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Couldn't believe it the other day, I had heard 4G was coming to Los Angeles in late 2010. So... I turned on 4G the other day outside my office and... BING 4G SOLID signal. To put it mildly, my jaw dropped.
I have been driving around with 4G on and everywhere I go in Hollywood has had a 4G signal. Thought it was just them testing, but I have been able to get 4G every time I came to work.
North of Hollywood the signal drops to 3G.
Sweet! Where abouts in Hollywood are you? Near the 101?
Great to hear! I will be on a plane in the morning..
I'm not kidding, I am flying out there for E3, but NICE. ;O
klynch_gdd said:
Couldn't believe it the other day, I had heard 4G was coming to Los Angeles in late 2010. So... I turned on 4G the other day outside my office and... BING 4G SOLID signal. To put it mildly, my jaw dropped.
I have been driving around with 4G on and everywhere I go in Hollywood has had a 4G signal. Thought it was just them testing, but I have been able to get 4G every time I came to work.
North of Hollywood the signal drops to 3G.
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I was in Westwood near UCLA, got 4G signal as well.
I guess parts of LA have 4G now. But San Gabriel Valley and OC still do not have 4G yet.
Yea 4g has been active in testing phase in L.A. since mid may
Yesterdy, I was in a sprint store in Alhambra to try the evo, it doesn't have 4g signal.
You can usually get a 4G signal near any Best Buy which is broadcasting 4G from what I believe. Right there on the 405 and the 10 you can get it, which I suspect is coming from the Best Buy on Pico. Driving from south on the 405 I could get it around Santa Monica and west on 10, it fades off just after Bundy.
C'mon Sprint... bring it to the I.E.
GReddySetGO said:
Sweet! Where abouts in Hollywood are you? Near the 101?
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Around Hollywood and Highland
Vine and Melrose strong 4G signal too........!!!!!!!!
There is a large 4G antenna on top of the beverly center... that's where most of the 4g in Hollywood comes from...
bradynapier said:
There is a large 4G antenna on top of the beverly center... that's where most of the 4g in Hollywood comes from...
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hmmm interesting..
Yeah, my friend was at the Beverly Center this weekend and he said he was able to get very good 4G service out there. I'm just waiting for it to show in the San Gabriel Valley!!
cpnichols said:
You can usually get a 4G signal near any Best Buy which is broadcasting 4G from what I believe. Right there on the 405 and the 10 you can get it, which I suspect is coming from the Best Buy on Pico. Driving from south on the 405 I could get it around Santa Monica and west on 10, it fades off just after Bundy.
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That is not true. There was a rumor that some Radio Shacks were using 4G repeaters, but there are no Best Buy stores doing this.
dsjr2006 said:
That is not true. There was a rumor that some Radio Shacks were using 4G repeaters, but there are no Best Buy stores doing this.
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You may be right... I used an app called Cell Mapper to measures signal strength and maps it. It also changed color as it went from 3G to 4G. I noticed that going south on the 405 from the valley, I started to pick up a 4G signal around the Getty. It went all the way down to the 10 and down past Centinla. So it seems that West LA is covered.
Then last night I drove via downtown and Hollywood. I got a Signal as I got close to downtown on the 10, and had a signal (with a few tips back to 3G) on the 101 all the way up to hollywood until I hit barum.
So 4G is really starting to show up in some big areas in LA. Now I wish that the East Valley and Venice would get it...
cpnichols said:
So 4G is really starting to show up in some big areas in LA. Now I wish that the East Valley and Venice would get it...
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Screw the east valley........., its all about the west valley SON!
MAN! I wish i would have read this thread an hour ago!! I was at the Cafe Was on sunset and vine and I didn't even check :-( Any more 4g Los Angeles sightings? I really would like it in the San Fernando Valley!
bradynapier said:
There is a large 4G antenna on top of the beverly center... that's where most of the 4g in Hollywood comes from...
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Interesting, do you know if it's been turned off recently? I live one mile east, next to the Grove, and had great 4G service from the launch day (3-5 Mbs in phone, 6-8(!) tethered to a laptop via USB). But since a couple weeks ago, all I get now is the 4G availability notification, but the data connection is not at 4G speeds (status bar icon never appears). This happened right around the June 28th OTA update, which included the radio update, which makes me wonder if we were not supposed to be getting 4G coverage yet in the first place (while ClearWire is still deploying).
I got 4G at the Convention Center during E3 too, but haven't checked that area recently.
vinscuzzy said:
Screw the east valley........., its all about the west valley SON!
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Love the sn. 4g in the sf valley would be awesome.
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ap3604 said:
C'mon Sprint... bring it to the I.E.
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I second that brotha! C'mon Cucamonga!
Hey guys, so i was driving home from the mall like an hour ago and i turned on my 4g cause i heard theyre getting it in northern VA.
anyways i had 1-2 circles of 4g!!!
my speed test is here
any body else too?
Nut sure how long it's been around, but since I've gotten the phone last Thursday I've had 0 to 2 bars in my house in Alexandria, va.
halorin said:
Nut sure how long it's been around, but since I've gotten the phone last Thursday I've had 0 to 2 bars in my house in Alexandria, va.
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same except in my house
route 7 runs past my street
on my street i dont have any but on route 7 i have signal its weird
In Clarendon and Courthouse neighborhoods of Arlington I get about 2mbps...
Not particularly spectacular, but the high speeds and faster phone makes it way faster than my iPhone 3G.
Virginia has 4G before Colorado? What is wrong with this picture.............
I live in herndon and I get 1 to2 bars averaging 2+ mbps not spectacular but faster then ATT.
EtherealRemnant said:
Virginia has 4G before Colorado? What is wrong with this picture.............
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Northern Virginia -- which is essentially a branch of Washington, D.C. There is nothing wrong with this picture
Musawi.y said:
Hey guys, so i was driving home from the mall like an hour ago and i turned on my 4g cause i heard theyre getting it in northern VA.
anyways i had 1-2 circles of 4g!!!
my speed test is here
any body else too?
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The signal strength is really just your strength to the tower, not your connection to the internet, just FYI I have had higher speeds with 1-2 bars than with a full signal. Anyway there are some spots in Houston, TX near where I work that I can get ~8-10Mbps down on, but I usually average about half that. Here are some pics, also btw a download test is a bit more accurate than those "speed tests" they can lie to you sometimes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6908657&postcount=8
Manassas, Va also has 4G. Just discovered this last week....hehe.
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arjuan said:
Northern Virginia -- which is essentially a branch of Washington, D.C. There is nothing wrong with this picture
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Yup. Northern VA, Richmond, Hampton Roads >>>> Colorado . We don't have any 4G here in Hampton Roads that I know of yet (no Evo til Monday), but there is a new Clearwire antenna/tower near my girlfriends house. I hope there are many more of those to come and soon.
I want them to put one in in Springfield. That's where my office is and 4G would be awesome!
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There's definitely 4G at Franconia Springfield Metro Station in Virginia...and at the Telegraph Road Gate to Fort Belvoir...
PikkonX said:
Yup. Northern VA, Richmond, Hampton Roads >>>> Colorado . We don't have any 4G here in Hampton Roads that I know of yet (no Evo til Monday), but there is a new Clearwire antenna/tower near my girlfriends house. I hope there are many more of those to come and soon.
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Apparently there are two antennas live in downtown Denver and others aren't live but have been spotted (including on the Sprint call center in the tech center) so its coming here too very shortly.
EtherealRemnant said:
Apparently there are two antennas live in downtown Denver and others aren't live but have been spotted (including on the Sprint call center in the tech center) so its coming here too very shortly.
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That's good to hear. I wish Sprint would give us a real roadmap of their 4G rollout. There's no point in hiding it when people know the towers are there and are getting 4G signals.
4 bars in parts of richmond
ViViDboarder said:
I want them to put one in in Springfield. That's where my office is and 4G would be awesome!
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Same here!
Blackcircle said:
Manassas, Va also has 4G. Just discovered this last week....hehe.
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I haven't seen any 4g anywhere in Manassas.. where you finding it?
TookRDerbs said:
I haven't seen any 4g anywhere in Manassas.. where you finding it?
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I have been able to get WiMAX in Manassas on 234 near the Barnes and Noble. Also, just up the road in Centreville at 66 & 28. Good thing too because in both or those areas the 3G service is terrible. This is one main reason holding me back from upgrading to the Evo LTE or the Galaxy SIII since I will no longer have 4G.
yea I was just looking at my phone and i notice something activate on my phone and it was my 4G I really have to try this out
jxb25 said:
yea I was just looking at my phone and i notice something activate on my phone and it was my 4G I really have to try this out
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saw 4G in Germantown and Gaithersburg
I was in DC last week and had 4g coverage (it was spotty). The best coverage was at Nationals Park.
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I get 4G outside my job in Greenbelt. Don't have anything at home in Clinton though.
Yea I think they just testing it out
I have actually picked up full 4g signal all around the beltway. Gaithersburg, Rockville, Bethesda, Laurel, College Park, Bowie, NW Washington. Randallstown, Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
Since I got my phone June 4th I have had 4G in Loudoun County (Northern VA) about 30mins outside of DC (next to Dulles Airport).
I am now getting 4G in some parts of McLean, Tysons Corner and Arlington. Haven't seen amazing speeds yet (around 2000kbps compared to a max of 1500kbps or so that I've managed to get under 3G).
Did they turn something on though? I previously wasn't able to get 4G at all in some of these areas.
I was able to connect to 4G in Greenbelt (close to the Sprint store) but it was spotty. Also was connected driving on University Blvd by Langley Park. Noticed 4G coverage in Bethesda as well, but couldn't connect or stay connected long enough to actually use it.
I just got my first 4G signal in Falls Church, in my back yard no less. Signal quality: poor, several 404s on sites that should have been there, but no time for extensive testing right now.
I also get 3 bars in Severn area, Hanover\odenton 1-2 bars
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Since I got my phone June 4th I have had 4G in Loudoun County (Northern VA) about 30mins outside of DC (next to Dulles Airport).
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I'm in LoCo too (about 15 minutes from Dulles) and have no 4G coverage
congrats to u guys when u get 4G! let me know how it is!
Got full signal in arlington.
3 bar @ gaithersburg. 3.5mb/s down and 1mb/s up.
No 4G in North Bethesda, no 4G downtown, no 4G in Metro.
I stopped at Taco Bell in North Olmsted today and noticed I had 4G service. I had a fair signal all along Lorain RD and as far north as Rose RD. Please let me know if anyone else in the Cleveland area is getting a 4G signal.
damn getting close to me lol
cleveland will be live by the end of october, i work for a corporate store in cleveland, (well mentor) and my DM was told that we would be live at the end of october....
Hells yeah.
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yea im in Springfield they keep tab dancing around my area lol
yeah I noticed that too in front of north olmsted walmart 4g popped up few time
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rmanderson26 said:
I stopped at Taco Bell in North Olmsted today and noticed I had 4G service. I had a fair signal all along Lorain RD and as far north as Rose RD. Please let me know if anyone else in the Cleveland area is getting a 4G signal.
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I live in the same neighbor hood as you and I'm getting 4g as we speak. Petty cool. The only problem is I can't run cyanogen's rom anymore if I want to use 4g. Bummer.
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I live on the east side and nothing over here yet. Does anyone know how large the coverage area will be?
I also got a 4G signal in Valley View on my way to work this morning also. I did a couple of speed tests and here are the results:
Valley View (Valley View Bridge) : 7963 kbps download, 1011 kbps upload
North Olmsted (Great Northern Mall) : 8647 kbps download, 974 kbps upload
I am in Bedford Heights and not picking up any 4g signal.
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Eventually it should cover the whole cleveland area....this morning I got 10.5mbps! Northolmsted.
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Stupid question, but how do you know when you are getting a 4G signal?
Does the "3G" in the status bar change to "4G"?
Select menu, next select settings, then select wireless and networks. Check the option to turn on 4g, then select manage 4g settings. Select notify me when 4g is available. That will set the phone to constantly scan for 4g.when it picks up 4g there will be a notification on the top status bar.then it should automatically connect and show a 4g icon up top.
From my Evo using 4G
Getting close to me.. I'm 30 minutes north of dayton though.
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yeah i found a stronger 4g that is really from sprint network is around noth olmsted gianteagle but internet not accessible so i switched back to 3g yeah no wonder the 4g info says it
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FYI
"Clearwire said customers may begin to find WiMAX coverage in portions of San Francisco; Tampa, Miami, and Orlando, Fla.; Nashville; Denver; Minneapolis; Cincinnati; Cleveland; and Pittsburgh ahead of official market launches in those cities. However, the carrier has not yet begun to market the offering in those areas." via rcrwireless
I just realized its up in Cleveland too. Got a good signal in Westlake and Bay Village. Check out the app Sensorly in the market, it will show you if and where there is 4G in your area. That's how I found it in Cleveland.
verks said:
I just realized its up in Cleveland too. Got a good signal in Westlake and Bay Village. Check out the app Sensorly in the market, it will show you if and where there is 4G in your area. That's how I found it in Cleveland.
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yeah it works all up and down east 55th and downtown also...
We just got 3g 1/27/11 and wondering if sprint upgraded from 2g to 4g? I don't have an evo to check, its not listed on Sprint's 4g cities
It would be a shocker to wait this long for 3g and find we got 4g
My guess is we would have to wait on Clearwire to get 4g not Sprint?
Not that this means anything but .. 4G sprung up at I10 and College St in Beaumont, TX, just to your West, a few weeks ago. It seems to be 1 - 3 towers worth of coverage around that address.
Unfortunately coverage does not seem to be expanding yet.
Check out Lake Charles, LA on this map: clear.com/coverage. It looks like there is a 4G tower online, but it's just like Beaumont .. very weak coverage so far.
(Sorry can't post links yet)
nope
Don't see Louisiana listed?
Brandon168 said:
Check out Lake Charles, LA on this map: clear.com/coverage. It looks like there is a 4G tower online, but it's just like Beaumont .. very weak coverage so far.
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In lake charles works great inside mall and around Ryan & prien lake rd farther out you have to be by a window or outside. Speed max is 5 mbps down 1 up
yes
T-Mobile is going to be the first to officially have 4G in Lake Charles
i recently found out it is available now (i blogged about it here)
but once the speeds can be considered true '4G' it will be the first in southwest Louisiana =]
I'm getting it in the Lake St/ Sale Rd area. It was one of the first things I checked when i got my EVO 3D. In fact, I'm on it now walking around my neighborhood.
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I'm in south Lake Charles on my 3vo with no 4G and has not worked anywhere. It shows 4G antenna on but its still on 3G.
guitardoc64 said:
I'm getting it in the Lake St/ Sale Rd area. It was one of the first things I checked when i got my EVO 3D. In fact, I'm on it now walking around my neighborhood.
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d12bn said:
I'm in south Lake Charles on my 3vo with no 4G and has not worked anywhere. It shows 4G antenna on but its still on 3G.
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In the mall yesterday, I got good and strong signal. According to opensignal, I'm connecting to sprint wimax. Speedtests are over double 3G.
sorry
sorry but I will have to see it for myself, heck we just got 3g 1/27/11 on Sprint, one of the last cities in the US to get 3G. I don't think we'll get 4g anytime in the near future
d12bn said:
sorry but I will have to see it for myself, heck we just got 3g 1/27/11 on Sprint, one of the last cities in the US to get 3G. I don't think we'll get 4g anytime in the near future
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In south central LC along the 210 loop it's there. Opensignal shows connection to Sprint WIMAX, as does the 4G connection. It's not official, but it is there.