I have a iphone 6 that I recently migrated from ATT to Verizon. It works great in my home area (zip 40601) before and after switch but on weekends, I stay in a remote cabin (zip 41339) that until recently, had absolutely zero signal for any of the major carriers. Verizon added a tower about a year ago (which is why I switched). the tower is about 3 miles away behind a couple of hills. on front porch, my phone usually picks up LTE when I turn on Cellular data. Internet is reasonably fast but shortly after starting an app such as a weather map, it often switches to extended 1x even though I am stationary and it will not switch back unless I toggle cellular data off then back on. Sometimes that works, sometimes not and extended 1x is worthless for data apps. I've tried some of the remedies posted in community discussions to no avail. It has to be a marginal signal issue as there is a location about half mile away that the phone picks up and stays on LTE and the signal comes from the same, single tower that is anywhere close to my location (the next closest is over 10 miles). How can I prevent my iphone from switching to 1x or how can I easily/consistently get it to switch back to LTE? I considered buying a cell signal booster but was told by someone with the exact same issue that he bought one and it did not help and now fear going to the hassle of buying and installing a booster only to return if it doesn't work....any suggestions? anyone had better success with a booster?
