Wife has had a galaxy s 2 on orange for about a month but if she isn't connected to wifi the internet speed is shocking. Should have put this answer from orange in the comedy section. Called them up to ask of there is a problem with the signal as I am supposed to be in a high coverage area or have they just put on a speed cap seeing as when I was paying by minute and not on a monthly bundle I had excellent coverage. I was told that because the 3g masts for my area are next to the train lines the trains would be getting all the 3g coverage before it reached my phone so therefore all that would be left is gprs. At this point all the buttons on the back of my head popped open and I had to hang up I was laughing so hard. But on a serious note is anybody aware of a speed cap being imposed
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Some networks do apply a throttle on data, quite common here in South Africa!
I think Orange must have diverted your call to their bullsh*t department...
Assuming that Orange don't throttle speeds, I don't think they would do this... My guess is signal... Have you actually got a 3G signal? Try setting the handset in UMTS (or 3G) only mode.
In general a handset seeing a signal of -65dBm on 3G and a signal of -60dBm on 2G, the handset will often select 2G and therefore GPRS/EDGE. -
Tried setting to 3g only and not receiving signal, must be those damn trains again pmsl even though it is supposed to cover 95% of the uk. still don't get why it won't connect to edge but only gprs unless the they are still messing about with the signal trying to join with t mobileComment
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Thanks for that jim. Peace at last the wifey has now switched on 3g only and is sitting in the back garden cause she gets a signal thereComment
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Digging deep into my memory here.
When the 95% coverage is mentioned, it's not 95% of the UK... It's 95% of the UK's population.
There are blank spots & lower coverage even in good coverage areas. This can be due to objects like buildings, trees & high volumes of traffic (roads). Also if you live in a depression within the landscape you can suffer from low to no signal.
BTS sites (signal masts) can also develop faults that reduce signal in a comparative narrow sector.
But the biggest problems are caused by the amount of people trying to use the 3G network. Each mast can only handle so many connections, so it splits the incoming requests between the 2G & 3G slots with text messaging running on a different set of slots. With more & more smart phones being used with live updating, the 3G slots are always near full capacity during the day (especially from 3pm-10pm... b'stard kids). Then you have to add on all the 3G dongles being used for internet access.
I've found that connecting to the MMS service for internet use on my phone is far quicker than the 3G connection. But that's just a perk of using the Symbian OS.
The quote about the trains is a real stretch of reality, but the fact that the bandwidth available from each BTS site is being used close to capacity within the local area is correct.
Each BTS site covers a maximum radius of 4miles. These should overlap in highly populated areas. But there still isn't enough bandwidth available in most towns & cities.Canker
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Phoned orange back and got them to send out a new sim and now have no problems getting 3g or switching automatically between signals, it even picks up edge signal now. So even though the first sim was new looks as though it wasn't picking up a proper signal.Comment
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You are probably now on a different HLR (Home Location Register), this is a point on the network that all of your calls, text & data requests go through... no matter where you are in the world.
It could of been a bad SIM, but the failure rate is so low on SIM's that it's almost always ruled out as an issue.
Still, live & learn. At least your problems are now resolved.Canker
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It is possible to set QOS (quality of service) on a SIM card.
Blackberry use this method to ensure only valid SIM's access the BIS/BES services.
Here, when HSUPA first arrived it was charged (as an extra) to access the high speed upload service. If you didn't pay all you got was HSDPA.
It was also used (and probably still is for contract customers) for international roaming permission.
I've only rarely come across SIM cards that will not accept the provisioning.
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