iPad 2 Users In The UK
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DontUnderstandMyIpad
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Hayles66 said:
Hayles, the weather looks just sad. Hopefully your book is good.
Tim SPRACKLEN
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Busy - no - my wife is breaking our her bikini - I'm breaking out...well, it's too dreadful to contemplate....I'll take the iPad out the garden, switch on 3G (might even be able to get my WiFi) and moderate hard all day, while sipping ice-cold lemonade until late afternoon, then maybe a nice glass of wine...
Tim
Hayles66
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DontUnderstandMyIpad said:
Sorry to admit this, but its an historical romance but with murder, theft, blood and gore. Which is what I love the most. Anything to do with crime, how they try to get away with murder etc... I've also got Inspector Linley, Dexter, Morse and other books. I've also got the entire magazine collection of all serial killers, past and present, in my attic.
Tim SPRACKLEN
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I think I've just decided I'm never ever ever going to issue an infraction to Hayley - could be the very last thing I do....
I'll get Marie to do it instead - she's harder to get to..
Tim
Hayles66
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Tim SPRACKLEN said:
Lucky you! My days of wearing bikinis are well over (two caesarian operations) and too much chocolate in the hols. I've got a question for you. I tried using a 3G USB stick but I had to go into the horse field to get a reception and landed up binning it. Would getting a 3G iPad make no difference to me. I use O2 but even that is dicey. It works in my bedroom, sometimes in lounge, sometimes in garden but is there another option other than that. I've looked at all the maps of my area and they all say it would work in my area but it comes down to it - no reception. You are so lucky to have a 3G aerial nearby but living in the countryside sometimes makes me cross.
Tim SPRACKLEN
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It's difficult to say - you can buy a 3G repeater, but they're usually expensive and restricted to commercial applications. Most mobile phone companies these days share masts in rural areas - it's just too expensive to install your own infrastructure for the limited population. Looking at the coverage maps is usually the best way to see what chance you stand of getting good reception but maybe you have friends or colleagues or even neighbours who have a different network provider to you? Another issue is whether any coverage would be 3G or 2G. The older network operators, such as Vodafone, have upgraded their urban networks to 3G but left their rural networks as 2G, because the economics were simply not there. Only '3', as far as I'm aware, has an all-3G network in the UK, because 3G uses different frequencies to 2G and '3' wasn't around when the 2G licences were awarded. As a result, when they rolled out their network, they were forced to go 3G all the way. So, if you can receive '3' you know you'll be getting a 3G connection whereas for Vodafone, say, you'll probably only be getting 2G - which will give your GPRS or EDGE - much lower datarates and not really suitable for web browsing.
If you already have a WiFi only iPad a better option is probably going for a SIM-free MiFi unit. I have the '3' Huawei E585, which is available SIM-free widely. You could then try it with a series of low-cost PAYG SIM cards and see which works the best. I find this MiFi gets really good reception - more signal bars than my iPad and both are on '3'.
Tim
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Hey all.
BBC iPlayer app loads ok....but no programs initiate. The website works great. I have no problems with streaming anything else. Have deleted through frustration. Will re-download in a few weeks/months to see if there has been an upgrade to resolve the problem.
Drove to work this morning for 3 hours, nice mild breeze, very sunny on my drive home.
Weather here is great. This is the view outside my window now.
By the way...the Terra browser is amazing. I was so in love with the Atomic browser.....but the Terra really is better (never thought I would say that about any other browser), Terra can also save pages to be read later within the app.
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BBC iPlayer app loads ok....but no programs initiate. The website works great. I have no problems with streaming anything else. Have deleted through frustration. Will re-download in a few weeks/months to see if there has been an upgrade to resolve the problem.
Drove to work this morning for 3 hours, nice mild breeze, very sunny on my drive home.
Weather here is great. This is the view outside my window now.
By the way...the Terra browser is amazing. I was so in love with the Atomic browser.....but the Terra really is better (never thought I would say that about any other browser), Terra can also save pages to be read later within the app.
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Hayles66
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Tim SPRACKLEN said:
When I go to my sister in laws in Bayford near Wincanton, it's even worse there! My iPhone struggles everywhere. None of the networks survive there and I can't get her to get broadband, they don't see the point no matter what I say, so I have withdrawal symptoms when I go there. When you say GPRS or EDGE, do you mean that big E sign instead of wifi lines. Is the GPRS sign like a blue dot on the left of the screen. Sorry for lack of knowledge but I'm still fairly new to all this technology.
