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Re: Slow 4G connection only, but only sometimes -- SOLVED
One more rant for the developers… Around 8% of males in the US are colorblind. Red-green. I am one of those. The color choices for the signal strength bars on the top of the can are terrible. Difficult to distinguish. I hate the combo red/green LEDs I can see it change color but can't tell you what it changed from and to Climbing down from soap box… Dennis1Ver1like0ComentariosRe: Slow 4G connection only, but only sometimes -- SOLVED
Cellmapper has multiple entries for T-Mobile when you search. I found that when I looked up the b41 tower/cell I am connecting to. Turns out it came from Sprint. I think one of the cell tower metrics is CID. Long number. First 6 digits are the carrier. It showed up as T-Mobile Sprint not T-Mobile. We will see when the panel antenna gets here. I hope the software jockeys that wrote this are running it at their houses. They need to eat their own dog food. I wrote control system software for a living. I know all software has bugs, those you know about and those you don't. The latter you really worry about. In the software business there is a saying… "if builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization." Users today are debugging the software. Why do you think apps get updated so frequently? Throw that spaghetti code against the wall and see if it sticks. Dennis1Ver1like0ComentariosRe: Slow 4G connection only, but only sometimes -- SOLVED
In my area n71 band is on towers next to the interstate. Atleast cellmapper says they are there.That is 600 MHz band. What used to be used by UHF channels like 39-55. My b41 tower was a Sprint cell. The app really needs some work as does the firmware. At least there needs to be a search button to force it to find another tower. It needs to rememberand display previous towers along with SINR.This is not hard to do. Dennis2Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Slow 4G connection only, but only sometimes -- SOLVED
Just got the Gateway last Saturday. Speeds were terrible. Overnight the firmware updated to 1609. Performance is better. 100 down and 10 up. Band b41. No 5G. Did factory reset last night. This morning I was b2, then b66. Speeds still bad. Moved it upstairs. Now I am back on b41 with 100/10. I think cellmapper has issues. I think the major problem is people look at the cell towers as omnidirectional. They are anything but. They are phased arrays that can steer the energy beaming it where they want. I have ordered a panel antenna kit from waveform. We'll see how that works. I am north of Ringgold GA Retired electrical engineer that did control systems used to make cookies. Dennis1Ver1like0Comentarios