On 7/8/2013 2:36 PM, Herbert Graf wrote:
>
> Anyways, it works very well pretty much everywhere it's been used,
> except the cottage. The symptom is it connects to the 3G network
> sporadically, for no apparent reason. It seems to be up more
> consistently on weekdays and early in the morning.
>

The first thing I do with RF issues is do a site survey, sometimes=20
easier said than done I know. If it is up more on weekdays than morning=20
hours then I would start with some sort of logger that could record=20
values for a few days and see if there is a pattern.  I have come across=20
some weird issues before, like one similar to yours which was a delivery=20
truck with malfunctioning radio that only was in the area on Mon, Wed,=20
Fri,  finding that cause cost me a lot of hair !

Another issue I found was a large water tower, seems like you would=20
consider that right away, but this one was formerly blocked from LOS to=20
the tower by trees, trees came down and now signal had LOS which it=20
reflected all over the area.

I'm not aware of any providers that switch 3G off, they sometimes lower=20
the speed but the service itself is still present.

Sound more like an environmental , hardware , issue.

Good luck !
Mark


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