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It's an adventure testing the coverage while moving around full-time in an RV.
The 4G has been great around Jacksonville & St Augustine. Further inland it's becoming more of a challenge. By the Map I'm 4G with a troublesome little Extended patch across the road.
I'm getting only 1-2 bars on the signal gauge people tell me is useless. But I was getting 4 solid bars elsewhere. The signal drops entirely and I'm disconnected. So far I'm learning to cope.
Here's my question: What happened to 3G? My understanding was: 4G Here, 3G Everywhere. -Extended if you're lucky.
What I'm now getting is 4G or nothing. Shouldn't Access Manager slip down to a slow, but steady 3G, where I could continue plodding along in email maintenance that doesn't need any more speed than I can type?
Where am I wrong? Is there no 3G in 4G territory?
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OK; to answer my own question: "Where am I wrong?", There's a geographical signal shift (location) and a stationary signal shift (intermittent tower transmission & modem reception).
Apparently the location shift is automatic & working. If you drive from 4G to 3G Access Manager automatically adjusts (most of the time).
But tower signal shifts? -you lose. Dead in the water. (BTW, I've noticed that switching to 3G doesn't help. It fluctuates exactly like the 4G, just slower.)
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There are locations where 4G LTE is that only had extended 1x network. An area near the Omaha/Council Bluffs metro is an example.
I am not familiar with the settings for usb modems, but are there settings to force or turn off the 4G LTE signal if it is being difficult?
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Thanks Ann; Update. There is 3G here, but I had to go to the Network Selection tab and manually choose the CDMA - something - and it re-initializes the modem, something I thought was supposed to be automatic.
3G Speedtest? < 1 mbps , an irritating speed. You have to disable Flash before you go to sites with animated advertising.
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OK; to answer my own question: "Where am I wrong?", There's a geographical signal shift (location) and a stationary signal shift (intermittent tower transmission & modem reception).
Apparently the location shift is automatic & working. If you drive from 4G to 3G Access Manager automatically adjusts (most of the time).
But tower signal shifts? -you lose. Dead in the water. (BTW, I've noticed that switching to 3G doesn't help. It fluctuates exactly like the 4G, just slower.)
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Well that actually makes sense. I experience a lot of fluctuations in a downtown area where the phone is not moving, but the signal sure does change a lot.
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