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Unstered eSIMs network selection mechanism

bob

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There some eSIMs which allow regional or global roaming across multiple networks in the same area.
I understand there is no intelligence in eSIM itself and "unsteered" means the eSIM host device can use its own method to chose network.

How in this case iPhone behaves? I guess it just tries to stay on the same network as long as possible ignoring any stronger other network signals? Or not?

As a single radio signal bar doesn't mean there will be internet connectivity is there a way to ensure I am always connected to strongest signal network?

In WiFI there is somewhat similar in principle setting "roaming aggressiveness" adjustment, which I think I need something similar in 4G/5G across different networks.

Given many frequencies for many networks, technically I am not sure if a single lets say iphone radio can stay reliably connected and scan all other frequencies rapidly at the same time.

Thanks
 
There some eSIMs which allow regional or global roaming across multiple networks in the same area.
I understand there is no intelligence in eSIM itself and "unsteered" means the eSIM host device can use its own method to chose network.

How in this case iPhone behaves? I guess it just tries to stay on the same network as long as possible ignoring any stronger other network signals? Or not?

As a single radio signal bar doesn't mean there will be internet connectivity is there a way to ensure I am always connected to strongest signal network?

In WiFI there is somewhat similar in principle setting "roaming aggressiveness" adjustment, which I think I need something similar in 4G/5G across different networks.

Given many frequencies for many networks, technically I am not sure if a single lets say iphone radio can stay reliably connected and scan all other frequencies rapidly at the same time.

Thanks
My dodgy dodgy esim choices whatever network it sees first. Then, if that one drops its service, it switches.
 
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Tell me more about dodgt eSIMs, out of curiosity
It was posted on the forum a while ago… it consisted of some strange website where you paypalled them £3.50 and you got a 15 day eSIM with 3GB data but it could access all networks in the UK and also worked internationally for free all over the world. Once you had sent them the money, you went into a discord server and paste a code emailed to you into a bot channel which generated the eSIM.

there is a channel in the discord server which lists all countries and networks it connects to.
 
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It was posted on the forum a while ago… it cinsisted of some strange website where you paypalled them £3.50 and you got a 15 day eSIM with 3GB data but it could access all networks in the UK and also worked internationally for free all over the world. Once you had sent them the money, you went into a discord server and paste a code emailed to you into a bot channel which generated the eSIM.

there is a channel in the discord server which lists all countries and networks it connects to.
Blimey, dodgy dodgy indeed 😀
 
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Agreed. So glad I used PayPal, even though the purchase went fine and the eSIM worked good lol. Just an extra level of protection.
Yes, you don't want another Lyca debacle Bubbles. :rolleyes: 😊
 
Yes, you don't want another Lyca debacle Bubbles. :rolleyes: 😊
Honestly, I wouldn’t want another TalkHome more like. Charging me for 2 months of service after my number ported out and swearing they didn’t after I even emailed them screenshots of the transaction!! Glad NatWest put a stop to that and did a chargeback.
 
Honestly, I wouldn’t want another TalkHome more like. Charging me for 2 months of service after my number ported out and swearing they didn’t after I even emailed them screenshots of the transaction!! Glad NatWest put a stop to that and did a chargeback.
I got a bill in for 51p from TalkMobile after mine was cancelled, I'm hoping it is cancelled as my login no longer works.

I did call the to cancell and they assured me it was, hopefully the 51p will be the last. :rolleyes:
 
I got a bill in for 51p from TalkMobile after mine was cancelled, I'm hoping it is cancelled as my login no longer works.

I did call the to cancell and they assured me it was, hopefully the 51p will be the last. :rolleyes:
My TalkMobile sim got lost in the post so I just cancelled the account. My TalkHome sim was the issue.
 
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That’s what it decided to connect to whilst being sat in my living room. Does make sense as three is the only network with usable and receivable signal down here thanks to B28. If I go upstairs and airplane mode (on/off) it seems to select EE or O2 (it supports EE and O2 5G).
 
It was posted on the forum a while ago… it cinsisted of some strange website where you paypalled them £3.50 and you got a 15 day eSIM with 3GB data but it could access all networks in the UK and also worked internationally for free all over the world. Once you had sent them the money, you went into a discord server and paste a code emailed to you into a bot channel which generated the eSIM.

there is a channel in the discord server which lists all countries and networks it connects to.
This is amazing...
 
Blimey, dodgy dodgy indeed 😀
Card is just Stripe so about as safe as PayPal, Sellix is just another spinoff site that pays them out in Crypto for card payments hence why their using it
 
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How come foreign roaming network lists like this see Airtel-Vodafone and Vodafone as seperate networks? Is there some history where they were seperate?
 
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