Country fixed

Well, the 4G team have fixed the problem where attempting to access a website which redirected based on country of user (e.g Google.com or youtube.com for example) were sending us to German sites (e.g google.de instead of google.co.uk for UK residents). Not sure what they did, but at least I can now watch youtube videos which are blocked for some crazy reason in Germany (why is Kickapoo, the Tenacious D song blocked for example?).

Edit:  Not apprently fixed Blogger! I still get .de there!

Weather affected?

The 4G speeds tonight seem low - at least as far as downloading speed is concerned. From the 7.5 or more Mbps of other tests to 4.5 Mbps today....

However, the weather is pretty foul - with strong winds and plenty of rain and dampness. It may of course be simply the time I have chosen to test - around half past ten in the evening, which presumably means plenty of other trialists are using the connection. No idea if there is any contention ratio issues with this - but I doubt if there should be, certainly with the relatively small trial sample...

Uploading on the other hand seems fast - 9.34Mbps

Getting some interesting results. Still got problems with the German identification on many sites (e.g Google, Youtube....), but the 4G team are apparently "looking into this"....

More 4G reports

Well, still running at around the 7.8Meg up and down rate.
Interestingly, I did try booting my old XP install yesterday evening to compare with my usual Linux (I have XP on here as a dual boot for the very odd test) and I could not connect to the router with the USB dongle.

I discovered that dropping the encryption level from AES to TKIP allowed me to connect - so I guess my XP isn't running SP3 (which brought AES support) or my old dongle doesn't support it.

Seems at least one other triallist has problems with wireless, so I have passed on my findings - hopefully it will help.