Hey Kendall,
I know a lot of people look at the amount of bars to determine how good the signal is,but really it's the dBm signal that will give you the correct reading on how strong the signal is.So if you both have the same dBm number,then generally you should have the same speed with the browser. The thing about browser speed/signals comes down to if you have a good line of site to the tower,how many people are banging the tower at once,and how many T1 lines the tower has.
I'm genuinely curious here. Isn't dBm just the numerical version of the signal strength which is represented by the bar graph? Sure the dBm number would give you a more accurate reading but it seems not worth the hassle for something the bar provides a quick representation to? If you have a more in-depth answer I'd love to hear it. I'm just going off of what a quick google search fed me.
As far the towers - do they have any sort of load balancing between them? And do they all have a separate number of T1s? I suppose it would make more sense to load up the bandwidth on one tower in a heavy population area instead of adding multiple towers. If you have any deeper knowledge into this I'd love to hear it
Thanks. I was serious.