Over the last few days our 3G signal has been going from 4 blobs to 1 and back several times a day.
Why? No Weather issues etc.
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corksta: Yup cell breathing.
From http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/definition/cell-breathing:
Cell breathing is the constant change of the range of the geographical area covered by a cellular telephone transmitter based on the amount of traffic currently using that transmitter. When a cell becomes heavily loaded, it shrinks. Subscriber traffic is then redirected to a neighboring cell that is more lightly loaded, which is called load balancing. Cell breathing is a common phenomenon of 2G and 3G wireless systems including code-division multiple access (CDMA). CDMA2000 and wideband code-division multiple access (WCDMA) are designed to manage cell breathing.
Geektastic: Huh. Weird.
Especially as we live in a very rural place with no big roads etc nearby and no events that have suddenly trebled the 1100 people who usually live here.
Geektastic: Huh. Weird.
Especially as we live in a very rural place with no big roads etc nearby and no events that have suddenly trebled the 1100 people who usually live here.
Elpie:corksta: Yup cell breathing.
From http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/definition/cell-breathing:
Cell breathing is the constant change of the range of the geographical area covered by a cellular telephone transmitter based on the amount of traffic currently using that transmitter. When a cell becomes heavily loaded, it shrinks. Subscriber traffic is then redirected to a neighboring cell that is more lightly loaded, which is called load balancing. Cell breathing is a common phenomenon of 2G and 3G wireless systems including code-division multiple access (CDMA). CDMA2000 and wideband code-division multiple access (WCDMA) are designed to manage cell breathing.
Here I thought coffeebaron was cracking a joke. Now I will go to bed tonight less stupid ;)
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johnr: Any major events coming up?
SteveON: Does your speed drop?
Geektastic:johnr: Any major events coming up?
Toast Martinborough on Sunday, but few people attending that will be here yet.
wellygary:Geektastic:johnr: Any major events coming up?
Toast Martinborough on Sunday, but few people attending that will be here yet.
They may be installing additional capacity for Toast, and thus playing around with the existing coverage?,
How have recent events been following their meltdown in 2011?
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