cell towers – Paul's Tech Talk

Having Signal Problems with your current Cellular provider?

PaulMarch 23, 2013

So You have a Cell Phone?

Many People Now a days are cutting the cords to their land lines and going strickly wireless phones. I’ve seen people who have Verizon, Cingular, AT&T, Sprint or some other MVNO Like Straight Talk or Virgin Mobile! Each One of those carriers has good or bad in them. I’ve seen some that get GREAT signal and I’ve seen some that just get no signal. I even bet you researched it and thought that you were in the right area for your service provider. I hate to say it but not all phones and not all cell towers are the same either. I have tried so many different MVNO’s lately I can tell you that most of them give higher priority to their contract customers.

Why am I not getting any Bars on my Cell Phone?

I answered this a few months ago to a point about Straight Talk but it wasn’t really complete. I am sure You have your own reason why but I will break it down to you in a way that you might be able to understand it a little more clearly than before.

Each phone has an antenna and each cell tower is broadcasting to a certain distance, and some are broadcasting in a certain direction also. Most however are just broadcasting omni directional and thus you get a random signal in random locations. Your also competing with other cell signals from other cell phones for the right to use that tower so your also getting some interference in areas.

House can be an Interference too!

Even your house which is a dwelling with bricks and wood and some metal pieces can cause you to drop signals in all parts of your house. I’ve seen in my own situation that I can have 3 bars in one location of my house and no bars in another part of my house so It can be inconcievable that you have the same situation going on where you life also. So I am here to help you out a little an maybe make you life just a little bit more enjoyable.

Wireless Extenders zBoost YX545 SOHO Dual-Band Cell Phone Signal Booster Satisfy all your cellular phone needs with the Wireless Extenders YX545 zBoost zP Wireless Booster, which works with both cellular frequencies (800 and 1900 MHz) and can extend cellular coverage up to 3000 square feet. This unit can handle signals from all the major cellular carriers.* [NOTE: This is the one is being used at my workplace so I know it works really well!]
Wilson Electronics – Sleek 4G – Cell Phone Signal Booster for Single User — If you are looking for a top-of-the-line and affordable cell phone signal booster to boost your voice and data signal on any carrier*, including 4G, the Wilson Electronics Sleek 4G is the solution.
Wilson Electronics – MobilePro – Portable Cell Phone Signal Booster – Includes 4-Inch Magnet Mount Antenna —If you experience dropped calls and poor cell phone signal quality in your car, home or office then the Wilson MobilePro Cell Phone Signal Booster kit is the solution. Increasing your cell phone’s power by as much as 10 times.

Those are just a few that will help you get a better signal and it isn’t as hard as it looks to install these little extenders and boosters. I will say these are just the tip of the iceburg as to what you can buy to make you cellular experience just that much better. If I a problem these would be the first I would buy to get that signal strength up.

Paul Sylvester

Figuring out the Hole for The USB Cricket Card? UM100C

PaulFebruary 12, 2009

So you bought and you see:

You probably wondering what that can be used for? Here’s what I know and from what I found out. That little can be used as an external Antenna. You could also use this to boost your signal and be able to use this for places that might not be getting a better speed upward and downward bandwidth. You see it all depends on where the Cell Towers are. Although this will likely help those who are either 1 to Almost Zero signal, it will not help those who are outside of the network. It might help and it might not, it depends on the location your at and the closest coverage area. If your on the edge of the coverage area and you buy this antenna it Should boost your signal and get you a better speed. I will not say it will help but in theory it could help. If you want to find out the other post that I have done on this subject please check my Cricket tag for more information. Although it varies on person to person, and region to region this is going to be a variable that will always remain in the grey. Only way to find out is to try it.

Getting better speeds from your Cellular broadband!

PaulDecember 24, 20083 Replies

If your like me and you want to get better than expected speeds from web pages loading. It sometimes frustrates people that the speed of web page loading is slow to some people others like me always expect it to be slow. This is the downside of having a mobile internet, because of the locations of the cell towers and if there is any interference to or from the tower. This is always going to be a problem with this technology, if something is going on the network it will undoubtedly slow you down. So what can you do to speed up the web page loading and other web site functions. Here are some great list of available ways to get a little more speed from your modem:

Google Gears — This is one of those little extensions that will Run JavaScript in the background to improve performance. Although this is something you can use on all your website but if you like to go to certain websites alot for games or online interactions, who use JavaScrip will speed up your internet experience.

FasterFox — This is for Firefox only. What it does is : Prefetch Links, Page Load Timer, and Block Popups. This starts caching some of the pages to better help with web browsing. Although this is good by itself. I find that it is better to use this with some of the other programs.

RabbIT— is a web proxy that speeds up web surfing over slow links by doing: Compress text pages to gzip streams. This reduces size by up to 75%, Compress images to 10% jpeg. This reduces size by up to 95%, Remove advertising, Remove background images, and Cache filtered pages and images. This is pretty good for web access and seems to work well with Broad Band modem.

[ad#tmi-left-1]These are a few that I found to better help people who have cellular broadband to get a boost of speed from there service. Although this might not work on all networks due to the restrictions of some of the network policies this will at least help out with some. I’ll be trying this out on my Cricket modem later this month to see if it is good for that service.