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Just for fun I thought I'd try out the 4G radio on the EVO while here in St. Louis.
Turns out, it's live!!
Here are some screen shots to prove it!
Had to resize images to fit upload requirements here.
Check out the originals at my Flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/colorado_al/4644983280/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/colorado_al/4644980236/in/photostream/
Also see my other post at:
http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g/86027-sprint-wimax-4g-live-st-louis-05-27-2010-a.html#post814544
2.1 mbs down?
if so im not impressed... at all
I'm on the edge of the city, and inside, and they haven't announced the launch yet, so who knows how fast it will go. I'll take a drive this afternoon and see if I can get a better signal.
dmc971989 said:
2.1 mbs down?
if so im not impressed... at all
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Here's another test to another server in Chicago 3.3mbps
dont get me wrong... its not bad...
but i have been able to get up to 2.5 down on sprints 3g in some places
Wow, that's awesome news! I live in St. Louis (Southwest Garden area) and I'm getting the Evo next week, but I was hoping I wouldn't have to wait too long before getting 4G. I figured it'd probably be later summer before I'd have it, but if your phone is correct, sounds like they've already started installing it. Hopefully it's just the beginning and the signal will continue to get better.
My only concern, I've read somewhere that some Radio Shacks are setting up WiMax hotspots. Maybe there's a Radio Shack nearby that you're getting the signal from? Just a thought, could be wrong. It'll be interesting to see what happens when you venture out in the city to see if you continue to get the 4G signal and if it improves or gets worse.
Thanks for the update! Please keep us posted!
emac11 said:
Wow, that's awesome news! I live in St. Louis (Southwest Garden area) and I'm getting the Evo next week, but I was hoping I wouldn't have to wait too long before getting 4G. I figured it'd probably be later summer before I'd have it, but if your phone is correct, sounds like they've already started installing it. Hopefully it's just the beginning and the signal will continue to get better.
My only concern, I've read somewhere that some Radio Shacks are setting up WiMax hotspots. Maybe there's a Radio Shack nearby that you're getting the signal from? Just a thought, could be wrong. It'll be interesting to see what happens when you venture out in the city to see if you continue to get the 4G signal and if it improves or gets worse.
Thanks for the update! Please keep us posted!
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There is a radio shack about 1.5 miles away. No idea where the signal is coming from. I will take a drive and test later today.
colorado_al said:
There is a radio shack about 1.5 miles away. No idea where the signal is coming from. I will take a drive and test later today.
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nice now they need to head south to springfield and i will be much happier
Wow, I wasn't expecting STL to get 4G any time soon. I am so excited that you found this out. I am getting my phone on the 4th, and can't wait to test the speeds. I am in the southwest part of STL, in the boones. So I don't know how well it will work for me.
dmc971989 said:
dont get me wrong... its not bad...
but i have been able to get up to 2.5 down on sprints 3g in some places
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For some reason I'm getting better speeds on 4G via WiFi hotspot on my Win7 PC. Could be an issue with the speedtest.net app for android or a hardware issue or something.
Anyhow, this has been typical of tests from my PC via 4G hotspot.
4.5mbps
Why oh why must they wait til the 4th to release this phone. All along though, I had a feeling that 4g would be going by yht time the phone was released.
I bet Sprint just started working on it, so it might not be for a while until it's fully live, but it's still exciting that it sounds like it works to an extent. Does the 4G seem much faster than the 3G? Have you by chance tried it near South Kingshighway/Vandeventer/Southwest? or near the Botanical Gardens?
Has anyone tested the Metro East area? Fairview Heights/O'Fallon Area?
hmmmm interesting... I am in STL close downtown and the last couple of days my Hero have seemed much quicker with data transfers. I have no idea if this has anything to do with it but WOW, cool, thanks for the news. I did not expect to hear this at all. I figured it would be some lame excuse why it wasnt hear at the end of June.
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There is a radio shack about 1.5 miles away. No idea where the signal is coming from. I will take a drive and test later today.
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From what I have been told, radioshacks just have repeaters in them. They basically just take a weak signal and boost it so it reaches more of the city.
So, WE DO HAVE 4G!!!
God, I can't wait till the 4th, and with the ability to use the sprint hot spot feature for free for a bit, ill be pushing large amounts of data through their network.
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Has anyone tested the Metro East area? Fairview Heights/O'Fallon Area?
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I'm interested in that, too, and how 4G will reach a bit farther south, like Belleville.
I'm guessing 4G will blanket the area just fine, but it would be nice to have some actual tests!
4G FULL service near the new River City Casino. Clocked about 3.3Mbps
Detected 4G (low signal) on I-64E at about Hwy 157 in Illinois, but then it dropped and cannot get a signal any further east.
I'm getting 4g signal in my home in Dogtown. That said, speeds aren't much better than the current 3g which is lightning fast on the Evo. I'm getting > 2mbps on it.
Fenton/Gravois Bluffs area is live
Anyone from this area know when we might be getting it?
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Anyone from this area know when we might be getting it?
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lol, we don't even get acceptable 3G in northern indy. According to a poster here (via Sprint), we will be getting a tower in Carmel, one in Westfield later this year.
When I bought mine the lady said she didn't expect 4g until probably next summer for us but that was just her guess. My 3g sucks as well down here around the beech grove/greenwood area.
I can second the 3G sucking in northern indianapolis...very very slow
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The people at Sero told me 4th quarter 2010. This was just before the Evo was released.
I was getting around 250 - 600 kbps on the old radio.
I just updated the radio to the latest and now im getting around 700 - 2300 kbps in castleton area.
Its not super but its better then when I just bought the phone.
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lol, we don't even get acceptable 3G in northern indy. According to a poster here (via Sprint), we will be getting a tower in Carmel, one in Westfield later this year.
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That was me that posted that. The sprint rep I talked to said one tower at the end of august (carmel) and one in december (westfield). I will say that I am buying a house in Broadripple and I get great speeds theres, anywhere from 1.1 mbps to 1.5 mbps
Indy isn't listed anywhere on Sprint's 2010 projected WiMax expansion, I would estimate Q2 2011 at the earliest. I just moved from Indy (BRip) to Denver (NW) and my areas are comparable for 3G speeds (1-1.75MB)
4g Indianapolis
Ok this is what I have heard and if anyone knows differently please do tell. Last month I talked to sprint when I was changing my plan and I asked about 4g. The rep told me that they were currently working on 4g in Indy and that it should be up and running by the end of 2010. she said that they would push notifications to customers when it went live. So I thought this was just hot air and I asked an IT guy at work if he knew anything because my company relies heavily on sprint. he said that the airport was to have 4g working by the end of Oct. A coworker with an Evo was in a sprint store several days ago and he said there were out of state technicians there working and when he struck up a conversation they told him they were working on the 4g connections by the airport, downtown Indy, Carmel and Fishers area which coincides with new tower locations on sprints website map for new towers in Indy. Has anyone heard anything? I mean it would only make since since all the big shing dings that come here.
I was just in the airport last week and didn't get 4g at all.
i get 1.3 Mb/600Kb in delphi indiana and surrounding areas, but the closer i get to a bigger city such as lafayette/west lafayette that speed is 1/3 to 1/2 of what i get in delphi.
i always thought this was strange.
jjohn1095 said:
I was just in the airport last week and didn't get 4g at all.
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Maybe they are running behind....hopefully it will be here by Christmas....Dear Santa.....
potna said:
i get 1.3 Mb/600Kb in delphi indiana and surrounding areas, but the closer i get to a bigger city such as lafayette/west lafayette that speed is 1/3 to 1/2 of what i get in delphi.
i always thought this was strange.
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Yea I noticed that depending on my location in the city it will go anywhere from 700kb to 1.3.
I work right next to the airport and I can vouch that there is no 4g yet. I scan for a signal just about everyday. Maybe some day.
jmrubel77 said:
I work right next to the airport and I can vouch that there is no 4g yet. I scan for a signal just about everyday. Maybe some day.
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Maybe they will just drop it all on us at once. I saw an app once and I cant remember the name but it runs in the background and it periodically checks for 4g, 3g and wifi hotspots. It will then show you on a layered map what signals are where but its dependent on people letting it run on their phones. Does anyone know the name for this?
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Maybe they will just drop it all on us at once. I saw an app once and I cant remember the name but it runs in the background and it periodically checks for 4g, 3g and wifi hotspots. It will then show you on a layered map what signals are where but its dependent on people letting it run on their phones. Does anyone know the name for this?
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Would that be Sensorly Map Viewer?
You'll see 4g signals in testing for quite awhile before it is officially announced. This has been consistent for all market launches thus far...
jefbal99 said:
Would that be Sensorly Map Viewer?
You'll see 4g signals in testing for quite awhile before it is officially announced. This has been consistent for all market launches thus far...
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Yes thats the app. I went to their website and you can see where its at in other places....Its crazy..Indiana looks so barren
My area was barren too, so I've been collecting/uploading data for a couple weeks now.
It's really cool to see your data processed and on the map very quickly.
The app is a huge battery hog...
Swyped from my Fresh EVO via XDA App
I lived there a couple years.
Trust me, it is called "Naptown", there won't be 4g until every other city gets it.
Ok so did anyone have trouble last week with texting or any data services? Did you contact sprint to find out why? Word from Sprint is that it was part of 4g implementation.....should be up and running within the next moth.
Ok, Socal is huge. We know it has been located in Costa Mesa, OC, & Westwood.
It's now in the SFV, Canoga Park.
Sprint's site indicates a 'future tower' around Chatsworth by the 118, maybe it's active now.
first of all the image i get is a speedtest app screen capture.,
second of all, scrpints coverage map shows "furure sprint 3g network tower" so im not sure where you are getting a 4g tower from.
waterboy, it's true...I get 4g in Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, West Covina and Pomona......
They are definitely testing out 4G in the area. I've had signal in Irvine close to John Wayne Airport, in Anaheim near the 91 between 57 and 55 freeways, and in Los Angeles near the federal building. So yea, its coming.
i hit enter too soon.
i know that there is 4g up in other places i have gotten it in Burbank and around Staples center downtown.
I was in Chatsworth yesterday and there was no 4g yet.
also, is it safe to assume that any future tower is 4g compatible? or was OP looking at a different map.
I'm no expert with cell towers, but I made an assumption that they are probably backwards compatible. The 3G coverage in that area is sufficient to say the least, so another inclination to question them putting in another 3G tower and not 4G.
The screen cap shows the 4G signal and a speedtest show bandwidth speeds. Was that so confusing?
got some in santa ana!!
sent from my baby. . . the evo 4-gees
West side of garden grove is coming on line also. Can't wait cause my evo will be here in a couple days. Giggity!!!
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http://www.wimaxmaps.org/ here ya go...
VOODOOTRIP said:
http://www.wimaxmaps.org/ here ya go...
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thanks. didnt know about that site before.
mzaiderman said:
The screen cap shows the 4G signal and a speedtest show bandwidth speeds. Was that so confusing?
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but the server is a texas server. i thought he meant to add a pic of the map and messed up. thats all.
waterboy100 said:
thanks. didnt know about that site before.
but the server is a texas server. i thought he meant to add a pic of the map and messed up. thats all.
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Ah, ya I was a little confused by that routing as well. Picked TX for some reason im unsure of.
I think Sprint is rolling them out in SoCal for sure... it used to be I can only get spotty coverage in downtown, now it's improved and in San Gabriel Valley area, they rolled them out as well. The furtherest WiMax coverage around SGV I noticed is as far as 19/Valley.
However I just don't see any signal on Huntington...
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Ah, ya I was a little confused by that routing as well. Picked TX for some reason im unsure of.
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Np. Thanks anyways. Hopefully it is up for good soon.
How far does the signal go. I live by shoup and Chase (major streets is roscoe and topanga)
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waterboy100 said:
How far does the signal go. I live by shoup and Chase (major streets is roscoe and topanga)
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Representin' the 818 son!!
I'm in Canoga Park for work off of Roscoe and Canoga and I HAVE 4g .....
Ok i had 4g up til l about 10am then it went away hmmmm they playing with the towers again?
vinscuzzy said:
Representin' the 818 son!!
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Hell Yeah Representin' 818
vinscuzzy said:
Representin' the 818 son!!
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Yep yep yep.
kingakuma said:
I'm in Canoga Park for work off of Roscoe and Canoga and I HAVE 4g .....
Ok i had 4g up til l about 10am then it went away hmmmm they playing with the towers again?
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Hmm. I wasnt able to connect last night. I'll be trying again every day now though.
Thanks for the heads up OP
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Monrovia/Arcadia area I can connect to the tower but when trying to load any data it just kicks me back to 3G. Hopefully they activate them soon.
Jees, 10mb down.. that's twice as fast as my home internet.
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They need to start rolling out in Kern County... Bakersfield needs this haha
I have been waiting for this since I got my Evo the first day that got release from sprint
I been with cyanogemod since 6.1 rc1 until now but it look like its not ready 4G yet.
What rom should flash for now? should I get the fresh rom ? what do u guys think any suggestions ?
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I have been waiting for this since I got my Evo the first day that got release from sprint
I been with cyanogemod since 6.1 rc1 until now but it look like its not ready 4G yet.
What rom should flash for now? should I got with the fresh rom ? what do u guy think any suggestions ?
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Personally I am using myns rom but best thing for you to do is look at them and decide for your self.
thanks man I am going to try some roms and see wich one I like the best
SF really doesn't have 4G yet? There's 4G across lots of the Bay Area already, been that way for several months at least. I'm in Fremont and have 4G, and know there's 4G in oakland, hayward, and many other areas. I have noticed that buildup though, because I'm getting 4G in places I didn't before, so I'm excited haha
It was "officially" released today
It's still pretty spotty as of 1:30AM. Hopefully it'll be in full force when I wake up.
As for ROMs, I really like Sprint Lovers.
will see what happend later :} 1:40 and nothing yet
I just tried it a little. It worked for a little while in my living room at 1 bar out of 4 but cut out pretty quick. It's not working down in my room at all.
Myn's Warm TwoPointTwo is the best rom!
I've seen 4g in sf for like a month now?... is there gonna be more coverage? Also many more citys have had it like san jose, palo alto, redwood city, san leandro. So what's the news really about? Just announcing it?
Really??? It didnt officially launch here untill hours ago and I had tried a couple days ago and it didnt work.
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It hasn't covered the whole city. Its kinda spotty everywhere. Try other parts of the city.
rican408 said:
I've seen 4g in sf for like a month now?... is there gonna be more coverage? Also many more citys have had it like san jose, palo alto, redwood city, san leandro. So what's the news really about? Just announcing it?
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you named 5 cities out of how many?
im in oakland and dont have it as of 7AM
I don't care about the rest of the world im just asking why announce it a month late?
still nothing sucks
I live in the city by bayshore and i still don't have any 4g what's up with that.
sucks.
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is there gonna be more coverage?
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yes. even "old" 4G cities like chicago and atlanta are still getting new/upgraded towers, so right now SF is just getting the foundation and will be expanding as the month goes on.
So what's the news really about? Just announcing it?
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obviously. anybody who follows 4G news has known about the development/test towers, but the general public is mostly clueless.
and for anybody wondering about coverage, it's heaviest along the inner edges of the bay, plus a little along the 680 between pleasanton and concord. more will come - just be patient.
you can view pretty much exactly where 4G is by downloading Sensorly Map Viewer from the market. I have gotten up to 9Mbs down and around 1Mbs up downtown for months now.
I use CM6.1.1 but when I use a sense ROM it is Myns all the way. Best sense ROM, IMO.
I just went went around SF; mission, haight, union square, and I couldn't connect anywhere. It just says Scanning... and then it'll say disconnected. I live near Panhandle park and its not working either. Just checked my mac address and wimax address and everything seems fine. Either 4g is down or my phone is busted, which sucks because the mac address and wimax address is fine ....anyone else have any luck?
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I just went went around SF; mission, haight, union square, and I couldn't connect anywhere. It just says Scanning... and then it'll say disconnected. I live near Panhandle park and its not working either. Just checked my mac address and wimax address and everything seems fine. Either 4g is down or my phone is busted, which sucks because the mac address and wimax address is fine ....anyone else have any luck?
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Try around Market and Hayes. I have been getting a strong signal around there for the last 2 months...
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It's still spotty here in the Sunnyvale area, but it seems 4G is available in more places in the area now. I'm sure the reception will improve over then next couple days. Nevertheless, I'm excited.
I live in Newark and get slim to none 4g. But soon as I drive 1 mile from my residence, I will get 2- full bars.4g is coming, just not at full throttle like everybody was hoping for.
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Im seeing pockets of 4G popping up all over Louisiana on clears website. Anybody getting it on their phones? It looks like slidell, hammond, B.R., lake charles are all lit up in green. Anybody?
http://www.clear.com/coverage
Amazing! Good catch. I just checked last week and and there was nothing.
Haven't been in any of those areas to give it a try and just flashed CM thinking we would never get 4G...go figure.
New Iberia before metro NO? Weird. I guess I am going to have to go back to rooted stock soon and be on the lookout!
I'm very tempted to go slidell to see whats up? It looks like clear is adding places everyday. I'm always in the walmart at [email protected]
I think I am gonig to nandroid back and see if I can get anything in harahan. Doubt it but looks like they are flipping it on quickly. Will report back if I can get anything here.
Anyone tried this in any of those spots? I'm in Metairie, but it would be nice to know that at least places near me are getting 4g.
kevinsalterego said:
Anyone tried this in any of those spots? I'm in Metairie, but it would be nice to know that at least places near me are getting 4g.
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Best buy on vets is selling a bunch of laptops with wimax included so it may be here soon.
Ill be in slidell on Saturday, so I will see then.
Ha, I'll have to check it out on my way to Dibbz! Maybe one of the employees knows something we don't.
Works in lake charles. Max 5 down 1 up. Not much coverage with one tower. I don't expect to see any added anytime soon
I have been waiting for this for a LONG time I'm in Metairie BTW
I had my wife check in Lake Charles - says 4G is working
didn't expect it to come to LA for a couple of years
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Does Lake Charles even have sprint 3G? The last time i was there in the summer i could barely get 3G. New Orleans better be next.
It does but experiencing the same issue as others with slow data 200-300kbps down , voice echo on some calls.
david279 said:
Does Lake Charles even have sprint 3G? The last time i was there in the summer i could barely get 3G. New Orleans better be next.
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Yes Lake Charles has 3G and according to the coverage area - Fort Polk/Leesville has 4G -- all before New Orleans.
Never saw that coming
Mule
I would think it would take less time to setup 4g in leesville than in new orleans. Clears getting the smaller cities out the way first.
Swyped from my evo 4g using the xda app.
Anything in Covington? Or Madisonville area?
Lake Charles
Lake Charles got 3g January 27 2011, don't know about 4g. After waiting for years for 3g you would think they would just upgrade the system to 4g this late in the game.
Lake Charles does not have 3g yet. and every time i call i'm told it will be the end of the month since i got my evo when they came out. 4g would be nice but i live in moss bluff just north of lake Charles and work in Sulphur just west of it. Luckily sprint did not put me on a contract like they were supposed to when i got my evo so im just waiting for a better phone with a network that is in my area.
Got 3g in Lake Charles 1/27/11 absolutely positive without a doubt. Now 4g I don't know
4G in new orleans finally!
I try all the time. Living in metairie and working in old metairie I don't get it. For the 1st time yesterday in new orleans I connected on St Charles in between Julia and Girod as well at our condo on julia & baronne 2 blocks away. So could everyone around me with evo's and the samsung one. It worked great!
http://flickr.com/gp/[email protected]/yp328w
The clear 4g map shows 4g alive in new orleans. Its mostly downtown but thats a start.