes, this is an NV 3G cell.

I'd these are the kind of speeds I get in a rural area at 330am with a 73 dBm signal then I am not impressed with the quality of this network. http://db.tt/HN28qa0F however these that I took in the city was impressive http://db.tt/h5QhpQaA

17 days ago is more than two weeks lol

I specifically said "from my vantage point", for a reason. They're starting to in-fill the most completed areas of town to get them completed. The Downtown/San Marco/Springfield area is finally mostly completed, with addition of those few key sites that have come online this month. You don't need a lot of accepted sites to accomplish this; the few key sites coming online drastically increased my experience in this area - I get coverage, pretty much everywhere around here and my data speeds are consistently 8-30mbps, rarely ever dipping below 6mbps, even with RSRP going as low as -118dBm. Furthermore, it's only the 16th of the month and Sprint only JUST launched Jax less than 2 weeks ago. Give it some more time. We'll see how things shape up at the end of the month.

No at my house the lte signal is 130 so my phone can't get it. My girlfriend has a gs3 that occasionally picks up LTE but its unusable and usual goes back to 3g in a few seconds

 

You could be like me, have best LTE listed as coverage, yet as I barley get -100RSSI in my driveway on 1X, and -120 RSSP on LTE.

 

I'm back to working with support again. No way all around gets LTE, and my 1X suffers let alone me getting LTE like they show.

 

It would be nice to not have to rely on an airave in an area saturated by LTE supposedly.

No

Nope. I don't frequent those areas often, so I wouldn't see them if they were working on those sites. I'm sure they have to be working on something in those areas. From my vantage point, it seems Sprint is really picking up the pace, especially since Jax was officially launched a few weeks ago. If you guys aren't sponsors, I suggest becoming one so you can see what is already "in-progress" in the "black hole" of Jax.

6 LTE acceptance reports in the month of August does not support your theory of picking up the pace. I see the pace actually degrading probably because the city has been launched already so some of the pressure is off of Sprint's back.

Yessir. Here's two that I just found in the last week that upgrades have started on. JA54XC112 - west Arlington - University and Fort Caroline. JA73XC053 - south San Marco area - Hendricks ave. I'm going to try and get some good shots of the work being done on these so we can mark them as "in-progress". They just finished another site across the street from my work on Talleyrand Ave and 21st st (JA73XC059). I hit 18-30+Mbps all day long at that site.

That's what I like to hear! 

Yeah they do. I am riding my contracts out as well. First one ends Nov 7th the other May 18 but I plan on paying the 100 dollar end of termination fee in December especially if tmobile beats sprint to LTE coverage in my area. HTC does need to focus on that two but I just don't like the galaxy phones for some reason. I will only choose between HTC, or the note 2, or Sony if Sprint ever decides to get one

I have been to Gainsville, and St Augustine this month and I don't see anything new. I am going to Jax beach next weekend and Tampa the first week of August. I have suspicion that there is live TD LTE in Jax though.

Well for the past week its been storming in the afternoons. So maybe that's the hold up or maybe they have a bunch of sites completed and waiting acceptance. I haven't been out towards the beaches at all but the North side, west side, clay county, and most of the downtown area is mostly complete.

 

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Seems to be the first LTE drought since the rollout began. I have been to like 10 towers, looked at permits and everything and I came up with nothing. I don't like this game lol

Nope. I haven't seen any new sites. I've seen a lot of sites with the legacy equipment removed though.

 

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Anyone see some new sites that Rob Da Don doesn't have on the map? Only 6 LTE acceptances for the whole Jax market in the month of August has me worried as normally if I find a LTE tower live then Rob Da Don nomally has the acceptance report that day or maybe a day or two earlier.

Last 5 mins of that show last week had me sweating like I was involved lol. I feel the same way though. I had no idea how many times I go into building I actually use 1xRTT instead of EV-DO but thanks to the signal check pro app I realize I was on super slow 2.5G instead of 3G but there have been plenty of times I have had 68-75dbm on EV-DO and had usless data. I went into a Sprint store to check out the Red HTC One today which was very nice. I found that there store had terrible 3G speeds and no LTE even though they are covered on the map. One Galaxy S4 was trying to get a LTE signal from a far away tower but it was unusable. Somehow the Sprint Store was packed. Probably because of back to school and the BOGO deals doing on.

definitely not..... I feel like Jesse from breaking bad when I'm in crappy coverage

Just hang in there its not easy for me either. Good things are a comin

Well then...

That guy was lying. Sprint is roughly only 55% finished with the Orlando market and even after that they stillf have to go back and do cdma 800, LTE 800 and LTE 2500. Every florida market will not be completely finished until 3rd or even 4th quarter next year.

Yes...As usual they always seem to favor tourist more than the people who actually live here Lol jk, have fun on your vacation. The weather has kinda been hit and miss with the rain. And if you move here, get an express pass for the tolls. Hopefully by the time you get here, LTE should be launched. I was told it should be completed by the end of august by a rep from their executive customer service center, but we will just have to see about that.

If your service is that bad and your tired of sprints promises that it can't keep or takes a long time to execute I would switch and comback in a year when the network is a different animal. When its said and done I think At&t and Sprint will be the two best data providers of the big 4. Jacksonville market is going very slow averaging less than 50 LTE sites a month so I see the frustration. I'm upset to because they listed my area as a fair LTE coverage area and I checked back yesterday and now all of a sudden its a BEST LTE coverage area and we don't get LTE inside or out which is ridiculous they can get away with lying that bad.

I feel you, talked a friend into getting the HTC One like mine on Sprint, it has worse coverage than the HTC EVO he had, I also seen poorer reception with mine, but kept it instead of trying to see if Samsung 4 had better reception.

 

He has been a long time Sprint guy too. He got tired of it and went to ATT last week before his 15 days were up. He has 5 bars now inside the building with blazing speeds compared to a brick in his hand.. Not sure it is worth eating the ETF on my new HTCOne and making the jump too. It gets old carrying a brick when you can not use for phone, email, internet, etc and pay 180 bucks a month for 3 phones. I have to use an Airave in the house to have any signal there too.

 

Been listening to LTE talk since I bought the first HTC EVO two years ago, that phone never seen a LTE the entire time I had it.

 

How many have made the switch form Sprint and like the grass better on the other side of the fence?

Us phone geeks take great care of our phones. There is virtually no signs of wear and tear on my EVO LTE. When I got my nexus 7 it ran circles around my EVO. I don't like to play high graphic games on my EVO because it drops frames, makes my phone extremely hot to the point where I have to put it down and battery life is not all that. So if I had some extra money to drop I would do this. One thing that sucks is the evo LTE did not hold its value and its going for only $230-280 on craiglist

If I had that kind of money to blow I would likely be on At&t instead of Sprint then came back when network vision was mostly done lol

You could always buy one off contract and sell it when you are ready to.

I want this phone so bad but since its not triband and 6 months old I can't justify this purchase for me anyway

Red HTC One coming out on the 16th exclusive to Sprint. Also there is a BOGO going on with it good to the 30th.

From what I've seen in this rollout the most improtant and saturated towers are some of the last to be updated because they don't want to disrupt service for that many people. It sucks but that's how they are doing it. From what I've experienced they will launch cities and don't care if the more imprortant parts of the city are covered but the thing that gets me is they exaggerate their coverage map for LTE to the extreme.

They need to do something for the town center area. It is a really high end area with a lot of popular shops and restaurants, plus a lot of corporate offices in the nearby area. There are also stores for all the major carriers at the town center. It doesn't look good for Sprint trying to sell customers at the sprint store there when they have some of the worst coverage in Jacksonville right in that area.