And the reception afterwards...

[venta]

Has anyone else noticed Vodafone reception being particularly poor in the recent past ? I thought it was just the Whitby effect, but things don't seem to have improved since I got back. It's hard to be sure, because I live in a Faraday cage, but I think it's worse than normal. Even text messages seem to be doing a poor job of turning up in anything like reasonable time.

Is it just my imagination ? Or is it just that I've dropped my phone once too often, and its poor little antenna can't cope any more ?

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because I live in a Faraday cage

[thegreenman.livejournal.com]

Ah...chicken wire nailed to the walls and aluminium foil on all the windows? Does block the alien mind reading rays, but bad also for mobile reception.

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

its poor little antenna can't cope any more

My phone died a few months back. Previously it did have a lot of trouble finding the signal. It's the only time I ever bought an extended warranty (well, actually, it was the insurance against theft I was most interested in) and 3 years 11 months into a 4-year policy I got a new phone from the insurers - probably just because they couldn't be bothered to find the fault, or it wasn't cost-effective for them to do so. In the house the signal strength on the old phone was often only 1 or 2 bars, now it's usually almost full strength.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I know reception can vary with phone model - but to the best of my knowledge no one has ever got decent reception in our house, on any phone, on any network - barring (bizarrely) Virgin. Was sad to ditch my Virgin phone, actually, but they don't do contract, and my reception everywhere else was cack.

Must find out what's going on with my phone's insurance.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

I've never noticed having a problem. Which may mean I'm unobservant. But on those occasions I've checked, I've had coverage.

[surje.livejournal.com]

i had problems maintaining a GPRS connection over the last three weeks, but it got better as soon as i left cambridge to go to whitby, and has been fine since i got back. very strange!

[wimble.livejournal.com]

My old Ericsson, on BT Cellnet (as was) was incompetent at detecting a signal. The most impressive demonstration was failing to connect on Hampstead Heath (during the open air proms). I was the only person in a group of twenty with no signal. Until I removed and reinserted the battery, which miraculously gave me coverage.

I've had no problems with my siemens and vodafone coverage, even in the depths of our steel racked machine room. But then I've never scared my phone by taking it to Whitby.

[dmh.livejournal.com]

Me, I blame it on the Sun. Actually I find at the moment if I go downstairs I can't send text messages, though I can still receive them, which I don't fully understand. (And then there's the fact that thirty seconds before I get a text my VDU starts rolling. Never noticed it on any other monitors. But I digress.) I'm on Vodafone, BTW.

[kate-r.livejournal.com]

Don't seem to be experiencing any problems. The very reason I went with Vodaphone is that they have reception almost throughout Scotland - not a problem for you I'm sure but it's a necessity on the stuck in the middle of no where front.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, assuming dmh is right about it being caused by the sun, that'd explain why Scotland's fine :)

I suspect it's just my phone going funny though, then. The poor thing has had some harsh treatment recently.

[failmaster.livejournal.com]

ahhh, happy memories of standing in the middle of the road outside your house trying to get enough reception to tell the AA to come out and hot-wire my motorbike for me... =)