Hey Head-Case, what's your bandwidth like?

[Dusty Chalk]

18 hours ago, mikeymad said:

Sometimes living at the base of a volcano is a bummer. 

Seems that Verizon has deprecated band 13 (lower Hz - but had connectivity) for band 2 (higher Hz - but I get no bits).  I use to be able to get some bits from band 5 and 66 - but those are pretty much gone now as well. 

Is that on your phone, or one of those boxes?  If phone, there are some hacks you can use.  Touching it to your body a special way ... sorry, I'm not finding the video I saw before:
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+get+better+signal+on+phone

[mikeymad]

It is my phone. I do use a booster. It takes me from -122db up to about -71db (overall a strong signal). I have tried all the things that I could find. I was all the way to the point of jailbreaking my phone to be able to install low level software so I could control the band setting directly. Running a pretty big risk of bricking my phone. Until I finally read an article that showed that it would not work for me because I am on Verizon and they don't allow that access (period). 

I understand what they are trying to do, they are trying to get everything to the higher 'better/faster' band, and phase out the older slower. I used to be able to stay connected to band 13 and use my hotspot as a secondary internet access. But months ago something changed and now it is always trying to get to band 2. And band 13 does not have bandwidth anymore. 

So, I assume that in a year or so they will keep upgrading and things will stabilize and I will be able to get data on band 12, but for now I get very few bits. I will give them a call at some point and ask if there is anything that can be done. But prospects are low, and I could look at other carriers, but I am very remote, so I don't expect much from that exploration.

Or I can stick my phone up my ass...