Imagine LTE Rural Broadband

I live around 400m away from my nearest neighbours . I have noticed that if walk outside my house I can not detect my imagine signal with my laptop, yet I can detect my neighbours signal inside my house. How come my neighbours signal is so powerful. Some sort of booster?

Since the neighbours signal started showing up about a month ago my own connection has gotten really bad, its keeps dropping, it will stay connected for 1 minute and then drop for a minute all day long. Maybe its a coincidence?

thank you for the suggestion. I will try it later tonight

Ardrageen wrote: »

Looks like Imagine will not allow you to log on to their router to change channels.

I can log in to what I thought was my neighbours internet connection using my password. So its probably not my neighbours connection at all. I must have two. This sounds unusual but maybe it is normal.

You can turn off the WiFi on the imagine router and then use your own seperate router as a bridge which you have full access to the wireless settings on. Just plug a network cable into the imagine router and plug the other end into the wan port on own router.

Ardrageen wrote: »

Looks like Imagine will not allow you to log on to their router to change channels.

I can log in to what I thought was my neighbours internet connection using my password. So its probably not my neighbours connection at all. I must have two. This sounds unusual but maybe it is normal.

I was bit surprised that you were picking up a signal inside your house from a house 400 meters away. Keep posting. I'm curious.

Ardrageen wrote: »

Looks like Imagine will not allow you to log on to their router to change channels.

I can log in to what I thought was my neighbours internet connection using my password. So its probably not my neighbours connection at all. I must have two. This sounds unusual but maybe it is normal.

Ehh I think the router broadcasts on two bands.. 2.4 and 5Ghz.
You can choose which one to use for various reasons...

https://www.howtogeek.com/222249/whats-the-difference-between-2.4-ghz-and-5-ghz-wi-fi-and-which-should-you-use/

Hope that helps
vida

Thank you for the ideas and suggestions. As you can tell from my questions I am clearly not an expert but I have learned a few things over the last couple of days.

So I have 2 WiFi networks, a 5G WiFi network which has higher max attainable speeds, but the range will be more limited, and a 2G network with less speed but greater range. So I can choose between the 2 networks depending on the needs and positions of my different devices. Sorry if this is obvious to most of ye but it was news to me.

I contacted Imagine and they have updated my WiFi settings on my router. It seems to be dropping less now and I had consistent speeds of 10Mbps last night during peak times instead of my normal 2Mbps so there was definitely an improvement.

Ultimanemo wrote: »

Which mast is that ?.

All of them I'd say...

Crap here in Oranmore last night during the european rugby matches.. barely 3mbps... practically useless...

40Mbps right now but I'll bet by the time the Munster match starts it'll be pathetic again.

But who am I complaining to ? Its not like Imagine are listening or give a damn.

alec76 wrote: »

What’s the purpose to have it ? Surely every customer would prefer regular landline number ?

http://www.saynoto1890.com/faq/

https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/comreg-calls-time-on-1850-and-1890-number-36039552.html

/M

irishfeen wrote: »

Service getting steadily worse from Bweeng mast, restarting the modem used work most of the time to bring back up the speed a few Mb but not that doesn’t make a difference. If wireless forms part of the NBP then I’m going to explode..

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/2898826244

Man, that is a lot of money for that. What are your options?

Gonzo wrote: »

Peter Casey thinks that the NBP should be entirely made up of wireless 4g. I think he needs to sit down and look at the last 10 pages of this thread to see why wireless should not be let near any broadband plan.

He also needs to sit down and analyze the last NBS and what the result of that was. And then look at all the Three NBS posts in the Midband section.

Why on earth does he want to repeat the last failure, that fixed nothing.

/M

Reyansh Little Bandage wrote: »

He's a complete irrelevance. I only referenced him to laugh at his opinion.

Of course he is. And he's even more incompetent, than irrelevant.

/M

irishfeen wrote: »

Dial Up, Mobile Broadband, Imagine and Nova are the options... fibre brought within 700m of our house

Nova for me personally are great during the daytime, which is useless unless you work from home; but after 7pm then you are on less than 5Mb-6Mb that is scatter shooting up on down between 2-6Mb, never gotten above 10Mb during the hours of 7pm-Midnight, horrid for streaming.

This seems similar to a lot of Imagine customer accounts of service from what I am reading on this thread.

Long shot, but do you know any of your neighbours in the golden area for fibre? If you were friendly a long shot would be set up a Ubiquiti point to point wireless link, line of sight would be required along with the purchase and setup of equipment.

Long shot, but potentially possible

Wing126 wrote: »

Has anyone gotten one of those warning emails for going over the allowance lately?

Just copped today as I start my pre-load for Red Dead, that I haven't gotten one in months.

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