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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: grantnielsen on August 01, 2010, 01:30:07 AM
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This site will show all local Telstra towers in Australia... It beats guessing where you have reception!
www.cellsite.nudge.id.au/
Now:
1. Scroll down to the bottom and 'Jump' to your state.
2. Scroll to the local area.
3. Zoom into the 2km or less scale and any Telstra towers will appear. You may need to scroll around the local area to find any.
I'm no expert, but frequently use both my mobile and modem in the NT and remote QLD.
My personal experience has been:
With Modems.... If I was over 35+kms (theoretical) or 25kms (in reality), as the crow flies and an interrupted line of sight, I have no chance. Depending on local conditions, 5/15+kms can start to pull me up without a good external antenna.
With Mobiles... Subject to the local conditions.... I'm generally fine to about 10/25+kms and then may need the external antenna. In good locations 30/35+ kms has been possible.
With SMS... My SMS's exceed voice distance., but may not go instantly.
I was recently working at King Ash Bay, NT and about 25kms from the Borroloola tower. Had good to fair signal with an external antenna. No normal mobile signal, but my Skype was crystal clear.
I also got good antenna assistance from Ken www.ldantennas.com.au/ Check out his Youtubes
Also look at Ken's G Spot :D (The first minute shows it in use.)
http://www.broadbandantennas.com.au/index-mobile-broadband-antennas-homepage-nextg-telstra-optus-remote-phone-latest-online-info.html.html
It seems if your talking 'Bush', Telstra Broadband is the go.
I'm no expert and others may add better info. This is my personal experience only.
I'd like to hear how others get on with remote signal.
I also posted the above at www.myswag.org/forum/index.php?topic=7525.0
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For those of you looking to find your nearest (remote) tower for any network/service (e.g. mobile & wireless broadband) you might also like to check out:
http://maps.spench.net/rf/
The map is searchable by a number of criteria (provider/client, site name, frequency, callsign, etc), can be updated on-demand, and also has overlays to show you information at a higher level: mobile network rollouts, for instance. Hope you find it useful!
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not convinced it's complete. for instance it doesn't show the tower in coral bay, the one on the hill behind the caravan park
EDIT - IGNORE ME!!!!!! it seems it's zoom dependent...
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Can you navigate there, and post the URL here so I can take a look? Do you know who's on that tower? (You don't have a filter active do you? If a filter is applied it will only show matching sites...)
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Can you navigate there, and post the URL here so I can take a look? Do you know who's on that tower? (You don't have a filter active do you? If a filter is applied it will only show matching sites...)
no, it's the zoom scale that was tricking me. :(
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Ah, perhaps you were zoomed out so that the sites were represented by a cluster (with a number in the middle of each)? If you click on a cluster it'll zoom in on it, or you can right click the map and (un-)check the clustering options in the popup menu - but you may have already discovered that! :D
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Just looked at my street and its showing a tower where a house is sitting?????
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cool
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@GU Rich: Post the URL here?
You'll find that there is the occasional site offset from where it should be, but that will be corrected soon... 8)
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@GU Rich: Post the URL here?
You'll find that there is the occasional site offset from where it should be, but that will be corrected soon... 8)
I just clicked on the red dot, it gives the address at a different location to where the red dot is situated on the map, When I saw the address it makes sense.
thanks
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Its good to know where they are but I am more conserened with dose the rotten thing work in the 1st place 8)