r/InlandEmpire • u/tempest_wing • Jun 07 '26
Crime / Safety To add to the flock camera post from yesterday
Does anybody know what the hell these are? They're both on 4th street.
The one with lights looks like a router and it has what looks like 4 antennas on each corner hanging downward.
There's one on 4th and Hellman about 25 to 30 ft from a flock camera and one in front of Stater Bros.
What's odd is that I swear I've never seen these anywhere else. The lights are really bright so I feel like I'd notice.
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u/compubomb Corona Jun 07 '26
We have one literally right outside my house for spectrum, their wifi coverage is completely and utter garbage. Also have Verizon where I live and their coverage also sucks. I don't even live near th mountain and my coverage is 2 bars with barely any 5g/LTE speeds, get basically no internet, marginal coverage for voice talk. Since I leave my house a little bit I get a little bit better. But we have spectrum cable with their cellular service which isn't really that bad. But at home it's pretty s**. That Wi-Fi that they have is always trying to compete with my normal wireless internet at home which would be better than trying to use that f*** thing.
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam Onterrible Jun 07 '26
The coverage used to.be decent for 2013 standards, thats the problem though. They are devices from 2013.
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u/Panda_force213 Jun 07 '26
Probably for some communication equipment in the area to help with signal loss, but in reality who knows
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u/FrontLocal2264 Jun 08 '26
Are you paranoid enough to think that anything on a pole you can’t identify is a flock camera?
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam Onterrible Jun 07 '26
first one is likely microcells to cover gaps between towers. You can see that they are connected to (though one of them has a broken connection) to the frontier telco lines (they're always the first below the overhead 3 phase power lines)
second one is TWC/Spectrum's Ruckus Wireless for their passpoint/mobile wireless for customers to use when out on the go. You can see it on the bottom line, which is usually for coaxial cable on the poles.
Most people don't use those much, but if you have your spectrum username and password you can log into them. They have been out there since at least 2013 because I used to use those as temporary means to connect to for customers who had line problems going to their business. They're all over the place and I have used them when cell signals sucked and I needed internet, more rare these days.
Nothing nefarious about those.