Jump to content

PedroDaGr8

S4GRU Sponsor
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    696

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    40

 Content Type 

Everything posted by PedroDaGr8

  1. PedroDaGr8
    I forgot to mention, other apps like CellMapper, Google Maps, or GPSTest are not impacted.
  2. PedroDaGr8
    I'm having issues with SignalCheck location service freezing. Sometimes the entire location service freezes, other times just the accuracy portion. Either way, when this happens the software stops logging information.
  3. PedroDaGr8
    Found another keep site, this time a Sprint Mini-Macro site (SE52XC020) in Kenmore. First time I have seen a Sprint Keep and MM together.
  4. PedroDaGr8
    Thanks for doing this. I think the simulations are pretty clear, the AT&T site is a much better site choice for this area.
  5. PedroDaGr8
    Excellent analysis, the AT&T site is clearly better. The biggest and most obvious caveat though is 700MHz is near useless in this area due to the limited bandwidth. I am much more worried about B2/B66/B41 performance than B12. Those bands are also far more greatly impacted by things shielding due to hills, buildings, etc.
  6. PedroDaGr8
    I can see how SE03XC157 could cause overlap with SE02669D (the downtown T-Mobile site). That being said, it really did a good job of improving coverage in the most densely populated weak areas (blue oval). The performance from T-Mobile in these areas is mediocre at best (good outside, horrible if you step inside). This area is geographically shielded from SE02669D due to the hill structure. Based on your images, it seems that neither site does a great job of addressing the bottom and bottom right portion of the blue oval. While SE03XC157 does a great job there, it doesn't do a great job at the area just north of the blue oval. This is partly mitigated by the T-Mobile site by Costco. Overall, I think SE03XC157 is the best for this area based on population/industry density. That being said if not that one, then I agree with you about the AT&T site. It does a far better job for the north part of the blue oval and beyond, a very good job for the central part, and a bad job for the southern part. I think the Verizon site just doesn't offer much benefit compared to SE03XC157 for the southern part or the AT&T site in the northern part.
  7. PedroDaGr8
    Excellent! That being said the side padding made the interface much nicer on my screen! It also has reduced false touches.
  8. PedroDaGr8
    Sorry I posted in the wrong thread. I'll move over to the other one.
  9. PedroDaGr8
    Hi Mike, is there any way to disable the buttons (Location, Site Logger, etc.) at the top of the main screen or at least a way to make them not buttons? On a curved display, the location button in particular falls right on the edge. I have accidentally turned Location off more times than I can count at this point.
  10. PedroDaGr8
    Found another unexpected keep site: SE52XC343 by Alderwood Mall.
  11. PedroDaGr8
    Found a few more Sprint Keep Sites: SE63XC203 at 47.73257, -122.11774 in Woodinville. I guess this will replace one or more of the nearby T-Mobile B12/B66 sites. SE73XC026 at 47.69437, -121.96558 on Novelty Hill, between Carnation and Duvall. The last one SE03XC659 at 47.80177, -122.00862 shows up in my log but it lacks a lot of info so it might not be valid. Occasionally, SignalCheck will keep the PLMN as it switches towers (meaning I have a number of towers with obvious T-Mobile bands and/or Sprint sites that do not confirm as Keep sites).
  12. PedroDaGr8
    Thanks for the analysis on those sites! The Juanita-Woodinville Sprint tower at 47.74330, -122.19131 was mostly a surprise because: The T-Mobile tower at 47.74440, -122.18346 is only 2000ft away and the T-Mobile tower at 47.74641, -122.20140 is only 2700ft away. The fact it NEVER showed the 312-250 PLMN. This is despite me trying hard to find out if it or the Sprint tower at 47.747532, -122.18941 were going to be keep sites. If this were to fill that geographic dead zone, I would imagine something located closer to Oskam's Corner would be more suitable. I guess it is a case of a bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush. As for T-Mobile's roll-out of B41/N41, I have to say I am impressed with the speed of deployment. Driving north on I-405 from the start at I-5, I locked my phone to B-41. I did not lose my T-Mobile B41 connection until I reached Kirkland. Even then, there was only a small gap and I likely would have been able to reach north of the 124th in Kirkland without issue. It seems like they are upgrading a number of sites in suburban Snohomish county near the King/SnoCo border.
  13. PedroDaGr8
    Just saw this Bothell permit: https://permitsearch.mybuildingpermit.com/PermitDetails/BNR2021-27514/Bothell This is the first permit I have seen which appears to be T-Mobile actually converting a Sprint Keep site. Remarkably, I didn't know this was going to be a keeper, I have never gotten the 312-250 PLMN from this site. I just assumed it was going to be decommissioned considering the number of T-Mobile towers in the area. In particular, there is a T-Mobile tower just across the 405. Adding a couple more permits: Snohomish County: https://permitsearch.mybuildingpermit.com/PermitDetails/21104003CBP/Snohomish County Sammamish Kinda Permit: https://permitsearch.mybuildingpermit.com/PermitDetails/FEAS2020-00779/Sammamish
  14. PedroDaGr8
    It is this absolutely absurd local T-Mobile site. The antenna is basically 7-8 ft off the ground and points right at a McDonald's drive thru and that's not even the most ridiculous thing about this site.
  15. PedroDaGr8
    By far the strongest signal I can ever remember getting!
  16. PedroDaGr8
    The upgrade of SE03314B went live today. The placement of these antennas is absolutely ABSURD! The AEHC panel is mounted on a riser above the other antenna. If you look carefully, you can just barely see the second antenna below the AEHC. I am unsure if they upgraded the antenna or I'm just paying closer attention but that antenna appears MUCH larger and closer to the ground than before. The bottom is basically 7-8ft above ground level! Nothing like sitting in the McDonalds drive thru and getting a huge RF blast from the antenna. I had signal values in the -40s in the parking lot. On a good note, this site has 80MHz of n41 bandwidth (the first one I have seen here). On that note, it looks like at some point recently they also moved the n41 carrier for the area up from up to 2607.8MHz from 2597.0MHz. This explains why they decommissioned the Sprint 2640.4MHz B41 carrier. An 80MHz BW centered at 2608MHz would have overlapped notably this carrier. As it is right now, the 2660MHz carrier is only a couple MHz away. I will try and see if I can get some better pictures of how outright absurd this location is.
  17. PedroDaGr8
    To access this on a Sprint device, install the Google Dialer and then enter *#*#2263#*#* It works on my Sprint Note 20 Ultra
  18. PedroDaGr8
    Sprint SIM with ROAMAHOME. From my understanding with TNX on Android, you lose access to the Sprint network. That's correct to my knowledge.
  19. PedroDaGr8
    Tge order of priority is T-Mobile 5G ->T-Mobile LTE->Sprint LTE. The one exception are Sprint 312-250 towers (aka keep routers) which function like T-Mobile LTE towers. Basically you will only connect to Sprint towers if there is no T-Mobile signal around or T-Mobile intends to convert that Sprint tower over to T-Mobile in the future.
  20. PedroDaGr8
    One request, albeit very minor, please have alerts follow the 'LTE/NR Cell ID format' setting. Currently, I have my Cell ID format set to Decimal with Sector but the alerts still report it in hex.
  21. PedroDaGr8
    Just drove by there today and SE03XC157 is back online. I guess the aforementioned wind storm temporarily knocked it offline.
  22. PedroDaGr8
    Ok it isn't just SE03XC157. Sprint towers SE03XC658 and SE52XC053 are no longer broadcasting Sprint signals either. These two are co-lo with T-Mobile. The T-Mobile racks are still broadcasting. I wonder if these are some of the first Sprint towers in this area to get shutdown. At this point, the closest Sprint site to downtown Woodinville still broadcasting is the keep site on the Slough.
  23. PedroDaGr8
    Not sure if it is due to the wind storms last night but as of this morning keep site SE03XC157 is not broadcasting. I will go check it out later.
  24. PedroDaGr8
    January Security update has rolled out for the S20 and Note20 series.
  25. PedroDaGr8
    Didn't see this posted: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/un-carrier/brookings-municipal-utilities
×
×
  • Create New...