slowcowboy wrote:Nope here in pavillion i live 100 feet from a cell tower even on a clear day i get dropped phone calls and even slow internet even if i go over and hug the dam tower!....slow.
Sounds like Sprint.
When we bought our current house, my wife and I used Sprint, because, at the time, they had far better coverage in the boonies.
But here, in town, where I can
see the closest tower 2,400 feet across this little valley (I've measured it on satellite images), reception was so poor that family and friends stopped trying to communicate with us at times when we were likely to be at home. ...Because it never ended in anything but frustration.
Sprint wouldn't do anything for us, however - such as providing an in-home repeater/'booster', which was free for people in 'dead' zones' at the time - because their coverage map showed a perfect signal at this address.
"Oh, yea? Come test it..."
Poking fun at Sprint's poor choice of frequencies in the spectrum aside...
Where you're at, you're probably
too close to the tower, and actually out of line-of-sight.
I've run into that issue with a rental house, as well as several places I've visited or camped. The directional antennae aren't built to 'look' down. So there's actually a dead zone around them, if there's no overlap with another tower.