Phone / Data reception at oakwell

I'm on O2 and like others say, it's **** at the ground.


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Because no one else is on 3!

 

Do you go to the match on your horse and cart and in your sunday best suit?

Times move on mate. Some people used to listen to transistor radios to listen to the other football scores. Modern times = modern methods. However think ill be taking my radio if we get another huddersfield end game.

 

I've done the same for when i need it.

 

T mobile.

I have flawless signal and streaming anywhere I go.

At oakwell however I may aswell revert to calls and sms.

When you have probably 4 or 5k people all trying to use the same bandwidth on a small area its understandable.

What narks me is that plenty of times I see small kids watching videos. And all i want is a poxy refresh of a page which is about 4kb and ive no chance.

Also recently noticed that instead of "H" I know only get "E" as my connection and sometimes drops down to "3g". Always used to be "H". So summats changed

 

I'm on 3, internet is fine in the ground, possibly slightly slower, but can usually use live betting ok, for instance

 

I'm on 3 perfect single oakwell and everywhere else for that matter.

 

I'm on Vodafone and it's shocking, mind you Vodafone's terrible everywhere.

 

I used the be on orange 3G which was poor. Now on Ee 4g and it is very good.

 

I'm on o2 and it fine. Little slower but no probs at all with calls and the rest.

Try using it at any stadium, not just Oakwell. But try using it where a good number of people are like meadowhall for an example.

 

I am on 3 and have no problems

Son is on Tesco (O2) and never gets internet

 

I'm on Vodafone and its ballax in the West Stand.

 

I'm on talk-talk. Text and phone calls fine, but I never even bother trying to connect to the internet or fire up an app. Waste of time, I get nowt. However, my phone is only 3g, which is not worth the smell of my farts as far as I'm concerned. I can rarely download wherever I am.

 

I've moved from O2 to vodafone and they're equally as bad for 3G. Does anyone actually know the science behind it? I always thought the signal came from a satellite but surely the same satellite would cover a huge area and maybe a thousand people in Oakwell trying to use it shouldn't make much difference?

 

The signals transmitted from masts dotted around the region. Normally up on highest points. Closest O2 one to Oakwell is on Metrodome. Not sure if other operators share these or they all have their own.
so really, being in Oakwell and being Metrodome side of town centre should be equally as bad on match days. Although if ur in town you can connect to the free wifi.

Too many users and not enough bandwidth on 3G network.

I'm pretty sure the phone company's could increase the bandwidth or upgrade the mast or whatever it takes, but they don't give a **** about you now. They all paid mega bucks for the 4G network and want you all to upgrade. Think there's only Tesco that doesn't charge extra for 4G. Used to be £2.50 a month more but now it's free. Shame my shitty iPhone 5 can't use their 4G frequency.

Wifi is really only solution on match days and it wouldn't cost club a fortune to get it installed. Limit users bandwidth and block video streaming. Could also stick in the occasion advert in, collect fan data, charge it free with player subscription? It's possible and summat a football club in 2014 shod be providing. Much cheaper than a bloody scoreboard.

 

We are talking oak well here, have you seen the scoreboard, turn styles and toilets?

 

There lays the problem with almost everything Barnsley (including the town). We expect ****, we get ****. No need to complain.

if your television signal stopped and you were left with a grey screen, you'd complain. But if the mobile phone service you pay for becomes 'unavailable' on match days. Then that's ok, cos there's lots of other people about. Who incidentally are also paying for this service that isn't being provided.

 

I knew my work in the mobile industry would be useful eventually! Here's a brief guide...

Poor or no reception
All networks have a cell tower within reach of Oakwell, so this is probably caused by the cell tower "breathing", which sounds nice and fluffy, but actually means it reduces it's radio power to kick off the furthest connections. A cell tower does this when it's capacity is full so that it can serve at least some users well.
Solution: Build more towers or upgrade the existing ones!

Good signal but web pages or app data requests timeout
This is often caused by the "back-haul" links between the cell tower and the Internet, over your network carrier's own/rented infrastructure, being overloaded with requests. Most network operators don't build in capacity for 10,000 fans loading 1 or 2 cell tower links.
solution: Upgrade the network infrastructure (or build more towers)!

Changes afoot
O2 and Vodafone are merging networks, but only at the radio level, so your reception quality should be the same on both. Possible benefits are that they fill gaps in coverage and local capacity by keeping their existing masts from both original networks. Unfortunately they will remove some towers that overlap coverage to be used elsewhere to fill gaps in coverage.

I use Three and their coverage seems better than most, from a simple comparison with my mates. Bear in mind though that some makes/models of phone have better mobile reception than others.

 

I would, but hoss parking facilities are non existant. Talk about the match day XP!

 

Get paddy to look after the pony and give him summert to do.