MarBearCat
Senior Member
I walk down 1 flight of stairs and walk 10 paces to front steps and WiFi kicks it off and 4G takes over. WHAT THE HEY?!!!
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VERIZON TECH SPILLED BEANS
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MarBearCat
Senior Member
Maybe I need to get a range stretcher-outer.
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Naw, no matter how you try and justify it, the wifi just sucks on this thing. I have 4 phones in my household, the turbo, a droid maxx, an iPhone 5 and a LG G3. It isn't even close, all 3 can connect to my router at least 50ft further than the turbo. If I go outside, stand in the drive, the G3 will show about 15 routers around me, the turbo will show 2, maybe 3. Oddly enough, the turbo, when it can connect, does so better at 5g than 2.4, and is remarkably fast. Now you may say that I have a defective phone, but I don't think so, have read too many reports online by people with similar issues.
This is still really a nice phone, but so was my bionic. I think we've all been "bioniced" here, especially with the update situation. Well, just my 2 cents FWIW...
MarBearCat
Senior Member
You know I had a feeling it was a "turbo" issue. Damn!
I'm not all that impressed with the Turbo 4G reception, either. Although calls are very clear, signal strength across the board (wifi, 4G, voice) is lower than my Rezound. Surprisingly it hasn't dropped or had a call degrade, but it's really the only flaw in the Turbo - good, but weak, radios.
True, very true. May also depend on the case around the phone if it's covering up any antennae. I have a Lifeproof case for the Turbo and took a slight performance penalty in signal strength. Is the WiFi issue going to be rectified in 5.1? Remains to be seen.
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I don't have a case. I could occasionally get decent speeds over 4G at home on my Rezound...Turbo usually seems to be @2-4Mbps, and upload speeds are virtually non-existent (<0.3Mbps). Although you don't send much data back to websites usually, at that speed it bottlenecks your download regardless.
I think that's more VZW than the Turbo, although indoors is where a weaker radio would really suffer.
That's in Piscataway, NJ. I work in medical insurance, everything is secure as can be. Always on LTE here. Thick walls & ceilings, sitting near the edge of the cubicle area.
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MarBearCat
Senior Member
That's in Piscataway, NJ. I work in medical insurance, everything is secure as can be. Always on LTE here. Thick walls & ceilings, sitting near the edge of the cubicle area.
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I wish!
You do know that signal strength in terms of bars is an arbitrary charge based on the minimum and maximum signal levels expected, but as you've pointed out has little to no bearing on whether it can take hold of and keep a signal for the purposes of communications.
There are good reasons why this phone doesn't "appear" to receive signals as strong as earlier models. It has to do with the antenna(s), or in the case of the Turbo the lack of. Apparently in order to make room for the Voice Over LTE (VOLTE) antenna, they had to do away with another antenna and also that basically defuncted a dual-radio feature in these phones which earlier phones had. This was mandated by Verizon to prepare for the nationwide rollout of VOLTE. As such it also eliminated Simultaneus Voice & Data Out (SVDO), until which time VOLTE and the feature was activated with an update in the phone's Firmware, and a selection on the website.
Still as even you pointed out, the phone hasn't dropped a call, the calls are clearer than with past technology (even with higher signal levels before), and the quality hasn't degraded while in a call. So sometimes, less IS more.
Maybe "Not" as significantly better than they have in the past. Other chip manufacturers have really gained ground on that front in the past 3-5 years. Still, I believe call quality with a Motorola phone is better than with others. I have people who I talk to on my cell phone and they're using Samsung Galaxy phones, iPhones, others, and in many cases I can't understand them yet they hear me fine. When I communicate however with my wife or son who are both using Droid MAXXs, the sound quality is second to none, I can understand them and they don't have to keep repeating so I can recognize what they are saying.
I would love someone from every phone model to actually "call" me and let me hear them, then I'll do a comparison and tell you what I think are the best and worst of the bunch! LOL (gonna start a war here if I'm not careful).
AvaMichele
Senior Member
Post your number, they will call