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I was never into insisting to only talk on the phone from the basement of my medieval castle. The view from the battlements is much better. We're not all james

by lstodd 3y ago

I was never into insisting to only talk on the phone from the basement of my medieval castle. The view from the battlements is much better. We're not all jamesbondesque supervillains here. Like I said above, for like $8/mo you have in fact unlimited 4G at decent speeds here. Or for idk maybe $15 you can get a gpon, unlimited traffic, 30+Mbit to the house, depending on local laziness of course. And that is for a rural place in Balkans, not something in more civilized places.

eightysixfour 3y ago
Yes, and VoWifi lets your cell phone make a call over that fiber when your wireless coverage isn’t great. Not really sure where castles and battlements come to play here - there are plenty of completely normal places people visit with connectivity issues. Maybe it is your experience in the rural balkans, where cellular congestion and significant building density aren’t factors, and your assumption it must be better in “civilized” places that is confusing the issue…
macNchz 3y ago
I just got back from a week in Paris where I frequently had limited cell service indoors on a major provider. Even with antennas all over there’s just a lot of masonry for signals to get through. I’ve been really happy on many occasions to have Wifi calling, both where I live in NYC (where service sometimes behaves similarly to Paris) and the rural places I visit frequently (where having the cellular modem off while at home saves tons of battery vs constantly having no service).
kelnos 3y ago
I do love how, seemingly to counteract the US-centric nature of many discussions, some Europeans act as though Europe is this one homogeneous block where everything works the same everywhere. I guarantee you there are quite a few people in various countries in Europe where they don't have great cellular coverage, whether because of their location, or because of the building materials used in whatever house or office building they spend a lot of time in. Regardless, I don't really get the hate toward VoWifi. Like... it's an added option. In some cases it might be redundant (or worse than the normal VoLTE option), but... it's an added option, that you don't have to use, that can be a great fallback in some cases.

by lstodd 3y ago

eightysixfour 3y ago

Yes, and VoWifi lets your cell phone make a call over that fiber when your wireless coverage isn’t great. Not really sure where castles and battlements come to play here - there are plenty of completely normal places people visit with connectivity issues. Maybe it is your experience in the rural balkans, where cellular congestion and significant building density aren’t factors, and your assumption it must be better in “civilized” places that is confusing the issue…

macNchz 3y ago

I just got back from a week in Paris where I frequently had limited cell service indoors on a major provider. Even with antennas all over there’s just a lot of masonry for signals to get through. I’ve been really happy on many occasions to have Wifi calling, both where I live in NYC (where service sometimes behaves similarly to Paris) and the rural places I visit frequently (where having the cellular modem off while at home saves tons of battery vs constantly having no service).

kelnos 3y ago

I do love how, seemingly to counteract the US-centric nature of many discussions, some Europeans act as though Europe is this one homogeneous block where everything works the same everywhere. I guarantee you there are quite a few people in various countries in Europe where they don't have great cellular coverage, whether because of their location, or because of the building materials used in whatever house or office building they spend a lot of time in. Regardless, I don't really get the hate toward VoWifi. Like... it's an added option. In some cases it might be redundant (or worse than the normal VoLTE option), but... it's an added option, that you don't have to use, that can be a great fallback in some cases.