| Having "Bars" doesn't mean anything folks. Just because you have four out of five signal bars on your handset doesn't mean anything. You're overlooking the fact that that's simply an indication of your connection to the tower. The tower could (and probably does) only have a single 1.54 Mbps T1 circuit linking it back to the rest of the network. Translation: Lots of iPhones, or any phone for that matter, on a single tower = overload of that T1 circuit. You can only cram so much data over that antiquated T1 garbage. This is why all new towers should be engineered with ethernet over fiber and all older towers should be retrofitted the same way. So far, the only cell provider I've worked with that has gone the ether route is Verizon. Everyone else around here insists on sticking with antiquated T1 circuits, although I have seen a tower or two with full DS3 backhaul.
Such a waste of resources.
- Tate
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IP is the future... down with TDM! |
