Topic: Finally have 4G! Praise be Wilson Electronics! (Read 589 times)
Congrats !
After a year and a half of 15-100kbps and 350+ ms pings, I've had enough. I can't stream audio, it takes forever to catch up with the blockchain if I've fallen behind, and miners submit a horrible number of of stale shares. I'd done quite a bit to try getting a 4G signal, which is about a mile or two out of my phone's reach, from rooting and trying to grab the msl code (which is just about impossible on my particular phone... there was eventually a kludgey method where you boot the phone into a particular shell which runs script and a particular script had to be run) and forcing the phone to only connect to 4G towers, to putting the phone in the attic of the horse barn, to building my own antennas with copper wire (... this eventually ruined a radio port and the phone needed to be replaced).
I finally got a Wilson electronics signal booster using the kit here (they're expensive -- referral link included - maybe can recoup a bit in costs). The snow outside's very deep and I can't even get to an old cable port running from my office to the outside, so I'm temporarily running the outside antenna inside with gain reduced quite a bit. Even so, I get 3 bars of 4G signal. It's very strong and voice calls are no longer a long monologue of me saying "Hello? Are you still there?" and apologizing for it every minute. It's awesome. My current vital Internet connectivity stats have me at a 110ms ping, with 1.62mbps down and .47mbps up, which may seem like a poor connection these days, but when my only other options are satellite and dial-up out here, it's the difference between using the Internet and staring at a "server sent no data" screen and refreshing until the page loads properly.
Hooray!
I finally got a Wilson electronics signal booster using the kit here (they're expensive -- referral link included - maybe can recoup a bit in costs). The snow outside's very deep and I can't even get to an old cable port running from my office to the outside, so I'm temporarily running the outside antenna inside with gain reduced quite a bit. Even so, I get 3 bars of 4G signal. It's very strong and voice calls are no longer a long monologue of me saying "Hello? Are you still there?" and apologizing for it every minute. It's awesome. My current vital Internet connectivity stats have me at a 110ms ping, with 1.62mbps down and .47mbps up, which may seem like a poor connection these days, but when my only other options are satellite and dial-up out here, it's the difference between using the Internet and staring at a "server sent no data" screen and refreshing until the page loads properly.
Hooray!
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