In reply to a post by adslmax:

I use about 27-42GB a month on mobile data but my smarty seem ok today pick up 33-56Meg down and 28-31Meg up. The last two days been awful slow.

To go from 0.3mbps to 33mbps seems odd. You might be at a cell-edge or something, if you're going to use this for your home broadband, see if there's a better part of the house to stick your tethered phone to coherce it onto the right cell tower. Try the phone outside.

Use this site as well: https://www.cellmapper.net/map

Finally, I notice if I lock my device to 3G I still get a solid 20mbps anyway, which is good enough for me. There are a lot less 3G devices around these days so that band can be more stable (i.e. free).

Edited by deleted (Thu 29-Oct-20 19:15:05)

Only it happen overnight 33-56Meg rest of peak times are very slow. I am going to try voxi for free sim and try it for £10 as I can't seem find cheaper £5?

In reply to a post by Anonymous1337:

Use this site as well: https://www.cellmapper.net/map

What does green and red spot circle in this map mean?

Mine is 0.5miles away from Smarty mast below:

eNB ID 5266 - LTE
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MCC / MNC / Region 234 / 20 / 2053
Bands 1, 3, 20
First Seen Sat, 28 Jan 2017
Last Seen Thu, 9 Jul 2020

I check EE (as Plusnet use EE) as mine mast was almost a mile away

MCC / MNC / Region 234 / 30 / 11041
Bands 3, 7
First Seen Wed, 17 Aug 2016
Last Seen Sat, 11 Jul 2020
Approximate Address
Halesfield 2, Halesfield, Madeley, Telford and Wrekin, England, TF7 4QQ, United Kingdom

Edited by adslmax (Thu 29-Oct-20 19:26:23)

In reply to a post by adslmax:

What does green and red spot circle in this map mean

The circles are locations of the cell sites. (Each site or "mast" in the UK typically has 3 cells, in a triangle formation, usually easy to see if old style mast, but harder on buildings or street works poles.)

Red is calculated position. Green is confirmed position by an enthusiast whom has updated it after visually checking. (or checking against Street View or similar).

The USA use the term "tower" which also will typically have 3 cell sites. In the US they have a lot of VERY tall towers, so it is quite an apt name. In the UK we often hid our masts in woods in rural areas. Now planning law has been updated so they can be taller, as the trees absorb a lot of the signal.

Your Three mast appears to be in the woods south of the A4160. Your EE mast (eNB 13237) appears to be on the top of the shopping centre.

If you click on the circle, (green ones are better) you can see the coverage pattern, if your home is inside one of those polygons then you are likely getting signal from that mast.

More people with Three or Smarty SIMs need to have Cellmapper on their Android devices and drive around updating the map in your area.

Edited by jchamier (Thu 29-Oct-20 19:49:06)

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Only it happen overnight 33-56Meg rest of peak times are very slow. I am going to try voxi for free sim and try it for £10 as I can't seem find cheaper £5?

Ok, well it's most likely congestion then. Three must be popular in the area. They seem to have a cluster of towers around Madeley however.

As for VOXI, yeah your right it's 10 quid I think for the minimum recharge.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Smarty has ruined my own number port over as it still show unknown number mess it up. As my other plusnet sim card still got my own number on it but the network no longer work as it was successful transfer to smarty. I text word PAC to 65075 on my smarty but say fail sent. Fuming now. Can't get my own number port back to Plusnet sim

You have made several posts since this one, and talking about trying other SIMs.

Changing your new SIM out and putting a new one in while waiting for a port to complete is almost certain to completely screw things up!

Smarty has finally transfer my own number but was very late indeed. two days not one day. Anyway I have managed to port number back to Plusnet and the number should go back to plusnet sim (on new sim card) tomorrow as my smarty will go off.

Edited by adslmax (Thu 29-Oct-20 23:59:33)

Here is smarty mobile speed test - pretty terrible for tether from mobile to pc

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/16040221927...

Edited by adslmax (Fri 30-Oct-20 02:23:32)

Both of those on Smarty?

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Edited by adslmax (Fri 30-Oct-20 02:07:31)