Internet Loop

We live in a rural setting, rural enough that we don’t get good cell phone reception. After a while of dropping calls or just not being able to make calls, Some Wife discovered that AT&T will give you a cell phone signal thingy.

It’s not a booster, it’s your very own mini cell tower, in the comfort of your own home. And if their records show you drop enough calls at your house, they’ll send it to you for free.

I called, and explained the situation, and I also explained that we don’t have home internet. At that time, our home internet was just using our cell phones as mobile hotspots. (It’s slightly better now, we have a dedicated mobile hotspot.)

The customer service rep either didn’t understand what the microcell does, or they didn’t care about that part. Either way, AT&T shipped us a free microcell, to help us with our cell phone service.

For those of you not familiar with the microcell, it connects to your home internet and gives you cell service through that. Our problem was that our home internet was from the cell service. It would have been an infinite loop of the cell signal going through the microcell that was going through the cell signal.

I never even tried to set it up. But their customer service was friendly.

Then call and I will answer; Or let me speak, then reply to me.

Job 13:22

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