How to improve cell signal reception?

Surely everyone has come across a situation that you need to crawl out of your dacha into the mobile Internet, but in the end it is impossible to use it. The smartphone is in the zone of poor reception and is not able to work on the network with the expected speed.

It would be nice to think about how to improve the cellular signal. But this is a function of the mobile operator, and here we are powerless (not counting repeaters). It remains for us to think about how to improve the reception of mobile Internet (well, or cellular communications).

To improve reception, standard solutions are traditionally used:

• connect an antenna to the phone (not all models have this option and the right connector, and if you suddenly find a socket, do not rush to shove wires and so on, this socket may be with a switch and we turn off the built-in antenna. If the switch is broken, then this is forever )
• buy a repeater and put it in the zone of reliable reception so that it spreads the network around for some distance (not always great, and the repeater is expensive)
• use antenna for gsm modem. It sometimes significantly improves the quality of reception, and sometimes does not improve at all. The latter is more common)

Since not all standard options can be tried, I recommend doing the simplest thing that can be done.

Try to tie a free smartphone to a stick, turn on a Wi-Fi access point on it and raise all this stuff as high as possible.

It is desirable that your smartphone be the highest point in the area.

True, some caution is needed here.

After all, this trick works well in winter, autumn and even early spring. But in the summer... Sometimes there is a thunderstorm in the summer :) Under certain conditions, your stick with a smartphone will become an excellent lightning rod and will collect all the lightning.

It does not matter at all what material the column is made of. Wood can also become a conductor at high voltages and a certain humidity.

It is clear that a smartphone can be ruined in this way. But it is still possible to ruin the one who is next to the pillar. And burn down the house at the same time. Therefore, make sure that during a thunderstorm your exit to the outside world does not turn out to be an exit to another world :)

Using a similar technique, I managed to catch a full-fledged 4g in my country house.

I note that not in all locations this thing will work. If there is no physical base station nearby, then there will be no miracle.

The markers of the method will be the presence somewhere near you of adequate 4g reception and improved communication on a hill.

Please note that the range of the 4g tower is only about 3 km.

If you cannot achieve the desired speed, then you can try to fix the desired network in the settings of the distributing smartphone forcibly. In almost all devices, you can disable the phone from automatically switching frequencies. But whether this will help specifically in your case, you can only check with the help of an experiment. After all, if 4g takes quite uncertainly, then 3g can give the best result. So fixing 4g is impractical.

Well, the resulting speed can be measured using any convenient application, such as SpeedTest. This will allow you to understand which network you have joined. After all, it will be difficult to understand what the smartphone is doing up there.

Before starting experiments, it is advisable to go over the search for networks in manual mode and get acquainted with those networks that, in general, in principle, can be in that square. True, today op.sos.y keep pace with each other. In my case, everything was much simpler. I knew that there was a full 4g signal from Beeline on a hill 300 meters away from me. This made me think that if I rise higher, everything will be fine.

Pay attention also to the fact that if you do not crawl out to the minimum required height, then the technique will not work. I got out with a smartphone on the roof of the change house and the reception quality has not changed. The effect was seen only in the manufacture of a 9 meter pole.

It's probably not worth telling how to make a pole :) ... I took three bars of three meters each, knocked them down with slats 9 meter high. At the top point, I attached a sealed jar of silicone sealant to the bar with screws. He put away his mobile phone in a jar in a bag. You can also place a powerbank there. By the way, Xiaomi Redmi Power Bank Fast Charge 20000 is not bad.

The pole itself must be lifted carefully. It is quite soft yet heavy. The smartphone can be hit against something :) ... Then I tied this pole to the fence post with a rope and it all worked.

How does the stick method work?

Let's start with the basics.

The cellular network is, to some extent, a radio receiver. A cellular signal is just like a radio wave. The truth works at high frequencies. Accordingly, it obeys all the laws of physics that are valid for a wave in our space.

Recall from physics that the propagation of a radio wave is a phenomenon of energy transfer of electromagnetic oscillations in a certain range.

Here we are dealing with ultrashort decimeter waves.

The following is known from theory:

• Waves with a high signal frequency do not penetrate obstacles well. Even a group of trees can become an impenetrable wall for a signal. Such goodness as much as you want in any suburban area.
• "Cellular" signals refer to line-of-sight signals, i. propagate most efficiently along a straight line and are amplified by multipath. But at the same time, even fog can spoil the reception. What kind of direct line can we talk about if we are clearly not at the level of the transmitter :)
• Ultrashort waves are not reflected from the ionized layer, which for us, in this case, is very sad.

But according to this logic, we should not have any signal at all on the site :) ... But there is one. What's the matter? It turns out that we are helped by three phenomena.

Reflection, diffraction (the ability of waves to bend around an obstacle) and scattering. It is thanks to these jokes that we have at least some connection. But the connection sucks, because with each of these phenomena there are power losses.

As a result, God forbid, a 2g signal creeps up to us, while being pretty shabby. 4g is extinguished somewhere along the way.

Accordingly, the more obstacles we have in the signal path, the worse the signal as a result. This is where the stick comes to the rescue!