On the physical RF side there are three considerations. Signal Strength, Signal Quality, and Latency
It could be that you are on the cell edge and the signal strength is too weak. In which case you would need a really good signal quality to overcome it.
Or the situation could be that your strength is good and your quality is very poor.
Imagine a situation in which you and on other person are in a silent elevator talking to each other. You will be able to talk very quietly ( signal strength ) because there is no other noise ( signal quality ). Now imagine some shitty muzak comes on and 3 other people walk onto the elevator all speaking loudly. Now you and your friend have to speak much louder to each other to hear each other over the noise.
There could be to much delay between the transmitted signal and the received signal. This has a lot to do with the clutter around you. Trees, buildings, wild penguins, boulders, waterfalls, etc...
This could be due to the fact that whichever provider you are with hasn't really optimized their network. Most carriers are still in test phase in the US ( at least in central area and on east coast ).
The best thing you could do is visit which ever app store you use and try to find some signal reading apps. You want RSRP ( signal ) or RSSI ( also signal ) and RSRQ ( quality ) or SINR ( also quality ) readings.
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DetectiveSplat ago
This could be due to a lot of potential issues.
On the physical RF side there are three considerations. Signal Strength, Signal Quality, and Latency
It could be that you are on the cell edge and the signal strength is too weak. In which case you would need a really good signal quality to overcome it.
Or the situation could be that your strength is good and your quality is very poor.
Imagine a situation in which you and on other person are in a silent elevator talking to each other. You will be able to talk very quietly ( signal strength ) because there is no other noise ( signal quality ). Now imagine some shitty muzak comes on and 3 other people walk onto the elevator all speaking loudly. Now you and your friend have to speak much louder to each other to hear each other over the noise.
There could be to much delay between the transmitted signal and the received signal. This has a lot to do with the clutter around you. Trees, buildings, wild penguins, boulders, waterfalls, etc...
This could be due to the fact that whichever provider you are with hasn't really optimized their network. Most carriers are still in test phase in the US ( at least in central area and on east coast ).
The best thing you could do is visit which ever app store you use and try to find some signal reading apps. You want RSRP ( signal ) or RSSI ( also signal ) and RSRQ ( quality ) or SINR ( also quality ) readings.