Re: Cable Modems

["TheBorg" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I live in a valley in the hills west of Austin, and normally get 1 - 2 bars 
of signal strength in my home via the AT&T towers.  We had frequent dropped 
calls when inside the house, and several years ago when I read an article on 
Broadband Reports (www.broadbandreports.com) about how some AT&T customers 
were getting free Microcells, I went immediately to the nearest AT&T store 
and sweet-talked them into giving me a free one.

Now I have 5 bars of signal throughout the house and even in the yard.  The 
only disadvantage is that it is eating up some of my internet bandwidth, but 
I'll take that hit.

-sjl

"John Jones"  wrote in message 
news:mailman.4465.1375726329.9013.pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx...

For boosting cell signal under normal conditions (i.e. power & broadband
are available) consider contacting your carrier for a femtocell (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell).  Basically it's a tiny cell
receiver that covers your home or office area.  It uses your broadband to
connect & send voice (and cellular data) traffic to the carrier.  Pricing
runs from free to not-expensive depending on carrier and how nicely you can
sweet-talk the CSR into getting you one to make up for lousy coverage.




On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for all the comments.
>
> I had a feeling that there were probably repeaters etc. in the line that
> could be impacted. We rarely get major outages and when we do (like the
> last one) it covered 80% of the city (population about 300,000) so the
> chance that the cable would have worked are slim to none anyway I suspect.
>
> Looks like UPS is only worth it for the surge protection (which I already
> have) - chances that it would allow on-going connection during any
> significant outage are probably slim and the money would be better spent 
> on
> another hot-spot - except of course that we are in a virtual black-spot
> here ... can't win!
>
> Thanks again to all.
>
>
>
> Jon Paris
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