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Today, My Arc wireless antenna arrived, along with my wilson connector
to connect my PC5220. Signal improved from spotty 25-48%, to 58%.
Through put jumpped to 144 kbps (plus or minus).
So giddy I was. 2 hours later, my wife arrives, I try to show off the
improvement, and NOPE, it's back the old behavior of 'spotty'
throughput (37 kbps burts, likely 4 kbps real). I move the antenna,
around the house, different angles, no change.
An hour later, I move a different machine and try, signal is at 70%
(With antenna). I start a download, I'm getting 144 kbps. For kicks,
I remove the antenna, the throughput STAYS at 144 kbps, and there
appears to be no change in signal. I do notice that in the Verizon
Access Manager, the card HOME SID no longer appears as 502, and NOW
appears as 0.
I know I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, but why the heck
would quality improve without an antenna now.
I see the obvious possiblities of machine A, was just plain
interferring with the card.
But machine B had 'slow performance' with the PC5220 card, until I had
plugged in the antenna. Yet, NOW performance seems good, the SAME
atually with the antenna, or without.
(Both machine A and B had fast '144 kbps' performance when connected to
an LG VX 44400 via USB, FYI)
[Is it possible that Verizon changed something in the network in the
0502 SID area ( I'm between blacksburg and Roanoke)]
Is it possible that the internal antenna wasn't really connected or was
loose, and putting on the external anntenna, jarred it back into
position?
[sorry, one more question, why does the card sometimes flash green
every half second, and at other times, flash green once every five
seconds]
Today, My Arc wireless antenna arrived, along with my wilson connector
to connect my PC5220. Signal improved from spotty 25-48%, to 58%.
Through put jumpped to 144 kbps (plus or minus).
So giddy I was. 2 hours later, my wife arrives, I try to show off the
improvement, and NOPE, it's back the old behavior of 'spotty'
throughput (37 kbps burts, likely 4 kbps real). I move the antenna,
around the house, different angles, no change.
An hour later, I move a different machine and try, signal is at 70%
(With antenna). I start a download, I'm getting 144 kbps. For kicks,
I remove the antenna, the throughput STAYS at 144 kbps, and there
appears to be no change in signal. I do notice that in the Verizon
Access Manager, the card HOME SID no longer appears as 502, and NOW
appears as 0.
I know I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, but why the heck
would quality improve without an antenna now.
I see the obvious possiblities of machine A, was just plain
interferring with the card.
But machine B had 'slow performance' with the PC5220 card, until I had
plugged in the antenna. Yet, NOW performance seems good, the SAME
atually with the antenna, or without.
(Both machine A and B had fast '144 kbps' performance when connected to
an LG VX 44400 via USB, FYI)
[Is it possible that Verizon changed something in the network in the
0502 SID area ( I'm between blacksburg and Roanoke)]
Is it possible that the internal antenna wasn't really connected or was
loose, and putting on the external anntenna, jarred it back into
position?
[sorry, one more question, why does the card sometimes flash green
every half second, and at other times, flash green once every five
seconds]
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