EE congestion?

ChrisD.

ChrisD.

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I am a season ticket holder for my local rugby team. Nearly every game I go, my 4G simply doesn't work. If I switch it to 3G, sometimes it works.

My mrs is on Vodafone and has perfect reception.

It's a pain because there is a large group of us and a few calls to arrange things, and my phone is pretty much a brick.

I used to get this with Three then O2, now I am getting it with EE.

Is this country wide or just specific areas?
 
EE has been poor form me down in bournemouth / poole area, hardly ever get signal in places I used to and when it is connected im lucky to get more that 5mb/s

If this carries on much longer i'll be moving
 
stuie said:
EE has been poor form me down in bournemouth / poole area, hardly ever get signal in places I used to and when it is connected im lucky to get more that 5mb/s

If this carries on much longer i'll be moving
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I am from Bournemouth as well and I am on virgin media mobile which uses the ee network and the lowest speed I get is 20mbps.

There are some places where the signal is rubbish like in pubs but apart from that it is fine.

Dan.
 
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I used to get the same issue at the football when on O2. I don't know the technicalities of these things but always assumed it was just a capacity issue. It's a bit better now I'm on EE but not much.

Thankfully my stadium now has fairly decent WiFi, so that helps.
 
lltfdaniel said:
I am from Bournemouth as well and I am on virgin media mobile which uses the ee network and the lowest speed I get is 20mbps.

There are some places where the signal is rubbish like in pubs but apart from that it is fine.

Dan.
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Currently sat in my office at tower park pushing 1.49mb down and 1.54mb up, galaxy s7 edge with no case on

was in moon in the square at the weekend couldnt even get a 4g connection
 
I've not noticed during matches, but certainly every lunch time my 02 connection in Newcastle city centre is noticeably slower. Not unusable but slow.

A good few years ago I got a Vodafone contract cancelled because there was literally no 3G connection whatsoever in the same area; it would show 3G, have full single strength, but NOTHING worked. After 8pm or so it would be OK. Weirdly my OH was also on Vodafone at the same time but got no problems, yet other people I worked with who were on VF always had the same problems that I did. It was definitely congestion.

These days you just seem to choose whoever is least poor. From what I can tell VF is now one of the better choices in the area when it used to be hands down the poorest. I think you will just have to try and get another provider, or use wifi if available.
 
I use GiffGaff which piggy backs someone, do they reserve bandwidth in those cases or if the main provider is swamped do all the piggy back providers get swamped too?

I don't seem to get the same degree of throttling when in busy places as I did on Vodafone.
 
stuie said:
Currently sat in my office at tower park pushing 1.49mb down and 1.54mb up, galaxy s7 edge with no case on

was in moon in the square at the weekend couldnt even get a 4g connection
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Where I am which is very close to Bournemouth international airport I get 20 Mbps min.

You should get the same as me if you was here but I am using a Nokia 8 here.

Dan
 
wesimmo said:
I use GiffGaff which piggy backs someone, do they reserve bandwidth in those cases or if the main provider is swamped do all the piggy back providers get swamped too?

I don't seem to get the same degree of throttling when in busy places as I did on Vodafone.
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I'm not sure if it's true but I've certainly read that before, something like this.

Tier 1- O2 Pay monthly + Business
Tier 2- O2 Pay as you go + Tesco Pay Monthly/pay as you go
Tier 3- Giff Gaff + Other MVNO's

I once switched from Giffgaff to O2 and did find it a bit better.
 
FishLicker said:
I've not noticed during matches, but certainly every lunch time my 02 connection in Newcastle city centre is noticeably slower. Not unusable but slow.

A good few years ago I got a Vodafone contract cancelled because there was literally no 3G connection whatsoever in the same area; it would show 3G, have full single strength, but NOTHING worked. After 8pm or so it would be OK. Weirdly my OH was also on Vodafone at the same time but got no problems, yet other people I worked with who were on VF always had the same problems that I did. It was definitely congestion.

These days you just seem to choose whoever is least poor. From what I can tell VF is now one of the better choices in the area when it used to be hands down the poorest. I think you will just have to try and get another provider, or use wifi if available.
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Exactly the issue I had with O2 some years back, it would be terrible at peak times such as lunchtime or when I was catching the bus home from work, other times it was fine. Had to switch as I couldn't even stream music on my journey home each day.
 
lltfdaniel said:
Where I am which is very close to Bournemouth international airport I get 20 Mbps min.

You should get the same as me if you was here but I am using a Nokia 8 here.

Dan
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Turns out it might be my s7 put my ee sim in an s6 an it doubled my performance. Its going back
 
Went to the Manchester derby recently at the Etihad Stadium. Struggled to get any kind of signal at all inside the stadium. Could not even send a text. I was not alone.
Other than that, I have never had any issues with EE.
 
I get the same issue with EE in Kings Cross station, full 4G reception, can call and text out but no internet, every time. I just assume its because there simply isn't enough capacity on the cell tower to handle all the connections of the people in the station and the surrounding offices, it most likely prioritised connections that have been on the tower for some time rather than the masses of people connecting to it and then leaving shortly after.

It works fine once I get out the station and connect to the next mast after the tunnel or further up the road.

Its also the same when I go to concerts but that 100% is a capacity issue, simply just too many phones in too small an area that doesn't normally get so much traffic.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
I get the same issue with EE in Kings Cross station, full 4G reception, can call and text out but no internet, every time. I just assume its because there simply isn't enough capacity on the cell tower to handle all the connections of the people in the station and the surrounding offices, it most likely prioritised connections that have been on the tower for some time rather than the masses of people connecting to it and then leaving shortly after.

It works fine once I get out the station and connect to the next mast after the tunnel or further up the road.

Its also the same when I go to concerts but that 100% is a capacity issue, simply just too many phones in too small an area that doesn't normally get so much traffic.
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Yeah concerts I accept, mrs has the same problem when there's 80 odd thousand. But Kingsholm has 14 thousand on a good day and Vodafone works perfectly. I may look at switching over.
 
Countcussy said:
Went to the Manchester derby recently at the Etihad Stadium. Struggled to get any kind of signal at all inside the stadium. Could not even send a text. I was not alone.
Other than that, I have never had any issues with EE.
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I spoke to a zyxel engineer a while ago who fits WiFi systems in stadiums and he said they don’t cover WiFi in the stand area as poeple can’t broadcast live streams of the match. I think this could be similar to mobile data too? Just a thought.
 
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