I am on a fairly remote location and am using Verizon as my service provider. My cellular data comes and goes, being anything from no signal, 1x, 3g or LTE. I have a cellular booster running and get excellent signal when 4G is available but if I exit Netflix, I lose the 4G and have to be ready to get back on when 4G comes around again after an hour or so of varying no signal, 1x, 3g signal.

It seems like I'm utilizing another carriers tower and their service is taking priority. Is this the case, if so anyway to force my connection?

Thanks for any assistance.

It more than likely is a VZW internal issue, MLA(tower owner) makes no differnce.

There are RNC settings that regulate download speed and this could be an issue.

The carriers...especially the RF geeks hate BDA (bi-directional amplifiers) and may be throttling it by internal settings depending on external issues i.e. the number of subscribers.

Call 611 and complain....insist upon a trouble ticket getting created and use that number to drive a solution

Like you, I am remote and Verizon is my only choice. My signal strength is only one bar 90% of the time, sometimes I will have 4G, but mostly 3G. 1x for me means no service, or at least so slow I could walk to Nigeria to get my scam-mails faster.
I use a signal booster from Wilson Amplifiers. Now I have reliable full time communication with the internet and cell phone. Well, almost, the signal is still a little dicey during a snow or rain storm.

Do you have Wi-Fi as an option? If so, turn on Wi-Fi calling and you’ll be good to go.

The Wilson boosters typically get good reviews on RV forums. You might look on some of those to see what others are doing. RVers tend to have these sort of problems, particularly if full-timers.

Go to frequencycheck.com , and enter the Verizon model number for your phone. Frequencycheck has a feature where you can check the bands your phone uses versus the available bands Verizon offers. The more bands on your phone of the bands offered, the more likely you are in a given situation to have a reliable connection.

This will not fix it if they do not have towers nearby, but with this you should be able to see if there is anything you can do to improve your reception.

I'll look into the suggestions. To clarify, I have a high end WeBoost 4G booster for my truck. The signal is great when I'm on 4G but it just seems to drop me when the phone sits idle. While streaming, I stay connected with no issues.

I have no access to wifi where I'm at, an oilfield frac location.

Dewhorse, are you saying the use of my booster/amplifier could be prompting them to kick me off the network or throttle?

I have had this same issue recently in the same general region.

Another issue, I have is while streaming video in these distant locations, the audio is out of sync with the image. This occurs whether the booster is on or off.

I have a company phone using ATT and its signal is great and interrupted when utilising the cell booster.

I will check the website recommend.

I had to get one of these for my work AT&T cell phone to get signal in my walkout basement home office:

https://www.att.com/att/microcell/

The house is built into a hill. The cell tower is up over the hill. The MicroCell acts like a mini-cell tower and connects to my ethernet LAN. I had to open up some ports on my router to get it to talk 100% back to the AT&T deathstar home planet. It works though. Not sure if VZW has something similar.

Although, it sounds like you're totally wireless. The Microcell needs to send voice/data back to AT&T over a wired LAN.

If you have 4G AND fast internet then you can use a Network extender.

https://www.verizonwireless.co...s/network-extenders/

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Originally posted by dewhorse:
VZW, MLA, RNC, RF

Nobody outside the business knows what these acronyms mean.

The outdoor antenna for your weboost, is it an omnidirectional vertical antenna or a directional yagi horizontal antenna??

If it’s an Omni, a yagi antenna pointed in the direction of the neatest Verizon tower will help.

My antenna is mounted to the roof of my pickup using an NMO mount and omnidirectional antenna. I spend 12, sometime 24 hours in one spot at a time and need someway to pass the time. Streaming movies and Sig Forum makes life a lot easier for me.

What confuses me is how once I establish good connection and begin do download from it I stay connected, no problem. If I exit for any reason, signal takes forever to come back and when it does, I have to be ready to jump on it in order to maintain connection.