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jon1

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Was just about to post and say that I think the edge issue was completely fixed, because we’ve been driving for an hour and a half now and the phone we’re using for maps on Lebara hasn’t dropped to EDGE once yet, but mid post it did; although at the same time as my O2 SIM.

I haven’t seen it other than that, and it jumped back to LTE a lot quicker than my O2 SIM jumped to 3G.

I used to have a room at home where it would always drop to EDGE, that doesn’t happen anymore either

Are you guys still experiencing this?
 
Was just about to post and say that I think the edge issue was completely fixed, because we’ve been driving for an hour and a half now and the phone we’re using for maps on Lebara hasn’t dropped to EDGE once yet, but mid post it did; although at the same time as my O2 SIM.

I haven’t seen it other than that, and it jumped back to LTE a lot quicker than my O2 SIM jumped to 3G.

I used to have a room at home where it would always drop to EDGE, that doesn’t happen anymore either

Are you guys still experiencing this?
This is news to me, I keep getting EDGE in town which is frustratingly unusable right at the crucial moments (Lebara), is this because of the 3G switch off? I only have a 4G device, dunno if switching would help.
 
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Was just about to post and say that I think the edge issue was completely fixed, because we’ve been driving for an hour and a half now and the phone we’re using for maps on Lebara hasn’t dropped to EDGE once yet, but mid post it did; although at the same time as my O2 SIM.

I haven’t seen it other than that, and it jumped back to LTE a lot quicker than my O2 SIM jumped to 3G.

I used to have a room at home where it would always drop to EDGE, that doesn’t happen anymore either

Are you guys still experiencing this?
Yep still happening... but I've began to only notice it if I'm on the phone on handsfree or if my other half is driving and I'm just surfing the web...
 
Yep still happening... but I've began to only notice it if I'm on the phone on handsfree or if my other half is driving and I'm just surfing the web...

I’ve not noticed it as much but it’s still happening for me. Having a physical SIM card makes a big difference where I am.
 
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Am I right in thinking this will be affecting all the networks? (Except O2 as they still have a year of 3G left or whatever before switch off)?

Frustrating as I tested EE/3/Voda in my town center over a few months and Voda seemed to come out on top for the locations I frequent, now that's out the window again I'm back to square 1. (EE Data was nothing in the location too, flicked my bnesim to auto (O2/3/EE) so next week I'll perhaps have a better idea).
 
Am I right in thinking this will be affecting all the networks? (Except O2 as they still have a year of 3G left or whatever before switch off)?

Frustrating as I tested EE/3/Voda in my town center over a few months and Voda seemed to come out on top for the locations I frequent, now that's out the window again I'm back to square 1. (EE Data was nothing in the location too, flicked by bnesim to auto (O2/3/EE) so next week I'll perhaps have a better idea).

This is largely an issue with Vodafone and seemingly their configuration. Lines are dropping down to Edge and getting stuck there even when there’s good coverage.

The other networks like EE don’t suffer from this as much as they push users to 4G or 5G more aggressively.
 
This is largely an issue with Vodafone and seemingly their configuration. Lines are dropping down to Edge and getting stuck there even when there’s good coverage.

The other networks like EE don’t suffer from this as much as they push users to 4G or 5G more aggressively.
Wow, Vodafone really seems to be going down the pan huh.
First their land Fibre to the Premises routes people up and back down the country for "load balancing" (fk your ping right), now their Mobile network is crapping down to EDGE all over the country.

I knew voda was crap for CS etc, thought their broadband was okay though, wrong.
Thought their mobile newtwork was atleast performant and decent (which it seemingly was up until recently). wrong.

Their incompetence is through the roof, might have to look at switching again (yay/ugh).
 
Wow, Vodafone really seems to be going down the pan huh.
First their land Fibre to the Premises routes people up and back down the country for "load balancing" (fk your ping right), now their Mobile network is crapping down to EDGE all over the country.

I knew voda was crap for CS etc, thought their broadband was okay though, wrong.
Thought their mobile newtwork was atleast performant and decent (which it seemingly was up until recently). wrong.

Their incompetence is through the roof, might have to look at switching again (yay/ugh).

Their customer service, much like most companies these days, is terrible. I nearly moved to Voda broadband but they stuff it up (lucky escape!).

I don’t think everyone has the Edge issue, some are reporting that it’s fixed but then how many people notice. Unless you’re using data you might not and even if someone notices will they know the difference between Edge and 4G?
 
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Their customer service, much like most companies these days, is terrible. I nearly moved to Voda broadband but they stuff it up (lucky escape!).

I don’t think everyone has the Edge issue, some are reporting that it’s fixed but then how many people notice. Unless you’re using data you might not and even if someone notices will they know the difference between Edge and 4G?
I don't think EDGE can even handle a WhatsApp call, or if it does it's delayed and laggy as hell/unusable, atleast in my recent experience.
 
I don't think EDGE can even handle a WhatsApp call, or if it does it's delayed and laggy as hell/unusable, atleast in my recent experience.
I Can't speak for WhatsApp but I have done VoIP Calls using other platforms over an EDGE Connection before. There was a noticeable delay but definitely nothing I would consider unusable. Call quality was surprisingly fine.

The old 2G Technology has fairly high latency, but the speed itself is more than enough to carry voice over data.
 
I Can't speak for WhatsApp but I have done VoIP Calls using other platforms over an EDGE Connection before. There was a noticeable delay but definitely nothing I would consider unusable. Call quality was surprisingly fine.

The old 2G Technology has fairly high latency, but the speed itself is more than enough to carry voice over data.
Delay is purely the issue I was facing, like 3 seconds plus, difficult to have a quick conversation, then normal calls wouldn't connect either, dog****!
I'm frustrated! lol
Edit: Maybe I should have a b***h at Lebara and see if they give me a free month or something.
 
Delay is purely the issue I was facing, like 3 seconds plus, difficult to have a quick conversation, then normal calls wouldn't connect either, dog****!
I'm frustrated! lol
Edit: Maybe I should have a b***h at Lebara and see if they give me a free month or something.
I don’t think I was anywhere near 3 seconds of delays in my calls. And if you say you couldn’t even get a normal call to connect either it sounds like something was very wrong with the network in your area at the time.
 
I don’t think I was anywhere near 3 seconds of delays in my calls. And if you say you couldn’t even get a normal call to connect either it sounds like something was very wrong with the network in your area at the time.
I don't want to sound dramaic but I think there must be, and I say this because I chose VF specifically for the performance/service I was getting in said area, now it's trash/temperamental at best.
 
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I Can't speak for WhatsApp but I have done VoIP Calls using other platforms over an EDGE Connection before. There was a noticeable delay but definitely nothing I would consider unusable. Call quality was surprisingly fine.

The old 2G Technology has fairly high latency, but the speed itself is more than enough to carry voice over data.
I tried many times to start an nPerf test on edge and I couldn’t get throughput
 
Edit: Maybe I should have a b***h at Lebara and see if they give me a free month or something.
Tried to moan at Lebara and they just told me to restart my phone then asked if I had a 4G connection, which I confirmed I did as I did at the start of the conversaion explaining I'm not currently at the location having issues..

Woop!
 
I tried many times to start an nPerf test on edge and I couldn’t get throughput

Same. - it fails almost every time.
 
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