I am spending time at a cabin in the woods, something this massive WFH situation has afforded me. My Verizon service gets 1-2 bars of LTE consistently, but wavers between usable and unusable when doing my job. Can I do something about this? I know this is a luxury and something I'm very lucky to be able to try to do. I just wish it worked better. I tried getting a prepaid "jetpack" plan so I could find a spot that gets 2 bars of LTE consistently and leave it sitting and then using the wifi to my computer. This worked out ok, but it could be better. I was seeing 5M down and 1M up but it would ebb and flow a lot.
If I walk down to the public landing on a lake 3/4 a mile away, I go up to 3 bars of LTE and 20M down and 5M up and everything feels A LOT better. If I could get this at where I am trying to work, I would be ecstatic. I have never been able to get 3 bars of LTE at the cabin anywhere I try.
The cabin has a TV antenna on a maybe 40' tall post. The jetpack has 2 external antenna ports. I do not know if these two things can be combined together. I would imagine that the RF TV antenna and the cell phone antenna are different things. I could mount something to that pole though I guess. I've also seen "cell phone boosters". Do those actually accomplish anything? Normally I think of amplifiers as garbage in-garbage out and louder bad service may not really help.
If I walk down to the public landing on a lake 3/4 a mile away, I go up to 3 bars of LTE and 20M down and 5M up and everything feels A LOT better. If I could get this at where I am trying to work, I would be ecstatic. I have never been able to get 3 bars of LTE at the cabin anywhere I try.
The cabin has a TV antenna on a maybe 40' tall post. The jetpack has 2 external antenna ports. I do not know if these two things can be combined together. I would imagine that the RF TV antenna and the cell phone antenna are different things. I could mount something to that pole though I guess. I've also seen "cell phone boosters". Do those actually accomplish anything? Normally I think of amplifiers as garbage in-garbage out and louder bad service may not really help.