Northgate

[vincentvanzyl]

Ok peeps, I got a question for you all...

If anyone resides in Northgate, or surrounding areas. In the complex I have no signal, max 1 bar, so i wanny try and figure out whats going on there.

about 400 metres from home, at work, I have full reception...

across the road from us, some dude has got a antenna as big as a swimming pool sitting in his yard.

Would this make my signal bad? or better?

Coz theres no signal on cellphone either.???

Help please.

 

[ic]

Ok peeps, I got a question for you all...

If anyone resides in Northgate, or surrounding areas. In the complex I have no signal, max 1 bar, so i wanny try and figure out whats going on there.

about 400 metres from home, at work, I have full reception...

across the road from us, some dude has got a antenna as big as a swimming pool sitting in his yard.

Would this make my signal bad? or better?

Coz theres no signal on cellphone either.???

Help please.

Ok, I assume you must be using & referring to a 3G or HSDPA data card, correct?

Are you using the little-clip-on antenna for the 3G or HSDPA data card?
Have you tried taking your laptop & data card outside, does the signal & throughput improve?

 

[vodacom3g]

You can do any of the following:

1) check your coverage on the map.
2) call 155 to ask about coverage.
3) Mail customer care for same.

If you do have coverage, then we can further fault-find it.

If not, you can use the above channels to request it.

 

[vincentvanzyl]

OK, no coverage

I guess that antenna helps me coz i hav 1 bar, and on the map it shows no coverage. soo... how do we fix this? its really a hassle. its jhb, wtf? i could understand if this is the case in Kuruman or Hotashell, but johannesburg???

 

[ettubrute]

I'm living on the plots just north of the Dome, and have excellent reception! Speeds of up to 1.6Mbps when downloading... thus it might be you live in a 'dead-spot'.

 

[vincentvanzyl]

yeah...

my signal is up to 2 bar now... lol anyway... i drive along riverbend road every day... and today i noticed a Huge tower on a trailer next to the road... corner of Witkoppen and Riverbend...could this be what i hope it is? I am not sure wether it is a vodacom tower of what???

 

[L_mo]

Used to stay (2 mths ago) in Leo Ave, Sundowner. Signal very bad there as well. 2 years ago Vodacom came and tested, comment from the engineer was he had never seen such a strange signal ever before - connecting to many base stations and all sorts of strange events