Root Suggestions on get a better 4g signal??

[badboytoast]

This is my question is it possible to pick up a stronger 4g signal? because were I live I have no 4g yet if I walk to my mailbox I get 4g service. Any advice, suggest are welcome.

 

[Palmetto Fellow]

This is my question is it possible to pick up a stronger 4g signal? because were I live I have no 4g yet if I walk to my mailbox I get 4g service. Any advice, suggest are welcome.

If you want a real fix as in more signal, your best solution is a Wimax amplifier/repeater installed in your house. You'll need two antennas as well. One to receive the raw signal from the tower, and another to give that amplified signal to the house.

From some pictures I've seen, it's a box with some heatsink fins built in...and an input and output coax style connection. This is where you connect the antennas.

You may be able to get by with two indoor omni-directional antennas, or you may have to upgrade one of those to an outdoor antenna. The total solution should cost $300 or so. I can't comment on the effectiveness, do some research and see what you find.

There is a trick you can do on your phone, but I’ve never done it on the Evo V. On my old OG EVO, I edited the hidden wimax settings using my MSL code. I was able to tell the phone to connect to Wimax with a lower signal strength than it was programmed to. I was also able to adjust how long it would wait before searching for the Wimax signal again. I think you can even tell it what signal strength you want it to drop the Wimax connection.

In the end, all I did was adjust how my phone interacts with Wimax. I was able to obtain a Wimax connection sooner, keep it for longer, and retry to connect more often. This didn’t do ANYTHING to the signal itself, it just adjusted how my phone connected to Wimax.

The carrier puts in the default settings because they want you to have a good experience. Connecting to Wimax and getting dropped packets isn’t a good thing. So while your phone may be able to say it’s connected to Wimax, as your signal drops, so will your bandwidth, and you’ll start to have lost packets. By being more strict in how the phone connects to Wimax, the carrier is able to guarantee solid 4G performance. Lessening the thresholds will keep you connected to Wimax more, but the quality of service may be affected when you’re not really getting enough signal.

The changes I’ve suggested may not help you, but perhaps you can do some research on this and decide if it’s something you want to play around with. Take pictures of all default settings that you change in here incase you need to change them back. Also don’t do anything until someone with more experience chimes in on this thread. I don’t know enough to advise you on screwing around with MSL locked settings.