Any cell provider is likely to have coverage problems. In general the higher the bandwidth, the worse the penetration for the buildings. Foliage and hills will also block the signal.
I have Sprint, it works fairly well in most areas of Smyrna, but then I am cheating at the house. My place is on the far side of a hill and shadowed from the local cell site. It is only 2 miles to the local cell site, but there is no chance the signal will be very strong, unless the phone is about 10 ft above ground level. I do have cell coverage from ground level, but it is often rather poor, unless I go outside and find a decent spot. I am using an Airave box inside the house to boost the cell coverage inside the house. That tunnels the audio and data through an Internet connection. It works pretty well most of the time. The only down side is it does require a GPS puck to be in a decent spot to pick up the GPS satellites for a timing reference. Since I didn't bother to put the GPS antenna in a good spot, it sometimes drops the GPS reference and the cell relay capability disappears for a few minutes. If I improved the location of the GPS module it would certainly work better. The Airave box is only for up to 3G speeds. I have 4 phones on my plan (not all local or being used). Two of them get used a lot. It is not cheap, but it does generally work pretty well. In a previous job I was in areas with very poor to non existent coverage from time to time. Since I was able to roam on other systems for the 5% of the time I was outside of Sprint service I was pretty happy with the coverage. For what I do the bandwidth is fine. Dave On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 10:43 -0500, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote: > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Tim Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Virgin was a Sprint MVNO, now wholly owned by Sprint. > > > > So Sprint Coverage == Virgin Coverage.. > > Great! For everywhere except in my office, but that could just be my > aging cell phone. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
