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Ephrata, PA by Walmart
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Last edited by techfranz; 09-05-2023 at 11:10 PM.
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In the heart of Astoria Queen's NYC about 5 blocks from an actual cell tower, not on a building. Located in a parking lot where the Brooklyn Queen's Expressway and Grand Central Parkway merge.
Very dense area. Small cells all over.
N77
B66,30,2,12.
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I found T-Mobile roaming on the small cell network in Huntington NY on Long Island!
Guess it's much cheaper to just pay T-Mobile instead of building out your own small cell network out here.
I thought Verizon was the only one with a small cell network here, unless T-Mobile uses it as well and then AT&T piggybacks off it that way. Either way it's awesome.
Note the speeds capped at just under .5 Mbps
310-260!
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TBH, I doubt it.
It's all cantennas every ¼ to ½ mile.
If you look at Verizon LTE on cell mapper, it's been mapped very well. AT&T doesn't even have anyone that mapped that area, because nobody has them in that area.
Probably one of the worst NIMBY areas you'll find. The residents bugged out when the small cells were being built out and were fighting it like crazy but lost. Weirdos.
I don't go there unless I have a good reason to. The last time was a wedding a few years ago. I'd rather have T build out where it's worth it and just pay for roaming where it's not. Especially on a well-built small-cell network someone else built.
ATT has built a few new Macro's in that area since 2020, but the geography is very steep hills from the glaciers during the last ice age.
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I’m more surprised that they didn’t all just partner with somebody like Crown Castle to build a carrier neutral solution. Most larger cities are blanketed with small cells nowadays, and often the city will partner with somebody like CC, who will stand up small cells on light poles or along the sidewalk. Then anybody can join the small cell footprint without each provider having to put up redundant small cells every block.
No NR-DC yet that I can find on my 15 Pro Max in Duluth, MN. At the Mesaba Ave / Central Entrance light.
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Some more testing tonight in Duluth. First batch of fast tests is mmWave and then the one LTE is the last off of that. Next batch of 8:35-8:37 is a mmWave small cell with the mmWave not on yet. Everything from 8:40 onwards is c band. I did manage to verify NR-DC of some form, either n5-n77 or n77-n77 I’m assuming, on the c band site.
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Ephrata, PA Near Walmart
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Looks like there testing the new upgrades to my home tower, can't say I've seen n66 yet, cband and dod aren't running yet
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Two separate sites in my neighborhood of Queen's NYC. N77 at 80 mhz
Smoking!
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Not as fast as others but very usable
Edit, just realized I was using my cheap LTE phone.
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I switched to the Xcover6 Pro. Going to be testing how it holds up on the sites that do well. X53 modem.
From what I've tested so far, it holds up well. Plastic housing wins every time for RF. No mmWave, but it has everything else.
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Not bad for 545pm on a Saturday.
Bayside Queen's NYC
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