Good. If you look on the coverage map, there is this giant hole right Somerset/Morris/Hunterdon counties. Makes no sense that it took them this long, especially with Somerset county's population density.
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Good. If you look on the coverage map, there is this giant hole right Somerset/Morris/Hunterdon counties. Makes no sense that it took them this long, especially with Somerset county's population density.
I can beat you 3Mbps down w/ LTE... I tested it w/ my friends iPhone 5 in the hospital versus my 4S w/ '4G' that was doing 1.5Mbps. I have an LTE set up/tower whatever is called close to my apartment according to AT&T so I will test the speeds, but I'm not too optimistic. If you check the map for me, you can see that all areas are strong signal LTE close to me so I don't understand why the slow speeds. Still I'm excited because I will have 2X speed.
Has there been any official announcement regarding BLM -Nrml? I understand that if you have a 4s it will not pick up the LTE? I live 3 miles SE and get 4g with various speeds. Lately the speed has significantly increased from 2-3 MB to 5-7 MB.
Trying to decide to stay with AT&T or go with Verizon, tying home Internet with it.
The 4s does not support LTE, so it will not show it as an option. It does support up through HPSA+, but that will only show 4G. Only the iPhone 5 and upcoming C and S have LTE support on AT&T.
It looks like they are standing up more towers in town as well as increasing the throughput / backhaul. It's slowly increased in different areas of town and now it's almost 4/5 bars in every corner of town. I've managed a SpeedTest here and there...and topped out at 16Mbps / 8mbps. Not blazing for LTE, but I don't think they are done.
I haven't seen an official announcement, but I happens to know some folks involved in upgrading some of the repeaters used by various businesses and they are confirming it's going live this month.
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I'm getting LTE at home in Bloomington, but I don't get any in Normal.
The speeds I am getting are more HSPA+ than they are LTE.
Edit: I take it back. At work, I just got 15.79Mbps down and 3.20Mbps up with 56ms latency to the server in Normal.
I'll check at home again later but I get usually < 3Mbps down. I am on a busy road and I get horrible service most of the time at home.
LTE has been slowly creeping towards Bel Air, MD and it finally appeared in the last couple weeks. 
We're North of Baltimore and West of US95.
We're North of Baltimore and West of US95.A sign that they are still testing the market and and proper backhaul isn't in though. Should be done very soon though.
Why did they bother turning it on, it is unusable. The latency is crazy, loading a simple website takes minutes.
Testing... How can network engineers test and tune the network without it going live?
I understand, but they are mankind cellular data unusable...just seems odd they would degrade their network in the city like this. I have had to turn data off.
Got a 5S and activated it on AT&T. I live 3 miles out of town (SE) and I am getting LTE service. 4G @ 9.58 down, LTE @ 25.43
All I can say is SWEET!!!!!
For the Des Moines posters I have been all around town the last few days for various reasons and I was able to get a better look at where LTE is within the metro.
From what it looks like they are moving it in from east to west. So basically Altoona, Pleasant Hill, Bondurant, Ankeny, Carlisle, Des Moines, and Norwalk are all getting LTE is some form. Some get a stronger signal than others but they were all showing LTE when I was around them.
The west metro is still spotty or missing it altogether. Basically right around the Highway 28/63rd St corridor and west of there LTE is not turned on yet. So Urbandale, Windsor Heights, Clive, West Des Moines, and Waukee are all without LTE yet. Although there were a couple of spots around Jordan Creek Mall where I was picking up 3 bars of LTE it went away in a hurry.
Also I was in Iowa City last weekend and they are still not turned on yet. I can basically get LTE all the way from my house and all along I-80 for about 100 miles but about three miles outside of Iowa City it goes back to 4G. Not sure when they are going to get the green light.
From what it looks like they are moving it in from east to west. So basically Altoona, Pleasant Hill, Bondurant, Ankeny, Carlisle, Des Moines, and Norwalk are all getting LTE is some form. Some get a stronger signal than others but they were all showing LTE when I was around them.
The west metro is still spotty or missing it altogether. Basically right around the Highway 28/63rd St corridor and west of there LTE is not turned on yet. So Urbandale, Windsor Heights, Clive, West Des Moines, and Waukee are all without LTE yet. Although there were a couple of spots around Jordan Creek Mall where I was picking up 3 bars of LTE it went away in a hurry.
Also I was in Iowa City last weekend and they are still not turned on yet. I can basically get LTE all the way from my house and all along I-80 for about 100 miles but about three miles outside of Iowa City it goes back to 4G. Not sure when they are going to get the green light.
Yes, similar speeds on my 5 and 5s. And I don't think AT&T is fully turned up in town. I think it will get faster once all towers are upgraded.
I am pretty impressed with the LTE speeds I am getting here in Columbus Ohio on my iPhone 5s. It varies from area to area, but I was at a Starbucks indoors and with LTE I got 32 Mbps DOWN and 11.91 Mbps UP. Holy crap! Granted this was pretty near a freeway (I-270 on the west side of Columbus not far from cell towers) but WOW! That is faster than my 30Mbps Road Runner cable modem service at home. I am not getting that everywhere. It varies from 6Mbps to around 20-25Mbps the other places I have tried. Pretty impressive.
I got this a couple days ago on my 5s. I think you are right they are turning it up slowly. I hope they are still tuning/upgrading towers because in my living room the phone prefers 4G. It's not a huge deal but would be cool to get LTE here. I'm on Fox Creek Road in Bloomington. Another thing to note, none of my friends with android phones (4 of them) have access to the LTE network at all. Must be testing with us Apple folks.
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This makes no sense. It's probably because Android always hooks onto the stronger signal. In this case, it's HSPA+.
There's no way to "force" LTE on an AT&T branded Android LTE device without rooting it, etc. It just defaults to the stronger signal. On the iPhone, you can, at least, turn LTE off/on. The process of this "pushes" it on LTE. If the signal is weak, it drops back down to HSPA.
11 new markets and 2 expansions announced overnight:
New markets:
Selma, Alabama
Brenham, Texas
Vero Beach, Florida
Cordele, Georgia
Dublin, Georgia
Brookhaven, Mississippi
Natches, Mississippi
Picayune, Mississippi
Port Angeles, Washington
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Expansions:
Putnam and Greene Counties, Atlanta
Wright and Carver Counties, Minneapolis
last week:
New markets:
Selma, Alabama
Brenham, Texas
Vero Beach, Florida
Cordele, Georgia
Dublin, Georgia
Brookhaven, Mississippi
Natches, Mississippi
Picayune, Mississippi
Port Angeles, Washington
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Expansions:
Putnam and Greene Counties, Atlanta
Wright and Carver Counties, Minneapolis
last week:
It seems that Bridgewater is now online with LTE.
Part of the Basking Ridge area is still "without". I've been having issues with my phone going from 5 bars to 1 bar or losing signal altogether. I replaced the phone and sim, but to no avail. I put in a report with AT&T and one of the engineers called me up today to say that the tower that I'm pinging from has recently been upgraded to LTE but is broken. For now I've had to turn off LTE on my phone. No timeline as to when it will be fixed as they are waiting on the parts.
Part of the Basking Ridge area is still "without". I've been having issues with my phone going from 5 bars to 1 bar or losing signal altogether. I replaced the phone and sim, but to no avail. I put in a report with AT&T and one of the engineers called me up today to say that the tower that I'm pinging from has recently been upgraded to LTE but is broken. For now I've had to turn off LTE on my phone. No timeline as to when it will be fixed as they are waiting on the parts.
For anyone who lives in Des Moines/Iowa what is ATT coverage like throughout the state and/or metro areas around Des Moines like pleasant hill Altoona etc. I have tmobile and I'm sick of pulling edge whenever I go to Altoona or any of those surrounding areas and have been thinking of making the switch to att but need some input first.
LTE is slowly rolling out across the metro. East, central, and south Des Moines are all covered by LTE and so is I-80 from the metro east to Iowa City. I'm pretty sure Ankeny is too. West Des Moines and the western suburbs are still spotty at best for LTE but they do have the older 4G where LTE isn't available.
What about areas where there isn't lte? Are they covered by 3G? I've found my problems with tmobile aren't the lack of lte in Iowa because I regularly get 12 down on hspa+. I'm just annoyed that one block from my apartment in Des Moines I drop to edge and whenever I leave the metro areas all I get is edge. Was curious if att has the same edge problem.