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angelazq's avatar
angelazq
Network Novice
Hace 7 años

Recently, Ive been getting only 2 bars

Before, the signal was great, always staying at 4 bars. I don't know what happened within the last couple of months. The maximum amount I can get is 2 bars, connected to my wifi or on LTE. Someti...
  • tmo_chris's avatar
    tmo_chris
    Hace 7 años

    Well that is a plus haha! AS far as the strength goes, if you are getting no signal, that is something that we will definitely want to look into. Por favor llámanos when you have a moment so we can get a service ticket opened for your location.

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snn555
Bandwidth Buff
Hace 7 años

The appearance of bars can be rather deceiving because you can have several megabits per second speed difference within the same number of bars. The software controls how it reads the signal and displays the bars accordingly. You may recall several years ago with the Apple iPhone 4 that reception was reported to seem weak so Apple sent an update to the software that made it appear as if the signal had gained strength by increasing the threshold for the bars. in other words all the software did was give you an extra bar even if the signal had not increased.