sixtocks
Casual Member
I am fortunate enough to have direct line of sight to two separate cell towers.
Unfortunately, the nearby one (~250m) has its cells pointing in inconvenient locations. I sit on the overlap on the edges between two of them, which seems to mean I get a very strong signal but the throughput is poor and variable. I tested this hypothesis by wandering up to it and downloading things with my phone. Standing directly between the tower and my home was poor, move round a few metres left or right so I'm more on-axis with one of the cells, and it's significantly better.
The further one (~750m) appears to have a cell pointed in a more convenient direction. I'd like to try this one to see if there's much improvement. Unfortunately, because the nearby tower is so ... nearby, this is what the router locks on to without fail.
Any suggestions for how I can make use of the more remote tower, short of bringing forth the destruction of the close one by starting a rumour that it has covid-causing 5G installed?
As an aside, I assume (both being Band 3) that they operate on the same frequency - would this just result in massive interference from the local tower anyway, even if I could specify a connection to the far one?
Unfortunately, the nearby one (~250m) has its cells pointing in inconvenient locations. I sit on the overlap on the edges between two of them, which seems to mean I get a very strong signal but the throughput is poor and variable. I tested this hypothesis by wandering up to it and downloading things with my phone. Standing directly between the tower and my home was poor, move round a few metres left or right so I'm more on-axis with one of the cells, and it's significantly better.
The further one (~750m) appears to have a cell pointed in a more convenient direction. I'd like to try this one to see if there's much improvement. Unfortunately, because the nearby tower is so ... nearby, this is what the router locks on to without fail.
Any suggestions for how I can make use of the more remote tower, short of bringing forth the destruction of the close one by starting a rumour that it has covid-causing 5G installed?
As an aside, I assume (both being Band 3) that they operate on the same frequency - would this just result in massive interference from the local tower anyway, even if I could specify a connection to the far one?