Well, although AT&T announced that Southern NJ and "shore points" would be covered with LTE by end of summer, I'm spending time this holiday weekend in Cape May and can report that some small, spotty LTE coverage is showing up here. Looks like it's mostly on the edge of the shore, along Beach Avenue from Pittsburgh Avenue, going westward and ending right around Congress Hall. From that short stretch, coverage only extends about 3 to 4 blocks inward.
Looks like maybe 1 or 2 cell sites have it turned on, covering a few of the bigger hotels and inns in that area, but if you're lucky to get it, speeds are decent. On Memorial Day weekend when tons of people are here and using their smartphones, speed tests on LTE were a pretty consistent 25mbps down/7mbps up throughout the day. Ping is unusually high for LTE though, about 75-95ms.
Still pretty good considering that right now, AT&T's FauxG HSPA+ network in the same area and surrounding is pretty much unusable, under the crush of so many people here this weekend. If you're lucky, you get sub-1Mbps down and less than 500kbps up, after a long wait for anything to even happen. More often than not though, HSPA just times out altogether. So they sorely need to expand the LTE coverage they have here.
Just thought I'd report my observations. Personally I prefer turning things on bit by bit instead of waiting for the end of summer to throw the switch on the whole thing.
Looks like maybe 1 or 2 cell sites have it turned on, covering a few of the bigger hotels and inns in that area, but if you're lucky to get it, speeds are decent. On Memorial Day weekend when tons of people are here and using their smartphones, speed tests on LTE were a pretty consistent 25mbps down/7mbps up throughout the day. Ping is unusually high for LTE though, about 75-95ms.
Still pretty good considering that right now, AT&T's FauxG HSPA+ network in the same area and surrounding is pretty much unusable, under the crush of so many people here this weekend. If you're lucky, you get sub-1Mbps down and less than 500kbps up, after a long wait for anything to even happen. More often than not though, HSPA just times out altogether. So they sorely need to expand the LTE coverage they have here.
Just thought I'd report my observations. Personally I prefer turning things on bit by bit instead of waiting for the end of summer to throw the switch on the whole thing.