Trip to St David/Radnor Area
Lately, I haven't collected as much data in regards to local travel in the Levittown, PA area. I am still on the lookout for new things. Here are a few things I've noticed recently.
Verizon is continuing with CBAND build-out. I've noticed that a tower near my home was recently turned-on as of a few days ago. Also, speeds are a lot more consistent now when on CBAND. Earlier on, speeds were hit or miss (sometimes fast and sometimes slow). I'm seeing speeds above 200 Mbps more frequently now and sometimes as high as 600 Mbps.
AT&T download speeds have picked up. Based on Cellmapper, there are no new sites so possibly some backhaul upgrades (maybe prepping for Cband). I'm seeing occasional speeds of 400 Mbps or more on DSS-based 5G.
Here is a recent trip I tool from Levittown, PA to St David/Radnor, PA. This shows all plots for all carriers.
I was really impressed with AT&T data performance on this trip. They were in second place on download speeds slightly being edged by T-Mobile.
I am going to condense some of the data I show here so it is not as overwhelming for me or the reader. For negative aspects of a carrier, I am looking for RSRP values less than -115 and RSRQ <= -19.
Verizon
47 Bad Signal Plots (Langhorne Manor/RT 1) continues to be bad for all carriers.
CBAND/N77 Coverage (only down Route 1 right before turnpike)
Bands Seen (Other is N5)
Band 5
Data Experience
Average Download: 48 Mbps
Average Ping: 34 Milliseconds
Ping STDEV: 9 Milliseconds
Ping Loss : 0
Tower/Cell Density
Nodes: 37
Cells: 115
AT&T
59 Bad Signal Plots (notice Langhorne Manor/RT1 again)
Bands Seen
Data Experience
Average Download: 125 Mbps
Average Ping: 64.5 Milliseconds
Ping STDEV: 53 Milliseconds
Ping Loss : 1 Instance of 10 Percent Loss
Tower/Cell Density
Nodes: 38
Cells: 101
T-Mobile
45 Bad Plots (Langhorne Manor and more on turnpike as compared to others)
N41 (only down route 1 to right before turnpike which is similar to Verizon's Cband deployment)
T-Mobile showed 5G most of the time but on the PA turnpike, it was non-N41/N71 and using DSS (bands 2 and 66)
Bands Seen (Other is LTE Bands 4,41, and 12)
Let's drill down to the Bands 4, 41, and 12 since they were minimal. Notice that these sites are all in the Willow Grove area on 276. Most likely, more capacity needed in this area.
LTE Band 41
LTE Band 4
LTE Band 12
Data Experience
Average Download: 133 Mbps
Average Ping: 40.5 Milliseconds
Ping STDDEV: 8 Milliseconds
Ping Loss : 0
Tower/Cell Density
Nodes: 71
Cells: 146