Gman68
@spcsdns.net
| Signal Issues
For the past two years I have been operating my Sprint card from my home with an average 80% signal. Now I am having some confusing signal problems. My curent setup is a 598U card connected to an outdoor truckers antenna at the peak of my roof. Now when I connect to smartview without my outside antenna connected, I get a 40% 1RXTT signal, and once I contect my outdor antenna the signal jumps to 80% EVDO A. Now here is the confusing part, once it hits that 80% it all of a sudden drops to 20%-40% EVDO A and stays there. What do you think? |
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Max Signal
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join:2008-03-07
Buffalo, NY | Check all your connections and cable . Sounds like cable has been compromised or a bad connection somewhere
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caribconsult
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join:2003-03-19
Mayaguez, PR
 ·HughesNet Satellit..
 ·Millenicom
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| reply to Gman68
Don't hold me to this but I think the truckers antenna is one of those that require a 'ground plane' like a pie plate or some other metal surface underneath the base in order to operate correctly. Max Signal would know the answer to this. So if you do need a ground plane, putting the antenna on the peak of the roof might not be the ideal setup.
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Sierra 598U/Cradlepoint CTR500, grid antenna, Millenicom, 4 XPPro and 1 Ubuntu units, FireFox everywhere. |
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Max Signal
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join:2008-03-07
Buffalo, NY | Trucker antenna should not require a ground plane . Most have built in ground plane. Like I said check cables and connectors . Then consider a good amplifier. Especially if you have a long cable run.
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Gman68
@spcsdns.net | reply to Gman68
Thanks for the help and did check my cables and all seem to be working fine. And I agree with you, am looking into an amplifier. Another thing that I noticed lately is that my card is getting very hot to the touch??? |
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Jack_in_VA
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join:2007-11-26
Mathews, VA | I have my CDU-680 taped to the window pane. Makes a very good heat sink. It only gets slightly warm to the touch. |
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Jim_in_VA
join:2004-07-11
Cobbs Creek, VA | reply to Gman68
Your modem will ramp-up the supplied voltage to compensate for a weak signal. Result is heat.
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Max Signal
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join:2008-03-07
Buffalo, NY
 ·Verizon FIOS
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Good amplifier antenna kit will give your card a good signal so it does not have to work hard to get a signal and heat up . Here is a link to Jim's Cyfre Amplifier/Antenna review
»evdotips.blogspot.com/2009/04/cy···wed.html |
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bcltoys
join:2008-07-21
Earleville, MD
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What type of splitter would be needed to use the dual ban antenna and a single band grid as explained in evdotips blogspot.Also where to get one. It may be called a duplexer im not sure 800M and 1900g. |
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caribconsult
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join:2003-03-19
Mayaguez, PR
·HughesNet Satellit..
·Millenicom
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Max Signal has everything you need, all kitted up, and he's a good guy to deal with. Jim_in_VA's site »evdotips.blogspot.com has links to Max's store.
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Sierra 598U/Cradlepoint CTR500, grid antenna, Millenicom, 4 XPPro and 1 Ubuntu units, FireFox everywhere. |
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GMAN68
@spcsdns.net
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Have been working with Sprint on this issue and was sent a new card with the same results. I contacted tech spport again with this problem and worked with them to accomplish a multiple of resets. They told me to wait 24 hours and report back my findings, and its a miricle!!! Just about 24 hours later, I now have 100% signal and my down speed is 1.4 and up speed is 3.6!!!! Tested it on speedtest a few times with the same results. This is great, anyone know why my upload is so high? |
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