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Midband speedtest Megaathread
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Not having a laugh.
See post #4here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=81441236#post81441236 but then, if like me you have a mifi without an external antenna port, improvise!
I had experimented with a pot a few years back, hainvg used midband since 2010. But having moved house a few times, I have now started to experiment at improving signal. Just set up a 'stainless steel steamer basket' from Dunnes Stores (€3), pointed it at the 3 mast, and I'm getting 4.68MBs down, where I was getting 1MB max at that window.
Yes, its fiddly messing with makey-uppy antennas but this folding steamer is as easy as I've found. A 10 second set-up antenna dish
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Update: - 6.43MBs down. Up is negligible.0 -
mayo.mick I see still no improvement there..... horrendous :mad:
Is there no other suppliers at all for you??
I have to admit my "broadband-in-a-bucket-on-the-roof" is still keeping fairly stable (it has it's moments though for example 2 hours to upload a 3 minute movie file to facebook last Sunday
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It was usually pretty good 60/70ms ping, between 3/4mb download. I wonder are they throttling 3G with 4G now coming on the market?
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On a downstairs bay window window sill. Mounted against the glass. Will try for height and boosting the signal around the house once I get the strongest location.
But very happy with the ping. No problems even through torrential rain yesterday.
How are any of you boosting wifi around the house? I'm using an E586 so no ethernet (or external antenna options of course). Do you use those repeaters / boosters?0 -
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How are any of you boosting wifi around the house? I'm using an E586 so no ethernet (or external antenna options of course). Do you use those repeaters / boosters?
I put my E270 dongle plugged into an Edimax router into a 5ltr chicken feed bucket Cat5 cable then comes down to a Linksys router in the living room.
The bucket has been attached to a bracket on the chimney facing the mast which is approx. 2 miles away and has so far withstood heavy rains/winds etc etc (a testament to my other half's installation and climbing skills:D).
Before doing all this my speeds were very similar to those that mayo.mick's experiencing at the moment. But now they are more consistent to this........
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Having the 2 routers running means I can also use the wifi about the house and pretty much connect anywhere (even down the garden for a fair distance!).
It still has it's moments though but so far a damn sight better than what I had to put up with previously. I think I posted photo's of the set-up on here somewhere.0 -
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I was feeling rather happy with my speeds........ till I saw this :rolleyes:
bishopstown Cork
Nice speeds Cork981. I'm not jealous....... much
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C'mon o2... please get yer arses into gear!!!!!!0 -
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I was feeling rather happy with my speeds........ till I saw this :rolleyes:
Nice speeds Cork981. I'm not jealous....... much
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C'mon o2... please get yer arses into gear!!!!!!
True i cant wait for 4G o2 need hurry up i was getting LTE on my search for networks in Dublin yesterday sad they wouldnt let me access it tho0 -
True i cant wait for 4G o2 need hurry up i was getting LTE on my search for networks in Dublin yesterday sad they wouldnt let me access it tho
Oooh... maybe, just maybe haha. Unfortunately I won't ever get 4G - it's mostly wishful thinking on my part, I'm far too remote (in a forgotten part of the country in the West of Ireland :rolleyes: )
Extremely high winds here and I'm hoping my "contraption" on the roof holds out
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Broadband "in a bucket" still holding out:D Still yearn for those 4G speeds, though it's never gonna happen!!!! 0 -
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like you, bijou, I am getting similar speeds on the my homemade setup although see on the comreg site that the local mast is now LTE so will be trying out a E3272
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I looked on the siteviewer and both the Meteor & Vodafone masts near me show LTE. The Meteor mast is literally 500m from my house.
When I go to both their websites to check coverage, my area shows patchy 3g available.
Why have a mast listed as LTE but not supply that coverage?? I know competition is high in the larger towns and cities, and that's why the mobile operators tend to target those areas. Areas which by the way would already have the likes of Eircom/UPC and local LOS providers (does my head in that does...!!!!).
I just cannot get my head round the fact that the mobile operators could potentially make a "killing" with the rural areas too and yet they chose to ignore them!! Or am I just being naive?
Anyway.... todays speed - still better than what I used to get but it could be just soooo much more :rolleyes:
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