Painfully slow 4G data abroad

[aswils]

Hi, I’ve just returned from a 3 day trip abroad. On the 3rd day I noticed that when not on WiFi, I was literally unable to connect to WhatApp  at all and Maps would take about 5 minutes to load even the most basic  directions. 4G was virtually unusable despite showing good coverage (3 or 4bars)?

I am confused why this may have happened?

[Chris_B]

@aswils   It could be the local network there has/had issues in that area.  

[aswils]

Hi, thanks for the reply. I think is was more specific to me as others with me didn’t have the same issue. 

[James_B]

Hi @aswils,

Welcome to the EE Community. 🙂

Were the others connected to the same roaming network?

James

[aswils]

I’m not sure, to be honest. Another reason I thought it may be more specific was at a football match the previous evening, I was getting zero 4-G coverage when all people around me were using their phones and browsing with no issues. 

[James_B]

Hi @aswils,

It could be that the others were connected to another network that wasn't affected by a local network issue.

If it happens again when you're travelling, I'd recommend performing a manual network search.

James

[Mrb92]

do you pay the £2/day or did they give you a free roaming add-on?

I have the latter and have found that they restrict the bandwidth to the extent that's is not worth having.

[Mrb92]

why don't you guys just admit that you restrict roaming bandwidth.

It's also not possible to manually connect to a network that isn't your partner. Why is that?

[N1kkx]

I have the same question..."why don't you guys just admit that you restrict roaming bandwidth."