Anyone with new LTE device in Chicagoland area?

I've been seeing it creeping in slowly over the past few weeks. I just had a contract discussion with them with my company and they said they are 90% to completion in Chicago proper.

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Yeah its pretty widespread here in the city and the burbs.

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Yeah, I have it almost constant from Naperville to Lake Forest, in Wicker Park, and other places around the city.

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I work now for target mobile. We are dropping T-Mobile in favor of sprint. Met my new Sprint rep the other day and got to talking about about the US Cellular network they are buying. When it completes this summer the rep said they will have a lot more spectrum.

To put in some more details he compared to how Verizon's network is running and theirs to a freeway. Verizon's running a 10 lane freeway. While Sprints running currently a 5 lane freeway. Adding the spectrum they will be getting from the merger. They will then have a 10 lane highway for their data transfer. Should increase stability of the signal significantly as well as a huge increase in speed.

Take it for what you will. Thought I'd at least share with you guys.

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Yeah I have it all over the west and south side.

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I would welcome any additional speed increases here in the suburbs. While things maybe running fast and speedy in Chicago limits and some other areas as I mentioned before since they went from " test phase " to " official " here in areas like Plainfield, Crest Hill, Joliet, even Naperville areas, speeds now are literally a quarter of LTE speeds we saw during the test phase..

Now I see averages of 5-7 mbps on 3 different devices ( 2 Sprint GNex's & S3 ) from the same areas that saw averages of 20-30 mbps during the testing phase. To me thats a huge cut in speeds and while some say you can't tell the different via a mobile phone of those speeds changes I can when it comes to load times, etc.

So thumbs up to Sprint if it acquires US Cellular resulting in more bandwidth and spectrum. Maybe we will see some love in the farther burbs to get that missing speed back.
 
From what I have been told by my sprint rep. They are acquiring the chicagoland market. And a good portion of the Wisconsin and Indiana market. Pretty much the border would be all of the Chicago suburbs until it reaches the Des Plains and the Rockford market spectrum. They are working to try and get those ones as well but us cellular isn't budging on them.

The deal should finalize at the beginning of summer and the spectrum would be added by the end of summer. We won't see any downtime in the towers like we did when they were building out the LTE service. It is pretty much a matter of flipping switches. (I know there's more too that but those were his words not mine)

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Well any news is good news. Keep us informed as you can Verdes. I know we can only take a Sprint reps word with a grain a salt like any rep but at least its more than we've heard in a while about any improvements... Now if only Sprint could also adjust them 3g speeds to something a bit more reasonable ;)
 
S4GRU.com is where you'll find the best Network Vision information.

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Yeah been there done that.. They only provide so much too...

Yeah, I've found they have about as accurate information as will be available. If they don't have it in their forums, then there's no news.

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I would welcome any additional speed increases here in the suburbs. While things maybe running fast and speedy in Chicago limits and some other areas as I mentioned before since they went from " test phase " to " official " here in areas like Plainfield, Crest Hill, Joliet, even Naperville areas, speeds now are literally a quarter of LTE speeds we saw during the test phase..

Now I see averages of 5-7 mbps on 3 different devices ( 2 Sprint GNex's & S3 ) from the same areas that saw averages of 20-30 mbps during the testing phase. To me thats a huge cut in speeds and while some say you can't tell the different via a mobile phone of those speeds changes I can when it comes to load times, etc.

So thumbs up to Sprint if it acquires US Cellular resulting in more bandwidth and spectrum. Maybe we will see some love in the farther burbs to get that missing speed back.

Yeah I'm seeing speeds all over the board as well. Downtown Oak Park is just awesome (up to 30mbps) but west along 22nd street I'm seeing 5-6mbps, then it jumps back up around Oak Brook to 12-15mbps. Nothern 'burbs around Arlington heights and Palatine I'm seeing around 9-10mbps.

Was in the loop today for a client meeting and I was getting 3-5mbps around Clinton and Randolph.
 
Yeah I'm seeing speeds all over the board as well. Downtown Oak Park is just awesome (up to 30mbps) but west along 22nd street I'm seeing 5-6mbps, then it jumps back up around Oak Brook to 12-15mbps. Nothern 'burbs around Arlington heights and Palatine I'm seeing around 9-10mbps.

Was in the loop today for a client meeting and I was getting 3-5mbps around Clinton and Randolph.
Good examples.. Thanks.

I know for us down in Plainfield area this has been pretty consistent since they flip the " official " switch. During the test phases for a good 2 or 3 months we had awesome 20+ mbps speeds which I have various screenshots provided earlier in this thread as proof but now I get excited if we break the 10 mbps barrier on a good day. Don't get me wrong even 5-7 mbps is still nice speed but I've seen and used 20+ mbps on my device and its like night and day when surfing the web and downloading plus it also relates to a better Ping rate which is dealing with packet loss and the better (lower) the ping rate you can achieve the better & quicker response times on your end.
 
These are my last two speeds since I flashed a new ROM. The faster one is outside my house. The slower one is outside my store. Inside on both is a different story. Even though these are huge improvements over the 3g speeds I was getting. Having a Verizon phone for work and having had an att phone before I would like to still see some faster speeds.

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I would welcome any additional speed increases here in the suburbs. While things maybe running fast and speedy in Chicago limits and some other areas as I mentioned before since they went from " test phase " to " official " here in areas like Plainfield, Crest Hill, Joliet, even Naperville areas, speeds now are literally a quarter of LTE speeds we saw during the test phase..

Now I see averages of 5-7 mbps on 3 different devices ( 2 Sprint GNex's & S3 ) from the same areas that saw averages of 20-30 mbps during the testing phase. To me thats a huge cut in speeds and while some say you can't tell the different via a mobile phone of those speeds changes I can when it comes to load times, etc.

So thumbs up to Sprint if it acquires US Cellular resulting in more bandwidth and spectrum. Maybe we will see some love in the farther burbs to get that missing speed back.

The lowest speeds I've seen out west is about 7-9 mb but that's usually during rush hours. After that I see about 10-15

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These are my last two speeds since I flashed a new ROM. The faster one is outside my house. The slower one is outside my store. Inside on both is a different story. Even though these are huge improvements over the 3g speeds I was getting. Having a Verizon phone for work and having had an att phone before I would like to still see some faster speeds.

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The lowest speeds I've seen out west is about 7-9 mb but that's usually during rush hours. After that I see about 10-15

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Yeah those are respectable speeds but compared to what Chicago and other areas are getting its slow.
 
This is my regular speed though

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I am in Chicago bro.

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Yes I know. Well aware of the Austin- South Side neighborhood that your from, had family there years ago myself.

This is my regular speed though

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That's exactly what we HAD going for us during the test phases... Now the official reality is way under 10 mbps.. :(
 

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