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#526 |
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Well its the same in Stoke. Look at the patchy 4g from a few sites. It appears more selective these days how they are upgrading but then saying that I'm deffo seeing more 3g on o2 than I have seen before.
Clearly improving but no where near EE yet |
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#527 |
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Ive noticed in some places VF / O2 are just improving the 3g coverage and not touching 4g. Seems to be the roof top masts mostly.
I wonder if they can switch it on at a later date? Yet where they install those shared street works masts they seem to be 2g, 3g and 4g for both networks. |
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#528 |
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Not strictly all 4g but I thought I'd share my experience of trying Voda PAYG out today.
I'm exploring my options for when I move off of Three and I decided this month to try out a Voda PAYG sim. I got a SIM and topped up £40 (I was going to go full hog and try out a 6gb plan) , problem was it messed it all up and I ended up with a £20 pack despite £40 being taken. Spoke with customer support. Very good, sorted it all out. Offer for free Spotify sorted out. The 4g is a lot better than I expected. 45 at my house where EE generally get about 30Mbps and just on a quick ride into Manchester the 4g held most of the way (unlike Three). |
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#529 |
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Vodafone really do need to do something about their PAYG prices though. £40 for 6GB is extortionate.
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#530 |
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Vodafone really do need to do something about their PAYG prices though. £40 for 6GB is extortionate.
I was happy to pay it as a one off to see what their service is like, but if I move to SIM only with them it'll be slightly better. |
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They should also include tethering with PAYG when they charge these prices.
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They should also include tethering with PAYG when they charge these prices.
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#533 |
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Any network that prohibits tethering on a limited allowance is just making stupid decisions. There is no rational reason to disallow it.
Open it up to tethering and then it will be quite easy to use it up. I think Three has the right approach with unlimited handset, limited tethering - but should offer more tethering at more affordable prices. If I could pay £15 for AYCE handset data, 4GB of tethering and then pay, say, £1 per GB for more tethering data I wouldn't be too upset as I won't often need more data. As it stands, you can add 1GB extra for 5GB and then that's it - you hit a brick wall with no option (AFAIK) to buy more. |
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#534 |
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My Vodafone SIM is having a bit of a fun time with data at my house ATM. Checking the coverage checker get the message "We're doing some work on our network in this area to improve your 2G and 3G call and data coverage."
Anyone got an idea what kind of maintenance that is? |
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#535 |
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Plymouth and Truro just came up as planned on the checker if anyone is remotely interested.
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Read Plymouth as "A small section of West Plymouth that covers about 10% of the city and surrounding areas"..... Poor show.
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Read Plymouth as "A small section of West Plymouth that covers about 10% of the city and surrounding areas"..... Poor show.
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#538 |
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I forgot that Vodafone EDGE is actually fairly usable. Shame I mostly use O2 which remains on GPRS with virtually no data flow most of the time...
EDGE speed test (Vodafone): http://imgur.com/BNUB6Ss |
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#539 |
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I forgot that Vodafone EDGE is actually fairly usable. Shame I mostly use O2 which remains on GPRS with virtually no data flow most of the time...
EDGE speed test (Vodafone): http://imgur.com/BNUB6Ss |
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#540 |
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I forgot that Vodafone EDGE is actually fairly usable. Shame I mostly use O2 which remains on GPRS with virtually no data flow most of the time...
EDGE speed test (Vodafone): http://imgur.com/BNUB6Ss Quote:
Not in Totnes it isn't. Hasn't been for years. It's a known issue that they refuse (or can't) fix. Full signal and no data at all.
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Read Plymouth as "A small section of West Plymouth that covers about 10% of the city and surrounding areas"..... Poor show.
I think they'll get the main towns done soon enough. The big question is whether they will stop there like they did with 3G or continue out to us peasants. |
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One would assume the rest would follow fairly swiftly though. Poor VOD customers in Exeter aren't even in the plan which is odd as it's a big old place with a lot of businesses too.
I think they'll get the main towns done soon enough. The big question is whether they will stop there like they did with 3G or continue out to us peasants. |
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THIS... Is the big question and why I'm holding off from moving to them for the moment until it becomes a bit clearer, unless three chuck me off my one plan between now and the end of the year that is. I'd take the plunge now and live with the slower areas for the time being if there were signs that they would get upgraded, but I've yet to see any yet, I may well find most areas covered by a weak 800mhz mast in the nearby towns bit like I do with 900mhz 3G but it' can be dam slow!
I was looking at the VOD map earlier and got up around Barnstaple where if you click on 3G and then go between current and planned, it actually looks like they are turning some 3G off but no 4G on! Perhaps just trying to rub the yokel's faces in it.
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#544 |
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I was in Dundee for a few days last week and despite getting an ok signal, the data speeds were so slow that they were simply not useful. I have no idea what was going on with the network but when a phone shows 5 bars of H+ you really should be able to load an email!
I am surprised to see that the o2 website shows 4g coverage for Dundee. In my 4 days there I did not once get 4g. I was in the city centre and at the university, areas I would expect to be covered. |
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To be fair, where Vodafone have rolled out 4G, 3G seems to be reasonably fast: 9Mbps down, in Alton, Hants for example.
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#546 |
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To be fair, where Vodafone have rolled out 4G, 3G seems to be reasonably fast: 9Mbps down, in Alton, Hants for example.
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#547 |
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Looks like Vodafone have reached Leighton Buzzard. Getting -113 outside here on 4G, doesn't even show on the planned coverage on their coverage checker. It dropped back to 3G fairly easily but managed to get 18mb down 4mb up before that happened
Now they just need to get Ampthill off GPRS and Milton Keynes to 4G now. |
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#548 |
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two sites in MK being worked on next week both oddly placed on rounderbouts!
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#549 |
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two sites in MK being worked on next week both oddly placed on rounderbouts!
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#550 |
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With the testing over the past month I've done I'd agree with this, in areas where I suspect the spade work has begun for 4g upgrade I've found speeds equal or above that of EE & three on band 1 and around 3-4 mbps for band 8, trouble I'm having deciding about which network to go with is, three/EE is generally faster in most areas but on the move despite ee having many sites 4g now they are so weak in strength that when traveling they are like pi** holes in the snow, making it unless for streaming as you drop back and stay on 3g, which wouldn't be a problem but MBNL have at least 2 masts which I use everyday which provide less then edge speed and seem to be doing little about it for the past 12 months, Vodafone is great on this everyday work route but as we know has big areas of no at all and requires a big leap of faith to think they might actually fill them.
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