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Three Oversubscribed Areas Alert! (And What Action Has Three Taken)

Keswick is now oversubscribed!
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It is INCREDIBLY embarrassing for such a tiny network to have congestion issues.
 
Not really, considering they attract heavier users and have less to invest in upgrades, plus with a pending merger, major upgrades to many sites would be wasted money, especially in places Vodafone has upgraded such as my town.

It's not like they started having congestion issues last week, they've had them for years.

They chose to market their network in the way they did, with these silly rock bottom prices. They chose to spend an extraordinary, unsustainable amount of money on new sites rather than using their existing grid (read the accounts, they knew this would never work long term).

They have only themselves to blame, much like O2. They don't need defending.
 
Greendykes, Edinburgh, now oversubscribed, in spite of a mast with 1+3+20+28+32 covering it.

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If they added 5G, it would help. (I assume backhaul issues) Apparently there are improvement works scheduled soon so maybe they'll help? There's only really EE left now that's not a bit crap.
 
Warning for those in central Southampton (West quay, High Street, Above Bar, St Marys area).

Worst i've ever seen

No data throughput at all

No service at times

Calls are borderline usable

I don't know whether to blame 3 on this one because it is genuinely busy but EE did so i'll let you decide

eNB 3883

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Warning for those in central Southampton (West quay, High Street, Above Bar, St Marys area).

Worst i've ever seen

No data throughput at all

No service at times

Calls are borderline usable

I don't know whether to blame 3 on this one because it is genuinely busy but EE did so i'll let you decide

eNB 3883

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I live a few miles outside of Southampton and we use Smarty for our Broadband and have so for a year now. I love the £16 unlimited data, but this afternoon we had no data connectivity for a full 3-4 minutes!! The worst it has been.. Really thinking of moving to EE now.
 
Warning for those in central Southampton (West quay, High Street, Above Bar, St Marys area).

Worst i've ever seen

No data throughput at all

No service at times

Calls are borderline usable

I don't know whether to blame 3 on this one because it is genuinely busy but EE did so i'll let you decide

eNB 3883

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Update:

Planning application in 2020 shows that they have proposed a full upgrade for N78 support, even though it was approved it was never built so the possible reason for oversubscription is older equipment in addition to busy load.

The manager is Waldon Telecom

Existing

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Proposal

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Looks like it looking at the following.. Big outage at the time we had no internet for 15 mins:


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I've noticed improvements in the last 2 weeks now which is very apparent over the weekend where B3 + B32 + B20 maintains the CA combination for virtually daytime hours and the speed is getting more consistent. No works have happened and still flagged as oversubscribed which leaves me to only be able to guess that maybe they have been a bit more thrifty with the power settings? They used to sleep B32 but that stopped a long time ago. the 'faux G' from N1 is still unusable though unless it is 4 in the morning. The CA combo B20 + B32 + N1 is normally the same amount of bandwidth unless getting the B20 bonus when on the 4G combo mentioned earlier, however, I am having a guess again and that is B20 is overstretched and is too thin anyway! B28 seems even more stretched than B20 and doesn't perform well even in the dead of night as a 5G anchor. I still pine for the restoration of B1 😔
 
I've noticed improvements in the last 2 weeks now which is very apparent over the weekend where B3 + B32 + B20 maintains the CA combination for virtually daytime hours and the speed is getting more consistent. No works have happened and still flagged as oversubscribed which leaves me to only be able to guess that maybe they have been a bit more thrifty with the power settings? They used to sleep B32 but that stopped a long time ago. the 'faux G' from N1 is still unusable though unless it is 4 in the morning. The CA combo B20 + B32 + N1 is normally the same amount of bandwidth unless getting the B20 bonus when on the 4G combo mentioned earlier, however, I am having a guess again and that is B20 is overstretched and is too thin anyway! B28 seems even more stretched than B20 and doesn't perform well even in the dead of night as a 5G anchor. I still pine for the restoration of B1 😔
I should have kept my mouth shut as either I jinxed it or maybe they had turned up a dial by accident and dialled it even further back to correct themselves 😂. Shocking weekend performance and keep bouncing to the fire station (eNB ID 9255) this morning. I was pretty busy over the weekend but from what I did see the router was being put on 1302586 (download is usually OK but upload is sub 3Mbps) instead of 1302580. Seems weird that they would put the router on 1302586 with the B20 anchor and shocking SINR vs 1302580 with B3 anchor and fairly acceptable SINR.
 
Greendykes, Edinburgh, now oversubscribed, in spite of a mast with 1+3+20+28+32 covering it.

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If they added 5G, it would help. (I assume backhaul issues) Apparently there are improvement works scheduled soon so maybe they'll help? There's only really EE left now that's not a bit crap.
Interesting, whats the url for that checker? Curious what it reports for my area.
 
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