Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 21 September 2008 13:32:03 Dale wrote:
Dale, do you get good cell phone reception out by you? You can get a
sprint aircard and a linksys router that has a pcmcia adapter in it to
split the signal. It's not blazing fast but @ 60/month it's way better
than dialup. BTW, I'm sure you can do it with providers other than
Sprint but I've only used the Sprint ones.
Well, I live waaaaaaaaaaay out in the country here. Even the cell
service is not real good. I also live under a hill too. Funny thing
is, the cell tower is only half a mile up the road.
ha, that reminds me of a job I used to do in a past life - TVs and TV
antennas.
At the time the biggest, baddest, newest and most powerful transmitter in the
country was right on top of a hill in the middle of the capital city. But in
the valley and all the way up the slopes of the next hill then reception was
zero, nada, zilch, nothing. I couldn't even see the carrier wave on a
spectrum analyser. The reason is simple - the transmitter doesn't the blast
the signal in all directions equally, it is focused to cover specific areas.
So the customer wonders why he can see the transmitter 1000m away
line-of-sight and can't receive from it.
Those were tough times. The customer that accepts the technician's explanation
of what is going on has not been born yet :-)
I figure the signal goes right over my head, just like a lot of other
things. LOL
Dale
:-) :-)
Oh, I wish Gmail would send me a copy of my own post here. It looked
like you were replying to someone else until I saw the quotes.
