Robocop, I'm also organising Neotel Unlimited for an "not covered" area. We tested the phone inside our house, got 2 bars. You think im safe? Or should I build an antenna like u? How much did the antenna set you back btw?
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Robocop
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You should be ok with 2 bars, but the arial will boost your reception to at least 4 bars.
The arial cost about R150 to build excluding the small pipecutter I got to cut the tubing.
It could be cheaper as I got 2m of trunking (only needs about 600mm) and 6m aluminium tubing (only need about 500mm).
The arial cost about R150 to build excluding the small pipecutter I got to cut the tubing.
It could be cheaper as I got 2m of trunking (only needs about 600mm) and 6m aluminium tubing (only need about 500mm).
I'm just going make sure by spelling it out, is that 80 kilo bytes upload speed? Did it improve the upload speed at all? Or is your aerial only optimized for frequency that download/incoming is using? Is this a hardware limitation at Neotel's tower or is this a upload throttling mechanism on their part. CDMA states to support 384Kilobits upload. So some things the Neotel Representative will have to clear up for us.
Robocop
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No.....80 kilo bits per second upload speed, and it varies all the time, but like I said I'm in a area thats not officially covered, so I won't complain. And if you demand explanations about these figures it just confirms the reasoning behind them not giving the device to anyone outside their covarage areas.
The arial did improve the upload speed, but this is a broad frequency range arial so you have to compromise a little on both up & dowload speeds. If you would like to further improve speeds in either direction you can always build 2 arials. One tuned for upload & one tuned for download frequencies.
As I don't care about uploading I'm happy with the compromise, and for now I'm content with 200 - 300 kilo bits download speeds.
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Thanks for the insight. guess I will have to wait for them to improve the upload speed before I sign any deal with them. I was hoping for an average of 32 kilobyte upload speed. Since in theory should reach 48kilobyte. Maybe another pipe dream. I wonder though why they intentionally limit the upload speed to such a low speed. Does it really cost them more if we shift more data from our side?