Boulder's weather can swing from a warm, dry afternoon to a fast-moving snow squall within a few hours, and a household running its internet over the air — rather than through a buried cable — feels that swing differently depending on which wireless technology is doing the work. Some of what looks like a weather …

Set a 5G home internet gateway in the wrong spot and everything downstream of that decision — video calls that freeze, streaming that drops to a lower resolution mid-evening, a Wi-Fi connection that just feels unreliable — traces back to one fixable variable: where the box sits relative to the nearest cell tower. A …