Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
If you are far from a phone tower, but still get good enough signal when the weather is OK, but your connection starts dropping out when its rainy and cloudy. What can you do about it?
You can get an external 4G antenna that you mount on the roof of your house.
What's the benefit of having an antenna if I have a good enough connection when the weather is good?
This is a simple question actually, that I keep referring in previous videos to, being on a fringe and not being on a fringe. And what does it mean? But what does it actually mean for you as a user? So if I say fringe, I would mean that the signal measurements, the signal quality, the signal to noise ratio is on that level where it is okay. And when the weather goes against you it goes out of performance. But for you as a normal user, I mean, I kind of refer to myself as a nerd often, what does it mean? So let's say you are used to streaming Netflix and it works well, and you can stream HD or 4K potentially, when the signal goes bad the reliability goes down and then you may not no longer get the ability to actually stream the video, and you have to sit back to say, "Okay, I have to do standard definition." Or when you lose your connection and you have a Team's call, or so forth, maybe you have a Team's call that could work, but it won't work anymore when a signal goes weak because the speeds are too slow, and that's just the network kind of adjusts your kind of conditions, that you don't have the high speed anymore. Teams maybe those doesn't work anymore. Zoom doesn't work anymore, but you can still get emails. That's kind of the fringe where everything works, when everything is good. When it's on the fringe, where things are no longer good enough, you could still get some basic services working, like, I'm just thinking out loud here, emails and web browsing, but it takes longer to download websites. It's act not functional anymore. But for instance, Teams and all those high bandwidth applications they would be to say, "No, this is not working." And calls keep dropping out, or you lose audio, or that kind of stuff. So being on a fringe means being at that point where something doesn't work, some things does work. And then, of course, when you're out of the fringe, and it's just nothing works anymore, that's the next level. So I think that's how I would see those three different layers. And you want to be out of that place. You don't want to be there where it actually is a consideration. You need to be somewhere where it just works, and it always works.
Edited by Holly Winter
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If you are far from a phone tower, but still get good enough signal when the weather is OK, but your connection starts dropping out when its rainy and cloudy. What can you do about it?
You can get an external 4G antenna that you mount on the roof of your house.
What's the benefit of having an antenna if I have a good enough connection when the weather is good?
This is a simple question actually, that I keep referring in previous videos to, being on a fringe and not being on a fringe. And what does it mean? But what does it actually mean for you as a user? So if I say fringe, I would mean that the signal measurements, the signal quality, the signal to noise ratio is on that level where it is okay. And when the weather goes against you it goes out of performance. But for you as a normal user, I mean, I kind of refer to myself as a nerd often, what does it mean? So let's say you are used to streaming Netflix and it works well, and you can stream HD or 4K potentially, when the signal goes bad the reliability goes down and then you may not no longer get the ability to actually stream the video, and you have to sit back to say, "Okay, I have to do standard definition." Or when you lose your connection and you have a Team's call, or so forth, maybe you have a Team's call that could work, but it won't work anymore when a signal goes weak because the speeds are too slow, and that's just the network kind of adjusts your kind of conditions, that you don't have the high speed anymore. Teams maybe those doesn't work anymore. Zoom doesn't work anymore, but you can still get emails. That's kind of the fringe where everything works, when everything is good. When it's on the fringe, where things are no longer good enough, you could still get some basic services working, like, I'm just thinking out loud here, emails and web browsing, but it takes longer to download websites. It's act not functional anymore. But for instance, Teams and all those high bandwidth applications they would be to say, "No, this is not working." And calls keep dropping out, or you lose audio, or that kind of stuff. So being on a fringe means being at that point where something doesn't work, some things does work. And then, of course, when you're out of the fringe, and it's just nothing works anymore, that's the next level. So I think that's how I would see those three different layers. And you want to be out of that place. You don't want to be there where it actually is a consideration. You need to be somewhere where it just works, and it always works.
Edited by Holly Winter
Captions from our favourite rev. com
Use this link try.rev.com/6bs7ts and get $10 off your first order.
#4G #Weather #fastinternet
