Hoping to get some pointers before commiting to the 24 month contract
On 12/11/2022 10:46, Mike Halmarack wrote:
Hoping to get some pointers before commiting to the 24 month contract
1. Check the coverage area! >https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/advice/ofcom-checker
and each mobile netwrok has a coverage map, google search should find
them for you.
2. Be prepared to put up an external 4g aerial is signal is marginal
3. You can buy PAYG monthly sims so you can do some speed testing
assuming you have an out of contract unlocked dongle or 4g router. I did
this with Voda, 3, EE and o2 for my location. recorded results in a
excel spreadsheet by using www.speedtest.net or www.fast.com at several >points of the day.
Also there are websites out there that will test for packet loss.
(speedtest and fast can do ping and jitter as well as UL and DL speed.
As it happens I have a Pi here that runs automated speedtest every 30
mines on my fibre connection.
Smarty coincidentally piggy backs on 3 and they are doing a 5g SIM and
50GB data month for a tenner a month....
On Sat, 12 Nov 2022 12:46:23 +0000, SH <i.love.spam@spam.com> wrote:
On 12/11/2022 10:46, Mike Halmarack wrote:
Hoping to get some pointers before commiting to the 24 month contract
1. Check the coverage area!
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/advice/ofcom-checker
and each mobile netwrok has a coverage map, google search should find
them for you.
2. Be prepared to put up an external 4g aerial is signal is marginal
3. You can buy PAYG monthly sims so you can do some speed testing
assuming you have an out of contract unlocked dongle or 4g router. I did
this with Voda, 3, EE and o2 for my location. recorded results in a
excel spreadsheet by using www.speedtest.net or www.fast.com at several
points of the day.
Also there are websites out there that will test for packet loss.
(speedtest and fast can do ping and jitter as well as UL and DL speed.
As it happens I have a Pi here that runs automated speedtest every 30
mines on my fibre connection.
Smarty coincidentally piggy backs on 3 and they are doing a 5g SIM and
50GB data month for a tenner a month....
Big help, thanks.
On 12/11/2022 10:46, Mike Halmarack wrote:
Hoping to get some pointers before commiting to the 24 month contract
1. Check the coverage area! https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/advice/ofcom-checker
and each mobile netwrok has a coverage map, google search should find
them for you.
2. Be prepared to put up an external 4g aerial is signal is marginal
3. You can buy PAYG monthly sims so you can do some speed testing
assuming you have an out of contract unlocked dongle or 4g router. I did
this with Voda, 3, EE and o2 for my location. recorded results in a
excel spreadsheet by using www.speedtest.net or www.fast.com at several points of the day.
Also there are websites out there that will test for packet loss.
(speedtest and fast can do ping and jitter as well as UL and DL speed.
As it happens I have a Pi here that runs automated speedtest every 30
mines on my fibre connection.
Smarty coincidentally piggy backs on 3 and they are doing a 5g SIM and
50GB data month for a tenner a month....
In article <tko4j0$11n3$1@gioia.aioe.org>, SH wrote...
On 12/11/2022 10:46, Mike Halmarack wrote:
Hoping to get some pointers before commiting to the 24 month contract
1. Check the coverage area!
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/advice/ofcom-checker
and each mobile netwrok has a coverage map, google search should find
them for you.
2. Be prepared to put up an external 4g aerial is signal is marginal
3. You can buy PAYG monthly sims so you can do some speed testing
assuming you have an out of contract unlocked dongle or 4g router. I did
this with Voda, 3, EE and o2 for my location. recorded results in a
excel spreadsheet by using www.speedtest.net or www.fast.com at several
points of the day.
Also there are websites out there that will test for packet loss.
(speedtest and fast can do ping and jitter as well as UL and DL speed.
As it happens I have a Pi here that runs automated speedtest every 30
mines on my fibre connection.
Smarty coincidentally piggy backs on 3 and they are doing a 5g SIM and
50GB data month for a tenner a month....
"Mobile Virtual Network Operators" (MVNOs) can be very cheap indeed, though >they rarely (ever?) deliver the top speeds available from their "parent" >network.
These sites are very helpful:
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/mobiles/ >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_mobile_virtual_network_ope
rators
= https://bit.ly/3g0h7Tk
Hoping to get some pointers before commiting to the 24 month contract
Philip Herlihy wrote:
SH wrote...
Smarty coincidentally piggy backs on 3 and they are doing a 5g SIM and
50GB data month for a tenner a month....
"Mobile Virtual Network Operators" (MVNOs) can be very cheap indeed,
though
they rarely (ever?) deliver the top speeds available from their "parent"
network.
Not much throttling with virgin SIM only when I got my pixel5a,
unfortunately I don't often get a sniff of 5G signal
<https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/8267614908>
SH wrote...
Smarty coincidentally piggy backs on 3 and they are doing a 5g SIM and
50GB data month for a tenner a month....
"Mobile Virtual Network Operators" (MVNOs) can be very cheap indeed, though they rarely (ever?) deliver the top speeds available from their "parent" network.
Mike Halmarack wrote:
Hoping to get some pointers before commiting to the 24 month contract
buy a 30 day SIM and test it in the places that are important to you?
SH wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
<https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/8267614908>
I'll raise you this: :-D
https://www.speedtest.net/result/13938755029
But that's home fibre, rather than a mobile phone, isn't it?
Andy Burns wrote:
<https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/8267614908>
I'll raise you this: :-D
https://www.speedtest.net/result/13938755029
On 12/11/2022 10:46, Mike Halmarack wrote:
Hoping to get some pointers before commiting to the 24 month contract
1. Check the coverage area! https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/advice/ofcom-checker and each mobile netwrok has a coverage map, google search should find them for you.
On 12/11/2022 12:46, SH wrote:
On 12/11/2022 10:46, Mike Halmarack wrote:<snip>
Hoping to get some pointers before commiting to the 24 month contract
1. Check the coverage area!
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/advice/ofcom-checker and each mobile netwrok has a coverage map, google search should find them for you.
Where I live all the networks say there is good coverage indoors and out.
There's some consistency there. They are all lying. I've tried them all.
I occasionally get a signal indoors. If I stand still outside I can
sometimes make a call. The signal is so bad that smart electricity
meters don't work.
Ofcom's data seems to be better than the network's own data - it only
thinks one of them will work. We've been forced to get phones that allow
wifi calling.
Andy
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