Looks like the cell tower that covers our area died for like 10 minutes because of a storm. Same thing happened last week. Makes you realize how short the range on these things is because 4G couldn't connect to the second closest tower.
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@matrix You must not be in a particularly dense area. In philly at least a phone is likely to have quite a few towers they can directly ping at full power.
@freemo
It's probably because of the terrain. There are at least 3 cells right across the hill.
@matrix yea terrain will make a huge difference too.
@freemo
Yeah, we have issues receiving TV too even though the height differences in terrain here are tiny.
@matrix presumably TV is on a tall tower. so unless its far away or behind a mountain I'd suspect something else might be up.
@freemo
We have our antenna in the attic and not on the roof. TV works, just with DVBT we didn't get all the multiplexes and now with DVBT2 it occasionally drops out.
@matrix Makes sense. Might not be enough people in range to be worth the cost of a full size tower either.
@freemo
No, I think roof is asphalt. It's the terrain, the line to the tower is covered since we live in small valley. A second floor and pole would probably be enough to compensate