CF-31 mk5 -- poor recption using GOBI/verizon

Sorry about all the posts today-- just excited to find this site with all the knowledge here (that I need)

any thoughts on the internal card/reception? for us its been much worse than the external Verizon USB dongle cards we had before.

I am working on using the external antennas on our cars, but wanted to try internal first.

Note that our CAD system alerts with a giant pop-up every time they lose connection, so I get calls all the time on this issue....

 

for reliability , nothing beats a good external antenna with low loss coax .

that said , i have used my '30 and '31 in some sketchy areas with the built in stubby whip .
that antenna has a gain of maybe 1.5 dB over iso ...
a decent external antenna might have 6 dB due to construction (say a couple of phased sections) .

 

when you say "cad" i know what your talking about .. you might have interference in the car. i had an issue with gps our gps. external antenna solved the issue for us. But you might be in bad umbrella for verizon ( tower hand off for signal). can you go somewhere with laptop in the car and test the signal. Here is a solution that i used to boost gps and celluar ( need to connections with bncfor this) : http://www.antennaplus.com/Home.aspx lid mounted ( they take P.O.s net 30) they can make them to length you need but you have to call and make sure that you are getting the right bnc connections

 

Funny, after completely forgetting about this thread-- someone JUST brought in a laptop today... "I am getting poor Verizon signal..." lol

the GPS/LTE antenna might be the route to take. I am going to have this person try the current external antenna first.

we are having issues with the internal GPS's from Panny--very flakey (ublox) just sent one in because it went stupid-- luckily, they got it fixed and now it works again. Hopefully this is not a peek at things to come with our fleet...

one question-- by using external GPS, what COM do you end up using? and does it stay on that com? no issues with it? I assume you deniable GPS altogether in BIOS and set the dual throughput accordingly?

I will propose this to the Fleet Manager, but with winter coming, they will be A## deep in getting the plows ready.

 

usually com port 3 is the gps, sometimes 4. i had to make no modifications in the bios for it to run. if your device already has bulit in gps. panasonic has a utility tool that you can see how many gps satellites you can see ( more than 3 your doing good). run this under admin profile- do NOT connect to VPN on test. just open the start menu type gps, you should see a blue globe and gps icon. program is straight up to use from there.