Bully Tower

After many hours with the half brain dead "techs" of which say nothings wrong in this area, I'm looking to the forum for answers. I live in northern Arizona, way north. We have two towers here in town, the closest tower other than those is in the grand canyon, 100 miles or more away. The Tusayan, az (grand canyon) tower is overpowering all the towers here in this area. I can stand on a hill overlooking the tower here in town and can only get 1x data and dropped calls. Drive on 89 north and its hit and miss 1x to 3g. Up till about two months ago all was good. Data was 3g, no dropped calls. Signal was sparce but dependable. I dont know if they upped the power for the Tusayan tower or what but somethings wrong. They sent me a antenna for my mifi, same thing, just 1x but good signal -54db. I moved it all over the house and same thing. Its now under the bed with -95db and have evdo with .54 meg speed. Guess its hiding from the bully tower. Any answers or ways to keep this tower off my devices. Yes i have updated my prl's. Note the time in the screen shots. and the distance from page.

Hello,
Thanks for all those pictures. Its easy to see what you are talking about and we can tell you have experience conducting site surveys.
Mixed signals from competing towers is a plausible explanation for your issues. VZW or the local tower company might have made a tweak which helped someone else and ended up hurting you as a result. That theory plays well into your description as you say that VZW is not noticing anything unusual on thier side. Maybe what we should be asking is if anything has changed instead of if anything is broken or malfunctioning, although they might not be able to tell you that either.
One solution that comes to mind is a cantenna or directional antenna that would focus your MiFi's reception in the correct direction of the VZW tower. Giving your MiFi a more narrow perspective should increase the chances that it will communicate with the correct tower.
Another possible solution would be to look into an amplifier system. There are many that you can find for home and mobile use from online stores such as 3gstore.com and wilsonelectronics.com. With an amplifier you should be able to boost your native 3G signal so that it doesnt matter which tower you connect to. 3G amplifiers have been around forever, there should be many to choose from depending on how much you want to invest.
Most antennas and amplifiers come with a trial period. If they do not immediately resolve the problem then return them for a refund. In case you have not already seen it, here is a great site that can walk you through the process of evaluating possible antenna and amplifier equiptment:
http://3gstore.com/page/13_will_an_antenna_help_me.html

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