Comments on: How To Improve Your Mobile Signal https://davescomputertips.com/how-to-improve-your-mobile-signal/ Computer Help, Tips, How-to's, and News Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:48:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jim Canfield https://davescomputertips.com/how-to-improve-your-mobile-signal/#comment-161729 Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:48:27 +0000 https://davescomputertips.com/?p=147334#comment-161729 In reply to Charles D Hadden.

Charles, i agree that paying for some of these outragagous data plans is just not reasonable
I personally think the local ISPs are ready to take advantage any time they can. I helped one section in town that was charging internet for 69 to 79 for 12gb even though thay had 100 optical aready burried. If you knew to ask it was onlt 49 per month but they kept the customers in the dark
I put notices on every door and in one week everyone had it. It is the same fir phone companies. I am lucky to have 100% unlimited data because i am on a family plan and my daughter foots the bill. Turning off wi-fi is certainly not for everyone but if can get you out of a jam it is worth it. Thanks for the comment

]]> By: Charles D Hadden https://davescomputertips.com/how-to-improve-your-mobile-signal/#comment-161522 Sat, 26 Jul 2025 14:57:13 +0000 https://davescomputertips.com/?p=147334#comment-161522 The first thing is that I am NOT going to pay 150% the cost of my service to have a DATA Plan when 95% of the time I am less than 6 ft away from my router. Next IN my mothers house it is a veritable Faraday cage. Stainless steel siding (same effect from aluminum) and the nearest tower is 2.5 miles away. You are forced to use Wi-Fi calling or have No Service at all. Cal me old school all you want, a cellio-phone is not a computer in any way shape nor form. That is why I have a $3,000 desktop sitting in my living room.
I had the same problem as your fellow and argued with my provider for nearly a year. I live in a low spot and ALL of the cell towers are aimed at servicing a major corridor. I have a great antenna on the building next door, which is Dedicated for 5G DATA ONLY, and that is my connection, but no phone connection. I was getting 5g signal within a block of my apartment and only LTE outside my door. Inside the apartment I could usually make an outgoing call but NOTHING incoming. I couldn’t even get a notice for a bounced call on the incoming side. FINALLY, WE-Mobil put up a new tower 1 1/2 block away and all was resolved. Bad Horizon refused to even talk to me about service. Buy the way I am only 2 miles from Downtown Denver. One other thing that happened that helped. I could not force the phone to use Wi-Fi calling. it would automatically revert to 5G as soon as you cleared the screen. Then about 3 months ago I got an update and that changed immediately.

I started designing antennas for Cell phone back when the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X in 1983 when rural communities in Colorado had to have an external antenna for service where no towers were available.

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