Help! Moving to a village where 02 Coverage is AWFUL!

4743hudsonj

thisisthecount wrote: »

hi, yes, I tried that link, but I couldn't get it to work unfortunately 4743hudsonj - no way of zooming out? anyway, I think I might try the sim cards for 99p?

Just wondering what bubblesmoney meant by UMA or sure signal?

i posted about UMA and sure signal above, and there is a zoom out, you have to click it in a box to the right. Bit of a clunky interface, pm your postcode and ill look for you.

bubblesmoney

thisisthecount wrote: »

hi, yes, I tried that link, but I couldn't get it to work unfortunately 4743hudsonj - no way of zooming out? anyway, I think I might try the sim cards for 99p?

Just wondering what bubblesmoney meant by UMA or sure signal?

see links for details on how to get UMA from orange or sure signal from vodafone.

for vodafone they have the femtocell technology called sure signal .

for orange you have UMA technology but you need UMA capable phones

Orange has UMA technology that should allow you to use your phone by piggybacking on your landing broadband connection. Try getting that for free from customer services but you need UMA compatible phones. Orange sells a few uma compatible phones but there are other uma compatible phones, just Google them.

For Vodafone customers with similar issues, Vodafone has a hardware solution called sure signal based on femtocell technology that also piggy backs on broadband connection.

you should be able to get it for half price atleast from customer services (sure signal) from what i have seen from other posts on mse.

first try to get a contract with a company that has a good reception at your house. if all are bad then you still have options like UMA from orange or sure signal from vodafone.

best of luck

gjchester

thisisthecount wrote: »

Sorry if I didn't make myself 100% clear above. Basically, O2's coverage checker indicates I should get good coverage, in "reality" I don't unless I walk outside the house / into the garden.

No network guarantees coverage inside buildings regardless of the signal checker web sites.

The networks have no way of knowing the construction of a house, it may be concrete and steel and be a big faraday cage, or it may be straw anhd plasterboard and have no effect.

thisisthecount

thats true, ours is breeze blocks and real stone on the outside! I guess that "could" be it then?

lexuslass

gjchester wrote: »

No network guarantees coverage inside buildings regardless of the signal checker web sites.

The networks have no way of knowing the construction of a house, it may be concrete and steel and be a big faraday cage, or it may be straw anhd plasterboard and have no effect.

I agree with this totally... we moved into a village a couple of years ago and I was on T-Mobile... they 'said' I should get a really good signal but our house was in a dip and their 'checker' was obviously covering houses in the same postcode that weren't in the dip... there was only one corner in one room in the house that I could get a signal!!

We then moved to another village 3 miles down the road and the coverage was non existent! T. Mobile were having none of it and it was only (after endless calls to them!) when I rang them from my landline and got them to ring my mobile that they admitted that there was no T-Mobile signal in the house.

I ended up talking to local people (some had been on T-Mobile and had had to change to a different network) and I swapped to O2...phone signal is fantastic!!

HTH x

bubblesmoney

gjchester wrote: »

No network guarantees coverage inside buildings regardless of the signal checker web sites.

The networks have no way of knowing the construction of a house, it may be concrete and steel and be a big faraday cage, or it may be straw anhd plasterboard and have no effect.

wifi piggy back options should still work in a faraday cage construction setting as well. so my above suggested work around solutions should still be a option to consider in such buildings.

gjchester

bubblesmoney wrote: »

wifi piggy back options should still work in a faraday cage construction setting as well. so my above suggested work around solutions should still be a option to consider in such buildings.

It's an option, but it depends how ling the OP has left on o2.

UMA is one of thoise things Orange do not heavily promote..

bubblesmoney

btw i dont personally know anyone who uses UMA or sure signal. i had researched these options for myself when i was looking to move a while ago just in case the signal wasnt great in my area.

thisisthecount

ok, fair point. Is there not some kind of Booster aerial you can fit?

gjchester

thisisthecount wrote: »

ok, fair point. Is there not some kind of Booster aerial you can fit?

Vodafone do the smart signal box but I'm not aware of any you can fit other than that