[PLUG-TALK] Cellular phone signal loss/gain

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 2 May 2019, wes wrote:

> Who was your other provider, when it wasn't Verizon?

It is now AT&T via the MVNO 'beast mobile.'

> I don't have a whole lot of answers to your questions, but what I can say
> in the general case is that if your other provider was CDMA, as Verizon
> is, then you really only have 1 data point. I would suggest that you
> seriously consider trying out a GSM provider to see if it works better.

We are using GSM; no more CDMA for us.

> I seem to recall that you do a fair bit of traveling, so you'd want to
> test it out in the most common places you need to use it, but I think
> there's a high probability AT&T would work better for you than Verizon.

This does not happen when traveling, unless I'm in radio-free Oregon or
radio-free Nevada (e.g., more than 4 miles either side of I-80 in northern
Nevada or on NV-50 from Ely to Carson City).

> Signal strength can be affected by all the factors you named and more. This
> applies to all radio signals. I wish there were better tools available to
> measure these things.

Well, here it's only the mobile phone.

> All of the major carriers offer an additional service where you can place a
> device in your house, which connects to your internet service, and allows
> your phone to connect to it. They each have a different name for it, I
> believe Verizon's is "Network Extender" or similar.

Huh! I have web access set to use wifi rather than the cellular network, but
have no need to use it in the office.

Thanks,

Rich