Rant: Bought a $400 cellular dialer backup and it failed on the first test

I dropped $400 on a cellular dialer backup for a commercial install in Denver thinking it would save me from phone line outages. First real test came during a storm last Thursday and the unit just blinked red instead of connecting. Anyone else had issues with these things dropping signal in bad weather?

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knight.uma11d ago

Yeah exactly, "a $400 unit should be built to handle it." You'd think they'd weatherproof the antenna or at least put some signal redundancy in there. I've had luck tossing a cheap external antenna on mine and mounting it higher up, cleared most of the storm issues for me. Still annoying you gotta mod a brand new device just to make it work in a little rain though lol.

cora_west511d ago

Read somewhere that even the military has issues with these things in bad weather so you're not alone there.

parker_webb11d ago

Man, that's rough. I've been there with expensive gear letting you down at the worst possible time, and it's just frustrating. A storm knocking out cell signal makes sense but you'd think a $400 unit would be built to handle it.