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<blockquote data-quote="BenH" data-source="post: 2528831" data-attributes="member: 211217">...signal, how come? Since T-mobile and Orange decided to merge, my phone (an HTC Wildfire) has given me the option to connect to either solely T-Mobile&#039;s network or alternatively &#039;T-Mobile/Orange&#039;. I would have guessed that the latter would give me a better overall signal and coverage by giving me the signal of whichever provider was best in the particular area I&#039;m in at the time. HTC just released a phone update that allows people to use their phones as a Wi-Fi hotspot to connect PC&#039;s to the internet, and I tried this first whilst on the T-Mobile/Orange network, the connection was poor (which I sort of expected from a phone router anyway) and when I ran a speedtest it consistently came back as giving me 0.03 upload and 0.05 download speeds with a ping of 520. I then out of curiosity from the same spot at the same time tried switching over to the T-Mobile only network, ran another speedtest and got whilst I got the same upload speed, I&nbsp; consistently got a download speed of 0.35mbps and a ping of 110.Obviously the connection still isn&#039;t great, but it&#039;s useful and whilst it&#039;s no big deal I was just wondering how it is possible to find a better connection on a T-Mobile signal than the alternative T-Mobile/Orange signal that should give me the best that either has to offer..?Thanks in advance,BenP.S: The speedtest used the same server for every test.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BenH, post: 2528831, member: 211217"] ...signal, how come? Since T-mobile and Orange decided to merge, my phone (an HTC Wildfire) has given me the option to connect to either solely T-Mobile's network or alternatively 'T-Mobile/Orange'. I would have guessed that the latter would give me a better overall signal and coverage by giving me the signal of whichever provider was best in the particular area I'm in at the time. HTC just released a phone update that allows people to use their phones as a Wi-Fi hotspot to connect PC's to the internet, and I tried this first whilst on the T-Mobile/Orange network, the connection was poor (which I sort of expected from a phone router anyway) and when I ran a speedtest it consistently came back as giving me 0.03 upload and 0.05 download speeds with a ping of 520. I then out of curiosity from the same spot at the same time tried switching over to the T-Mobile only network, ran another speedtest and got whilst I got the same upload speed, I consistently got a download speed of 0.35mbps and a ping of 110. Obviously the connection still isn't great, but it's useful and whilst it's no big deal I was just wondering how it is possible to find a better connection on a T-Mobile signal than the alternative T-Mobile/Orange signal that should give me the best that either has to offer..? Thanks in advance, Ben P.S: The speedtest used the same server for every test. [/QUOTE]

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