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How Multi-Tower Targeting Maximizes Coverage
October 28, 2023
Sometimems a single cell tower connection isn’t enough, so a multi-tower targeting can provide the comprehensive coverage your building needs. This advanced technique allows your signal booster to work with multiple towers simultaneously, ensuring optimal performance even in challenging environments. We break down how it works and when to use it.How do you know where to point antennas when using Multi-Tower Targeting?
WilsonPro recommends that integrators connect a directional antenna to a signal meter to orient the new antennas so that the priority carriers, as defined by the end user, are all covered.This signal meter allows you to test signal strength on each carrier and provides carrier information, frequency, and signal quality. This signal meter connects to your phone through an app, which shows a map of where the cell towers are located.Why not use “common mode” and an Omni Antenna instead of Multi-Tower Targeting?
First, “common mode” allows the repeater to operate with a single donor antenna. The Enterprise 1300/4300 will default to “common mode”.Using an Omni Antenna provides little or no antenna gain, resulting in less indoor coverage. Additionally, “common mode” operation results in more system noise (lower data rates) for each band. Degraded “common mode” performance is characteristic of all cellular repeaters in which multiple bands are on a single outdoor port.How will Multi-Tower Targeting help maximize performance for multiple carriers?
Carriers use multiple bands in most markets. Multi-Tower Targeting allows integrators to maximize a band for each desired carrier.What if the cell towers are all in the same direction? Will Multi-Tower Targeting help?
Multi-Tower Targeting won’t help with signal strength in this situation, but it will improve signal quality, even if towers are all in the same direction. For more on Wilson’s innovative technology, listen to this webinar that dives into Multi-Tower Targeting.Or call our expert team at 800-871-1612 to learn more.Tagged:Integrators