Frustrated with slow / no connection this lunchtime. 3G congestion?

**jonbey** · 02-10-2009, 08:41 AM

I was hoping to blog this lunch hour, but for the first 40 minutes struggled to do anything at all. Poor connection. Is this common on 3G? I am in London (on London Wall). Yesterday it was good and I wrote my blogs, today lots of hanging, time out, site not found errors. Very frustrating.

It is 3G, my location or my phone that is the problem?

**Ward** · 02-10-2009, 08:45 AM

Location .

**sbig79** · 02-10-2009, 09:03 AM

I believe it's the 3G signal that is weak sometimes. Where I am it is 3G full bar area and today it's like 2 and sometimes 1 bar of signal then it switches to edge and back to 3G.

**jonbey** · 02-10-2009, 09:22 AM

I am showing my Noobness here - but what is EDGE? Is it what came before 3G?
I heard that 4G was being tested. Will that replace 3G, or will we have to pay more fror it?

**MobileMan** · 02-10-2009, 09:28 AM

Yeah EDGE was before 3G. Think of it like this EDGE is like dial up (you plug you computer into a phone jack) and 3G is like broadband (hi speed internet)

**jonbey** · 02-10-2009, 09:47 AM

So if I just see a G and a few bars, I am on EDGE (not like jittery, just slow....)

**simms22** · 02-10-2009, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by jonbey

So if I just see a G and a few bars, I am on EDGE (not like jittery, just slow....)

if you just see a g that means you are on gprs . edge is e . gprs is much slower that edge !!! its usually not even worth going online on gprs because it is so slow . edge is actually pretty quick , but 3g is much quicker !!