But does that correlates to actual speed/signal, or is it still shit?
risking oversimplifying (and also being utterly wrong since Iām relying on an explanation given to me which lies beyond my capacity to validate)ā¦ might be a āpriority queueā on āantenaesā to get a newly detected phone in the net. this causes a burst of comms between phone and antenna and is very fast.
Then once the phone is āinā itās no longer top priority, so less āantenna chit-chatā happens.
This increased rate of communication and speed so soon after you reset the phone might be misinterpreted as if the signal is very good and etc, because the phone lacks actual data over time, causing it to display a much higher quality than it actually has.
if it gets actually good for a short periodā¦ then Iām also really curious.
With my old phone that used to happen a lot, and a friend who works in telco came to figure out what was happening (to me) was that as soon as I would turn on my phone it would first try to connect to a 4G network, then do a bunch of stuff, and only then it would start connecting to a 5G network (also because 5G signal where I live is tenuous).
4G is slower, but there are a LOT of those antennas around me, whilst 5G antennas are few and a lot more people are currently connected to 5G networks, which causes t to become far slowerā¦ but both the network and my phone would insist on trying to keep me on that.
I purposedly bought a 4G-only phone to replace that oneā¦ and despite the phone being so shitty it lags during scrolling the menu, the internet is just so much faster now! (at least until 5G coverage becomes an actual thing here)
That said, also looking forward for hearing a better explanation
There could be service effecting work being done on the tower. I just had to replace a 5G antenna today and we knocked out one sectorās 5G capability for an hour.
Could be an issue with back haul. More modern towers are using straight fiber from the tower to data centers, but thereās still a tone of towers that use microwaves to get the data from the antenna to another tower, then another tower, then to a data center. Maybe a microwave dish went offline somewhere so they have to trunk the data through another backhaul line?
A fiber jumper might have broken to taking the radio from 4 fiber lines down to 3 or less. It happens when the tower crew doesnāt support the fiber jumpers properly, then wind picks up and the fiber just starts flapping against the steel tower.
Maybe all the cops and fire firefighters decided to have a conference call. Just joking, but their phones will trump civies phones.
It does kind of sound like youāre being throttled though since you have better signal when your phone reconnects like Eyeux said, then due to whatever issue, your device gets kicked down a tier on the priority list.
Hereās a 5G radio/antenna. It has 4 optical ports to send and receive data to the router on the ground. Each cable can handle 5gbps. So if one of them broke, then it nocks it down from 20gbps to 15gbps, if 2 broke then itās down to 10gps that the radio can send/receive from the router.
Hereās a site I was out a couple weeks ago. The crew who installed the equipment were horrible and we had to come back to properly support all the cables, fix the grounding, rotate antennas, and a bunch more lol
This is a good example of poor cable management/support that could lead to broken fiber. Also, was a cool feeling being 200+ feet in the air and not seeing anything 20 feet away haha
The 4G set up is on the right. Youāve got the big antenna and 2 radios hooked up behind it, one for HF and one for LF.
The 5G setup is to the left which is the small antenna that actually has the radio mounted inside along with an elect tilt mechanism to point the antenna downwards via a laptop depending on what the network engineers want.
Itās nice having the radio and antenna as one package. Saves time on mounting the set up and cable management. The radios for the 4G set up are nice when itās cold out though. I used them as hand warmers XD
Looks great, just an FYI
Due to the iminent swelling /inflammation to the area, Expect to loose the brightness and potentially the ability to read it for upto 2 weeks
My favorite liquor store needs some help with their sale tags XD
Half of the tags had the right prices for regular and sale price, but half had the regular price listed as the sale price and the sale price as the regular price. All of them also said 00Ā¢ saved because the person who made them was too lazy or didnāt have enough time to figure out regular price - sale price = Ā¢ saved lol
Good store though, itās like a Walmart placed inside an old building - 70% crazy people + enough staff to deal with customers lol
Also, since there was some hearts on my post talking about cell stuff, I got to go through some files for a site I was on today and figured I would share a snippet.
The 4G antenna that I mentioned actual acts as 5G as well. Ahola is the LF radio and Ahfig is the HF radio. The antenna in the picture is actually a fiberglass box containing 2 antennas, one for each radio. But you can see the different tech being used for the old 4G tech thatās on its way out.
The spreadsheet shows 2 Alohas and 2 Ahfigs, one of each go on both sectorās for this site. So the picture of the radios and antenna container is Beta sector, then in the spreadsheet you see radios for the Alpha sector as well.
The common sectorās or directions for an antenna tower are Alpha, Beta, and Gama. There are quite a few sites with a Delta sector as well. My coworker shared an anecdote of a tower he worked on with 12 different sectors. I couldnāt tell you their sector names though, because apparently they follow the NATO phonetic alphabet all the way up to Alphaā¦and sometimes Delta XD
And Iām lucky that I didnāt make the list. Things are not going to plan on my end.
Not sure if this is the place to mention it but Iāve been dealing with a bit of depression and despair because of the problems that Iām facing right now.
Is there anything you could say to a cat to let it know that pickle sitting on the counter behind it is just a pickle? No. They have the entirely wrong mindset about what is and is not a threat, coupled with the inability to actually communicate meaningfully about it.
You know how good counselor works? You never give you an answer and tell you what to do. They ask you questions which inevitably lead you to your own realizations. Awesome questions to clarify how that would work, maybe as compared to credit cards? Do they use credit cards? Why are they not concern about credit cards? Try to avoid directly telling them a thing and instead offer questions that make the answer so obvious, and make them say itā¦ not you.
This is the only effective way I found to deal with hostile people like this. Unfortunately itās a heck of an investment of time and energyā¦ but if you consider it a game and use it as a kind of pass-time hobbyā¦ could be fun.