Verizon cell signal lost at night
I’m having a curious situation with my cell phone that often occurs late at night. I’ve had Verizon for years, and it’s always been great. Lately I find that if I need to make a call later at night th...
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many things can affect cell signal quality. Some are:
1) number of users/cell site- large number of users with high BW use can affect signal quality
2) Landscape, buildings, humidity, all can affect cell signal strength
3) indoors or outdoors? signal strength can drop noticeably going inside a building or home
4) phone orientation
5) which cell site and channel you are connected to. Phone doesn't automatically switch to strongest signal if it is getting what it and the tower think is adequate. Going to airplane mode and back will cause a new search possbily to a stronger cell or stronger channel.
And finally the "bars" are a terrible indicator of signal quality. A better indication is to use either the cell phone signal strength indication in db. (usually through settings and phone info) or an app that gives recieved strength.
Signal strength of -90db or better is good, -100db usually adequate for voice/texting -120db is about the limit for service.
And there are conditions where the channel is good for straight text but not adequate for voice calls.
Recently we were camping and with my cell amp signal was near -100db, had LTE channel, and we could get and send straight text (no pictures), but phone calls failed about 90% of the time.
I've also had times when we could recieve calls fine, but trouble making calls.
1) number of users/cell site- large number of users with high BW use can affect signal quality
2) Landscape, buildings, humidity, all can affect cell signal strength
3) indoors or outdoors? signal strength can drop noticeably going inside a building or home
4) phone orientation
5) which cell site and channel you are connected to. Phone doesn't automatically switch to strongest signal if it is getting what it and the tower think is adequate. Going to airplane mode and back will cause a new search possbily to a stronger cell or stronger channel.
And finally the "bars" are a terrible indicator of signal quality. A better indication is to use either the cell phone signal strength indication in db. (usually through settings and phone info) or an app that gives recieved strength.
Signal strength of -90db or better is good, -100db usually adequate for voice/texting -120db is about the limit for service.
And there are conditions where the channel is good for straight text but not adequate for voice calls.
Recently we were camping and with my cell amp signal was near -100db, had LTE channel, and we could get and send straight text (no pictures), but phone calls failed about 90% of the time.
I've also had times when we could recieve calls fine, but trouble making calls.
