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General Discussion Area / Re: Any internet or phone deals?

« on: 07 June 2025, 19:38:02 »

Most of EE's 5G outside of cities is 4.5G anyway.

I'm on a bit of a unique contract with EE, so what I get might not be available to most.

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Omega General Help / Re: Dtc u2100 and 2108

« on: 07 June 2025, 19:29:56 »

That reader should be able to interrogate the ABS.  You can also view live data off each sensor with that, by going into "Measuring Blocks"

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dorset police

« on: 06 June 2025, 11:21:58 »

Well... this copper has got nearly 100 grand now, so that should send some kind of message about how the public feels.

Dream on.  This government (along with the previous load of wet dreams) won't take any notice.

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General Discussion Area / Re: VodaThree

« on: 06 June 2025, 11:20:33 »

Yup, Lebara is handy for Voda - not that Voda works in these parts.  NiffNaff is pretty good MVNO if you want to use VMO2, as is Tesco if you want the ease of a contract.  I think Tesco offer free EU roaming on many of their contracts, if thats important to you.  I know Uncle Albert loves to go on trips to France...

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General Discussion Area / Re: VodaThree

« on: 06 June 2025, 08:17:55 »

It leaves 3 big mobile players - VodafoneThree, EE and VMO2.  That should be enough for competition.

Smaller players simply cannot raise the capital needed to create networks, as Three have clearly demonstrated for years.


As always, selecting an MVNO can reduce costs if you just need a simple voice/text/data service, and not the little add-ons like visual voicemail etc...

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General Discussion Area / Re: What happened?

« on: 06 June 2025, 08:14:03 »

Does that count as our longest outage ever?  I think it could be 

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General Discussion Area / Re: What happened?

« on: 06 June 2025, 08:13:24 »

It broke at an inconvenient time when I was at around 30,000ft, and upon landing, the phone wouldn't connect back to EE* so I didn't notice until the next day when I opened my email on a real computer with a real internet connection.

Those that texted me, thanks, I didn't get the texts until after I fixed the issue

Apologies for the extended delay in resolving.



*Whilst abroad, the phone was constantly going to a network that I couldn't get voice, text or data on, so I forced it to another network.  Upon landing, Mr Jobs refused to offer the option to change the network back to Auto (or anything else) on the EE SIM.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Any internet or phone deals?

« on: 06 June 2025, 08:03:20 »

example EE Network will slow you down once you hit 600Gbs in any month.

I'm guessing this could depend on the contract, as I don't appear to suffer that, although this month could be interesting as I reckon I did 200+GB roaming in the last week

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General Discussion Area / Re: Any internet or phone deals?

« on: 06 June 2025, 08:00:55 »

It's always been x percent of population coverage rather than land coverage.

Apart from EE, because they have the ESN, they have to approach 100% 4G coverage of the UK landmass.  Admittedly, ESN has a higher priority on cell sites so can grab a signal when non prioritised handsets have none.

But the kindest thing I can say about Evil Everywhere is that it's signal is "variable" .  Its mostly better than Three in most places and mostly better than Voda in the Home Counties north of London, usually on par or just below VMO2.

In places where it can get a strong (full 5 bar) signal that has genuine SA 5G, it's quick enough though, knocking on the door of 1Gb down, and around 150Mb up.  The asymmetrical nature is making it less useful for a home broadband though, especially with many working from home, and/or the amount of cloud storage we all use.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Any internet or phone deals?

« on: 03 June 2025, 17:02:24 »

I'm with Evil Everywhere, unlimited everything, and free EU unlimited roaming.

In the UK, its a bit shit, but then I don't pay for it.

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Omega General Help / Re: Ashtray locking plate spring

« on: 02 June 2025, 16:24:36 »

Cracking job, photos needed!

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Omega General Help / Re: Dtc u2100 and 2108

« on: 01 June 2025, 14:25:11 »

You need to read the ABS system to discover what is causing it, and if it is one of the ABS wheel sensors.

The engine ECU complaining about road speed will be a sign the ABS isn't happy with something, but you do need to interrogate the ABS to find out what.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 31 May 2025, 18:19:46 »

Discovered the worse autobot ever fitted to a car* in the last 30 years...


*does French shit count as a car?  I know it does for Uncle Albs, and his love of all things Pierre.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 30 May 2025, 14:03:54 »

More that likely, or on a discount scheme through Merc F1 and their suppliers locally.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Whats this engine loom connector for

« on: 30 May 2025, 14:02:39 »

If its really long and part of gearbox part of loom, I think output shaft speed sensor was a 2 pin similar to that?