Yes, sometimes router can mess up. Since I have too many routers, I can easily test each of them. For example, cheapo WiFi router can handle 2 or 3 device at a time, high quality or business grade router can handle more WiFi host at same time, but need to add more access points to be able to handle multiple hosts (Ipad, Ipod, android, any WiFi stuff)
Ok, about 4G, its very easy to answer. First, look at the antenna bar if you got only one or two bars, that means your very far from antenna, and it WILL decrease the speed. Same with cable, DSL, the farther you are at, the slower it will become. But if you get 3 to full bars, sometimes it is due to too many devices are connected to that tower and CAN slow down.
Remember few posts ago that I mentioned, Video is a bandwidth HOG! Give you better idea
using video though Internet is like this
Using Audio (Like voice telephone) though Internet, including E mail, text, etc is pretty much like this
Now you notice huge difference in amount of water per seconds between Fire hydrant and garden hose, that is how it is between video and voice.
And give you an idea why wireless gets slower and weaker when increase the distance between device and antenna. That applies to light house. If you are at shore next to light house, man! the light is so bright, right? But if you going over seas, and the farther your from the light house, they get dim and dimmer as you increase the distance to the point where you don't see bright light anymore. So with 4G, the farther your from the tower they dim to the point where they can't filter signals as well as if next to the antenna. Same concept with 4G
Purple gave me the wireless router, and I looked at "Group" and it is A, which means it only can support up to 3 devices at a time. I looked at chart, and definitely need group D not A. But I understand why it is happening. FCC is not giving extras for free anymore, and since it is free I am fine with it. Point is, what I am getting on what I paid for. VRS provided me a Videophone, what else? Oh a VRS software, which means I have two devices that have VRS on it, so router group A is sufficient to cover both of them, if I want add something else, I get to buy my own router to support the rest and that is what FCC wants.
If you wish to be very picky on video quality then stick with Sorenson. I can't find any other VRS providers able to exceed the video quality at lower speed that Sorenson could offer.
