Comments for Premitel http://www.premitel.com Making IT Work Mon, 10 May 2010 09:38:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Faster broadband and the 20Mb myth by admin http://www.premitel.com/advice/faster-broadband/comment-page-1/#comment-77 admin Mon, 10 May 2010 09:38:59 +0000 http://www.premitel.com/?p=904#comment-77 Ron Unfortunately, there isn't a solution as long as your broadband is provided over your telephone line. You do not even have the luxury of being misled about 20Mb services as your exchange has only the 8Mb service so the maximum that you can get on your line will be about 6Mb. Exchanges across the UK are gradually being upgraded to the 20Mb service. There are signal boosters available for mobile phones to improve coverage indoors, but these are illegal since they involve retransmission of the mobile signal. However, there are other ways of improving mobile reception indoors. With Orange you need to get a Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) compatible phone and this uses the wifi network in your house for mobile phone access via your internet connection. Do you want more information? Stephen Ron

Unfortunately, there isn’t a solution as long as your broadband is provided over your telephone line.

You do not even have the luxury of being misled about 20Mb services as your exchange has only the 8Mb service so the maximum that you can get on your line will be about 6Mb.

Exchanges across the UK are gradually being upgraded to the 20Mb service.

There are signal boosters available for mobile phones to improve coverage indoors, but these are illegal since they involve retransmission of the mobile signal.

However, there are other ways of improving mobile reception indoors.

With Orange you need to get a Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) compatible phone and this uses the wifi network in your house for mobile phone access via your internet connection.

Do you want more information?

Stephen

]]> Comment on Faster broadband and the 20Mb myth by Ron Kennedy http://www.premitel.com/advice/faster-broadband/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Ron Kennedy Mon, 10 May 2010 09:20:37 +0000 http://www.premitel.com/?p=904#comment-76 Interesting, but doesn't offer a solution? A similar situation is that my Orange mobile signal is next to non existant in most parts of my office/house. Signal outside can be good! There used to be a signal booster kit- still on markert? Interesting, but doesn’t offer a solution?
A similar situation is that my Orange mobile signal is next to non existant in most parts of my office/house. Signal outside can be good! There used to be a signal booster kit- still on markert?

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