High Gain External Antennas now available

what is the URL for that again? will test tomorrow (as I've already disconnected the antenna :p)
 
Would this antenna work for a fixed wireless phone setup as well?
ie having a voice phone that is out of ideal range of a tower and setting up a static system...
 
vodacom3g said:
Contact person at Poynting, have a look at the first post in this thread.
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doh!!! ... don't I just feel stupid :(

BTW v3g ... did you have a look at my Signal Meter app?
 
Well, here are the results ...

without the antenna connected

  • Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

    * Download time: 13.906 seconds
    * Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
    * Estimated line speed: 293.4 (kilobits/second)
    * Estimated line speed: 36 (kiloBytes/second)

  • Dashboard: 2/5 bar 3G
  • My app: 07/30 (-99dBm)


with the antenna connected

  • Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

    * Download time: 11.484 seconds
    * Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
    * Estimated line speed: 355.3 (kilobits/second)
    * Estimated line speed: 43.5 (kiloBytes/second)

  • Dashboard
    ​
    : 4/5 bar 3G
  • My app
    ​
    : 25/30 (-63dBm)

so now, I am really confused :(
 
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cyberbob said:
Well, here are the results ...

without the antenna connected

  • Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

    * Download time: 13.906 seconds
    * Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
    * Estimated line speed: 293.4 (kilobits/second)
    * Estimated line speed: 36 (kiloBytes/second)

  • Dashboard: 2 bar 3G
  • My app: 7 (-99dBm)


with the antenna connected

  • Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

    * Download time: 11.484 seconds
    * Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
    * Estimated line speed: 355.3 (kilobits/second)
    * Estimated line speed: 43.5 (kiloBytes/second)

  • Dashboard
    ​
    : 4 bar 3G
  • My app
    ​
    : 25 (-63dBm)

so now, I am really confused :(
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I dunno what you mean, Cyberbob? :confused:
You've got a MASSIVE increase in signal strength. 36 dB, that is 4000 times to be exact. 3G can't give you more than 384 kbps. What did you expect, 1MBps? ;)

You are definetly getting your investment's worth :)
Wow.
 
You're right v3g, I was hoping for the improved throuput, but the prob is, that general usage is still up to ****. It's like using IS ADSL, the overall throuput is there, but only benefit when downloading big files :p
 
cyberbob said:
You're right v3g, I was hoping for the improved throuput, but the prob is, that general usage is still up to ****. It's like using IS ADSL, the overall throuput is there, but only benefit when downloading big files :p
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Do you mean when say browsing sites the response is slow?
I find sometimes when browsing there is a slight pause before the page loads. But once it starts loading it is very fast. Can you elaborate, Cyberbob?
 
I'd almost say it feels like a latency type issue (like with IS ADSL). The strange thing is it used to be really quick, but alas, in more recent times, it's all gone pair shaped :(
 
ok ... I don't suppose there is any way to ensure that I always end up on the SAIX one :D
 
cyberbob said:
ok ... I don't suppose there is any way to ensure that I always end up on the SAIX one :D
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I am sure there's a way, but Vodacom probably wouldn't want us to know :)
 
Actually not, the load balancers automatically assign the IP.

Latency will affect interactive applications while non-interactive applications should benefit more from the high throughput you're seeing.

Normal WEB browsing is much less interactive than say a telnet session so you should see WEB pages load quite fast.

Remember, your testing local and the bottleneck might well be international. Have you tried some of the international speed tests?
 
no ... have you got any URL's for me? :)

and did you do any "testing" last night?
 
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