Nearest other mast to East is Cinder Lane Castleford two (Vodafone),Wheldon Lane, Castleford (Vodafone), Lumly Hill (3 Mobile) Willowbridge (O2 Mobile).

Nearest mast West is M62 just south of Aberford Road on M62  a (3 Mobile) and two (T Mobile) masts, now all (T Mobile) masts are doubling up with (3 Mobile) masts. Just South of River Calder Altofts (O2 Mobile) mast.

Nearest North is Fleet Lane two (Vodaphone) masts, Selby Road Garforth (Vodafone) and ( T Mobile) & (3 Mobile) mast.

Next nearest South of Pinfold Lane (O2 Mobile) mast is Pope Street Whitwood (3 Mobile) and (Orange Mobile) mast.

We are left high and dry as far as mobile phone signal in Methley, their is better coverage in the surrounding rural fields than we have in the built up areas. but at the moment (3 Mobile) & (T Mobile) and (O2 Mobile) are the most popular masts scattered around us but still distant and this goes for Mobile Phones too.

Count up of local Mobile Phone Masts

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 I have an old 3 Dongle Huawei Model : E220 that works OK in the village

Try the Windows Port Tweak below for the E220.

 I have now the new 3 Huawei E122 that never throws out of connection on Main St, they say it has dual Antenna in the Dongle, an SD card Slot to use the unit as a Memory stick, and has a hidden antenna connector under the SD memory card cover to connect a external antenna, Downloads up to Mbps 7.2, Uploads up to 2.0 Mbps, UMTS Bands Frequency = Duel.

 Well they have done something remarkable to it as it worked fine for me. At the moment 3 Mobile are giving a 5 Gigabyte a month download for £ 15 or the same 5 GB for £11 promotion. So that's two possibility's of Dongle O2 or 3 by Hutchinson.

All Mobile Dongle details found HERE

If you are a returning 3 Mobile contract customer you could be entitled to a 6 month contract of 5GB for £7.50 a month and could get the first month free, if your contract is out try this great deal but wont get the new Huawei E122 high speed Dongle so have to still use your old Huawei E220 Dongle, but then you can get a new Huawei E122 on E-Bay for around £20, this makes it an even better deal.

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For the Huawei E220 try this little tweak to speed up your Dongle considerably but sorry did not work on the Huawei E122,

 Click on Windows Start  button   ,

 Click on Connect to,

 Right Click on your USB Modem connection ,

then Properties bottom left,

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then  Configure...

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 change from 115200 bps click on highest setting 921600  bps,

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 After the first ten minutes of uninterrupted Surfing with your

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 Bps Speed conversions at: http://www.speedguide.net/conversion.php  

 1 Bytes         = 8Bits,                       

 1 Kilobits     = 125 Bytes,               

 1 Kilabits     = 1000 Bits                 

 1 Kilobytes   = 8.192 Kilobits,       

 1 Kilobytes   = 1024 Bytes,            

 1 Megabits   = 122.07 Kilobytes,  

 1 Megabits   = 1000 Kilobits,        

 1 Megabytes = 8.3886 Megabits,  

 1 Megabytes = 1024 Kilobytes,     

 1 Gigabits     = 119.21 Megabytes,

 1 Gigabits     = 1000 Megabits,      

 1 Gigabytes  = 8.5899 Gigabits,     

 1 Gigabytes  = 1024 Megabytes,    

 1 Terabits     = 116.42 Gigabytes,  

 1 Terabits     = 1000 Gigabits,        

 1 Terabytes  = 8.7961 Terabits,     

 1 Terabytes  = 1024 Gigabytes.     

 Mobile Service Providers :-

 (   3 Mobile )                 By =     Hutchison Whampoa

 (O2 Mobile )                 By =       Telefónica

 (   T Mobile )                 By =       France Telecom & Deutsche Telekom

 (  Vodafone Mobile )    By =       Vodafone

 (  Orange Mobile )       By =        France Telecom & Deutsche Telekom

 Satellite Mobile:-  (Inmarsat plc) 

Hope this helps.

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Mobile Broadband Antenna Range

Hope this helps.

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The Dovado USB Mobile Broadband Router (UMR)

The Dovado USB Mobile Broadband Router (UMR) will relay your Broadband from your any Dongle also any Lan/Wan cable router like a Linksys ADSL2 Gateway with 4 port switch to your Computers or I-Pod, either threw 1 of 4 Lan ports by a cable or it's single Wi-Fi aerial at 802.11g (54) Mbps or 802.11b (11Mbps).

The Dovado USB Mobile Broadband Router (UMR) works with all known Mobile Broadband USB Dongles in the UK, and is upgraded regularly for all up and coming Dongles. Also working using 12v connection, you can have your own personal Hot Spot in your caravan, car or any where you find a mobile 3G reception. Image left.

The Dovado USB Mobile Broadband Router (UMR) 

In Methley you need all the help you can get to get a good 3G reception, Dovado USB Mobile Broadband Router (UMR) will not boost your signal but will let you work in a comfortable place around the house while the dongle is situated in the best reception position receiving the most stray air waves possible, probably in a window facing at the nearest mast of its type, so if your dongle is an O2 then face it to the Pinfold Lane Power Pylon, if it is any other provider type Dongle just do a house walkabout till you find the best window where the dongle picks up the best signal and fix your UMR to the wall their.

Delivered in 1 to 2 working days to UK.

In the UK can buy a Dovado UMR  for  £110.

Any questions contact Gerry at:-

http://movingwifi.com/

Email: gerry@movingWiFi.com
Tel (UK landline): +44-131-467 9912
Mobile (UK): +44-795-124 5418
Skype: gerry.mulvenna

Gerry Mulvenna
32/5 Dochart Drive
Edinburgh
Scotland
EH4 7LB

Hope this helps.

In some outlaying areas of Methley like Newmarket Lane their are still some patches of Aluminium underground phone cable that has it's own problems, it cuts Broadband speed down to less than the once promised half meg. Some providers now are boosting these areas to near 1 meg.

Aluminium was used extensively in the 1970's as a cheaper phone cable to the higher priced Copper cable. The main problem with aluminium wiring is a phenomenon known as "cold creep". When aluminium wiring warms up, it expands. When it cools down, it contracts. Unlike the phone company's newer copper cable, when aluminium goes through a number of warm/cool cycles it loses a bit of tightness each time. To make the problem worse, aluminium oxidises, or corrodes when in contact/connected to certain types of other metal like the copper cable, so the resistance of the connection goes up making the Broadband speed go down. Eventually the wire may start getting very hot, melt the insulation or fixture making thing worse.

Leeds city centre gets 100Mbps fibre optic access

Pinfold Lane, Methley next on fibre optic.

Fibre Optic has no or very little speed drop from exchange to user but many times more expensive to use than previous materials and has no real scrap value, possibly because you can't twist two broken ends together to get a connection, but then I guess light is cheaper to send down a cable than electricity.

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 hope above helps

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