Hello, my name is Matt,
As a proud customer, it's quite upsetting when I can enjoy LTE everywhere but my own city, even though LTE is 'here'. Here being a relative term because, even on a perfect day, the most any of my friends or me sees in speeds are maybe 6Mbps down. Every other town in FL we blow by with around 25Mbps down.
I constantly watch the news releases from the Verizon site, Fort Myers was set to receive their second round of LTE by the end of September along with Tallahassee and Tampa. I was so excited, now its the end of October and I've seen Tallahassee and Tampa get theirs, but Fort Myers was forgotten, I'm so upset now and looking for any answer as to why we've been neglected.
I just moved to Fort myers. I live off College Pkwy and Winkler area and the 4G here is really low two bars at most. It was 5 bars at the Apple Store at Coconut Point where I bought my iphone 5. Is Verizon supposed to enhance their LTE here in the area? Did they say as much because South Ft.Myers could use it.
I'm by that area all the time, Unless you live by the Twins stadium on
Daniels or Sweetbay on Gladiolous. You'll be lucky to get over a steady
5-6Mbps down. FULL bars at 41 and Page Field give me a whopping 2.5Mbps
down. What gives. Everywhere else in Florida except Fort Myers I get
constant 15+ down. 70% of the time its 25 down. AT&T LTE launched Fort
Myers in their first phase of roll out for this area putting out 35 down
pratically everywhere. Verizon is getting demolished.
Exactly. So is the supposed to be an expansion or upgrade to what is currently here? What sources do you use? Thanks
Michial
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Well if you search Fort Myers in the Verizon LTE news releases, you'll find
nothing further on what happened to our expansion that was set to accompany
Tampa and Tallahassee. They both got their expansion announced with a turn
on date, we never did which was originally set to be finished by end of
September. Being the coverage is as spotty as when first launched in 2011,
and I constantly test the network wherever I am, I've concluded that either
it never happened or was scarcely and pathetically done when compared to
other areas (and carriers).
Just chill. Verizon will have 100% of it's 3G network done by mid 2013. So whatever weak 4G areas are in your neck of the woods will have better coverage very soon.
What does 3G in 2013 have to do with better LTE? Just curious.
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He meant 100% of its 3G foot print covered with LTE.
That would be great. I get 4-5 full bars inside and out of my house. LTE I get one to two at best! It would be awesome if I got 4-5 LTE bars. I hope that is what he meant.
Brian68, what would explain in a few areas of Fort Myers, when I have full
bars -86dbm and still barely get 2Mb down? Consistently.
My concern is when you look on the LTE map up close in my area it's all shaded in deep red as though it has LTE everywhere. However it's only one to two bars. They may consider that good enough since its shaded in acc. To the map. 3G is also shaded in a lighter red but I get four to five bars. Hopefully Verizon will make the LTE match the 4-5 bars of 3G reception to 4-5 bars of LTE. I doubt it. Once the map shows there's LTE that's good enough technically speaking for them. I bet they are done in Ft myers. I hope not.
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My thoughts exactly. Hoping their standard of signal isn't as low as what
we're seeing. Else I'll be on Att mid 2013
technomaniac99 wrote:
Brian68, what would explain in a few areas of Fort Myers, when I have full
bars -86dbm and still barely get 2Mb down? Consistently.
Lots of users using the network. This is why you can't have unlimited data. It wouldn't take that many people constantly streaming video to grind the network to a halt. Once Verizon starts incorporating the spectrum they recently acquired from the cable companies and re-farms their 3G and 2G spectrum and has devices that are capable of receiving those signals that won't as much of an issue.
Though it's consistently 2Mb down. I don't believe it's too congested.
could be your location. I'm in a different part of the country but I just tested my connection 4G 3 bars 100 dBm. So FAR worse signal than yours and I got 22 Mbps down, 4 Mbps up. This is pretty common for me here.
Something behind the scenes must not be fully utilized yet. I suppose.
I'm sure not every tower in your area has been upgraded to 4G. I'd look for improvements over the next several months. My area has 1/40th the population of Lee County so yea far fewer people using 4G in my area. Might explain some of the issues.
Sounds like you might be saying the tower could have LTE frequencies but
the back end might night be fully upgraded to deliver the speeds?
I wish there was a more technical forum where one could find out about these things.
Brian,
Lee County here is a giant old people colony. Probably 7 out of 10 people are over 60. I dont think high traffic is our problem here. I used to live near Seattle when way more people, younger and tech saavy, and the speeds were insanely higher. Im surprised Lee Cty has cell service at all. lol
Michial wrote:
Brian,
Lee County here is a giant old people colony. Probably 7 out of 10 people are over 60. I dont think high traffic is our problem here. I used to live near Seattle when way more people, younger and tech saavy, and the speeds were insanely higher. Im surprised Lee Cty has cell service at all. lol
Listen I used to live in Sarasota County so I know the area. Actually according to the 2010 census only 31% of the population in Lee County is 60 and older. In fact 33% are between ages 15-44. That's about 200,000 people.
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