Best mobile coverage

[Taffy]

Can you tell me your opinions for the best mobile phone coverage up and down the coast. I usual try and us my hotspot on my phone to connect to the internet but sometimes to no avai. I am on SKY

 

[Spriddler]

Which coast?
I've had to use a different platform when I lived in Cornwall, from when back home in Sussex, from when in East Yorkshire.............and the French Atlantic coast.

 

[WillH]

We use two different networks to give more chance of getting a good signal. I have considered a third as just today we had nothing on one of our stops.

 

[PP Bear]

Not 3, as they are rubbish

SWMBO has EE and gets far better service than I do.

 

[Phill D]

Sky is on O2, I find Vodafone and EE are very effective

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[dunnah01]

Each supplier have a map of signal strength throughout UK on their websites so I often check before I go somewhere new.

 

[Boris7]

The best overall coverage is EE.

But that doesn’t mean it’s always your best option, a good choice is to use either dual EE and Vodafone sims simultaneously or if your device only take I sim cam buy two sims and swop them over.

If you have a mobile phone and a 4g router, have an EE sim in one and a Vodafone in the other then you can use calling over WiFi to cover most options.

Get the best deal you can on the phone and then buy a scan com data sim for the router They do EE and Vodafone as well as O2

 

[GMLS]

EE is generally regarded as having the best overall coverage part of the reason they were selected as primary provider to the emergency services (I understand).This also supports my own findings using an EE sim in my mifi

 

[buntyb]

another vote for EE, followed by vodafone. Currently, we have both of them plus O2 and Three, but will be ditching O2 or Three. Mind you, I can think of one campsite where all 4 had poor signal, Glenmore by Loch Morlich, plus the TV signal was rubbish. Only EE worked at The site at Kinlochewe. Both OH & grand daughter had to tether off my phone they were like a couple of stroppy teenagers if I dared to say no

 

[Vanman]

This is reasonably independant and one of the tools I use.

View mobile availability - Ofcom Checker

checker.ofcom.org.uk

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[Wizz]

I'm currently looking at a Netgear Nighthawk M1 mobile router/modem, with the possible addition of a Poynting portable antenna.
The combination seems to get very good reviews.
I'd be very interested to hear from anyone hear who may have experience of the set-up.
(duplicated in which wifi in France post also)

 

[Bolti]

I'm currently looking at a Netgear Nighthawk M1 mobile router/modem, with the possible addition of a Poynting portable antenna.
The combination seems to get very good reviews.
I'd be very interested to hear from anyone hear who may have experience of the set-up.
(duplicated in which wifi post also)

Which poynting antenna and where are the reviews to be found?

 

[Wizz]

Poynting 4G-XPOL-A0001 Cross Polarised 4G Omni LTE Antenna.​

Reviews found on general web search, Amazon, Youtube

 

[Boris7]

I’d look at Teltonica RUT950/955 myself

 

[Spriddler]

I'm currently looking at a Netgear Nighthawk..........

Isn't it inconvenient having to keep it under the floorboards disguised as a chamber pot?

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[Off da Grid]

Poynting 4G-XPOL-A0001 Cross Polarised 4G Omni LTE Antenna.​

Reviews found on general web search, Amazon, Youtube

Tried that on my Netgear M2 worse than without on EE.
The M2 picks up a signal with usable data speed where my phone can’t.

 

[Wizz]

Tried that on my Netgear M2 worse than without on EE.
The M2 picks up a signal with usable data speed where my phone can’t.

Thanks for that Off da Grid. Thats interesting to hear. It could well save me some money.

 

[Off da Grid]

Hi Wizz,

Tested the M2 it at my Dads place in Dorset where I can just get a signal on EE to make a phone call.
Data is so slow on the mobile it’s unusable.
The M2 gives me about 5mb download enough to watch YouTube at a usable 480p.
The poynting antenna made it even worse?
Apparently there is a special addition of the M2 for EE that uses a different frequency to pickup better speeds, I only found this out after I had got this one, but as I will be using it abroad when we can do that again regularly the one I’ve got should be okay.

 

[Wizz]

Many thanks Off da Grid

 

[Wizz]

I have a Netgear Nighthawk M1. Has anyone else experience of this particular device coupled with a 'Sky Sim' ?

I have read on a forum that Sky does not work with this particular device......

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[Spriddler]

I have a Netgear Nighthawk M1. Has anyone else experience of this particular device coupled with a 'Sky Sim' ?

I have read on a forum that Sky does not work with this particular device......

It seems you're not the only one.............

 

[Wizz]

I really wish there was a lightweight one with a hole for a parasol like in the plastic ones or the old folding metal ones with the four seats attached we used when camping when the children were small. I’ve never understood why they don’t. We are always on the lookout for one so will be following your thread!

Google for fork mount adapter. Several makes, including Seasucker. Priced from about a tenner on eBay, up to thirty quid or so. Screw to floor, or a wooden board, mount by removing front wheel.
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My latest van came with three Maxxfan's factory fitted, and I have been supplying and installing Fantastic Fans since the early Nineties when we imported them from the States ourselves

The Maxxfan is much much better!

More modern design, quieter and we rarely close them unless it is biting cold

Tried that on my Netgear M2 worse than without on EE.
The M2 picks up a signal with usable data speed where my phone can’t.

It seems you're not the only one.............

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