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Don't tease us anymore Jon!
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Personally I don't want or need 30+ meg indoors, that's what wifi is for. But 1800MHz really struggles to come in at home, work and in parts of town for various reasons. If I can get reliable 4G with VoLTE and enough bandwidth for casual browsing then that would be 100x better than now. I'd have thought just a few well placed cells would achieve this. Hopefully the real world coverage will match what the coverage maps have been (massively) overstating for ages!
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Hi, I been popping on and off band 20 yesterday and this morning in the Rotherham area
Not seeing an improvement on signal so hopefully its just not had the power turned up. |
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Hi, I've tried looking on Google but been unable to find out how I can try and lock my phone to band 20. It's a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge on the BTU Nougat Rom.
Can anyone advise the best way to do this? Thanks |
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This could all turn out to be a big non event you know..
As if it's anything like threes 800mhz it doesn't exactly blow the doors off as more refuse to die at around 1 bar or -120db if you like, they have activated a site down the road from me (and have at least 2 more in a 6 mile radius) yet it still only dribbles inside the house vs -80db 2g Vodafone from the same mast, but I'm sure EE will have it set up differently/better, or at least I hope so. |
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Looks like the 800MHZ spectrum may be going live today, check out EE's latest tweet - 'We also have lots of news coming this morning, so keep your eyes peeled'! *Fingers crossed*
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This could all turn out to be a big non event you know..
As if it's anything like threes 800mhz it doesn't exactly blow the doors off as more refuse to die at around 1 bar or -120db if you like, they have activated a site down the road from me (and have at least 2 more in a 6 mile radius) yet it still only dribbles inside the house vs -80db 2g Vodafone from the same mast, but I'm sure EE will have it set up differently/better, or at least I hope so. |
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Looks like the 800MHZ spectrum may be going live today, check out EE's latest tweet - 'We also have lots of news coming this morning, so keep your eyes peeled'! *Fingers crossed*
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Has to be it. They also directed someone to the PR page when they asked about 800mhz.
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This could all turn out to be a big non event you know..
As if it's anything like threes 800mhz it doesn't exactly blow the doors off as more refuse to die at around 1 bar or -120db if you like, they have activated a site down the road from me (and have at least 2 more in a 6 mile radius) yet it still only dribbles inside the house vs -80db 2g Vodafone from the same mast, but I'm sure EE will have it set up differently/better, or at least I hope so. |
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Well I'm not on EE but can usually see 800mhz EE if I lock my phone to band 20 LTE only and do a network scan, in the centre of Telford this morning with a few large masts and stretworks masts around, did a band 20 scan and nothing visible from EE here so no improvements for shoppers and workers on EE unless the masts are still hidden from view.
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Well I'm not on EE but can usually see 800mhz EE if I lock my phone to band 20 LTE only and do a network scan, in the centre of Telford this morning with a few large masts and stretworks masts around, did a band 20 scan and nothing visible from EE here so no improvements for shoppers and workers on EE unless the masts are still hidden from view.
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Masts are hidden from view and not a full power.
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11am for the announcement.
But, I suspect the switch on may already have happened. |
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If it has then it's done bugger all for my crappy indoor connection at work, lucky to get 1 bar of Edge signal most of the time.
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If it has then it's done bugger all for my crappy indoor connection at work, lucky to get 1 bar of Edge signal most of the time.
The switch on might also be phased, or not until the official release is issued at 11am. |
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I'm in Nottingham city centre so they may not even have 800 masts here since it's pretty built up with decent 1800 and 2600 coverage, was hoping 800 would solve some of the 4G black spots and help with indoor coverage.
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Hey
Does the Huawei p9 support this band? What app could i use to find out what band i am on? |
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Hey
Does the Huawei p9 support this band? What app could i use to find out what band i am on? |
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Coverage checker updated today...
... but doesn't seem to show any improvements in coverage in any of the areas I go to that have poor 4g coverage.
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... but doesn't seem to show any improvements in coverage in any of the areas I go to that have poor 4g coverage.
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Maybe it's been updated as the map is just waiting to be enabled for the 800MHz side? Surely they'd show it as a separate layer?
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Maybe it's been updated as the map is just waiting to be enabled for the 800MHz side? Surely they'd show it as a separate layer?
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While it should be a case of flicking a switch, there may still be various processes to go through. It may be staggered. Users may even need to re-register on the network.
Lots of reasons not to necessarily get disappointed yet. I'll have the details of the press release on my article live at 11am. Not that this gives more specific times, but it does give a bit more detail beyond what I originally wrote. |
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