"Thomas Donohue" (tomonomics)
08/07/2019 at 14:27 • Filed to: None
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"Thomas Donohue" (tomonomics)
08/07/2019 at 14:27 • Filed to: None | 0
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I remember less than 20 years ago, this map was way different....
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farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> Thomas Donohue
08/07/2019 at 14:34 |
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me apparently
no coverage anywhere outside of the usa
(why even have a whole world map if you’re gonna do that)
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Thomas Donohue
> farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/07/2019 at 14:41 |
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Yeah I wasn’t able to find a global one (just the three.ie map that I always use for Ireland) which also blocks out the UK.
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farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> Thomas Donohue
08/07/2019 at 14:44 |
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welp..tbh... pretty much all of europe is fairly well covered
first time i had no coverage at all was in crete...and i suspect that had something to do with all the mountains
Wacko
> Thomas Donohue
08/07/2019 at 14:44 |
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i’m still in the dark on this one,
well i do have dead spots on my drive to and from work (that blank spot in the middle of the red square)
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> Thomas Donohue
08/07/2019 at 14:49 |
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Damn, Nebraska...
ranwhenparked
> Thomas Donohue
08/07/2019 at 14:51 |
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I beg to differ on the Delmarva peninsula, everyone knows there's significant blackout zones all over the place.
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Thomas Donohue
> ranwhenparked
08/07/2019 at 15:02 |
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It’s a crappy map....if you select frequencies/carriers, you start to see the gaps.
...and we all know the wireless companies like to extend their coverage maps a bit outside of where you can legitimately make (and complete) a call standing at ground level.
jimz
> davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
08/07/2019 at 15:10 |
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guy I work with summed it up “Nebraska is a good state to be from.”
FSI
> farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/07/2019 at 15:12 |
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Germany apparently has worse coverage than Belarus...
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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> jimz
08/07/2019 at 15:13 |
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LOL
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ranwhenparked
> Thomas Donohue
08/07/2019 at 15:19 |
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That looks a tad optimistic. Interestingly, Verizon has a big tower right in Milton, but you won't get even one bar in the entire town and surrounding area.
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farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> FSI
08/07/2019 at 15:36 |
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huh...well...germany is quite big i spose
M.T. Blake
> Thomas Donohue
08/07/2019 at 20:04 |
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I don’t but I want to.
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Thomas Donohue
> M.T. Blake
08/07/2019 at 20:09 |
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M.T. Blake
> Thomas Donohue
08/07/2019 at 21:50 |
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Lol. Love it.
functionoverfashion
> Thomas Donohue
08/08/2019 at 12:06 |
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Of course that map can’t show the reality of local topography. I’d say about 95% of the places I usually go are “covered” completely by this map, but in reality, about 40% of the time I don’t have reliable service.
Conversely, about 15 years ago when I went to get a cell phone, AT&T wouldn’t sell me one because they said they had no coverage where I was, despite the fact that I knew they did - just not on their own towers. I convinced someone at a store to use the store address for my account’s location, somehow, and they gave me a phone. It worked about as well as it does now.
Even in a city it’s not perfect - I remember an apartment my sister rented in Back Bay in Boston a few years back, where she got perfect service if she stood on her balcony, but pretty much any interior room was dead. She was on the 3rd floor of a building of about 7 floors and lots of taller buildings around. It was nice and quiet but the lack of cell service was a real pain. This was before wifi could make up for not having cell service. I emailed her a lot.
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FSI
> farscythe - makin da cawfee!
08/09/2019 at 13:07 |
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And so is France but I had full reception in the middle of a forest at this year's Europpomeet!