iPhone: Ever feel tricked by your phone's signal bars into thinking you have a better reception that you actually do? This simple hack will transform those bars to show the actual signal in decibels ...

Ever find yourself questioning how accurate those little signal strength dots are on your iPhone? Luckily, there's a trick to reveal your iPhone's true signal strength, and it takes less than a minute ...

QUESTION: I had an older iPhone that I changed the signal strength indicator to an actual number instead of the bars but I can’t remember how I did it. Can you help? ANSWER: The ubiquitous signal ...

Anything better than -100 is considered a usable signal. A strong signal is -40 or better. So, the closer that number is to zero, the better the phone’s signal. You can check your iPhone signal ...

Today’s tech means we’re always connected — when our connections actually work the way they should. Is your Wi-Fi crawling? No one has time or patience for that. Tap or click for 10 smart ways to fix ...

For decades, cellphone owners have relied on signal bars to determine the strength of the cellular signal. Since iOS 7, iPhone (and cellular iPad) users have become accustomed to signal dots, which do ...

An uplink transmitter of a satellite system operates at 7.5 GHz with a transmitter power of 21 kW and an antenna gain of 40 dBi. The receiver on the geostationary satellite has an antenna gain of 50 ...

If you feel like your Linksys router's signal could use a boost, you're not alone. While its out-of-the-box functionality is sufficient for many home and small business networks, other setups require ...

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