3 mobile broadband

Using a Huawei E169G on Vista SP2 we only get a max connection speed of
195kb/s... any idea how I can get an idea of what the signal strength is
where I am since the USB software soen't appear to have the facility to
check this..I suspect we are about 200m from the antennae (there is a
cluster of 3 separate masts very close to us...which is also close to a
motorway).
thanks.

Can you do a manual search to make sure you have 3g not 2g connection by
default possibly.

BigGirlsBlouse wrote:
> Using a Huawei E169G on Vista SP2 we only get a max connection speed of
> 195kb/s... any idea how I can get an idea of what the signal strength is
> where I am since the USB software soen't appear to have the facility to
> check this..I suspect we are about 200m from the antennae (there is a
> cluster of 3 separate masts very close to us...which is also close to a
> motorway).
> thanks.

You should be able to pinpoint your mast here:


http://www.sitefinder.ofcom.org.uk/

"BC" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> BigGirlsBlouse wrote:
>> Using a Huawei E169G on Vista SP2 we only get a max connection speed of
>> 195kb/s... any idea how I can get an idea of what the signal strength is
>> where I am since the USB software soen't appear to have the facility to
>> check this..I suspect we are about 200m from the antennae (there is a
>> cluster of 3 separate masts very close to us...which is also close to a
>> motorway).
>> thanks.
>
> You should be able to pinpoint your mast here:
>
>
> http://www.sitefinder.ofcom.org.uk/

Great site thanks.... never thought of offcom... and as I suspected there is
a "3" mast within 200m that is on 2.1GHz and UMTS...which I take to be 3G?

On 2008-07-20, BigGirlsBlouse <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> .... Vista SP2 ....

Good grief. I'd heard Vista was bad, but SP2 already?!

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> On 2008-07-20, BigGirlsBlouse <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> .... Vista SP2 ....
>
> Good grief. I'd heard Vista was bad, but SP2 already?!
>
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Ahhh yes.... my PC has Vista...and the PC in question has XP SP2. Slip of
the brain!