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Wombat457 said:
That's the trouble we have with cell service - where I am, we get nothing, 1 mile up the road and we get a near perfect signal. But verizon, in its infinite wisdom, has chosen NOT to put any more towers in due to cost. They don't mind taking money for phones and plans tyhey claim work in our area though :(
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I ended up buying a signal amplifier. Got tired of paying a bill for a sketchy service. I went from no service or 1 bar to 3 or 5 bars with the commensurate data speed increase. Had to play with an app and a compass to aim it...
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I'm noticing more sluggishness tonight in the US. Sometimes it is good, other times I could sit and wait for a good minute or so before a thread opens...
 
Wombat457 said:
We have an internet fibre optic phone linked to our internet obviously - $24 a month with unbelievable cheap international calling. I call Australia for $0.04 cents per minute :)
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Luckily Australian mobile phone operators actually want people to use their phones and call abroad, so I get unlimited calls and 1,000 sms to 30 countries, totally free, on top of the 165Gb data allowance I have and unlimited calls to landline and mobiles inside Australia as well. My data allowance can be banked to a maximum of 1Tb.

So basically, use the phone as much as I want to, and pay AU$54 (£27) a month for 5G not capped data speed. If I drop to a cheaper plan the 5G speed is capped... but I doubt i would see much difference at home.

Our main problem is that they have dialed the power of the 5G signal back too far. We used to get 3 bars on 5G in my corner of the sitting room, but now we're lucky to see 1 bar. It's frustrating because we know we can get a signal. They're just not giving it to us anyhow and we can only make or receive calls in 1 corner of the house.

Once I have a job, we'll have to shell out the $3,000 to get a signal booster and register it. It's not safe having no phone signal at all, with no way of getting help with there being no landline (there used to be one, but how knows where and when it vanished, there's nothing in the wall anywhere to plug a phone in, so it's been gone a long time).
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Luckily Australian mobile phone operators actually want people to use their phones and call abroad, so I get unlimited calls and 1,000 sms to 30 countries, totally free, on top of the 165Gb data allowance I have and unlimited calls to landline and mobiles inside Australia as well. My data allowance can be banked to a maximum of 1Tb.

So basically, use the phone as much as I want to, and pay AU$54 (£27) a month for 5G not capped data speed. If I drop to a cheaper plan the 5G speed is capped... but I doubt i would see much difference at home.

Our main problem is that they have dialed the power of the 5G signal back too far. We used to get 3 bars on 5G in my corner of the sitting room, but now we're lucky to see 1 bar. It's frustrating because we know we can get a signal. They're just not giving it to us anyhow and we can only make or receive calls in 1 corner of the house.

Once I have a job, we'll have to shell out the $3,000 to get a signal booster and register it. It's not safe having no phone signal at all, with no way of getting help with there being no landline (there used to be one, but how knows where and when it vanished, there's nothing in the wall anywhere to plug a phone in, so it's been gone a long time).
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Might be bit cheaper than your $3000 booster if you can get this:

Telstra landline plans and rates | Telstra

Regardless, living in the Aussie bush you do need reliable communications.
 
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