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midhurst

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#205051 27-Oct-2016 22:46
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We  have RBI wireless in Rural Canterbury providing phone and internet.  Our norm for  several months, since installation, has been good phone service, and a normal state of about 7Mb/s up and down, and on occasion up to 45Mb/s down.

 

About 6 weeks ago, our internet was trucking along fine and no dial tone so no phone.  We had no phone for about 4 weeks.  We were sent replacement modems that didn't change anything.

 

A tech called and his personal modem (not sure if it was the Huawei one) worked fine.  Makes one think that something had changed at the tower end.

 

A third modem was used and we got dial tone and a phone service back.  However the phone service drops in and out and our internet speed has dropped down to very low speeds.

 

The only option on offer is to cancel the service with the generous offer to not charge the penalty for early disconnection.  I was under the impression that VF was obligated to provide a product of a certain service under it's RBI contract?

 

Anyone have any thoughts/ideas on this conundrum?


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  #1659381 27-Oct-2016 23:14
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Maybe the tower you connect too is at capacity now and your fighting with other users for bandwidth.

 

Do you have external antennas connected to the router?




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  #1659403 28-Oct-2016 00:37
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log a fault ticket with VodafoneNZ and don't hang up till you have a fault ticket number written down ask for the ticket to be escalated to Level2 support so serving cell KPIs can be checked for step changes, Provide date approx when issue started

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  #1659582 28-Oct-2016 11:21
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Morning:  We have an external antenna which is pointing out at a cell tower.  It is one of those shark fin antenna mentioned in another post.

 

 




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  #1659585 28-Oct-2016 11:22
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Will have a go at calling VF, maybe later as a VF person has offered assistance.  Will keep this good idea in the back of my mind.


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  #1659678 28-Oct-2016 12:20
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I have had similar issues with RBI (not with the phone, though). We have a different ISP but VF is still providing the actual service. It is much better now though it still slows down during school holidays and sometimes weekends, presumably due to tower congestion. At one point it went from a steady 50 mbps down to 2-3 mbps. This lasted for months and we never did get a clear indication as to why. Fortunately we  haven't had that for some time.

 

 





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  #1659735 28-Oct-2016 13:11
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Thanks for that support


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