Vodafone RBI intermittent signal dropouts

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ShaggyMop

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#192378 8-Mar-2016 20:39

Hi all, I'm new here but have been reading the odd post for a while. I'm wondering if anyone has experienced something similar to this and can offer any insight. My olds have recently got Vodafone rural broadband and the speed appears to be really good when it's working (30+ Mbps up and down, can't really complain), haven't seen any issues streaming Netflix etc. The problem is that they are getting frequent dropouts where the modem is reporting no signal (see below) and takes between 2 and 10 minutes to re-connect. Rebooting the modem seems to speed this process up but it's a real pain, it can happen repeatedly when trying to get something done.
I don't really understand why the reception reads full when it goes and gets good speeds (and it goes most of the time) but then jumps straight to no signal, there is no in-between. It doesn't seem to drop out while in constant use (streaming etc), more of a problem when browsing, it falls over between loading discrete pages.
Any thoughts?

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#1508448 8-Mar-2016 20:39

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#1508464 8-Mar-2016 20:43

Approx where is the RBI connection located?

ShaggyMop

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#1508502 8-Mar-2016 21:32

Out the back of Papakura between Drury and Hunua (pm for more details if it helps).

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#1508518 8-Mar-2016 22:12

@ShaggyMop disconnect from the web and go into the settings and lock the modem to 3G / 4G only

ShaggyMop

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#1508522 8-Mar-2016 22:25

Thanks for the help, I'm guessing that's the setting below? I've just switched it to 3G preferred from LTE preferred. Will see how that goes.

ShaggyMop

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#1508536 8-Mar-2016 22:51

Well it hasn't dropped out on me but the speed has dropped right off, the first shot is from a week or two ago, second is just now after changing that setting. I haven't noticed the modem ever connected in LTE mode, it always says 3G so would this just be it connecting to a different tower (perhaps temporarily)?