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PostPosted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 5:39 pm    Post subject: Can you be too close to a tower? Reply with quote

I was playing around with the laptop today, checking out some wi-fi spots and seeing how many wide open AP the neighborhood has...:>)...anyways,decided to check out some other Verizon towers in the area...first drove west appx 3.75 miles to the tower I am receiving at home....the signal was full scale but the latency(.300+) and up(250k)/down (100k)speeds were far worse than at home!!.(usually less than 200 and up/dn speeds 6-800k/2-300k)..I was about 100 yards from the tower,as close as I could get because its in a field behind a locked gate...drove back by my house and then North East,watching the RSSI(whatever is displayed when you place the cursor over the signal bars)....dropped to -66 at one point and as far as I know wasnt near a tower...I believe I was picking up a mountain top tower about 2-3 miles away... stopped ans seen a speedtest of 1300k+ and down 4ook+...looks like I need a directional antenna at home pointed toward the mountain top tower which is probably 5 miles away....just wanted to share...merry Christmas to the Christians and Happy whatever to everyone else...:>)
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