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Qbking77 posted that lte was on on june 18 i live about 25 mins fromelgon i didnt get to play with it but from what it seems chicago will be getting lte pretty soon
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Thanks qbking77 i dont live to far from there hope chicago gets lte soon
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I remember working in Philly when the EVO 4G launched on the WiMAX network and when signal was stable it was impressive (compared to 3G anyway). I cannot wait.
I picked up a 4G signal briefly in Huntley,IL. (not too far from Huntley) I was driving and streaming pandora.
I did not get to do a speed test, but I did do a screen shot. Signal was gone as fast as it came on.
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I was in huntley (just north of 90 on 47) last saturday, and no lte. This must be very recent.
I hope we start getting it within the next month or so. I'm pretty tired of these terrible 3G speeds.
I'm from Rockford illinois and we officially have no lte yet but i was told we will soon . Not holding my breath on that one:/.
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Nothing in Crystal Lake
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Same in Joliet nothing ,and my text not coming in inside my house.
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Speeds look like straight trash... But then again its still an unfinished network.
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Speeds look like straight trash... But then again its still an unfinished network.
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Yeah exactly.. my guess is they were still just testing it
No LTE from West Chicago to Lombard
My EVO is getting lonely without his friend LTE!
If we look at sprint track record these could actually be the speeds. There slow in about every network 3g or 4g wimax when compared to the others. The 3g I's slower than some pre paid tracphones i done seen surf the internet my goddness. I had to tuck my evo in my pocket when someone asked me to look up something it took a while so i just said my battery died and everyone said i thought you're phone last all day .My friend trac phone looked it up in seconds and he's on edge network ugh.
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How close do I need to be in order to use LTE? For some reason, they are apparently ignoring Plainfield and the surrounding towns...
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Guess I will be making a roadtrip this weekend haha. My area (Gurnee)won't be seeing LTE for a little while
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Well so far i been all over chicago and surrounding suburbs and have not seen any lte on my evo lte hsy qbking77 did u do a profile upgrade or something ordid it just appear out of no where ?
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boogief1 said:
Well so far i been all over chicago and surrounding suburbs and have not seen any lte on my evo lte hsy qbking77 did u do a profile upgrade or something ordid it just appear out of no where ?
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Be patient, they were probably testing. It isn't live yet and won't be for a while. Especially in and around the city, since they're moving outside-in. Check the link I posted. If Sprint waits for 50% site conversion, then expected launch would be September. Which would mean we probably won't see anything until August at the earliest. This could be sooner if they decide to start rolling out before 50%
Can this be true this guy @insidesprintnow posted this on his twiter and lately my sprint reception has been horrible can this be why ?
http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/97718283?width=360
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I haven't seen LTE or 4G on my phone once. This is really odd because I live blocks from the KC sprint campus. I have even driven into their parking lot and sitting there got only 3G still.
I know this has to be on my end because there's no way that in their own campus in their main center they don't have a tower running it since this was the first location to receive LTE. Is this something that could be dependent on the ROM i'm using. I'm running viper 1.21 which others have said they get LTE with so I don't think it's that.
Do I need to possibly flash a new radio? Is there something else going on?
Yeah, ur not in an LTE area. Either that or Idk find someone with an EVO and see if they get LTE in the same spot.
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Have you tried toggling between CDMA only and CDMA + LTE?
Have you updated your PRL+Profile?
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Have you tried toggling between CDMA only and CDMA + LTE?
Have you updated your PRL+Profile?
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I haven't tried toggling to CDMA and then back to LTE, I'll give that a go.
I know for sure I'm in an LTE area because KC is the first and I live directly next to their huge campus here. I have a few friends who work for them, actually everyone in this town has worked for them at one point or another, lol. And they said we do have it in this area now.
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I haven't tried toggling to CDMA and then back to LTE, I'll give that a go.
I know for sure I'm in an LTE area because KC is the first and I live directly next to their huge campus here. I have a few friends who work for them, actually everyone in this town has worked for them at one point or another, lol. And they said we do have it in this area now.
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Well try that and get back to us
The campus is in overland park and they haven't finished the rollout for all of KC.
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The campus is in overland park and they haven't finished the rollout for all of KC.
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correct. I always say KC because anyone outside of this area doesn't know OP. I live a just a couple blocks from that campus. I thought this was the first area scheduled for the roll out. At least I know why I haven't seen it yet. thank you.
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i gave it a go and no LTE yet, so I think erichj must be right and the rollout is not complete.
Strange that they wouldn't start with their own campus. But I guess I was just spoiled by t-mobiles insanely fast network speeds before switch to sprint. Kinda a bad decision on my part but I thought I wanted an Iphone, until I had it a couple days and took back that turd to get another android phone. By that point I was stuck in to a sprint contract with dial-up speed.
LTE is spotty even in the city
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lte is spotty for me here in dallas.
The network isn't done. Even in cities where LTE is live.
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I was on the Sprint campus tonight and had to reboot my phone to get it to pick up 4g. Sometimes that's the only thing that will work . Network is only about 40% build out around the KC market right now.
Have you updated your radio and prl?
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It definitely is spotty. I was able to get LTE in the legends but it would randomly switch to 3G even if I was in the same spot.
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Iive up north of the river by the airport and I only saw the 4g icon once while eating a chicken fried steak at corner cafe in Riverside. I only had it long enough to download speedtest.net app and it reported 8M download and 8M upload. Pretty good but then it switched to 3g again
Hopefully it gets better soon!
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Im in Odessa most of the time, anyone have an idea when it might get yo the Odessa Tx area.???
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I read that our towers are supposed to go live the end of august well here we are anyone been picking up LTE yet? When I get signal I'm getting like 2mbps on 3g in Murfreesboro but I live in coffee county out in the sticks and I'll run a test here in a few and see what I'm pulling anyone in this market see any increases in their speeds?
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2M? Wow i live near mtsu and best ive got anywhere in rutherford county is maybe 1.3-1.4. I went shopping yesterday in cool springs and was in madison earlier. Notta...havent seen any 3g difference good or bad.
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Ive pulled 2 mbps ill in the Boro tonight so ill check again. Is there anyway to take a screen shot with out root?
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Yup. Stock is power plus home. Or you can do power + volume down.
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Huh lol
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I'm pulling 0.8 mbps at the chic fil a on old fort parkway lol must be something going on
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Nope....sounds normal. I'm at international paper out on broad at work getting bout same....
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I could've swore I was getting really good signal bout 3 days prior to this post
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I also live in the boro, but get under 200 kbps. You guys are definitely lucky to get over 1 mb. The bad thing is when I go inside anywhere, the signal drops to 0 bars, and I get nada. Same goes for my wife's Evo 3D. I have not seen LTE at all in M'boro, or during my commute to work in Nashville at Grassmere park (behind the zoo). I am anxiously trying to patiently wait for LTE. If I can just get a data signal indoors, I don't care what speed it is.
For the signal issue call sprint tell them you get poor signal ay home they will send you an airave for free I got one here at my place
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For the signal issue call sprint tell them you get poor signal ay home they will send you an airave for free I got one here at my place
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I actually have an airave, and it works great. The problem is when I am in any building such as BestBuy or Wal-mart, and want to price match something. Or I am in a shoe store and want to find out if Amazon has it for cheaper. Just yesterday I was at Kohl's, and they told me that they had a coupon online. I of course could not get data on mine or my wife's phone, so I could not pull up the coupon. I cannot even begin to tell you how badly I want LTE. I just hope the indoor signal is better.
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I actually have an airave, and it works great. The problem is when I am in any building such as BestBuy or Wal-mart, and want to price match something. Or I am in a shoe store and want to find out if Amazon has it for cheaper. Just yesterday I was at Kohl's, and they told me that they had a coupon online. I of course could not get data on mine or my wife's phone, so I could not pull up the coupon. I cannot even begin to tell you how badly I want LTE. I just hope the indoor signal is better.
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I live in the Boro and work in Green Hills. I get 2 megs plus in Green Hills. Got 2.3 the first day I got my LTE. That's definitely the fastest I've ever seen for 3g on Sprint or Verizon.
I can tell you that I spoke with a contractor that deployed LTE for att in Nashville and he said that his company was doing Sprint as well. He said that he expected to start work on Sprint towers in May-June.
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I live in the Boro and work in Green Hills. I get 2 megs plus in Green Hills. Got 2.3 the first day I got my LTE. That's definitely the fastest I've ever seen for 3g on Sprint or Verizon.
I can tell you that I spoke with a contractor that deployed LTE for att in Nashville and he said that his company was doing Sprint as well. He said that he expected to start work on Sprint towers in May-June.
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I was told we be live by at least Feb of 2013 on lte
Check out s4gru.com they have a lot.of info on sprints lte and realeses
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If you live in the Boro and all you get is 200 k per sec then you either by freak bad luck live in a deadzone or something. Sad to say and don't get your hopes to high because LTE at GHz they broadcast at will not do any better. I'm afraid if you have a poor signal now? You will then also. Swear I think I read that somewhere but no doubt other people know more about it than me. Just saying......
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I sooooooo agree on the indoor signal! I get mad a lot and roam only on mean Rom and get 3g off Verizon. Guys I seriously would be shocked if LTE did either. It will be spotty at first. When you get connected it will be great but don't get to hyped. WiFi off Comcast is were its at for me at home anyhow.
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I live in Morrison lol in other words BFE lol
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I live in the Boro and work in Green Hills. I get 2 megs plus in Green Hills. Got 2.3 the first day I got my LTE. That's definitely the fastest I've ever seen for 3g on Sprint or Verizon.
I can tell you that I spoke with a contractor that deployed LTE for att in Nashville and he said that his company was doing Sprint as well. He said that he expected to start work on Sprint towers in May-June.
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I'm hoping that you talked to him early this year (like...before May), not recently.
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I'm hoping that you talked to him early this year (like...before May), not recently.
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Ditto
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From the title I thought yall were actually in Nashville. Dude its like 2 towns between Boro and Nashville. And all the places yall checked aren't even Nashville. I'm just saying if Nashville did get it doesn't mean yall will where your located. (Claiming Detroit when they live 30 miles away. - Eminem)
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Drove to fort Knox today and didn't get any 4g in Nashville
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I was told we be live by at least Feb of 2013 on lte
Check out s4gru.com they have a lot.of info on sprints lte and realeses
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Think I remember reading it was a second round market. I think some of those markets are starting now and might have a couple active ones, probably a training tower for that market.
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does any one know when LTE in PALATINE will come live?
Largely depends on whether you're considered part of the "chicago" market which is supposed to be around september.
If you aren't part of that rollout.....Not anytime soon.
damn u have to be kidding me!! well i live like 20 mins from chicago. hope that the tower signal travel will travel far enought.
Well right now lte is about 10 miles or so west of palatine so it's just a matter of time. Now as far as Chicago getting lte I hate to say it but I don't think we might have lte this year . My office where I work has a sprint tower on it and a tech was out working on it and he was saying lte for Chicago might not happen this year with all the work they still have to do to the towers. I was also that Illinois already has 40% lte coverage so that's kind of good but could always be better
OP u say your from palatine well I am to so if u want to talk for some reason pm maybe we can get together sometime
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I'm in Wheaton and they said September 7 is when it should be active
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I'm in Wheaton and they said September 7 is when it should be active
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Who did you hear that from? Sprint reps will tell you anything to leave happy.
Given that they haven't even officially announced there will be LTE for chicago, its probably not gonna be a few days from now
i cant wait till next year for LTE. darn sprint 3G Sucks! ive been waiting for this to long. those tower better go live this year. or else ill have to beat someone up hahah
If they're 40% done with Illinois, they could easily go live this month. Many of the first round LTE markets went live with much less than 40 percent complete. They won't be DONE with Chicago this year, but I'm sure they'll go live this year.
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does any one know when LTE in PALATINE will come live?
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Damn, I'm next door in AH and your thread title lead me to believe lte was active.
All of Palitine's sprint towers have been upgraded to network vision for 3g. I understand they are waiting for the back haul to be installed. It shouldn't be much longer.
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There are two towers right by my crib... And it was a manager that told me over the phone not at a store... She was probably blowing smoke
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I just wanted to share some good news with the Sprint users here. Sprint recently launched LTE in the Chicago area and for a while I haven't seen any major improvements near me (south of Chi-town). For those in this area, I did a speed test in Lockport earlier tonight and pulled down 2-3Mbps. Normally, I might get 100-200 Kbps. I know many people have been suffering with far less than that, but wanted to let people know it's getting better!
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I just wanted to share some good news with the Sprint users here. Sprint recently launched LTE in the Chicago area and for a while I haven't seen any major improvements near me (south of Chi-town). For those in this area, I did a speed test in Lockport earlier tonight and pulled down 2-3Mbps. Normally, I might get 100-200 Kbps. I know many people have been suffering with far less than that, but wanted to let people know it's getting better!
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LOL! That's nice, but how does this affect me, Al Franken?
I can't even find my state in the dropdown list for upcoming Sprint LTE deployments!
No doubt Sprint is concentrating on the population centers that they think will bring in the most revenue, just like my next upgrade will depend on which carrier can supply competitive 4G coverage in my area.
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I live in NYC and I still have shi**y reception. I think about switching carriers every time I drop a call or receive a text hours late. The unlimited data is the only thing keeping me from switching.
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Quick question since sprint is using lte towers now will we be able to pick up the 4g since the 3vo is wimax
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Quick question since sprint is using lte towers now will we be able to pick up the 4g since the 3vo is wimax
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No our phones use 802.11e instead of the LTE protocols while some say a update could allow us to use it no one has really backed it up.
While 802.11e was the first revision of wimax and the next would have been better than LTE but to many others adopted LTE. YOu will need your upgrade to get a LTE device.
My upgrade is on the first of jan so I will be getting a nexus LTE device but won't see LTE here for a few years.
Seriously. Why would I use any newer phone if I have to drop back to 3G? I've been lucky and had unlimited WiMax since original EVO. Getting my girl a used Sensation off Craigslist and going to hook her up with Straight Talk. If the speeds are good maybe I'll go that route for a while. GSM Nexus off contract is probably the way I'll go next time.
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gk1984 said:
I just wanted to share some good news with the Sprint users here. Sprint recently launched LTE in the Chicago area and for a while I haven't seen any major improvements near me (south of Chi-town). For those in this area, I did a speed test in Lockport earlier tonight and pulled down 2-3Mbps. Normally, I might get 100-200 Kbps. I know many people have been suffering with far less than that, but wanted to let people know it's getting better!
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I got some i was happy to see it I live in the just a little a way west side
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ramjet73 said:
LOL! That's nice, but how does this affect me, Al Franken?
I can't even find my state in the dropdown list for upcoming Sprint LTE deployments!
No doubt Sprint is concentrating on the population centers that they think will bring in the most revenue, just like my next upgrade will depend on which carrier can supply competitive 4G coverage in my area.
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no complaining Ram when you are blanketed by a nice 4G WIMAX coverage. I had better 4G on my trip to Maui then I do in my home area in Orange County CA where we have 1 street with WIMAX and that drops as soon as you walk into a building!
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no complaining Ram when you are blanketed by a nice 4G WIMAX coverage. I had better 4G on my trip to Maui then I do in my home area in Orange County CA where we have 1 street with WIMAX and that drops as soon as you walk into a building!
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You're right, but what happens when it's time to upgrade? Guess I'll be keeping my 3D for a while but I'd planned to do that anyway.
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I was in Chicago (Niles area) couple of weekends ago and there was 4G wimax available and I was getting 8mb/2mb speeds consistently. Too bad I live in Indianapolis where there is zero 4G.
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I live in NYC and I still have shi**y reception. I think about switching carriers every time I drop a call or receive a text hours late. The unlimited data is the only thing keeping me from switching.
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That sucks. Never happens to me at all.
Man I didn't realize how good I have it here in Minneapolis. I hold a 4-8Mbps 4G even inside buildings and almost out to the suburbs.
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Wish i had 4g in my area. 3g here is usually 100-150kbps :/ but i hope network vision helps out with this soon. If not I will change for sure
No 4g for phoenix yet. Hopefully LTE eventually gets deployed here
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hey guys if you want info about Network Vision, check out S4GRU.com. They have accurate and detailed info about NV deployments in each market.
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In Los Angeles I get awesome coverage. I'm hardly on 3G. 10mbps - 12mbps
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