PedroDaGr8

Heck yeah! I was hoping this would come out before my trip on Saturday!

A local pre-submission "permit" for a Dish site with four antennas and eight RRUs per sector: The installation will consist of 3 sectors and one metal platform and equipment cabinet. Each sector will have four panel antennas, 8 remote radio units, two over voltage protection devices, jumpers, and hcs hybrid cable in a cable tray. https://permitsearch.mybuildingpermit.com/PermitDetails/PRE22-00597/Kirkland

The tower at the 405/5 interchange in Lynnwood is FINALLY live. I didn't get a chance to do a speedtest because I was driving with the wife. Also, a bunch of Dish pre-submission "permits" just dropped for Kirkland. Looks like they are taking over the old Sprint mini-macro site on the Portsmith building in downtown. The one over on Evergreen is expected to have FOUR antennas and 8 RRUs per sector! First time, I have seen that setup mentioned. https://permitsearch.mybuildingpermit.com/PermitDetails/PRE22-00597/Kirkland

I can almost guarantee that is because of the upgraded co-lo. If I'm band locked to n41, it will kick me off.

Thanks for the locations, I will try them sometime in the next week or so.

Shit, I am super jealous. Whioch device is that on? I tried again at Gregg's Bicycle a couple days ago and maxed out at 850Mb/s. I am beginning to think there is something with my phone (S22 Ultra), because I have never seen a speed >1Gb/s.

Any updates on this? Also, the Woodinville National Glass site had its eNB changed to 3xxxxx (same style as the site at the end of Avondale Rd.) It also had its gNB changed to one which matches the rest of the T-Mobile gNBs.

The license for King Co is not only heavily encumbered but the remaining areas are almost entirely deep in the Cascade Mountains with little to no population.

Also, the tower at the intersection of Avondale and Woodinville-Duvall is FINALLY live. Turns out, they killed off the old eNB and it now has yet another strange eNB pair for the area: 350338/350334

From my understanding, Tacoma, Thurston County, King County, and Kitsap are all different FCC markets. As such, it is entirely possible that Tacoma and Thurston haven't gone live yet. NYC just went live a couple days ago, so they might slowly be rolling it out, market by market. A bunch more Eastside upgrade permitting notes: I saw workers again at the Kirkland Motel 6 site yesterday. They were clearly doing something on the backside of the antennas. The Carillon Point site in the Houghton-area of Finally Kirkland went live with n41 week or so ago. They also removed all of the Sprint equipment. T-Mobile just applied for a permit to upgrade the Market St. Kirkland monopole (eNB 82969). The description sounds like it will be getting n41. It looks like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Dish have all filed permits to upgrade the Rose Hill/Bridle Trails tower (eNB 84743), or in the case of Dish, add on to the tower. My guess is Crown Castle will wait for all permits to process before upgrading the tower. T-Mobile also looks like they will be upgrading the I-405 tower by Bridle Trails (eNB 84784) and the I-405 tower up by Kingsgate (eNB 84646) Upgrade the NE 132nd St. Finn Hill tower (eNB 84669) and decommission the Sprint tower right by it The permit to upgrade the water tower at St. Edwards park was just issued. Found a permit to upgrade the Finn Hill NE 122 Pl tower but they aren't adding n41 to the tower. Seems like a very strange decision. Honestly, at this point, there are only a handful of sites remaining in Kirkland which don't have upgrade plans in place: The 111th/140th pole in Kirkland (eNB 88175) The McAuliffe Park pole in the Totem Lake area (eNB 84699) The Queensgate Church monopole (eNB 84650) The Northwest University roof-top site (eNB 85286) A common feature of these sites is that they have all been more or less rendered redundant by nearby upgrades like the Forbes Creek site upgrade (eNB 84858/886536) or the 7th Day Adventist Church site upgrade (eNB 84764).

Glad to see it is rolling out to other cities. It went live in the PNW a few days ago. From some testing I did yesterday, setting my phone to "NR SA Only" it has equal or slightly higher priority than n71. Most towers chose to put me on n41-SA unless the signal got bad enough that it would switch me to n71.

I can confirm the new beta fixed the n7/n41 issue. When I went home yesterday, I noticed that the faster logging speeds of for NR of recent are back to around 1/2 the rate for LTE. That being said, my phone was crazy hot on the way home so that could have impacted things some. I will investigate more later.

Good to know, all the same!

I am often down in that area during the middle of the day on the weekend (when the area is PACKED) I will have to make some time to drive down there sometime when it is less crowded and test.

Hmm, I haven't tried that particular one yet. I will test it the next time I am down in that area. For whatever reason, I can never break 1gig at the Gregg's bicycle site even though I know it is gig+. I can get close (850 range) but never cross it.

How so? Thanks, that would be great!

I wonder if that is the difference between 5xxxxx sites and 8xxxxx sites. Also, I really hope they start rolling out more Gig+ sites. I can only think of one or two on the entire eastside. Most sites around me at least have gig backhaul but so far I have never crossed the gig barrier when doing a speed test. Excellent! Look forward to your report.

As an aside, I wonder if they are testing VoNR here. Since I have an S22U instead of an S21, my phone isn't setup for VoNR. Maybe someone with an S21 in the area can chime in.

Correct. I force n41-SA via the 2263 menu and it will connect with any tower which has the capability. To be clear, hand-off between towers is a bit buggy. I will occasionally have to re-enable all bands via the 2263 menu then re-force n41-SA but otherwise it just works. Plus it allowed me to see the second n41 carrier in my area and confirm that it was 40MHz and located at 2570MHz. Previously, outside of one or two towers which had it on all the time (no idea why) and the occasional new tower which would have it on for a couple weeks before turning it off, that's how n41-SA behaved for me until a couple days ago. Now, outside of the buggy hand-offs I mentioned above, n41-SA just works. The metro Seattle area tends to be one of the first Nokia markets for changes and the changes then roll out to other markets over the coming weeks/months. So if it doesn't work yet for your area, expect it to come in the near future. As an aside, I wonder if they are testing VoNR here. Since I have an S22 instead of an S21, my phone isn't setup for VoNR.

Yes they do (527790).

n41-SA went live in my market over the past couple of days. As such, I have been logging a lot of NR. I noticed yesterday while logging that one of the recent updates fixed the slow update rate for NR, it now seems to update at a rate similar to LTE. That alone is a good improvement and will make logging NR much more accurate.

n41-SA just went fully live (not just a handful of select towers) over the past few days in the Seattle market. If you don't see it yet in your area, it will likely come soon. Seattle isn't normally the first market for changes but is usually one of the first Nokia markets. Changes in Seattle tend to roll out over the next few weeks/months to the vast majority of other areas.

@RAvirani Do you think you could implement a filter that converts all of the T-Mobile n7 to n41 (both ready logged and incoming)? At least in the meantime, until Mike implements his fix in the app. Now that n41-SA has finally gone live across the Seattle market, not just a couple choice sites, I will be doing a lot of logging of n41.

n41-SA appears to have gone live across the eastside (and likely all of metro Seattle). Pretty much every tower that supports n41 can now do n41-SA. This finally allowed me to confirm the second n41 channel is 40MHz centered at 2570MHz.

This tower (the colo by the Cross Kirkland Corridor) is already live, while the Motel 6 site across the 405 is not. My guess is the Motel 6 site needs a backhaul upgrade. That site was B25/B26 only when it was Sprint, so I doubt it had much backhaul.