I've searched around and it appears that the antenna on N9 is just weak in general, but I'm not sure why it drops so often.

I was just wondering if there was a way to set the Tx / Rx Power (transmission power) on the N9 through some firmware setting like you can for routers through open source firmware like dd-wrt.

Re: Maps. If anyone is still looking for a way to load maps without using the shitty wifi, you can load them via Windows PC using Nokia Suite Beta 3.5