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Toronto Calls keep dropping raining outside
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What? Toronto calls are dropping the rain outside ??
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Lol, yeah I got a few calls dropped as well.Originally Posted by Imtiax
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The only thing I can think he means is calls are dropping and he thinks it is because of the rain.
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If rain was causing the calls to drop then we wouldn't been able to communicate here in Vancouver because its raining most of the time.
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Had to laugh when I read this. Actually with mobilicity this might make sense. their network is being held up with strings.
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LOL so true.
Normally I would dismiss the rain as even a remote factor. There are so many areas with marginal service in the GTA, that even the slightest drop in signal caused by a storm could make a difference IMO. Even indirectly a storm could raise the call volume slightly overloading Mobi's delicate network
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Well, it has been raining all night in edmonto. We even had a hailstorm 2 days ago. The service is still working! The string which holds mobilicity must be very strong!
Jokes aside, rain has nothing to do with call drops, its probably too many people on too few towers.
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Actually, one day in my Mississauga household (keep in mind I am less than 500m away from a WIND tower) I awoke to a torrential downpour. A downpour so strong it looked as if someone had covered my window with a grey blanket. It was if someone was dropping a huge bucket of water every second. Think this much water every second.
I checked my phone and to my surprise I had lost my signal! I was on "No Service."!
The rain stopped about 10 seconds later and then my phone resumed normal full bar service.
The point? Rain can disconnect a call.
Nevermind Bell.. LTE is fine.
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What was that song in the 80s by Millyvanilli? Blame it on the rain? Haha...are u kidding me?
Mobilicity frees Canadian cellular smartphone users - or at least - till one of the big 3 gobbles them up!
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No... why would I do that?
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I've had similar experiences. Whatever the reason is if there is a heavy downpour service becomes unusable, or drops completely. This is the first provider I've experienced this with, & IMO shows how bad the Mobi network in the GTA is. It may be much better in other areas but in the GTA it isn't good at all.Actually, one day in my Mississauga household (keep in mind I am less than 500m away from a WIND tower) I awoke to a torrential downpour. A downpour so strong it looked as if someone had covered my window with a grey blanket. It was if someone was dropping a huge bucket of water every second. Think this much water every second.
I checked my phone and to my surprise I had lost my signal! I was on "No Service."!
The rain stopped about 10 seconds later and then my phone resumed normal full bar service.
The point? Rain can disconnect a call.
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Yeah, I posted this because we had literally a **** load of rain.
It was like a giant bucket was pouring rain. Very hard core rain, it lasted about 30 min, never seen rain like that ever.
The network went hay wire. Bars kept changing from 1 - 4 and I live in downtown toronto.
Look at this
http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/thundersto...s-gta-1.879893
http://www.citytv.com/toronto/cityne...ed-for-toronto
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Rain can affect microwave frequency. It is called rain fade. Some cell towers use microwave for backhaul linking. If their microwave link is already marginal and doesn't have enough signal strength, then it will degrade during raining (or even fogging), especially via a long distance. Heavy snow can have an even bigger effect. It is because certain frequencies are more affected by water than others, and that is in the microwave range.
If you have satellite TV, it will suffer from this effect as well, again, if it doesn't have enough margin in the first place.
Looking at some of the posts here, oh, yea, has NOTHING to do with it. Typical HoFo Know It Alls.
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