Omni or Flat Panel ... or Cancel ??

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Ahoi

Recently moved so went over to iBurst, bought myself a usb modem and took the Pro10+ package on a m2m basis.....

Iam located in a "Poor" coverage so my signal is really choppy, jumping in between 30% to 70% but on average about 45% signal so my internet speed sucks really bad (best 5kb/s and Frame Rate Error up to 30%).... can't even load speedtest.net eish

Now my question is really simple, by viewing my coverage map what would you recommend being my best option to improve my speed and or signal? :

A) Omni antenna (7.5dBi) or
B) the Flat Panel antenna (12dBi) or
C) cut my losses and get a 3G stick?

If i look at the map then there's 2 base stations closeby...... 1 x in Frans Conradie Drive and 1 x in Marconi Beam... they are about 3.14 km and 4.86 km from me, this is BAD

Could there be another one on the Tygerberg koppie as this could give me a LOS to that station?

What u ThinK

[img=http://s11.postimage.org/i60r2z9jz/i_Burst_coverage.jpg]

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Ahoi

Recently moved so went over to iBurst, bought myself a usb modem and took the Pro10+ package on a m2m basis.....

Iam located in a "Poor" coverage so my signal is really choppy, jumping in between 30% to 70% but on average about 45% signal so my internet speed sucks really bad (best 5kb/s and Frame Rate Error up to 30%).... can't even load speedtest.net eish

Now my question is really simple, by viewing my coverage map what would you recommend being my best option to improve my speed and or signal? :

A) Omni antenna (7.5dBi) or
B) the Flat Panel antenna (12dBi) or
C) cut my losses and get a 3G stick?

If i look at the map then there's 2 base stations closeby...... 1 x in Frans Conradie Drive and 1 x in Marconi Beam... they are about 3.14 km and 4.86 km from me, this is BAD

Could there be another one on the Tygerberg koppie as this could give me a LOS to that station?

What u ThinK

[img=http://s11.postimage.org/i60r2z9jz/i_Burst_coverage.jpg]

a 102 views but no comments ...... this makes me wonder

[ginggs]

Now my question is really simple, by viewing my coverage map what would you recommend being my best option to improve my speed and or signal? :

A) Omni antenna (7.5dBi) or
B) the Flat Panel antenna (12dBi) or
C) cut my losses and get a 3G stick?

If you're prepared to spend the time aiming your antenna, then B, otherwise A.
It seems signal strength isn't everything:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthre...55#post8771255

If i look at the map then there's 2 base stations closeby...... 1 x in Frans Conradie Drive and 1 x in Marconi Beam... they are about 3.14 km and 4.86 km from me, this is BAD

3.14 and 4.86km would be bad for 3G, but not for iBurst.

Could there be another one on the Tygerberg koppie as this could give me a LOS to that station?

I don't think so.

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Thank you ginggs for the Info !

So I guess at the end of the both would do the trick then!!