Help Sudden Drop in Cell Signal Speed?

[ChocoboBar]

Sorry if this is the wrong forum, I made my account to AF specifically for this-

I live in a crappy, Midwestern middle-of-nowhere area, and I usually got an okay signal before something occurred and now I receive .28MB/s on a good day. I can't connect to my wifi because I have Hughes Net (look it up, it's garbage) and would rather not waste my monthly megabytes on something that can connect to something else. Is there a way to get my signal back to what it originally was (it could load a three minute YouTube video within about ten seconds if that helps, I have no clue how much MB/s that would be) without having to purchase one of those signal hopper thing?

 

[Hadron]

Depends why. If the problem is a change at the network end, nothing you do with the handset will make any difference. I'd start by contacting the carrier and reporting the problem.

 

[ChocoboBar]

Depends why. If the problem is a change at the network end, nothing you do with the handset will make any difference. I'd start by contacting the carrier and reporting the problem.

I called them, and they said that it was a problem with the local tower or something and would be fixed within 24 hours, but they said it was fixed since the last time I called (approx. some time last week) and it has gotten worse. So I have no idea what I'm going to do, it couldn't have anything to do with actual hardware could it? Could water damage or something cause that?