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Signal strength VAPORIZED. More downtime with T-Mobile Home Internet than I've ever had with any other ISP.
I got sick of the constant downtime that I experienced with Cox every time a tropical storm came through Louisiana, so I decided to give T-Mobile a try. There's no phone lines to fall down so the int...
Vamp wrote:
For 7 months, my gateway has been sitting in the same exact place. It's positioned right in front of the window, on top of 4 milk crates because it's the only place in the house where I can get 4 bars, but that's all come to an end because all of the sudden, out of nowhere, I only gets 2 bars now. This happened about 4 days ago and I haven't moved any furniture or anything, it just dropped from 4 bars to 2 and there's no other place in the house where I can get a decent signal. The only way I can get 3 bars, is IF I TAKE IT OUTSIDE.
Since you have had your gateway for 7 months, it is assumed you have the Nokia gateway.
I had nearly the same problem, where it worked fine for months, and then suddenly dropped internet connections continually. It was due to the gateway switching the 5G band from n41 to n71, making an unstable connection. No matter what I did (rebooting, restarting), the gateway stayed on n71.
I finally decided to remove the battery, and then restarted the gateway. It chose band n41 again, and has been up without any problems for about a month now.
Apparently, the battery retains the current band selection even when rebooting / restarting, but when the battery is removed, the gateway is forced to select the bands from scratch.
