I have noticed that when it rains heavily and the atmosphere is cooler the data transmission seems to be faster than before. I know that the phone link is line-of-sight one. Can it be affected by atmospheric changes e.g. low pressure systems?
2007-03-27 11:32:30 · 4 answers · asked by CitizenK 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
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2007-03-30 19:55:47 · answer #1 · answered by Shikha 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe the reason you are receiving good quality transmission is that most folk don't use their land line phones for fear of lightning strikes. Lightning does have an affinity for electrical poles and such. With lessened traffic you enjoy better and faster connections if a lightning strike has not taken out some of the lines.
If you are talking about cell phones, I have no idea.
2007-04-04 18:02:29 · answer #2 · answered by Ding-Ding 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My experience has been the opposite, mainly, I presumed, from either wet landlines or signal degradation on LOS shots.
If you're seeing better throughput during wet conditions, I can only presume it's, for some reason, a less busy circuit during wet weather. Atmospheric moisture attenuates electromagnetic radiation.
Refer to link. There's good stuff there, very comprehensive.
2007-03-27 18:47:06 · answer #3 · answered by mattzcoz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It follows that bad weather could have an adverse effect to phone lines specially when your phone is a mobile one. why!? atmospheric disturbances disrupt the waves which connects your phone from the transmitter and reciever or your antenas. ...
2007-04-03 23:26:51 · answer #4 · answered by micalovadinnerdevanne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋