That seems to have done the trick

The cell service up here is lousy. I tried an amplifier but it was spotty at best.

I checked with T-Mobile to see what they could do and they gave me a cell spot - it hooks into my router and is a small cell tower in a box. Works great. Only problem is that it absolutely hogs my broadband. I have 1GB service and everything else was flat-lined at times. Going to take a quick sniff with darkstat and then maybe break out a more detailed analysis tool like Observium or Nagios.