Does Rain Kill Mobile Broadband?

[Berzerker]

We're trying out sprint mobile broadband and it works great, until it starts to drizzle... Not pour, not rain, but drizzle! We can see the cell tower and we're in a high coverage area, but internet access disappears with a few rain drops, wtf?

Are we stuck with dial up?

[Zoid]

The rain does act like a Faraday cage, blocking out the signal. That's why it's impossible to get good coverage in Amazon forest for instance...

[Kuciwalker]

The rain does act like a Faraday cage, blocking out the signal.

the water droplets are much smaller than the wavelength of the radio signal...

[Zoid]

Nah, they've got some big rain drops in Kansas...

[Dauphin]

Kuci, you really need a sarcasm detector.

[Zoid]

[Kuciwalker]

:mrfun:

[Dauphin]

He can't detect it either, so I wouldn't try and learn from him.

[Zoid]

And on topic, bad weather seems to have an influence on the signal. Not sure if a slight drizzle could do that though...

[Proteus_MST]

Strong rain can also kill signals for satellite TV.

Happens sometimes to me, when there is very strong rain.

[Provost Harrison]

Are you sure you just didn't get water in your computer?

[Berzerker]

oh well, the router we got had a 1 hour shut off and it shut off because of that, not the rain. Oops

[Zoid]