u/ArtisticComplaint3

32.853189,-96.759548

More Verizon small cells have been getting upgraded with the Samsung MT1602-77A-48A for n77/n48 in addition to the Samsung AT1K04 used for n261.

I've so far located 3 upgraded cells on/around Skillman St. There's one on Southwestern & Village Glen Dr that's very sleek in all black and there's another one at Skillman and Eastridge.

n77 in the speed test appears to be coming from the macro at NW Hwy/Abrams.

None of them appear to be online yet. I have yet to see n48 anywhere in the metroplex. The mmwave on these cells aren't connecting with UE's nearly as much as they did pre-upgrade.

n2/n66 using DSS which only a very small handful of sites in DFW even use. Over 90% of sites don't even have DoD yet.

32.819414,-96.814711

Prescott Ave & Lemmon Ave

10 GB included at full speed and unlimited at 14 Mbps. That’s enough to stream in 1440p. Most people won’t even notice a difference when throttled to 14 Mbps because almost everything will still load normally.

I wish I had Xfinity Internet offered in my area because I’d jump right on this.

AT&T IDP is unthrottled but $12/day is definitely too steep even though it maxed out at 10 fees per line per billing cycle on the consumer side.

Google Fi gives you 50 GB internationally but throttles video to 1.5 Mbps and data speeds are reduced to 256 Kbps after you hit the limit which is pretty useless for most things.

Tower relocation at Preston Center Pavilion today from building behind which is going to be demolished. Was removed at the end of February this year. After about a week or so of unusable signal the power was turned up on the rooftop site on Luther Ln & DNT for the west facing sector.

According to a source I spoke to this site was supposed to be getting DoD but it appears it’s just going to have a single Ericsson AIR 6449-B77D for 100 MHz of n77 C-Band for the time being. Appears this site is also lacking b30 which the old site had.

Spotted this today while stopped at a red light on Northwest Hwy & Douglas Ave.

32.86451° N, 96.80704° W

Looks like AT&T will be using 10x10 of b12 (700 MHz Lower) for direct to cell coverage in most markets. Surprised they're not using 10x10 of b30 (WCS) due to the fact they aren't including it on new builds and the lower power limits due to potential SiriusXM interference.

Residential 5 gigabit plan.

AT&T has definitely improved their routing/infrastructure in the Dallas area because pings on Fiber used to be around 4-6 ms which is still amazing.

A ping under 2 ms is something I’ve never ever witnessed before on a speed test and it’s crazy how far technology has come.

Now if AT&T would just focus on fast-tracking cellular network improvements in DFW such as upgrading tower backhauls and deploying radios for DoD spectrum, I would have zero complaints. Unfortunately, AT&T is heavily congested in Dallas and I can’t even make a FaceTime call without lagging during peak hours.

Downtown Portland, OR

45.516697,-122.675078

I passed by a brand new Ericsson rip and replace off I-5 with 6472s and Ericsson antennas somewhere in North Portland yesterday and I can't remember exactly where it was but I definitely want to find it.

These are better pings than SA on Ericsson RAN in Dallas where the lowest I typically get is 20ms.

Was not expecting the E175 I was flying on from YVR to PDX to have Starlink. I thought Alaska was rolling it out to its mainline fleet.

Tail is: N628QX in case anyone was curious or keeping track of the upgrades.

If you look at the ARFCN 638976 it's clearly 3500 MHz. n78 is the global midband standard but it's great to see ROGERS optimizing their network for inbound roaming from US carriers. Bell doesn't use it and I didn't try TELUS or Freedom unfortunately.

Vancouver, BC

Manually selected Sprint on my T-Mobile postpaid SIM thinking it was Starlink (310 830) but was super surprised to see the Sprint carrier tag. Kinda cool to see 6 years later.

San Diego, CA

Surprised I was able to pick up a usable TELCEL signal so far from shore. Tower has to be on a mountain top.

Getting a usable signal from this distance is possible but speeds this high are definitely rare.

Google Fi was somehow routing traffic through London. It was routing traffic thru LA via T-Mobile just a couple minutes before hence the LA server. I was originally puzzled with the extremely high ping but low jitter but now it makes sense.

Photo is of nearest land using the S26U's 10x zoom!