Archived from groups: alt.cellular.fido (More info?)
Was at cottage, on lake, at the one spot where there is some coverage from the
far away Tremblant antenna (26km away).
One has to move the canoe to the precise location (which doesn't seem to be
constant) to get the 2 bars needed to do anything with the phone (GPRS etc).
Rogers's coverage is slightly different from that of Microcell. So sometimes,
the phone finds Rogers first.
Normally, when this happens, it lets you select Rogers from the menu, but
fails to get service and returns to network search.
However, this time around, it actually locked onto Rogers, but there was an
interesting symbol just before the network operator's name (Rogers). Looked
like the outline of an exclamation mark (small square outline at bottom, and
over it, vertical rectangle outline). Combined, they were the height of the
characters in the "Rogers" word.
I was surprised and didn't really know what to do. I inly had one bar, so I
knew I couldn't do much with voice. And because of a slight breeze, I was
quickly moved out of range.
Thenm, I paddled back a few metres and this time, it locked to Fido, but
again, with the same strange symbol. And it only had the "Fido" word with the
symbol, no annoying "www.fido.ca" below it.
Later on, I finally did get to the right position and at that point, the phone
returned to full fido coverage (2 bars
and I was able to send some emails
out. That strange symbol had disaeared, and the www.fido.ca had reappeared.
Has anyone experienced this ? Just checked the M55 manual, and that symbol
doesn't appear.
Found it quite interesting that it actually locked to Rogers.
Was at cottage, on lake, at the one spot where there is some coverage from the
far away Tremblant antenna (26km away).
One has to move the canoe to the precise location (which doesn't seem to be
constant) to get the 2 bars needed to do anything with the phone (GPRS etc).
Rogers's coverage is slightly different from that of Microcell. So sometimes,
the phone finds Rogers first.
Normally, when this happens, it lets you select Rogers from the menu, but
fails to get service and returns to network search.
However, this time around, it actually locked onto Rogers, but there was an
interesting symbol just before the network operator's name (Rogers). Looked
like the outline of an exclamation mark (small square outline at bottom, and
over it, vertical rectangle outline). Combined, they were the height of the
characters in the "Rogers" word.
I was surprised and didn't really know what to do. I inly had one bar, so I
knew I couldn't do much with voice. And because of a slight breeze, I was
quickly moved out of range.
Thenm, I paddled back a few metres and this time, it locked to Fido, but
again, with the same strange symbol. And it only had the "Fido" word with the
symbol, no annoying "www.fido.ca" below it.
Later on, I finally did get to the right position and at that point, the phone
returned to full fido coverage (2 bars
and I was able to send some emailsout. That strange symbol had disaeared, and the www.fido.ca had reappeared.
Has anyone experienced this ? Just checked the M55 manual, and that symbol
doesn't appear.
Found it quite interesting that it actually locked to Rogers.
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