When a crisis hits, mobile response units help bring medical care and other services to the most vulnerable people in affected areas. To provide adequate care, these units need strong internet connections that can support the critical online applications that help manage patients and save lives. Fixed wireless internet (i.e. 5G or 4G LTE Wi-Fi) …
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Right now, frontline healthcare workers are working tirelessly to provide medical care during the coronavirus crisis. To provide adequate care, these workers need uninterrupted access to the critical online applications that help them manage their patients and cases. Help your hospital or mobile response unit keep its healthcare workers online during uncertain times with a …
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Being your own manager is not always easy. Whether you’re working from home permanently or just for the time being, remote work comes with its own set of rewards and challenges. Here are a few tips for maximizing the rewards of remote work in a rural area while minimizing its challenges. Have a good internet …
4G LTE networks are experiencing record levels of traffic as people turn to mobile internet to stay connected in quarantine. Last month, for example, online gaming traffic on Verizon’s 4G LTE network more than doubled. During that same period, video traffic increased by more than a third. As traffic increased, average download speeds have miraculously …
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If you want to increase the speed of your fixed mobile broadband, a dual Yagi antenna setup is your best bet. These powerful setups, which include one antenna dedicated to downloads and one dedicated to uploads, are 10 times more powerful than omnidirectional antennas. Because they only amplify radio waves in the direction of the …
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If you want to improve the speed of your fixed mobile broadband connection, a directional (or “Yagi”) antenna is usually your best option. A directional antenna only amplifies the radio waves between your setup and the nearest tower, which makes it much better than an omnidirectional antenna at increasing the download and upload speeds of …
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To stream video in standard definition, you need a download speed of at least 2 Mbps. To stream in high definition, you need at least 4 Mbps. With an average download speed of more than 20 Mbps, a fixed mobile broadband connection is fast enough to support video streaming on multiple devices at once. Let’s …
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Sometimes the signal bars on our phones seem almost random. One day, we’re sitting alone in a city bus station, streaming video on three bars of service without a problem. The next day, we’re at home, struggling to upload an email attachment with four bars of service. While signal strength and wireless internet speed are …
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Sometimes it isn’t slow internet speeds that make your game lag, it’s your connection’s high latency (or “ping”). If you play online games on a fixed 4G LTE connection, it’s extra important to take measures to lower your ping since the average latency of wireless connections is higher than wired connection. Let’s take a look …
A fixed mobile broadband connection lets you access 4G LTE through a wireless router, so that you can use as many devices as you’d like on a single data plan. With fixed mobile broadband, you can connect any devices – including those that aren’t directly compatible with 4G LTE – to a local WiFi network …
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