chamb

I am in a one story home with a drywall type celing with loads of insulation on top of it. Then a standard plywood and shingle roof. My Airave will sit in the middle of the home and stay locked onto the GPS about 99.99% of the time. It a bad thunderstorm with lots of clouds, it may lose the GPS for a few minutes, but the Airave countinues to work OK. I do not know what happens if the Airave loses GPS for hours. I never experienced that.

I personally have an Airave and can verify that this is about correct. Depends on the construction type of the home or business, but the figures are about right. Put one in the center of your home and it will cover the entire home unless you have a very big mansion.

When you put radios up high behind the antennas, the received signal from the handset is fed to the receiver with little or no loss. This makes things work very very well. With Radios on the ground, you could crank up the transmitter and feed a very strong signal to the transmitting antenna. But the handset can not do the same on that end. One of the thngs that makes RRU's work so good is the ability to receive the signal from the handset with no loss in the coax before it gets to the radio receiver. The signal received at the cell site from the little tiny transmitters in a cell phone is normally very weak. Being able to capture this signal and process it with little or no loss is what makes things work so well.

Yep, I steer clear of Samsung. When you happen to be in a low signal area, they fail to work properly. Samsung has had the problem for years. I am not positive the problem is there on the latest Samsung phones, but I sure am not going to buy one to find out. I have dropped more calls on a Samsung phone than all other brands combined.