james2oo4

Okay. I wanted to edit that last post but the system has been up and down all day because of the tower. My company operates through Sprint's towers (yippie). But the quailcomm's have been down so my drivers haven't been recieving their information until they leave the area.

Yes Coz, I did reset the data connection when everything started to happen. I finally got EHRPD around 18:00. I know which tower is shooting out the 1x 800. Screen shot coming shortly.

I am getting 800 down in Washington Court House. I am sure it is one of the towers down here. I don't know which one though because even though my phone says 1x 800, I'm not getting data. It really SUCKS because Quailcomm runs off of Sprint's towers now. So now my drivers aren't getting information that they are supposed to be getting. I'm hoping this is only VERY SHORT term.

They were at the (not sure if I should say) site again so I decided to go over and talk to the guys. The guy I talked to was real nice and said he's been doing this stuff for 20 years. Here are a few points he made:

 

"It's going to be a rough 6 Months around here."

 

They are turning sites on in clusters because you'll get hard drops if you go from Motorola to the new Samsung hardware.

 

Lancaster is scheduled to turn on 7 sites September 9 but the other guy said there was a possible problem in that cluster.

 

Pickerington is getting worked on hard now as most of you know.

 

Backhaul is taking a while but some small towns are better prepared than you'd think.

 

He said the way the old wimax works if one tower has fiber it can feed many other towers and he was getting 100 mb somewhere the other day but they turn them down before going live.

 

Some of this may be old news.

Good stuff to know!

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You know if you all don't want to get out here and score some points, I'll donate in my own name. Livingston and Alum Creek. BTW. That's a high capacity site! Today's post has been brought to you by Sprint, the letters GN and the number 2.

Good lord... Is that a Sprint only site???

Just realized which thread this was.... lol

So uh! Looks like amcferrin90 is trying to run off with RRH/CAB Confirmations. Y'all going to let him do it?

 

RRH/CAB Confirmations

Accept Report 61

amcferrin90 13

COZisBack 12

csujjhoov 3

james2oo4 2

kineticman 2

Oakley707 2

Grand Total 95

No worries my man... I am going to be getting on the ball here very very soon. Maybe as soon as tonight...if I can get away from my damn job... haha

Also, here is a confirmation of this site. I wasn't actively looking for it so I want able to go to any engineering screens. I caught this on OH-38 I'm Fayette County surprisingly.

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Edit: Just realized that the 800 cut out before I took the screen shot... haha. It is putting out 800 though.

Drove by a tower in Mount Sterling, OH. There wwas a guy there on my way to work... Had to come back to Columbus for something... guy was still there.... went back down to Washington Court House... guy was still there...Last I looked, the tower already had the new cabinets and RRU's. I couldn't tell if backhaul was ran or not. I am thinking this tower is getting ready to go 800. We'll see. This is the tower on Anderson-Antioch Road. I think I will have time to check more towers in Madison, Fayette and Pickaway counties tomorrow. I want to today BUT I am throwing my drivers a cookout.

Can anyone confirm if the tower on the exit ramp at 256 & 70 carries sprint? I spoke with a climber yesterday that said he was here from out Iof town installing Sprint LTE in the area and that tower was near complete. Sure enough while driving by this morning, there is 2 guys dangling about 1/2 up the tower.

THAT would be awesome... Data coverage over there is TERRIBLE!

I'm going to do some NV hunting in Southern Franklin, Pickaway, Madison and Fayette Couties today. 

I honestly can live with the slow data speeds as long as the NV upgrades happen. I've lived with the slow speeds this long... another few months won't kill me, especially if the wait is worth it. I travel a lot and have experienced cities with NV upgrades with LTE included. If ours turns out like those cities, it will be worth the wait for sure.

And honestly, you can't really beat the value you get when it comes to Sprint's phone/data plans.

I know you all hate to hear this because I hate it as well but let's all be a little more patient. I'm sure once everything is all said and done, we will all be thankful we waited it out!

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Hmm... my phone has been I'm EVDO A in Reynoldsburg all day. HOPEFULLY that's a good sign. We shall see.

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I TOLD YOU GUYS THERE WAS NO 4G THERE!

Agreed. I'll listen to you for now on...lol

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It just Sucks, was picking it up daily and now it's gone....

 

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I wasn't able to pick up 800 in Granville.

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Damn. No luck with a Airplane Mode flip, etc etc?

None at all. I had LTE Discovery running as well. I drove by it twice. I couldn't get a really good look at the base because the tower is so far from the road, next to someone's house.... there was a construction company next to it so I'm assuming this is an old decommissioned Nextel tower. My phone went to EVDO A the entire time. Ran a PRL update twice. Got nothin. I'll try again in a couple weeks.

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Not getting 4G

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If you can multiwindow the LTE "Enginerring" screen with Sensorly Map screenshot it from each sector would be hell of a lot of help.

 

That site is/was also a GMO site. If you can take pictures as well.

 I'll see what I can pull off. It looks like the tower may be next to someones farm shelter. If I can get back there without being shot, I'll get some up close pics

It just stinks, I need 800 where I live(use airave) and drop signal getting to my house. When I was locking onto 800 a few weeks ago/month ago, I want dropping those same calls.

 

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I'll detour through Granville on my way back from Belleville. When I drove through Graville last time, I didn't pick up 1x 800 either.

Appreciate it! Do you have Multiwindow on your S3?

Yes I do have it

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So the plan today is to head up to Belleville and check to make sure this tower is live. I'll do that around 12:00.

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You can drive to Marion if you want Swing by the new LTE site in Bellville while you're up that way.

 

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If no one maps it by Friday, I'll head up that way. I'm planning on going to Cedar Point... if the weather holds up.

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Gotta compare to Cinci, not the Mistake by the Lake. MBTL is a 3rd Rounder. It's crazy we beat them to LTE. We're not far behind Cinci.

Hahaha! "The mistake by the lake"

The fourth one is south of Mansfield... in between Belville and Fredrickstown. Looking at the NV Completed map, it says that one is in the Columbus market.

 

According to S4GRU, he updated the "NV Sites Complete" map with the lastest Acceptance Reported sites. Map still shows 3.

 

EDIT Excuse me. You're 1000% correct. Let me see if I can find it or if he missed it on the map. We're up to 4 according to the acceptance report.

 

EDIT 2 We're not seeing it on the map. I'm hoping he didn't lump 7/30 and 8/1 together. We're waiting a response in the Complete Comment Thread.

 

EDIT 3  Robert (S4GRU) said there is an issue with the map cache and it not showing all updates. He's working on resolution.

 

Awesome... That sounds like good news if we in fact have a fourth tower up and running!

I just doubled checked. The Centerburg which made 3 LTE for Columbus was accepted on Thursday of last week. So we're still at 3.

I'm pretty certain Centerburg was accepted on 7/30. That's when I drove up. We had towers accepted 6/26, 7/23, 7/30, and the latest one which definitely brings us to 4.

I had to look at the acceptance reports again to make sure I wasn't losing it. I've tried to map every tower I can so far.