Originally Posted by ozz:
“In a phone cradle my phone hung onto a 4G signal and was still able to stream radio at Babingley Bridge which is in that dip.
Historically my phone always used to drop to 2G around Sandringham until I got to the Dersingham roundabout but last week 4G throughout.”
“In a phone cradle my phone hung onto a 4G signal and was still able to stream radio at Babingley Bridge which is in that dip.
Historically my phone always used to drop to 2G around Sandringham until I got to the Dersingham roundabout but last week 4G throughout.”
There is a small amount of 3G in that wooded area as my S4 does pick up 3G (when forced to 3G, god knows what it does in default mode...) though just between the wooded area and that steep hill, there are a few seconds of no service. Funnily enough, there is a TV repeater somewhere in that forest, as well as a mast for all mobile ops, but 2100MHz doesn't like travelling through trees!
I'll have to lock my S4 to 4G only when I go along that way next, to see if it can pick up any of it... 4G only should also be more reliable than 3G only, in the long term, because 4G can go right into the -120s dBm (sometimes even -130dBm) and still have a decent download speed, whereas 3G stops at -113dBm and 2G is just unsuitable for streaming any sort of media.




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