July 27, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google iPhone: Ever feel tricked by your phone's signal bars into thinking you have a better reception that you actually ...

QUESTION: I had an older iPhone that I changed the signal strength indicator to an actual number instead of the bars but I can’t remember how I did it. Can you help? ANSWER: The ubiquitous signal ...

Ever find yourself questioning how accurate those little signal strength dots are on your iPhone? Luckily, there's a trick to reveal your iPhone's true signal strength, and it takes less than a minute ...

Today’s tech means we’re always connected — when our connections actually work the way they should. Is your Wi-Fi crawling? No one has time or patience for that. Tap or click for 10 smart ways to fix ...

Anything better than -100 is considered a usable signal. A strong signal is -40 or better. So, the closer that number is to zero, the better the phone’s signal. You can check your iPhone signal ...

For decades, cellphone owners have relied on signal bars to determine the strength of the cellular signal. Since iOS 7, iPhone (and cellular iPad) users have become accustomed to signal dots, which do ...

Apple customers love to complain about the reception on their iPhones. And the problem may be worse than it looks. Apple said on Friday that for years its phones had been exaggerating signal strength ...

Between the three largest mobile carriers in the US, here's which one delivers the best (and most consistent) network signal.

An uplink transmitter of a satellite system operates at 7.5 GHz with a transmitter power of 21 kW and an antenna gain of 40 dBi. The receiver on the geostationary satellite has an antenna gain of 50 ...

SETI's 1977 "Wow!" signal from deep space was even stronger than originally thought, but its source remains a complete mystery.

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