@dellaclearing - Are you able to take your Three mobile device to anywhere near a Three mast? You could use the
OFCOM Sitefinder to locate the nearest mast that serves your area. That would help eliminate, or at least reduce the likelihood of, you being in a marginal signal area.
sounds more like a mast fault in your area.
So I finished work today and took the train a bit further to find the mast. I followed where the Ofcom site told me the mast was, stood as close as I could get and I had constant network connection issues. Only managed to complete 3 speedtests, all the others I tried kept timing out due to network issues.
The tests that actually finished resulted in:
Down: 586 kbps Up: 686 kbps Ping: 294
Down: 283 kbps Up: 468 kbps Ping: 1149
Down: 381 kbps Up: 272 kbps Ping: 386
I then got bored standing around waiting for tests to finish without network errors so just decided to keep testing while walking down Wood Green High Road towards Turnpike Lane.
Down: 1240 kbps Up: 332 kbps Ping: 311
Down: 615 kbps Up: 751 kbps Ping: 393
Down: 643 kbps Up: 668 kbps Ping: 295
Down: 540 kbps Up: 711 kbps Ping: 402
Down: 327 kbps Up: 309 kbps Ping: 351
Down: 758 kbps Up: 606 kbps Ping: 313
Down: 956 kbps Up: 692 kbps Ping: 350
Down: 949 kbps Up: 702 kbps Ping: 318
Down: 482 kbps Up: 859 kbps Ping: 300
Down: 328 kbps Up: 153 kbps Ping: 300
All these tests were carried out from 7:13pm to 7:36pm.
Pretty poor results really if you ask me. Certainly not what I expected when I signed up to Three. Samsung Galaxy S2 if that makes a difference, Rooted Paranoid Android Hybrid ROM, KP8 modem.
I'd try Twitter for that sort of thing.
If you tweet
@ThreeUKSupport with a post code, they'll be able to do a detailed coverage check for you, including current maintenance and any planned improvements.
Sorry to be a complete Noob, but I've never used Twitter, do I have to sign up to it to be able to post on their Twitter page?!