Jase
Executive Member
Hi,
I recently installed a High gain antenna I purchased from Poynting. I used the E620 tool to determine the best signal and I get a signal of around -57 to -61. The tower is visible and approximately 300m from my house in a little valley i.e. it is roughly at the same height as my antenna.
The reason I installed the antenna is doing to the fluctuating signals I had before (2 - 3 bars)
All went fine the weekend but come Monday morning, I started getting timeouts, pages not loading and I slow pings to both local and international sites (I tried various sites both in the USA and Europe).
This often varies and the connection often improves i.e. I get decent download / upload speeds when doing a speed test, pages load nice and fast.
What I have noticed is that when doing a tracert, I often get a 'request timed out' on my first hop.
Based on replies from V3G and ic I am wondering if I am connecting to a 'busy' tower with a high load.
Should I try find another tower with a poorer signal and test my connection to it by doing the speed test, tracert etc?
The last few tests I did using Vodacom's Speed Test have resulted in download speeds from 35kbps to 250kbps and Upload speeds from 98kbps to around 160kbps.
This really is becoming quite frustrating as I have spent a lot of cash (Taking out the contract, monthly costs and the purchase of the high gain antenna) and I feel that recently this just hasn't been value for money.
Any advice?
I recently installed a High gain antenna I purchased from Poynting. I used the E620 tool to determine the best signal and I get a signal of around -57 to -61. The tower is visible and approximately 300m from my house in a little valley i.e. it is roughly at the same height as my antenna.
The reason I installed the antenna is doing to the fluctuating signals I had before (2 - 3 bars)
All went fine the weekend but come Monday morning, I started getting timeouts, pages not loading and I slow pings to both local and international sites (I tried various sites both in the USA and Europe).
This often varies and the connection often improves i.e. I get decent download / upload speeds when doing a speed test, pages load nice and fast.
What I have noticed is that when doing a tracert, I often get a 'request timed out' on my first hop.
Based on replies from V3G and ic I am wondering if I am connecting to a 'busy' tower with a high load.
Should I try find another tower with a poorer signal and test my connection to it by doing the speed test, tracert etc?
The last few tests I did using Vodacom's Speed Test have resulted in download speeds from 35kbps to 250kbps and Upload speeds from 98kbps to around 160kbps.
This really is becoming quite frustrating as I have spent a lot of cash (Taking out the contract, monthly costs and the purchase of the high gain antenna) and I feel that recently this just hasn't been value for money.
Any advice?
