Good signal coverage for me

[The_Unbeliever]

Reseller was at my house this morning... as it is my birthday today it was also a nice pressie to see that we've got 100% signal coverage and that the download/upload speed was close to a Teklom ADSL line... without the hassle and stress of dealing with horriblecom...

Now the issue is to work a budget out. Since Telkom is no longer an issue for us, there'll be a bit of extra cash to spare.

Wheeeee....

 

[native]

Which area?

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Silverton x5

 

[native]

Cool stuff

If you join.

Will you be running it on your smoothwall box?

Or your going mobile?

 

[vampirotoothus]

Cool. I'm in Silverton and also tested the iBurst there and had 100% signal the whole weekend. Not sure if I'll go for iBurst yet. The modem is a bit expensive.

ADSL line are cheaper so I might just go for that instead... I'll just have to wait and see what happens with the new prices

 

[S1ght]

In Randburg with 100% and the tower about a km down the road

 

[nocilah]

Reseller was at my house this morning... as it is my birthday today it was also a nice pressie to see that we've got 100% signal coverage and that the download/upload speed was close to a Teklom ADSL line...without the hassle and stress of dealing with horriblecom...

Now the issue is to work a budget out. Since Telkom is no longer an issue for us, there'll be a bit of extra cash to spare.

Wheeeee....

nice one... enjoy.

 

[Unchained]

Hand reflector

While playing with a basic Java version of utTraceStar, i tried fiddling with antenna position to get varying signal strengths. I found that keeping my hand about 5cm away kind of parabolocially around the antenna, fingers upward and palm of my hand towards the tower gives me an improvement from -101 / -102 to -94 / -96 dB. I repeated this a couple of times for a number of samples, and the result was repeatable. Now really considering a decent antenna or proper reflector... About 8cm gives slightly better results (2 - 3 dB)

 

[ambo]

I found that keeping my hand about 5cm away kind of parabolocially around the antenna

I was playing around with a baking pan next to my UTD the other day and i also got some rather nice results

 

[Azgard]

Good coverage is always a good thing. When I got IBurst the IBurst person I spoke to said there is no signal in Edenvale, at the time. And I still got full signal, and still do

Good luck if you decide to go for IBurst (interested in a second hand modem The_Unbeliever??) Lol.