I live in and have been in really unpopulated areas where they might have a single house or 2 but nothing major and I have yet to get my bird over a mile and I say i have gotten exactly a mile but that was with the wind surfer from Dave. If it take that off and try to fly the same route, i barely get 3000 feet and i lose signal. I just bought the dbs mods which should be here Friday, but you guys talk about stock giving you over a mile and I just dont see how that is possible. and surely dont see how it is possible with the wind surfer going 3 miles or more.
For anyone wanting better range, go into the settings and turn down the mb/s to 4mb/s. As you turn down this setting you will see the app increase the reported range it can fly. It's right under the setting for what channel to use.
You may also want to go to this setting once you have the drone turned on where you are going to fly, change from Auto to Custom for the channel selection and _then_ find the channel with the lowest bar (usually 32 if you are running the channel hack). The channel hack does _not_ increase the power of the signal, it only uses a freq that has less interference.