Hylander Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 Last time we stayed in a holiday cottage in Horning the phone signal was pretty non existent. Has it improved at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meantime Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 EE / BT mobile seems to be fairly good in most parts of Horning now. Also if your cottage comes with WiFi, most modern mobiles now support WiFi calling where it will switch to using the WiFi to make and receive phone calls. (providing you have this turned on in the phone settings) Obviously will only work within the cottage, but you can also use WiFi calling if connected to a pub WiFi if in a poor phone signal area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 Three or 4 years ago three repeater transmitters were put in Horning. One I believe is up near the recreation ground, One I know is on the back of the sailing club control box, can't remember where they put the third. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyg Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 I'm on EE and the northern rivers can be a problem, we find our phone come alive again once we reach Horning.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hylander Posted June 27, 2022 Author Share Posted June 27, 2022 Thank you for your replies. Years ago we stayed at Noosa Sound and Mum was alive then and not that good and to get a phone signal you had to go outside up the road and try up there. I will have a look as suggested to see if my settings does allow wifi to make calls. Thank you for the suggestion. I have just had a look at my settings and even though not one of your all signing and dancing type posh phones it does have wifi calls which you can switch on and off when needed. Good to know and thank you. Whilst looking I was wondering if we had been invaded , so many jets going over head here near to Beccles. Hope its just Uncle Sam playing about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAVIDH Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 I ended up staying a couple nof nights in Horning at The Ferry Marina end, and on both occasions i was able to call someone without problems using O2. Also, with wifi in your cottage, if you have WhatsApp, you can just use that to make the call. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hylander Posted June 27, 2022 Author Share Posted June 27, 2022 Thank you that is good to hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveO Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 We moor in Horning and I get a decent signal with Vodafone. Not quite as good on Ranworth or Salhouse though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyg Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 12 hours ago, SteveO said: We moor in Horning and I get a decent signal with Vodafone. Not quite as good on Ranworth or Salhouse though. I find Ranworth is pretty bad for any kind of signal be it tv or a mobile device. Infact I don't even bother with the TV if overnighting there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Loddon is one of the worst places for any signals be they be phones or tv, but the moorings are worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Lodden and Rockland are both bad, especially at low tide, I use a wifi hotspot that has antenna, and if i can get them high enough I can get a signal at both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikertov Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 How strange that a mobile phone signal can be worse at low tide - Wonder why that is ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WherryNice Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 1 minute ago, Bikertov said: How strange that a mobile phone signal can be worse at low tide - Wonder why that is ? It's not that the signal is worse it's that the boat will be lower in relation to the land meaning the signal can 'go over your head'. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addicted Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 We moored for many years at Brundall Bay and never once suffered loss of phone signal, ( Vodophone) although the wifi was diaboilical. We now moor at NBS which is a few hundred yards as the crow flies from our old mooring and the signal is now you get it and now you don't mostly - don't. Some friends who had the adjacent mooring to ours at Brundall Bay thought that as the berth next to them had become vacant and with their newly acquired boat having the helm on the opposite side to their previous one it may be a good idea to move next door - obviously a move of just a few feet but having done so found that they were completely unable to get a t.v. signal. our wifi at NBS is superb. it's swings and roundabouts it seems to me. Carole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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