I've always had problems on MyWireless with the connection being dropped (about 10 times a day) or freezing i.e. my router thinks the connection is up but no pings will go through.
Sentech's explanation was that 'I lived too close to the tower" - something a little dificult to solve in the short term.
However I bought one of these http://www.tritium.co.uk/Flatennaroot.htm for £8.95. Lo and behold it was posted to South Africa with a number of stamps hand stuck on the enevelope. It took a little craft knife work to get it to fit on the odd shaped MyWireless aerial and get it pointing in the right direction, but it works.
No more disconnections or connection freezes
Reception goes up from 2 bars to 4 though I don't have a PC so I haven't been able to use MySignal or Sentech's dialer to measure the changes reception and noise
A placebo speed increase, but this is probably my imagination or wishful thinking
Nevertheless the disconnection problem has been eliminated which is worth the R100 or so cost
Sentech's explanation was that 'I lived too close to the tower" - something a little dificult to solve in the short term.
However I bought one of these http://www.tritium.co.uk/Flatennaroot.htm for £8.95. Lo and behold it was posted to South Africa with a number of stamps hand stuck on the enevelope. It took a little craft knife work to get it to fit on the odd shaped MyWireless aerial and get it pointing in the right direction, but it works.
No more disconnections or connection freezes
Reception goes up from 2 bars to 4 though I don't have a PC so I haven't been able to use MySignal or Sentech's dialer to measure the changes reception and noise
A placebo speed increase, but this is probably my imagination or wishful thinking
Nevertheless the disconnection problem has been eliminated which is worth the R100 or so cost
) from the Menlo Tower and maybe 60-70m lower than the actual panels. Disconnections non-existent here. 4 bars on the wrong side of the house with no ext antenna.