Posts by jonfr 482 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2010
The reason 3G works so bad in many areas is this. It has been oversold as a broadband solution to people. This means there are too few transmitters in the area and two few users. This is the reason where in many area mobile phone companies re-direct voice calls two 2G in areas with high data usage. I am not sure what 3G only mobile phone company do in this type of situation.
With LTE and 4G taking over as data service networks. The issue with 3G should soon resolve it self. At least I hope so.
This is a smart move. Not only does it free up spectrum. But it also allows for faster service and better coverage for 3G/LTE. In the U.S they use 850/1900/1700/2100Mhz for 3G. I am not sure what is used for LTE besides 700Mhz.
I am expecting that carriers in Europe are going to start doing the same soon. They are having same issues with 3G and LTE in terms of spectrum usage.
I do not understand the logic behind current spectrum use. For instance, LTE (4G) now has the option of using 800Mhz (not the same as 850Mhz as GSM/3G uses), 1800Mhz and 2600Mhz. GSM has in Europe only 900/1800Mhz. At the same time 3G has only 900/2100Mhz in Europe. The amount of spectrum allocated to LTE is interesting in this terms. But the mobile bubble is going to go bust soon or move over to short range WLAN in terms of data and speed (802.11n offers at minimum 150Mbps over air. But 300Mbps is common today). The move over to WLAN means the bubble is going to pop for mobile network companies in terms of data usage.
It is also a fact that GSM is still in full use today. So today we have 2G, 3G and LTE (technical 3.9G but they call it 4G). If they want to free up spectrum. They should start by cleaning up 900Mhz of 2G and move it to 1800Mhz while it is still in use. But the limit is that 2G in areas where population is limited is better off using 900Mhz.
Both technical standards and spectrum wise the mobile service and industry is getting it self into a whole a lot of problems by not dropping 2G orderly and in decent way. It should have started to do so years ago. But has not done so yet and that is evolving into a big problem.
As for myself. I am going to use 2G on my mobile phones for the next 2 - 3 years. As 3G coverage is still lacking in many areas. In some areas it is none at all. This applies mostly to Iceland, where I am from. But most of Iceland has no 3G coverage from Vodafone/Nova. Síminn has better 3G coverage in part of Iceland. But it still full of holes and no coverage areas. When it comes down to it. The failure of 3G is lack of coverage and over demand to use it as broadband service. Rather then to use it as voice and data service for mobile phones. As it was intended originally I suspect.
Where I live in Denmark 3G coverage seems to be decent (I use Telia DK. I also roam into Telia DK with my Icelandic phones). But with holes in it (some large). It is also a problem that 3G bandwidth has been oversold to mobile broadband (slow and expensive) in Denmark. This comes down on voice quality on mobile phones during peak hours. But with LTE being rolled out in Denmark that might change with time. This pattern is going to be repeated with elsewhere, including in the UK in my view.
I can only use examples that I know of. Those are from Iceland and Denmark at this point. I do roam into GSM/3G when I go to Germany. But that is not so often I do so properly and for long period of time.
I am never going to use Windows 8. No reason to do so. I am also not going to use Windows 9 or Windows 10. But that does not give Microsoft the right to tell me what I can and can't boot on my own computer.
This is getting out of hand. This is our hardware that we buy for our money. They might have designed the Os and "licensed" it to us. But it does not give them right to control what we boot on our own hardware.
I am never going to buy a Windows phone from Nokia, or anyone else for that matter. My last Nokia phone that I buy might be Nokia 701 Symbian. But I am still considering that options. Since my current phones are rather new.
Too bad that there are not many 3G phones that support 850/900/1700/1900/2100 as Nokia N8/700/701 does. I want nothing less.
Sad story about Nokia. But this is what you get when you hire a Microsoft office pencil pusher to work in your company. The lesson. Do not deal with Microsoft unless you want your company to go the bankrupt way.
My next mobile phone won't be Nokia. But it is going to be something that can handle at least 3G 850/900/1700/1900/2100 and GSM 850/900/1800/1900. I might just buy a other Nokia N8 when my current phone dies of old age (going to happen in the end), or just move to a different brand. I am not yet sure about Android. But maybe it has developed a bit since I last version that I used (v1.5).
But I won't be buying any of Nokia Windows phones.
I am never going to a Windows phone. It is a bad security risk. I also find Android not up the task yet. Maybe in about five more years it is going to be ready. However I do not like Google control over it and lack of features.
As for Symbian. It is a bad move to kill it as they are doing by moving to a Windows phone. But this is what happens when they did hire an ex-Microsoft guy as CEO. It was an bad move that is going to cost them billions of euros in the end.
Hello Mr. Wrong and UKIP supporter at The Register.
The Greece might well be having hair raising problems in terms of debt problems. But as they are a country they cannot default (a common mistake) on its debt. But they can and often have refused to pay back what they owe to its creditors. From what I can tell that is not going to happen to Greece or Italy. While the problems are big and complex, they are going to be solved and fixed. It is just going to take some more time. I also have no worries about the euro. It is going to remain and only get better with age.
Now. If I where you I would worry about that pound that you have. The inflation rates are not looking good for the next 48 months forecast.
The sad reality is that reporting child porn can land one in jail. It has happened and can happen again. If one wants to report this to the cops, he better do it anonymously. So one does not land in jail.
I am sure that the authorities did not have a clue about what was going on there.
Here is a tinyurl on the news reports on those matters from three years ago, http://tinyurl.com/cuzklh
Here is the obligatory youtube link, http://youtu.be/i8z7NC5sgik
It seems that nobody bothered check the web site in question. The fact of the matter is that this website is nothing but selling bullshit to people. That is nonsense. It is also quite badly coded in html as can clearly be seen.
The fact that this website has nothing to do with standard time makes this lawsuit baseless and it should be thrown out of court in the U.S. Somebody should also sue that guy for scams that he is currently selling to people. Because it is nothing else.
I fear that the keeper of this Unix time database reacted too quickly. The owner of that bullshit website astrolable cannot due anything but loose. As he has no facts. In fact he got less then nothing to support his case.
Now. Can somebody please sue him or report him to the FBI for the scams that he is currently selling over the internet.
What you have there is a monopole antenna with a amplifier. This might work for you if the noise level is not too high. I wonder how your signal is in the rain. But I do not know what the gain is for you type of antenna. But I am assuming that it is somewhere between 4 to 9dBm or in that range.
But I have refined my advice for you. But you might need some how knows radios and antennas to build this for you. As this is home made do it your self high gain Wlan antenna (19dBi gain).
The instructions can be found here, http://trevormarshall.com/waveguides.htm
The guy how did design this has a phd or so claims his web site. The bigger this antenna is, the higher the gain is.
There are only something of four years until that outraged mom has to explain sex to here kid. Regardless if she likes it or not.
Otherwise it is clear that it is getting rather annoying all the people how make up the outrage when something like this happens. The people should be revealed. Reality has finally come to the kids on how the world works and it saved a lot of explanation by the parents and the sex ed, teachers.
Unless the parents want to live in a bubble...a big bubble world.
You need a parabolic wlan antenna. You have to build it your self and all. But this type of antenna should give you the range and the signal strength that you need for wlan communications for up to 10 km if your antenna is big enough.
Here are some basic instructions for this, http://www.educypedia.be/electronics/Wlan-antenna/wlan-antennas2.htm
I think it is quite clear that there is no life there. But there might be a liquid water there at the equator. But no life, my argument for that is this star system is actually too cold for a life to evolve there.
More information on this solar system.
http://www.solstation.com/stars/gl581.htm
Given that in the U.S they use GSM850/1900 (3G1700/2100/1900/850) there is no way that the cell mast have any health effects what so ever. The transmission power is also quite small, just 10 to 50W at maximum.
Given those facts in mind. I say that in confidence that this peoples are idiots. The mobile companies should do this people a favor and remove all the mobile masts in 2km range or more.
I doubt that they have tested it for 10 million hours as claimed, as 10 million hours are 6944 days, or 578 years according to my calculations done with Google.
How this calculation was done. I did break down 10 million hours my divide them into 60 min, then I did divide again with 24 hours to get the days, and I finally did divide that number with 12 months in the year to get numbers of years. This might all be wrong that I am doing here. So please do check them, as they might be wrong. When I mean wrong, I mean wrong. I disaster like wrong.
I still doubt that Microsoft has tested anything more then up to 10 to 24 months. But no more.
You also can get mac address from IPv4. The only difference is that it is not used to make a IP address like in IPv6, where part of the mac address you have comes from your nic.
But random strings in IPv6 already hide those anyway. So people should be pretty secure with IPv6.
Now I see it. When the hand actually touches the antenna it gets connected to the ground, and therefore loses signal sensitivity.
Other phones then iPhone 4 don't have that problem, as they don't allow the antenna getting touched by the skin and therefore make a ground connection.
It's is all Apple fault this time around, and there videos won't change a thing in that regard. I also figured out with the Nokia N97 video that they might easily be running a manual tuned signal blocker to fake the video, besides having the battery at the lowest possible level.
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