Thread: New iPhone - It's Wonderful!

Originally Posted by lom

Originally Posted by mc2

Originally Posted by lom

If a current nearby cell base station is getting overloaded then you may be kicked over to the more distant one which will give you a lower received signal due to the distance.

Actually they wont be kicked off, they just block new connections and the newly registering mobile unit must connect to the next base station in the area with the next strongest signal.

That is only half of the truth, if the newly registering mobile can only connect to one cell which is already full then this cell will send a list of possible hand overs to nearby cells and one of them will take over one or more of the full cells present connections.

I dont think thats how it works, the mobile unit just scans for the strongest BS signal and attempts to register on that, if it is full then it will go for the next strongest BS in the area. if it cant find one then it must wait .

If there is anticipated congestion in one cell (eg city areas) then the engineers take care of it by dividing the cell into micro cells, not by force-ably handing off (kicking off) subscribers onto less congested cells.

handoff only takes place when the subscriber moves out of the range of one BS and into another, usually within some threshold , and after handoff the signal should in fact be better since it will only hand off if there is another BS nearby that has a stronger signal with a difference greater than the threshold.

the sudden drop in signal is far more likely to be due to a sudden burst of nearby electromagnetic interference, not due to handoff.