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Old 19-12-2016, 08:00
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Most companies have a change freeze from now until next year.
Ah ok any way they have finished with provisioning all accounts so I know 4G800 will be coming soon to Berkshire. Just curious why not one single 4G800 mast live around here yet if EE had mentioned it on their webpage.
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Old 19-12-2016, 09:55
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I'd say that things will go on hold now for a bit.
Yeah, I don't think they'll have any cover whatsoever over Christmas for the forum.

I think I recall it breaking and going down over the Christmas period last year. I have a recollection of seeking nerdy-solace from sprouts and being disappointed.

May be wrong of course!
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Old 19-12-2016, 10:10
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EE are long known for having a vendetta against Berkshire. They don't like giving power to you.
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Old 19-12-2016, 10:35
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In the aforementioned canteen I'm currently on 3G, so the impression of 800 even helping there must have been just luck. It is literally pointless
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Old 19-12-2016, 12:58
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I did say that Georgi wouldn't be getting it after all the spamming of forums.. Merry Xmas!

There is 4G800 in Berkshire, very little though (it's pretty well covered by 4G1800).. not sure why the postcode checker isn't showing it up. Although it is possibly is only one or two masts!

Yup, emergency cover only from the next few days onwards till jan, contractors upgrading sites also stops this week, so we won't see anything other than maybe a coverage checker update this side of new year.
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Old 19-12-2016, 13:32
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You will not stop picking on me guys will you? I really feel annoyed now and would like this to stop. I did apologise to everybody. Many thanks
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Old 19-12-2016, 17:08
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Certainly looks like more than 700 sites to create a map like that. Still being told they are not on full power yet, will be in a month or so.

Got a zoomed in map for Scotland?
Scotland http://gdurl.com/M3qo

The 'issue' with Scotland is that the postcodes are huge, my pseudo random postcode selection is 3 postcodes from each postcode sector, which for Scotland could cover a huge area in more rural parts, so there might be 800 out there but its not been lucky enough to be caught by one of my postcodes.
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Old 19-12-2016, 17:40
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Thanks. That's the one on the A38, not the MIP.
Ok well, not sure about that. Seems to contradict what the checker that's been posted here returns.
I'll enter a few manually and see what I get.
Thanks again.
I ran it for all 27000+ postcodes in PL and TQ postcode area and there were only 267 with a non-zero 800 strength, plotted these look like this.
http://gdurl.com/eOW2

So those 5 that were in Devon on the map yesterday obviously now looks very rough, compared to this one which is a much truer indication of coverage.
That also applies to the rest of the country.
Unfortunately running all 1.8million postcodes through it would take an age, and certainly rendering those points would be challenging too, the browser is already is sluggish with the 7000 points plotted.

Saying that, if anyone wants a specific postcode area mapping it doesnt take too long to do.
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Old 19-12-2016, 18:10
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I ran it for all 27000+ postcodes in PL and TQ postcode area and there were only 267 with a non-zero 800 strength, plotted these look like this.
http://gdurl.com/eOW2

So those 5 that were in Devon on the map yesterday obviously now looks very rough, compared to this one which is a much truer indication of coverage.
That also applies to the rest of the country.
Unfortunately running all 1.8million postcodes through it would take an age, and certainly rendering those points would be challenging too, the browser is already is sluggish with the 7000 points plotted.

Saying that, if anyone wants a specific postcode area mapping it doesnt take too long to do.
Don't suppose you could see if Nottingham has any 800 could you?
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Old 19-12-2016, 18:53
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I ran it for all 27000+ postcodes in PL and TQ postcode area and there were only 267 with a non-zero 800 strength, plotted these look like this.
http://gdurl.com/eOW2

So those 5 that were in Devon on the map yesterday obviously now looks very rough, compared to this one which is a much truer indication of coverage.
That also applies to the rest of the country.
Unfortunately running all 1.8million postcodes through it would take an age, and certainly rendering those points would be challenging too, the browser is already is sluggish with the 7000 points plotted.

Saying that, if anyone wants a specific postcode area mapping it doesnt take too long to do.
Preety please can you map East Anglia for me please.
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Old 19-12-2016, 18:59
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EE are long known for having a vendetta against Berkshire. They don't like giving power to you.
To be fair, when I last lived in Reading, not even the red network liked giving power to anyone... even when you're driving past their HQ in Newbury
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Old 19-12-2016, 19:00
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I ran it for all 27000+ postcodes in PL and TQ postcode area and there were only 267 with a non-zero 800 strength, plotted these look like this.
http://gdurl.com/eOW2

So those 5 that were in Devon on the map yesterday obviously now looks very rough, compared to this one which is a much truer indication of coverage.
That also applies to the rest of the country.
Unfortunately running all 1.8million postcodes through it would take an age, and certainly rendering those points would be challenging too, the browser is already is sluggish with the 7000 points plotted.

Saying that, if anyone wants a specific postcode area mapping it doesnt take too long to do.
Is the script/application you're using to do this open source? would you be willing to? No issue if you aren't but i'd like to be able to use this
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Old 19-12-2016, 19:26
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Is the script/application you're using to do this open source? would you be willing to? No issue if you aren't but i'd like to be able to use this
If Gavin doesn't want to make his code open source (perfectly legit not to) and you're still interested PM me. I have one of my own
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Old 19-12-2016, 19:34
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Is the script/application you're using to do this open source? would you be willing to? No issue if you aren't but i'd like to be able to use this
I wrote a script in powershell to invoke a request to the API against a set of potscodes, parse each result and split out the attribute values and create a json string.
The script to do this is here: http://gdurl.com/6NVi

The output json from that gets dropped into a google map javascript html document which handles the creation of the dots in the right places when rendered in a browser.
I used unformation from both the google maps javascript api help pages https://developers.google.com/maps/d...on/javascript/ and this site to create that http://ramblings.mcpher.com/Home/exc...aps/mapmarkers

So its not a one button press thing... I dont have a google map dev key (so it can only reneder locally, cannot be hosted on a site) plus I cannot share my source for the postcode data set so you'll need to provide your own.
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Old 19-12-2016, 19:41
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If Gavin doesn't want to make his code open source (perfectly legit not to) and you're still interested PM me. I have one of my own
I have no issues making my logic available though it just means I have to add comments for once
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Old 19-12-2016, 19:50
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I have no issues making my logic available though it just means I have to add comments for once
It's about as far from my day job as it could be so I've only ever done it personally which means I can't follow standardisation or commenting rules!

Was interested to see different approaches. I put mine into a SQLite database using Python so I can use it with my GIS tools.
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Old 19-12-2016, 19:57
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It's about as far from my day job as it could be so I've only ever done it personally which means I can't follow standardisation or commenting rules!

Was interested to see different approaches. I put mine into a SQLite database using Python so I can use it with my GIS tools.
I'm tech dev so code logic I'm more than happy with, and while some teams in my company do have access to GIS tools I dont have licences or experience with the those programs, so I'm left finding freely available technologies to generate an output.
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Old 19-12-2016, 20:02
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Don't suppose you could see if Nottingham has any 800 could you?
NG postcode area: http://gdurl.com/U31r
30,000 postcodes, 12,000 with some 4g800


Preety please can you map East Anglia for me please.
East Anglia is pretty big so I hope this one of NR postcode area suffices:
http://gdurl.com/UyA1o
23,000 postcodes, 7000 with some 4g800
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Old 19-12-2016, 20:12
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Yeah I thought Santa Claus had forgotten about me but He has not Today was getting 1/2 bars 4G800 inside a house where normally no service. On Friday last week no 4G800 but today very happy. Will do more investigation to find out where it is coming from. On map it shows 4G800- 0 Strenght http://imgur.com/a/n6l0F
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Old 19-12-2016, 20:26
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Yeah I thought Santa Claus had forgotten about me but He has not Today was getting 1/2 bars 4G800 inside a house where normally no service. On Friday last week no 4G800 but today very happy. Will do more investigation to find out where it is coming from. On map it shows 4G800- 0 Strenght http://imgur.com/a/n6l0F
Another testing mast on low power I would assume.
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Old 19-12-2016, 20:46
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Another testing mast on low power I would assume.
It is not coming form Woodcote.(I was working on Hookend lane near Checkendon) The mast must be far away in Nuffield or Nettlebed as if it was the one in Woodcote I would have picked it in the village this morning. So can not be on low power
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Old 19-12-2016, 20:58
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Originally Posted by East Anglia is pretty big so I hope this one of NR postcode area suffices:
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http://gdurl.com/UyA1o[/url]
23,000 postcodes, 7000 with some 4g800
Please can you do a map of the IP postcode areas or Suffolk?
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:38
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I ran it for all 27000+ postcodes in PL and TQ postcode area and there were only 267 with a non-zero 800 strength, plotted these look like this.
http://gdurl.com/eOW2

So those 5 that were in Devon on the map yesterday obviously now looks very rough, compared to this one which is a much truer indication of coverage.
That also applies to the rest off the country.
Unfortunately running all 1.8million postcodes through it would take an age, and certainly rendering those points would be challenging too, the browser is already is sluggish with the 7000 points plotted.

Saying that, if anyone wants a specific postcode area mapping it doesnt take too long to do.
Thanks Gavin
Yeah that's better. The MIP as I suspected. Main cluster right over North Huish.
Can't get 800 off it though. L18 will go right down to silly low dBm levels and then switch to 3G (both on that mast).
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:42
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No problem, it's good to see the extent of the coverage from a stand alone mast.
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:45
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I want some 800 loving here! Oh well maybe next year lol
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