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arpad
@arpad

okay but w h y is the cell service so consistently bad in this very populated tech-heavy area?


we’re staying on a farm so i’ll grant allowances for it being bad where i am right now i GUESS - but in pennsylvania it’s either “ok you have data” (even in the middle of nowhere) or “try again on the other side of that mountain” (only in the middle of nowhere)

wherein in san francisco and the surrounding areas it’s pretty consistently “lol good luck unless you have wifi - go ahead and load the page again it’ll either work surprisingly well considering you’ve got one bar or not at all even though you have full service”?

we’re on a farm but there’s a town within a 5 miles and no large mountains in between; in rural pennsylvania or maine or vermont or montana or navada or idaho or any of the other places i’ve been deliberately avoiding cities lately it’d be a given that i could idk. upload a picture or use maps to see where it’s worthwhile to go exploring.

but in california we’ve been in the meat of the big city and a self driving car will pass us every few minutes but i can’t look up if a restaurant has anything we can afford to eat in it.


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in reply to @arpad's post:

this is smth I struggle with firsthand! it can depend on what carriers are in the area and whether you have a top tier carrier or one that piggybacks (and if so, how high priority you are and who you piggyback on). so for example I have google fi, which on my old non 5g phone was essentially just t mobile - the device itself couldn't pick up any other networks - and also second priority (or less) after t mobile service customers. so during periods of high usage or weird weather (not necessarily bad - could just be unusually hot) my phone would basically become useless in places that were normally fine. hooray smartphones, definitely not a mistake and a great consumer product to treat as infrastructure!