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gleonard
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Re: [Wireless] LTE in Carp - arguement with Rogers

Really! We are lucky since it is the only usable option we have for internet access. The Rogers tower is just a little further west on Richardson, past the bridge over the highway.

This site shows the location of cell towers. »www.ertyu.org/steven_nik ··· tes.html There's another Rogers tower near Donald B. Munroe and Carp Road. Maybe that one isn't LTE enabled?

When I called Rogers last night about the loss of LTE the confirmed that I should be connecting the tower on Richardson. Maybe they can confirm that the tower in downtown Carp is LTE enabled or not?

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Thanks for the tip, I will find out and report back, neighbour!
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Initial observations show that you have an extra spectrum (2100MHz) used for its LTE I bet!





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Got confirmation my tower is not LTE enabled but "coming soon". I asked the CS to tell the suits to take down their LTE Map for Carp because it's misrepresenting their service.

Rogers says it supports 1700/2100 MHz and the 2600 MHz spectrum. I'm guessing your maxing out at about 20Mbps on that 2100MHz tower, right? I'm told LTE download speeds of up to 40 Mbps+ are achieved in the 2600MHz equipped towers. Here's to hoping Donald B Munro's gets retrofitted as such!
gleonard
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Actually when I tested using speedtest.net a few times Sat - Mon we were getting 25 Mbps-31Mbps.

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Prolly speedboost bump, just not upper tier of LTE anyway. Heh, Rogers is now "throttling" cellular! LOL How are your torrents working out?
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Hey gleonard, you stated you just received LTE last week. Is this the first time you've had Internet at the house or were you using sat, ExplorerNet etc?
gleonard
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In the past year we've used:
1. Rogers portable internet (service shutdown by Rogers in March).
2. Xplornet 4G satellite - horrible ping times, horrible throttling and extremely unreliable
3. Bell 3G cell phone + dial up. Dial up was actually better than satellite. Might take 40 mins to download a song on iTunes but at least it worked. Couldn't even do that on the 'new' 4G satellite system.
4. Rogers Rocket Hub - It's been the best of them all - except for the recent outage. I've been able to VPN to work and download games from Steam.

As for torrents - well with a 20GB cap, $10/GB overage it's pretty much a no go. Hoping in the future they either increase the cap or lower the overage.

The most frustrating part is that Richardson Side Road has active fiber on it - there's a development further west, near the Rogers tower that has FTTH. They leap-frogged everyone between west Kanata and that development. I actually talked to someone in the Bell engineering dept and there are no plans to put ONUs in the area. It was after that conversation that we decided to give the LTE Rocket Hub a try.

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Wow g, that's a hell of connectivity history. At any point... did you ever think about MOVING? LOL I kid, I kid! Seriously however, I did just that in one of my many moves, decided high speed Internet was a priority.
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Despite what Rogers says and shows on her map, LTE isn't coming any time soon to Metro Carp:

0 LTE Cell Sites!



Here's what she's outfitted with.... nevermind waiting to be lit, no LTE hardware even!





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said by pulp46:

Prolly speedboost bump, just not upper tier of LTE anyway. Heh, Rogers is now "throttling" cellular! LOL How are your torrents working out?

I don't think there is speedboost on cell data service.
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Re: [Wireless] LTE in Carp - arguement with Rogers

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said by pulp46:

Prolly speedboost bump, just not upper tier of LTE anyway. Heh, Rogers is now "throttling" cellular! LOL How are your torrents working out?

I don't think there is speedboost on cell data service.

That's just my weird sense of humour.
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So I'm *hearing* Carp will get LTE upgraded in 2013. With my luck, it will be on Dec.31, 2013.

Coverage Map is still deceitful, no LTE ANYWHERE up and down CARP Rd:




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