The 'almost 3g' experience on Orange (Myshra?)

TheCenturion

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I've had my orange contract for a year, and in my current location, not once have I got a 3g signal. I simply assumed that this was because it wasn't available in the area.

Last night however, I looked on my phone, and it didn't say 'g', it said 'H'. Awesome! Finally have 3g in the area! Started browsing, and it was all really fast, youtube loaded quickly etc. I had to reboot my phone for other reasons, but when I did, it was 'g' again :(

Haven't had 3g since, probably won't get it again in this area. Anyone know why I managed to pick up 3g?

I just checked the orange coverage checker, and in this postcode (RH13), there is excellent 2g and moderate 3g.

Thanks
 
Yes, that is one of the main reasons why I have moved to T-Mobile as I have access to both the Orange and T-Mobile networks for 3G and 2G
 
Your phone should automatically jump from just Orange to Orange T-Mobile when it needs to, well mine used to
 
You're safe. The previous time it did it is because you hit an Orange blackspot for >30s and it reverted to T-M.

Basically your phone is programmed to always stay on the home network until it can't, then switch and switch back if a signal can be found again that is both strong enough and consistent enough. If it finds the home signal within 1hr - it switches back, after 1hr it stays on the guest network. This stays until reboot of the radio (note - airplane mode will reboot it) on which the SIM will instruct the radio to connect to the home network.

Manual selection of the guest network will not do bad things, you're safe. Although some features for some phones go a bit wonky (talking like <0.1%), it's not perfect but honestly until 4G network design comes in, nothing ever will :)
 
Myshra said:
You're safe. The previous time it did it is because you hit an Orange blackspot for >30s and it reverted to T-M.

Basically your phone is programmed to always stay on the home network until it can't, then switch and switch back if a signal can be found again that is both strong enough and consistent enough. If it finds the home signal within 1hr - it switches back, after 1hr it stays on the guest network. This stays until reboot of the radio (note - airplane mode will reboot it) on which the SIM will instruct the radio to connect to the home network.

Manual selection of the guest network will not do bad things, you're safe. Although some features for some phones go a bit wonky (talking like <0.1%), it's not perfect but honestly until 4G network design comes in, nothing ever will :)
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Ezyryder said:
you won't!

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/share/
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Thanks very much :)
 
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