fiaranch
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Re: [General] Alltel slow in the evening
said by DarwinsCE  :Last night it quit working at 6 pm and then started working fine at 10pm Yup, after all the folks are through uploading and downloading You-Tube, watching the tv show they missed, doing video chat, etc., etc., and start heading to bed.
I thought of one possible 'out' that might improve the situation.
Go to antennasearch.com. Put in your address. After it processes, select view tower results. Look at the list and/or click on the towers around you. See what Alltel towers are nearest you. Then do the "drive test" to those towers that are near you. Would be wise to do a disconnect/reconnect at each one, to make sure the modem is locking to the nearest one. See if the result is the same for all of them. If they are all the same, it is a backbone network congestion problem.
That is good and bad. Good in the respect that you might get some action out of Alltel if you call them, since it is a multiple tower issue. Bad in the respect that, as I said earlier, it is another tick mark toward a fair access policy.
However, if you find a tower that does give you a good result, then you could take the steps (and cost) to set up a directional antenna (yagi), and possibly an amplifier (to improve your RSSI and boost your transmit signal to the tower if necessary), so that you are always connected to that 'good' tower.
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