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Belinrahs
This ship is taking me far away

join:2007-09-07
Nashville, MI
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reply to Sprint_MBB
Re: Good signal, low speeds

said by Sprint_MBB See Profile :

Beli,
I'm no expert, but can share what worked for me.

I had a Pantech PX-500 and Wilson Omni. It was picking up two towers (there are apparently only two in range in my very rural area). My RSSI would bonce around and I didn't stay connected. Take a look at Jim_in_VA's website:

»evdotips.blogspot.com/

Look at how to use the debugging screen in the connection manager:
»evdotips.blogspot.com/2008/02/co···ens.html
»evdotips.blogspot.com/2008/03/de···ned.html

Look and see how many towers the omni is reading and follow his advice. I didn't do this when I had the omni, and recently went to a Sierra 598U and Wilson directional. When I used the debugging screen, I found I had the antenna pointed at the wrong tower for best service!

I have detailed this somewhat in another post in this section.

Long story short, I went from an intermittent connection and at best .3 down and .03 up with 260+ latency to a max of 1.4 down and .24 up with 170 latency.
I would go with this, however even with the omni, I only pick up one tower. And fortunately it's not intermittent, I don't disconnect at all! It's great in terms of reliablilty. Considering what's been said I'm willing to say that I'm getting top speed from my tower.
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PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!!!

cbobby

join:2009-06-14
New Windsor, MD

from my experience. I was with AT&T, the day they released the iPhone, my signal was strong and solid, the speed dropped to sub dial-up. After several calls to tech, I stumbled on an honest tech to said "oh you noticed that"..

story short, switched to Sprint with a Mill BYOD plan.
when the leaves came out had to ad an Amp.

By the way...........I can't say enough about Jim in VA at EDVO Tips and Tweaks, his website has helped me navigate this moras of what I term BroadBand Redlining. Youse live in the wrong place, youse get no service.

Anyway...now Sprint has joined the SmartPhone revolution...let's sell the ability to send as much useless stuff as we can over our limited bandwidth....But let's not add any infastructure to support all the new bandwidth hungry apps.

So in good times, I get up to 1.9 downloads.
But when the Tower is clogged, .25. I know it's app overload becase my upload speeds are 4X the download speed.
All with a Strong signal.

Seems like a metaphor for our current financial hole....spend and expect more than you can support.

Was that a screed or what
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