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That $600 cellular dialer I cheaped out on instead of getting the $900 one

Two sides to this. Some guys swear by the cheap LTE dialers and say they work fine for residential. I put one in a house in Dallas and it dropped signal during a storm, alarm never reported. Client was pissed. Worth the extra cash or just a fluke with that one unit? Anyone else gamble on the cheaper cellular gear?
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emmajackson
The real gamble isn't the hardware, it's how many towers are nearby. That cheap unit might work great in a city but choke in a rural spot with weak signal. A buddy tested both side by side and the cheap one took 30 seconds longer to connect to the network.
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harper_smith
Ha, I'm the guy who buys the cheap one and then blames the weather.
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