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POLL: What is your cellular signal strength inside your home today?

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by: Wally J - Sat, 11 Nov 2023 09:14 UTC

POLL: What is your cellular signal strength inside your home today?
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I'm not talking outside - but real world inside - at your home office.

And are you getting frequent (sometimes more than twice a month)
messages from your carrier that they're upgrading their cell tower?

Below is a tabular summary of (a) how to obtain your cellular signal
strength, and (b) a general interpretation of how good or bad it is.
<https://i.postimg.cc/wTSTymCC/strength03.jpg>

Credit goes to The Real Bev for finding this nice cross-platform
multi-carrier tutorial which shows how you can obtain that data.
*How Do I Check My Phone's Signal Strength?*
<https://www.wilsonamplifiers.com/blog/how-to-read-cell-phone-signal-strength-the-right-way/>

Using universal methods as stated in that article, here are my values:
<https://i.postimg.cc/50SwH9Cq/strength01.jpg>

But bear in mind that signal strength varies upon the circumstances.
<https://i.postimg.cc/nVT4pzZn/strength02.jpg> Signal Strength Varies

What's your signal strength where you sit at the computer at home?
And is your tower getting "fixed" a few times a month lately like mine is?

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by: Stan Brown - Sat, 11 Nov 2023 16:52 UTC

On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 05:14:56 -0400, Wally J wrote:
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> What's your signal strength where you sit at the computer at home?
> And is your tower getting "fixed" a few times a month lately like mine is?

-114 dB to -112 dB as I've been writing this article.

I don't know if it varies with the season or the weather, but
initially I could make and receive calls without dropouts. That
changed around the middle of last month, so I turned on Wifi calling.

Still getting dropouts, or 30-second periods where only one of us
could hear the other, under Wifi Calling I selected "prefer Wifi",
and that fixed it. My _guess_ is that with the default "prefer
network" setting, the phone was periodically checking if there was
any signal, deciding (wrongly) that it was acceptable, and switching
to it.

--
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...

Subject	Author
POLL: What is your cellular signal strength inside your home today?	Wally J
Re: POLL: What is your cellular signal strength inside your home today?	Stan Brown