topic Re: Poor Signal in Mobile Network discussions

Poor Signal

DylanJM92 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:28:55 GMT

It's awful sometimes. I'm sat at my desk, in the middle of the city of Bristol, getting 0 killiowatts. You can change the bars to see your actual speeds and genuinely. It's a mix between 0.7ks and zero. This is supposed to be one of the biggest and best out there. It's a joke. And they want me to sign up for another 2 years!!

Re: Poor Signal

bristolian — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:34:21 GMT

What do you mean by "change the bars to see your actual speeds"

On-screen coverage bars are a rough guide to signal strength, a measurement of carrier & spectrum (which dictates speed) is different.

I recently spent some time in the centre of Bristol, and had no problems with 4G mobile data. But there's dozens of sites there, encompassing macro & micro installs.

Re: Poor Signal

Chris_B — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:21:20 GMT

@DylanJM92 And what’s the signal like outside of that building? Because you say “Sat at my desk”.

Re: Poor Signal

bristolian — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 14:53:03 GMT

Which building are you in? If you're comfortable disclosing on a public forum

Re: Poor Signal

DylanJM92 — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:23:52 GMT

I'm sat in my house, getting absolutely stuff all Internet. Outside of my house it's fine. Inside of my house, it's absolutely appalling.

Re: Poor Signal

bristolian — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:34:43 GMT

By posting on an internet forum, I presume you have home broadband, and thus WiFi-calling is the ideal mitigation for you.

My interest was in what specific locations you're having issues in, happy to be told by PM if you'd rather - but the general advice for any indoor coverage issue would be as above.

Re: Poor Signal

DylanJM92 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 01:33:28 GMT

Mate don't be patronising. If I had good WiFi I wouldn't care less about my phones Internet at home. Use your head.

Next time just don't comment.