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Post by Clinton Cool on Dec 24, 2020 18:39:50 GMT
I'm useless. The issue I have: I can only get reception with my Internet sim card upstairs. So, I connect with a dongle upstairs. I'd prefer to be downstairs, particularly now I've finished making my industrial style table behind the window seat. The obvious thing to do is to put the Internet sim in my phone and connect via hotspot. Unfortunately when I try to do this it connects but I get a message on my computer 'no internet'. Connected but no internet, strange but not a surprise, problems with technology regularly blight my life.
I have 2 laptops (both barely work, for different reasons) I get the same message with both of them, suggests to me that the problem isn't with the laptop. So, I'm wondering if it might be my phone? I used to be able to connect with it via hotspot, but can't now. It's an el cheapo Chinese smartphone that, remarkably, is still working after 5 or 6 years. I haven't changed any settings, wouldn't know how to.
The obvious solution is to buy a new phone which I'm happy to do if this will solve the problem but knowing my luck with the technology it probably won't.
Any ideas?
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Post by Telemachus on Dec 24, 2020 18:45:11 GMT
I think sims for data devices and sims for phones are not exactly the same thing. I know I can’t take the sim out of my iPhone and put it in my iPad. Well I can physically, but it doesn’t work. Also I believe some sim contracts still don’t allow tethering to other devices.
Presuming you don’t want landline broadband, it would seem sensible to get a 4G wifi device with reasonable range, so that it can be upstairs and you can be downstairs. Or add a Wi-fi booster/repeater thingy to your existing device’s Wi-fi to strengthen it so it reaches downstairs.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2020 18:50:47 GMT
That's interesting.
I wonder if it's your Smarty £10 a month SIM.
I've got an EE and a Smarty £10 sim in my phone but have never tried tethering with the smarty SIM.
I know tethering is occasionally an issue with certain Sims.
Not sure why the word sim is all over the place case wise but it all happened under autocorrect.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2020 19:50:55 GMT
That's interesting. I wonder if it's your Smarty £10 a month SIM. I've got an EE and a Smarty £10 sim in my phone but have never tried tethering with the smarty SIM. I know tethering is occasionally an issue with certain Sims. Not sure why the word sim is all over the place case wise but it all happened under autocorrect. Smarty sims work in phones and mifi its what I use here and yes you can tether when its in the phone its what i did to send this.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2020 19:55:41 GMT
I did assume one could but I think Clinton Cool has one so wondered if maybe it was an issue. Perhaps it's his phone then. Sometimes phones randomly change their settings.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2020 20:06:06 GMT
I did assume one could but I think Clinton Cool has one so wondered if maybe it was an issue. Perhaps it's his phone then. Sometimes phones randomly change their settings. Mine doesn't, my wifes does, identical phones different operators, i rest my case.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Dec 24, 2020 21:14:42 GMT
I did assume one could but I think Clinton Cool has one so wondered if maybe it was an issue. Perhaps it's his phone then. Sometimes phones randomly change their settings. Yes I have the £10 Smarty sim. I don't think it's the sim because I had the same no internet problem when I used to use EE.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2020 21:18:52 GMT
You haven't upset xi Jin ping have you?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2020 0:16:54 GMT
weak wireless signal
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2020 7:21:36 GMT
Time to put your hand in your pocket.
If you are not going for a fixed line broadband line then invest in a 4g aerial to fix on your house, get the best sim in terms of signal and data and buy a router with a SIM card slot.
£120 should do it.
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Post by patty on Dec 25, 2020 7:34:11 GMT
Time to put your hand in your pocket. If you are not going for a fixed line broadband line then invest in a 4g aerial to fix on your house, get the best sim in terms of signal and data and buy a router with a SIM card slot. £120 should do it. When I had Horror House took over 3 months to sort out the broadband line..and that was a miners cottage in Wales on an hill If theres another alternative go for it..never had a decent signal even when connected.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Dec 25, 2020 8:41:20 GMT
Time to put your hand in your pocket. If you are not going for a fixed line broadband line then invest in a 4g aerial to fix on your house, get the best sim in terms of signal and data and buy a router with a SIM card slot. £120 should do it. Being a listed building I'm not allowed to fix anything to the outside with the exception of a 'discreet tv aerial'. Having said that: This whole area is a conservation zone but just about every house has broken the rules. Replacement gutters have to be cast iron apparently, I can only see plastic.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2020 8:59:04 GMT
A 4g aerial doesn't seem to be particularly severe. I definitely don't like satellite or TV aerials but these phone ones look quite small. Anyway if there is a signal upstairs presumably you could just place a router up there. Maybe a tMickeyika unit which comes with its own built in aerials. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TMickeyIKA-RUT240-4G-LTE-802-11n-M2M-Mobile-Wireless-Router-UK-Version-/172980789321£120 comes with own aerials but you could opt to extend the 4G aerial and mount it outside if you wanted to. I had a 3G one of these once and it seemed to be a decent quality bit of gear but I think it needs setting up with a PC.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2020 9:09:20 GMT
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Post by twbm2 on Dec 25, 2020 12:36:37 GMT
Are phone and dongle on the same network? Does the phone do internet stuff upstairs and downstairs if it's not tethering? How does it all work outside, back and front?
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