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Re: [LUG] Fed up of BT Broadband in Minions

 

On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, Dave Foxcroft wrote:

On 25/03/2014 19:08, Kevin Lucas wrote:
Hi all
Being the Sub Postmaster in Minions I get a lot of Village residents
complaining ( I don't know why to me apart from I just happen to there
to listen!), about the very poor service we get from BT Openreach
regarding the quality of the Connection to the exchange, we as a village
get 2.5 megs max with many failing to reach 1 Meg on a steady basis.

So I thought with the Caradon transmitter being just up the hill why
cant we use 3G?
With my HTC stuck out the Loft window I get up to 14megs on EE ( orange)
Direct line of sight with the Transmitter, but inside the house its
flaky and just about the same as ADSL.

does anyone have experience of  a good sim router and does a 3G Ariel
make much difference? I have looked at something like this
http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID=15278 poss
with the Ariel from the bottom of the page, as an installed solution in
the  house but before I tell BT where to put their Crapband what do you
think of the long term viability of such a system.


A femtocell may be what you need to boost signal indoors:

http://ukmobilereview.com/2013/01/ee-launch-signal-box-femtocell/

I have a couple of clients that use one.

I think you've missed something ....

It's the broadband he's tring to make faster - if you have rubbish broadband in the first place, then a femtocell won't help. Femtocells use broadband.

Gordon

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