Constantly dropping to Edge

Iamnotageek

Iamnotageek

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I use my cell phone as a tethering device. But also use it to surf the net, download e-mail's etc ( When not being used as a modem / tethering device ).

My phone is a Mobicel R1 or whatever. It only gets that H+ thingy at the top. HSPA+ or whatever. It always used to have that signal and dropped down to EDGE very rarely if I was in a different location.

However for the past 3 weeks or so this hond phone is dropping more to EDGE than anything else. Drops for a few seconds, or like a minute or two, then gets the H+ signal again.

Phone is fine. Could this be because the towers are congested? ( Same exact location where it always got H+ it's now dropping a lot to EDGE ).

Could it be because of this new roaming Vodacom crap?

I'm using Telkom Mobile internet ( No roaming, only Telkom ) <-- That option

Before it was fine when I used this data. Just recently it's been dropping to EDGE a lot.

Anyone know why perhaps?
 
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Does the phone even have 4G? I've never heard of a mobicel phone before.
 
Zuner said:
Hsdpa is 3g, so set it to 3g only if it does not have 4g.
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I did this and last night it didn't drop to EDGE. Internet was such a pleasure. Thank you for this.

Phone was set on 2G/3G Auto. I set it to 3G only.

Maybe that's why the damn thing kept on changing. But whatever, let's see if it lasts. Thank you once again.
 
Wow a R1k phone that doesn't even have LTE support.
Haven't had a phone without LTE support since ~2014.
You'll have a lot better an experience with LTE if you're e.g. gaming as the connection is a lot more stable. Would probably make browsing a better experience as well.
 
Johnatan56 said:
Wow a R1k phone that doesn't even have LTE support.
Haven't had a phone without LTE support since ~2014.
You'll have a lot better an experience with LTE if you're e.g. gaming as the connection is a lot more stable. Would probably make browsing a better experience as well.
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LTE does help with gaming yeah, although sometimes the signal is a bit meh resulting in a crap ping, switching to 3G is then better, I suppose because its not as saturated as the LTE.
 
Johnatan56 said:
Wow a R1k phone that doesn't even have LTE support.
Haven't had a phone without LTE support since ~2014.
You'll have a lot better an experience with LTE if you're e.g. gaming as the connection is a lot more stable. Would probably make browsing a better experience as well.
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Ag ja I don't play games like CS:GO or Dota, mostly just my MMO and Elder Scrolls: Legends. With those games I can get away with 300ms ping.
 
Iamnotageek said:
Ag ja I don't play games like CS:GO or Dota, mostly just my MMO and Elder Scrolls: Legends. With those games I can get away with 300ms ping.
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Even for those games, the experience is a lot better, had that with GW2 as I was in a bad signal area due to how the building was designed. It's a noticeable difference on pretty much anything interactive.

The question there is probably cost in terms of a New device to handle it, I just find jt quite sad that not all phones have LTE, the price difference is probably so little that they only do it for market segmentation.
 
Iamnotageek said:
I did this and last night it didn't drop to EDGE. Internet was such a pleasure. Thank you for this.

Phone was set on 2G/3G Auto. I set it to 3G only.

Maybe that's why the damn thing kept on changing. But whatever, let's see if it lasts. Thank you once again.
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You should be good with that as 3g network has basically the same coverage as 2g. Glad it worked out.
 
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