LTE in NW indiana (Chicagoland) is currently active!

[RawisTheGameHhH]

still working for you in Joliet?

 

[djlee0314]

this blows......Seattle the most wired city in America is still stuck in 3G land as Sprint never rolled out Wi-Max here..........

Umm...Seattle has had Wi-Max here for a while....since the original HTC EVO 4g. I'm on it daily

 

[jason201]

All I know is that I live on the North side of Griffith Indiana, just a few blocks from Highland, and I don't have it yet. Service has been horrible, even today I was getting constant "Network is Busy" errors when trying to make calls. Hope it gets worked out soon.

 

[EndlessDissent]

That could very well be Network Vision. Service got terrible for me a couple weeks ago (NW Chicago suburbs). I was struggling to get 300Kb/s, usually getting around 100 (and this is at 3:30am). I had been getting a solid 300-400Kb/s before that. I don't really remember how long the terrible speeds lasted, but a couple days after one test, I was suddenly getting 1.0-1.4Mb/s in the exact same spot at the same time.

Now, I'm noticing that my data disconnects when I get to specific places as I'm driving. According to S4GRU, that is because the new equipment that they're using is not compatible with the old equipment. So, the upgraded towers (where I'm now getting great speeds) can't hand off the signal to the towers with older equipment. Instead, the phone holds onto the signal from the upgraded tower as long as it can, until which time you are completely disconnected from the network, and your phone has to connect to the legacy towers itself.

Hang in there. It will all be over soon. Then, we will all get to enjoy the LTE goodness Sprint has waiting for us. Plus, after Network Vision is complete, Sprint won't have to overhaul its network on this scale ever again (theoretically). It will be upgradable via nothing more than a software upgrade and an expansion of backhaul bandwidth, for which Sprint is already prepared.

 

[RawisTheGameHhH]

my service still sucks; couldnt send text messages for about 2 hours yesterday afternoon

 

[banzaiwolfe]

my service still sucks; couldnt send text messages for about 2 hours yesterday afternoon

Had that happen to me too, no text messages in the Libertyville, IL area around 5pm.

 

[Ntchwaidumela]

I had a call in to Sprint about not being able to get 4G on my air card, and even the 3G had become very spotty and slow in the past couple of days. My CSR called me back today to see if my 3G connection was working (which it is), and she said the 4G service in my area was "down." But...I should expect to see a big increase in speed, etc., by Monday. Now, I take that to mean that the "Now Network" will have us upgraded to the new Vision Network and LTE. Hope I'm right.