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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: MaxV6 on 25 August 2013, 17:47:33
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is it just my iPhone dying, or has Orange/EE's 3G service gone tits up recently??? where i've previously had full bar 3G , (for example sainsbury's on the ring road), or the top floor of our house, i now have none.... been like that for several days.....
bit of an arse when i need to use internet banking to check funds before putting fuel in..... (i keep the card account i carry deliberately short on funds in case of loss or theft or fraud, and only transfer funds in when i know i'm going to need them)
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dunno max, but i guess u dont have an isp at home? If so, i believe places like mcd's have free wifi, probably inconvenient but at least you can get on the net with your iphone :y
Otherwise give orange a bell to see if their having probs in your area....
I guess you have turned it off and back on ? Mine seems to have connectivity problems every now and then...
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seem to me anyone around here on anything except vodafone is getting problems-been that way for about 2/3 weeks now
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Hard reset the iPhone? (press and hold top button & home button for 10 seconds or so)
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That would be multiple masts out to affect that area MaxV6.
More likely the cells are getting busier, so shrink, and producing black spots
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Yep, most likely user loadings
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is it just my iPhone dying, or has Orange/EE's 3G service gone tits up recently??? where i've previously had full bar 3G , (for example sainsbury's on the ring road), or the top floor of our house, i now have none.... been like that for several days.....
bit of an arse when i need to use internet banking to check funds before putting fuel in..... (i keep the card account i carry deliberately short on funds in case of loss or theft or fraud, and only transfer funds in when i know i'm going to need them)
T Mobile and Orange's signal (now called EE's 3g Network, rather than then the 4g) are up and down like a Yo To around here, so I suspect there still playing around or more to the point nicking the Frequencies for the 4g as the 4g Network is growing. I used to solid signal on both T mobile and Orange, then T mobile droped to 1 bar, followed a few weeks later by my Orange signal ranging from weak to really poor.
You may find it will come back for a while as the Network Performance Monitor Team point the error of the ways of the Cell Planning Mob, but I wouldn;t hold your breath especially as theres loads of holes to fill in on the 4G Network outside of the M25.
Report it, dont bother with the Network Operator, ring EE directly (Hatfield or St Albans, cant remember now) and tell them theve got some Sites down / poor coverage in your area, you never know, around here theres loads of there Micro Lamppost Sites switched off doing nothing and have been for months, still try to work out how much there worth on eBay. ::)
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Both swmbo and I had problems a while back swmbo contacted EE to see what was going on they refunded us both £10 on our bills so mane worth contacting them
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cheers chaps..... will give them a call..... (yes got ISP at home, it's just that sometimes the back top floor of our place gets a bit useless on wifi , and 3 G used to kick in..... , and now doesn't )
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cheers chaps..... will give them a call..... (yes got ISP at home, it's just that sometimes the back top floor of our place gets a bit useless on wifi , and 3 G used to kick in..... , and now doesn't )
Try one of these.....i've just bought one, tho havent received it yet, so carnt comment if its any good or not
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121163318813?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
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cheers chaps..... will give them a call..... (yes got ISP at home, it's just that sometimes the back top floor of our place gets a bit useless on wifi , and 3 G used to kick in..... , and now doesn't )
Try one of these.....i've just bought one, tho havent received it yet, so carnt comment if its any good or not
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121163318813?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
Interesting please update on your findings :y
Could do with something like that..
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I've had decent success with the 'HomePlug' powerline networking stuff for extending WiFi (TP-Link stuff works well and I hear Devolo does too).. I'll run away now before Kevin comes to beat me with his HAM Radio stick for suggesting that ;D
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Thats a repeater and uses the mains for nothing more than a pwoer source.
Using the mains for data transmission is hit and miss and very dependent on what is connected and runnign as to how well it works.
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I recently upgraded my Tmibile contract with a 4g phone but kept a 3g contract, a few weeks later EE phoned me to ask how I'm getting in with my new handset and would I consider upgrading to 4g for almost free, after I declined (no 4g in Thanet yet) the guy informed me that I might experiance some 3g brown outs as they are commissioning and testing new hardware. I'm now getting random signal loss on both iPhone 4S and Samsung gs4.
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hard restart fixed it.... thanks tunnie, it just didn't occur to me, so long since i've had to do one of those.....
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cheers chaps..... will give them a call..... (yes got ISP at home, it's just that sometimes the back top floor of our place gets a bit useless on wifi , and 3 G used to kick in..... , and now doesn't )
Try one of these.....i've just bought one, tho havent received it yet, so carnt comment if its any good or not
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121163318813?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
Interesting please update on your findings :y
Could do with something like that..
Arrived lunchtime.....impressed so far....configured it...and it solves a problem :y
I was trying to stream video from the WD live tv box in the living room (has a 2TB usb drive attached, with my movie collection on) to the WD live tv box attached to tv in my bedroom. Main wifi router is in the dining room downstairs. Before wifi extender....tv upstairs would play the movie for about 10 secs then start to lag behind (vid become jerky and sound was lost). Ive tested it for about 20mins playing a movie upstairs (wd live box in my bedroom, extender plugged into a socket on the landing) and no lapse what so ever or sound lose :y
I was streaming an iso file ..... and those in the know, will know, there big files, like 7GB per movie.
So a :y from me , worth the £15 imo to increase signal strength :y