My Max Range seems to be about 1600ft

[bluehabit]

I am having issues with my drones range. I use this drone for commercial purposes, and the short range is becoming very inconvenient. So much so, half the time I have to physically drive my car to a new location because I am unable to push my drone past 1,600 ft without losing my video feed.

By default, without signal boosters, I typically read the phantom 4 pro can get close to 5,000 ft. So I am not sure why there is such a large discrepancy with my experience. Is there some setting or configuration I need to use to get more range? I am currently using 2.4ghz and using my t-mobile phone as a wireless hotspot to get satellites. It usually picks up 16 or more.

I am going to buy Skyreat range boosters as well, but I still would like to know why my default out of the box range with my Phantom seems so low.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Meta4]

I am having issues with my drones range. I use this drone for commercial purposes, and the short range is becoming very inconvenient. So much so, half the time I have to physically drive my car to a new location because I am unable to push my drone past 1,600 ft without losing my video feed.

By default, without signal boosters, I typically read the phantom 4 pro can get close to 5,000 ft. So I am not sure why there is such a large discrepancy with my experience. Is there some setting or configuration I need to use to get more range?

I mentioned the obvious things to try in this post:
Professional - Haven't Been Able to Fly Further than 1,500ft
Another thing to try is ... if 2.4GHz isn't working well in your environment, try 5.8.

I am currently using 2.4ghz and using my t-mobile phone as a wireless hotspot to get satellites. It usually picks up 16 or more

You don't need any hotspot to have GPS reception.
Your Phantom has a perfectly good GPS receiver of it's own - probably better than your phone.
And GPS reception is completely unrelated to the range you experience.