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Connected... but not?
So I'm sitting on my couch with my phone, browsing websites, streaming music, checking email... all of a sudden, my phone is acting like it has no connection. It shows 5GUC and all five bars but it's...
I have the same issue with my Samsung S22 mobile phone, hotspot, and home internet. My daughter has the iPhone 13 and has poor service all the time.
The phones has issues when it is not in wifi mode.
I have identified that the latency/connectivity issues are being caused by air traffic. Three airports and the FAA surround me. It shows I am connected to my services, but it is not working. It also impacts blue tooth devices.
Typically, airlines contract in connection servers from a host of local ISP providers worldwide to ensure that antennas are located every place the planes fly over. The reliance on our local service gets first priority along with emergency services. This ground-to-air communication impacts people with patchy wifi performance.
No one can tell me what they are doing about it. Maybe it is time to report them to the Public Utilities Commission. "The Engineers are working on is getting old." It got worse when TMobile started to merge the Sprint towers in our area.
