Martyn Hicks

Obviously the amount of people that are on your network are reducing that signal quality. it may be that your on the cheapest network that’s why everyone else is on it. but the cheapest network may not be the best network though.

It’s all down to the Networks and the location it also helps using a decent quality (cat) router.

Hi Chris. What information would you like and I’ll see if I can help out.

The account surely is direct with Scancom so no good speaking with the individual networks as they won’t have the account details.

They differ by a long way can’t be connected to one another

I haven’t got a Scancom sim. but I’ve got 02 EE and 3 so can test those prior to starting a job. I can go from a low of 0-5 mbs up to 120 mbs depending on the location and which network. as there are only 4 main providers 02 EE 3 and Vodaphone then surely Scansom is picking off one of them.

The speed is all down to each individual network and how close the mast is away and also the equipment. With normal cost effective equipment there is no way you will get speeds of 300mbs inside a steel boat.

Each to their own I think. some people don’t have TV’s on board anyway.

Yeah of course running internet/ WiFi you have to have a sim and there’s a monthly fee attached to that. with the aerial your watching Tv on a big screen and not say just a phone to stream. You may not have a Facebook account or do social media aerial may not be to good so you have the satellite system for your tv needs. you could write up a list of pro’s and con’s for each Aerial Satellite and Internet

What I have noticed over the last few years my satellite Tv equipment has dropped away because having internet/ WiFi not only give you Tv options so you won’t need an aerial or a satellite dish, but the internet/WiFi route allows you to do much more eg social media, banking, Utube, Netflix but it’s all dependent on the network sim your using and the location have decent equipment helps as well.

Crick black hole of Calcutta so you’ll need some decent equipment to get a workable signal. networks very poor there.

It could mean that the Smarty sim you have may not work at Crick but is ok up at Yelvertoft as an example. it’s all about trial and error. trying to find the best network that works in most places. then sorting out your needs re the equipment if your working from the boat and need to do video conference calling a high WiFi speed will be needed so as well as the Network and Location in this instance equipment will play a big part. but if you just want to stream a bit of tv or do a bit of social media and emails you won’t need the big download speeds. reasonable equipment and having the correct or the best network sim for the area where your cruising I feel is the vital criteria in that case.

Where in those poor signal areas that’s where the equipment can make a huge difference I’ve found. using a cat 3 quality router as compared to using a cat 7 one. if you start jumping up to a 5G router we are in the cat 20 band and the upscale of 4G if you can’t get a 5G signal is very noticeable as my tests prove. I’ll still go by Networks Location and Equipment in that order of importance.

Perhaps say if you were a teacher working in Crick and just used the boat to live on you’d go with 02, but if your cruising the network it’s a different story. Ive always said Networks Location Equipment in that order.

Yeah wasn’t the best of places when I did my speed tests. There must be a mast up Yelvertoft way as the speeds up there were loads better. Crick being directly under that hill I think most of the signal doesn’t get there.