I just recently moved to a new house (Cambridge Terrace in Papatoetoe). My 3G connection would be laughable if it weren't so frustrating.

If I get 2 bars out of 5 on my iphone 4, it's a Woo Hoo! moment, but that's only about 10% of the time. Most times, assuming I even have 3G service, I've got 1, and frequently (easily 50 -60% of the time, if not more) I'm on 2g, but I get 3-5 bars on that. Even when I get 3g, the speed is exceedingly slow. A couple of streets over though, I get full bars and fast speed.

In my old house (also in Papatoetoe but a few km away), I was frustrated because I usually only had 3 bars on 3g, with the occasional spike up to 4, and what I assumed was a slower speed because of it, but I'd love to have that back now. I also didn't realize that really, I had good speed there (especially when compared to here).

Is this some kind of dead zone here? I still occasionally get the issue of dropped calls, missed texts, not being able to make calls and having to go to airplane mode to fix it, but I thought that was fixed so I decided to start a new thread.

Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks.