axiom
28th September 2006, 06:51 AM
Is there a way to select band 850 only instead of 1900/850?
I remember being able to do this on the Blue Angel with the the band select utility.
This would the ultimate because here in Canada I've noticed better data transmission using edge on the 850 band.
UPDATE: Okay I found the fieldtest utility and it appears that I am on 850 but sitting in my living room gives me -88db to -99db which is pretty bad. If I point the unit in different areas I've gotten it down to -80db which is 4 bars (in reality considered a full signal).
I have also seen my edge speeds this evening go from 60kb sitting in the same place to 180kb simply by pointing the device to a different place.
Could the antenna be that cheap on these devices that it can't do a bi-directional frequency distribution? I mean it's a mere mm difference between -88db and -80db yet the antenna can't cope with that.
I will go test outside and see what kind of numbers I am getting to get a better understanding of how far I am for a perfect signal.
I think it would be interesting to see what kind of actual db signal everyone else is getting with the various providers.
This might be something we can demand get fixed, possibly through better software.
I remember being able to do this on the Blue Angel with the the band select utility.
This would the ultimate because here in Canada I've noticed better data transmission using edge on the 850 band.
UPDATE: Okay I found the fieldtest utility and it appears that I am on 850 but sitting in my living room gives me -88db to -99db which is pretty bad. If I point the unit in different areas I've gotten it down to -80db which is 4 bars (in reality considered a full signal).
I have also seen my edge speeds this evening go from 60kb sitting in the same place to 180kb simply by pointing the device to a different place.
Could the antenna be that cheap on these devices that it can't do a bi-directional frequency distribution? I mean it's a mere mm difference between -88db and -80db yet the antenna can't cope with that.
I will go test outside and see what kind of numbers I am getting to get a better understanding of how far I am for a perfect signal.
I think it would be interesting to see what kind of actual db signal everyone else is getting with the various providers.
This might be something we can demand get fixed, possibly through better software.