Whilst its all fun and games messing with the bands, it will make no difference if your mast only allows you to connect to band 3 anyway. The reason our download speeds fluctuate so wildly is purely down to Three not providing enough capacity at masts and not upgrading them quick enough to keep up with demand.

I completely agree. Though not everyone is in the same boat. Not going to hurt anyone trying some different band selections

The links for HuaweiMonitor no longer seem to work. Would someone be able to share the file?

Thanks you in advance.

I can't find it anywhere. I think they may have removed it completely. I wouldn't feel comfortable sharing the file either due to legal reasons. I can't find anything on their program about distributing their software but its something i don't want to risk. Maybe i'm overreacting

Nothing is ever truly deleted online if you look hard enough though.

If a mast has say 800+1800 available under what circumstances would it not allow devices such as mobile broadband to connect to 800? is it down to the operator or mast config? as i do not see the point in 800 being deployed if masts wont let you connect to it.

In reply to a post by thomaswarne01:

If a mast has say 800+1800 available under what circumstances would it not allow devices such as mobile broadband to connect to 800? is it down to the operator or mast config? as i do not see the point in 800 being deployed if masts wont let you connect to it.

Quite few. Capacity on each frequency is different. Three has only 5 MHz on Band 20 (800), and they have 15 MHz on Band 3 (1800). They also have around 10 MHz on Band 1 (2100) which you may also see.

Some information on Bands and spectrum owned by each mobile operator:
https://pedroc.co.uk/content/uk-commercial-mobile-sp...

The mast can refuse you to connect to Band 20 if:
* You are a phone which does not support 4G Calling / VoLTE branded "SuperVoice" by Three
* You are a mobile broadband device and have a good Band 3 signal

It is down to the business policy configured technically on the mast. Each mast can be configured differently to cope with different geographical requirements.

Band 20 for voice calls has helped Three with indoor phone calls when they hope internet would be over WiFi. Many handsets also support voice calls over WiFi which also solves a problem.

Edited by jchamier (Fri 08-May-20 10:49:48)

The person has put it back up if you're still interested. Think they were making some changes to it. New name change along with it.

https://ltehmonitor.github.io/

Direct download: http://download.ltehmonitor.com/

Edited by deleted (Fri 15-May-20 02:40:52)