Re: Cable Modems

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

For boosting cell signal under normal conditions (i.e. power & broadband
are available) consider contacting your carrier for a femtocell (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell).  Basically it's a tiny cell
receiver that covers your home or office area.  It uses your broadband to
connect & send voice (and cellular data) traffic to the carrier.  Pricing
runs from free to not-expensive depending on carrier and how nicely you can
sweet-talk the CSR into getting you one to make up for lousy coverage.




On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for all the comments.
>
> I had a feeling that there were probably repeaters etc. in the line that
> could be impacted. We rarely get major outages and when we do (like the
> last one) it covered 80% of the city (population about 300,000) so the
> chance that the cable would have worked are slim to none anyway I suspect.
>
> Looks like UPS is only worth it for the surge protection (which I already
> have) - chances that it would allow on-going connection during any
> significant outage are probably slim and the money would be better spent on
> another hot-spot - except of course that we are in a virtual black-spot
> here ... can't win!
>
> Thanks again to all.
>
>
>
> Jon Paris
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