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| I recently acquired Cingular's aircard. I work in the oil fields where
cellular service is sometime less than desired so I bought a Wilson cell
signal repeater.
Using the repeater I usually get a signal of -61 to -55, better than I get
at home. I am currently about 20 miles southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico
and the bleedin' aircard either will not connect or will stop working even
though is says it is connected. (I am currently using this mobile lab's
satellite system.)
Anyone, especially a Cingular tech, know why I cannot use this aircard while
having such marvelous signal strength?
JFH
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| Todd H. 2007-11-11, 4:33 am |
| "JFH" <jfh3i@sbcglobal.net> writes:
> I recently acquired Cingular's aircard. I work in the oil fields
> where cellular service is sometime less than desired so I bought a
> Wilson cell signal repeater.
>
> Using the repeater I usually get a signal of -61 to -55, better than I
> get at home. I am currently about 20 miles southeast of Carlsbad, New
> Mexico and the bleedin' aircard either will not connect or will stop
> working even though is says it is connected. (I am currently using
> this mobile lab's satellite system.)
>
> Anyone, especially a Cingular tech, know why I cannot use this aircard
> while having such marvelous signal strength?
Will a degreed electrical engineer do?
A signal booster can certainly boost the RF level, but what your
assumptions ignore is the booster's adverse affect on the signal to
noise ratio--often a metric that's more important than signal strength
for a good working data connection.
Is it safe to assume you've tried the card without the repeater?
If your card supports it, an external passive antenna with a high gain
can help immensely.
You should have 30 days to exchange equipment with Cingular depending
on where you bought it. If it's not doing the job you bought it for,
see what other options they have. I think Cingular offers a couple
different flavors of cards. Also, depending on what phone you have,
it may be wroth throwing your card's SIM into your phone and trying
laptop tethering to see if the RF stack of the phone does any better a
job than your card. It will be another data point at least to getting
to a solution that works in the location you want to use wireless data
in.
Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://toddh.net/
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