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Bonovox
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I guess if people dont want to move networks and their coverage looks like never improving then it could be a worthy investment for mobile home coverage. By the way your 50mb downloads i presume your on Virgin? Is it what its cracked up to be? When i first heard about 50mb speeds i was sceptical at first.
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masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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From: Sydney, London
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um, ok, I don't actually get 50mbit... but by 3 separate speed tests I get around 48mbit which is close enough 
it took Virgin engineers 3 attempts to get me that speed though otherwise I wasn't going to pay for it
fortunately, I have 200mbit A/C adaptor thingys through the house in the various rooms that have PC's, and my vaio has 802.11n wifi to make use of it too
coming from BT, then Sky ADSL with max 8mbit, I'm well impressed
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Bonovox
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Wow 200mb  I recently seen on the news about still large parts of the UK still have dial up speeds. Oh dear. We are very far behind on tech in the UK.
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masseur
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well, these 200mbit adaptors achieve that through the electricity supply of the house, but if they are only fed by 48mbit thats all you get. But when I finally get the server setup I want (i.e. several terrabytes of HD space) with videos etc then it will hopefully work better for that than any current broadband delivery
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Bonovox
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Oh through the electric i see. And terrabytes blimey try not to blow the house power up now lol. At present i dont have home broadband i use an Orange mobile modem. Its ok for my use i used to have a 3UK one but found their network slow where i live cos of poor coverage. My best friend in Hungary she lives out in the sticks there by lake Balaton and she still has slow dial up speeds its awful. Anyway im off to sleep now got a day of packing to do tomorrow am off to see family in Ireland on Friday. Ciao
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imazz
Joined: Sep 13, 2005
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Some more info:-
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/vodafone_femtocell/
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carkitter
Joined: Apr 29, 2005
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From: Auckland, NZ
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On 2009-06-24 14:20:00, Bonovox wrote:
4G might be as good as home broadband. But in the UK 3G coverage is still so patchy they will be biting off more than they can chew if they start going on about 4G.
Exactly.
3G at 3.6Mbps should be ok for home broadband but it was revealed recently that the UK gets on average 1.0Mbps through 3G and that's even using some 7.2Mbps capable towers. The problem therefore is getting the signal from the macrocell (celltower) to the handset and femtocells remove a lot of that problem. Can you imagine 4G arriving and networks advertising speeds up to 155Mbps and then delivering 1/7 of that speed due to traffic and signal decay? They'd generate even more negative press than they get now over 3G speeds.
@Massuer
OOOh! Ethernet over power - Nice!
Is it secure? I've heard that the signal travels to your neighbours power sockets too. Do you get many lost packets or interference of any sort?
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Superluminova
Joined: Feb 24, 2002
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Vodafone is really pushing these to our staff, should be good for customer in patchy areas like me, but i think i will need to upgrade my broadband from 2mb, damm Virgin. lol
To be honest we don't expect man people to buy these they will be bundled in with packages etc...
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masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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From: Sydney, London
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On 2009-06-29 23:46:08, carkitter wrote:
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@Massuer
OOOh! Ethernet over power - Nice!
Is it secure? I've heard that the signal travels to your neighbours power sockets too. Do you get many lost packets or interference of any sort?
works perfectly in my experience, and apparantly the signal does not go out of your house
this is what I use and here is their FAQ for how safe and secure it is, including an item on exactly your question
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Superluminova
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Ok can finally inform folks of pricing:
12 month connection: £10pm
18 month connection: £7pm
24 month connection: £5pm
£160 to buy outright.
It will also be bundled into selected price plans.
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lukechris
Joined: Dec 30, 2007
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From: Preston, UK
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On 2009-06-29 23:46:08, carkitter wrote:
@Massuer
OOOh! Ethernet over power - Nice!
Is it secure? I've heard that the signal travels to your neighbours power sockets too. Do you get many lost packets or interference of any sort?
I've used those for nearly 2 years now, yes their safe, they just lose connection if a neighbour gets one, just reconnect them and walla
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Bonovox
Joined: Apr 13, 2008
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I cant get one of these yet. But i have a question. I currently am back with O2 pay and go and their internet still leaves much to be desired. At the best of times its slower than Vodafone GPRS lol. Anyway i would love to go back to Vodafone cos i love their pre pay tariff but where i live there is zero 3G unless i stand in my garden  Now with that in mind i now know O2 and Vodafone have tied up to share networks and O2 have perfect 3G coverage where i live. My question is how long does it normally take for masts to start being shared and can i ring or mail head office at Vodafone and ask them to put things up a gear for the masts to be shared by me? Its been since 2002 that Vodafone where i live to this day that they still have no 3G where i live. GSM is perfect.
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