Is there a device/way of paralleling mobile phone connections to boost data rate? Possibly in connection with gaming activities.
Long shot question but my Vodafone service is suddenly very intermittent and usually emergency service only. Vodafone deny any issues and this has been continuous over more than a week.
My new neighbours have 3 young teenage boys and the wired internet is limited to around 12 meg.
Paranoia alert but we are on a radial path to the transmitter.
In message snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk>, charles snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk> writes
Sorry to be unclear. We are on the same radial path to the transmitter. I know nothing about the propagation characteristics of mobile phone masts but assume it is zoned.
The weather, almost certainly but not the others. Also of course it could be just like in the old days of TV, somebody has installed a large metal structure, like a crane and this has made it prone to reflections from your usual mast. I believe there are solutions where you can pay, in effect to have your own mini cell, but don't know how its done or how expensive it might be. Brian
There are methods of "bonding" individual links to make them appear as one larger one but requires the right kit at both ends of those links.
Keep banging the table, remember that even if you have a contract with Vodafone for service that is with a different part of Vodafone than provides the physical network...
Presuambly Tim, neighbours and Tx form a straight line possibly with the neighbours between Tim and Tx. I don't think this would have any effect on data rates as the TDM shares out the available time slots across all users. Ther could be capacity issues on that cell sector but Tim's rural so not likely.
Biggest clue may be signal strength, has that fallen through the floor as the local cell has died or got a fault (wind blow an aerial down, water got into feeder?).
On Android it might be worth getting one of the apps that tells you everything your wanted to know about the cell you are connected to and it's neighbours. If you are normally connected to cell X with Y bars, but know connected to cell J with K bars and no sign of cell X it would be reasonable to assume that cell X has died. How you tell a Customer Services droid this information and get them to pass it on to some one who understands it is another matter...
No idea, but if you can see the mast it should work. Best thing is to first of all find another vodafone user and run a test against your phone. It could be your phone is a little deaf or has a dodgy aerial.
Most are inside the case these days, a ploy to make them look good but is hardly ideal. Brian
Its multiplexed so in theory it should not matter how many people are using their phones next door at the same time, there are likely so many users in your area, a few more should not make much difference. Of course the system may be overloaded from some other major source, you have no real way of knowing. Go close to another mast and see if its specific to yours. Brian
Vodafone (in common with other networks) have re-farmed some of their
900MHz spectrum from 2G to 4G, not sure how recently. Newer phones probably see that as increased signal, but older phones may see it as a decrease ...
Actually during half term with kids streaming endless stuff on their mobiles (not just the family along the line of sight) it is quite possible that a rural node backhaul could be saturated.
One of the apps that shows cellular signal quality and error rates might shed some more light. I'd bet on bandwidth contention problems on the backhaul caused by half term though. Sometimes see that happen in the evenings on our rural exchange now that some places have FTTC. QD TV uses a fair chunk of bandwidth and with people watching different programmes on demand it adds up to a lot of peak bandwidth.
Most are divided into 120 degree sectors that work vaguely independantly but probably synchonised so one sector isn't trying to hear a mobile ten miles away when another is trying to shout a one of it's mobiles. B-)
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