Perhaps you are going to the country right now or you are reading this while already relaxing outside the city. Many Muscovites almost move to the region every summer to relax in nature and take a break from the bustle of the city.
Departure from the city, we are already accustomed to leaving in the hope of a good connection and fast mobile Internet. But a lot has changed in recent years.
For example, the quality of communication in the Moscow region has been seriously lost in just 3 years. Now many on the site and at home “catches” almost better than in the city. Internet on your smartphone becomes fast throughout the journey.
What problems did the operators solve to achieve this result? And most importantly – what is there with the connection itself in reality? We will answer these questions below.
What problems did operators solve to improve communication outside the city?
First, no sensor is used. By the end of 2021, there were approximately 810,000 basic simulators (BS) in Russia. Of these, MTS had 223 thousand BS, Tele2 – 206, MegaFon and Beeline – 204 and 177 thousand, respectively.
The figures are found everywhere, but they try to spray all this on the map of Russia – and the questions will disappear by themselves.
Secondly, the base stations are long overdue for an upgrade.. Many were revealed during the spread of the temporary connection. 3G. Some require maintenance. “Technological debt” has been accumulating for years.
Third, the rate of communication development was lame. The equipment is updated first of all where the load is greatest. The population level is lower than in cities. With the increase in the number of “regional” subscribers over the past 7 years, this issue was removed by itself.
Fourthly, no one canceled interference even in the area. The most advanced tower, surrounded by trees, is far from “finishing”. The natural landscape is also changing.
How are operators working to improve communications in the area?
279 megabits per second from MTS – in the back room on the site.
Example. This summer MTS announced to be completed large-scale modernization of the network in the Moscow industrial production.
The operator assembled new base stations and updated the equipment on them, and also combined all available communication ranges. As a result of the incident, not only coverage, but also the speed of the Internet – both in the case and in the area.
While the process is going on, MTS meets with interesting material on this topic – special attention, special and widespread population.
Medium-speed mobile Internet grew by 35%. Most importantly, the new equipment in the Moscow region now meets the requirements of 5G-ready – there is a technical readiness network for the possibility of deploying 5G networks.
By the new holiday season, MTS runs the risk of becoming a victim of an accident throughout Moscow transport, having built more than seven thousand basic chairs in a year. This is almost three times more than in 2020.
What to do if the network in the country catches badly?
If you don’t have neighbors, it’s worth collecting SIM cards from the main operator and checking which one will give you the best speed and quality of communication.
For testing free application OOKLA Speedtest. And in order not to spend money on SIM cards for operations that a priori do not catch on your site, just find out in advance.
How to find out which operators are catching in the branch: governments on the iPhone section your Settings -> Cellular -> SIM cards -> Active carrier -> Network selection. Turn off the switch “Automatically”.
The iPhone has a handy way to see which networks are active right now.
The iPhone will think for a couple of minutes and issue list of cellular networks that catch on this network right now. What operations of the “four” are visible there, those are worth protesting.
If you have neighbors, chat with them and find out which operators they have experienced, enjoyed communication and speed. Perhaps this will be enough to know in advance which provider you should knock on first.
It is also worth cooperating with neighbors if the network situation is very bad. An operator appears who catches on your sites, and write them a collective request to improve the quality of communication. The more such sources, the faster the operator will take you.
And generally speaking…
If the connection at the dacha did not get, feel free to write to the operator
Write to support your operator. Tell the operator as much as possible: where exactly, at what time, what problems you are experiencing.
Each user has maps and coverage goals for the quality of communication, which are achieved in each “square”. The decision to assign or special care grows faster if an increased number of complaints is registered next to it.
In the technical support of such data, communications are collected and transmitted further, to technicians and quality controllers of cellular communications on a large scale of the country. Perhaps it is your “bug report” that is all that stands between you, fast Internet on your smartphone and a stable signal.
Just do not take out negative emotions on the available technical support when you describe the situation. He did not hide the basic stage in the final result, much less break it.
How the best mobile Internet in the country works from a smartphone
New smartphones catch better and faster. If you use an “old” device, then we observe its maximum capabilities in terms of mobile Internet speed.
Let’s take the iPhone as an example and look at the highest “bars” of Internet speed in modern networks of mobile operators:
▪ iPhone 11: 60-140 Mbps
▪ iPhone 11 Pro (Max): 87-270 Mbps
▪ iPhone 13: 110-450 Mbps
Nothing is different, right? Personally, I have seen speeds over 350 megabits on my iPhone 13 Pro Max several times. With the creation of even 5G, I don’t really want to wait …
So if you use any iPhone Xs or iPhone 7, then you should know that you have not yet experienced all the delights of LTE speeds in Russia.
Alas, the same cannot be said for Android smartphones. Even between old and new generations, within the same “series” of devices, there are necessarily positive differences in the speeds of built-in cellular network modems. Sometimes there are even deteriorations from models to models.
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set up an access point. Probably, on the second floor of your house, the most powerful signal of the cellular network is “caught”. Not a problem: put your smartphone there, stretch the charge to it and connect to it on a personal hotspot.
You will get a laptop with the fastest mobile Internet in the next section. Just remember that in exceptional or incoming calls on a smartphone, the Internet connection will be temporarily lost.
The hotspot will be faster on the new smartphone. For example, the iPhone 12 and all subsequent iPhones see the point in the fast 5GHz signal standard, while the generation opposite is limited to 2.4GHz. This determines the maximum speed of the Internet on the connected devices.
Example. Let’s say the operator gives a speed of 200 megabits per second over LTE in your network. If the access point on the iPhone turns on and connects to it with other devices, then you will achieve on them:
▪ iPhone 11 job: up to 95 megabits per second
▪ iPhone 13 order: up to 195 megabits per second
The 5 GHz network distributed by the new iPhones is best for watching high-quality videos and playing games on the Internet. And the 2.4GHz network is compatible with older laptops and gadgets.
How to switch view mode on iPhone: Settings -> Modem mode -> maximum comfort. When the switch is on, the access point network operates within 2.4 GHz, and if it is off, it operates at 5 GHz.
Increased speed is not ruled out. Each user does this differently.
For example, at MTS – like this. In your personal account or mobile application “My MTS”, or via USSD-command *111*5555#call you need to connect the service “Access to 5G”. This will remove LTE detection up to 300 megabits per second.
An example of speeds in a country house in the Moscow region
Let’s go.
Instead of exit – practice.
My colleague and I went on a summer weekend to a dacha in the suburbs. And they measured how things were with communications and the Internet, both on the road and on the spot. Both of us have been using MTS for a long time as we returned as an operator.
On the way to the place on Novoryazanskoye highway, we recorded the LTE speed from 80 to 140 megabits per second. And in the country received almost 300 megabits:
OOKLA will not let you lie: 200 megabits per second for downloading in the Moscow region.
With this speed, no Wi-Fi is needed. If you want, watch movies, play toys, stream music in the best quality. Including together with several devices.
Still, of course, you can work. But who goes to the country to sit and work in front of a laptop? Definitely not us.
OOKLA Speedtest – enough internet to stream high quality movies.
According to a colleague, the quality of communication on his site has really increased in recent years. And this applies not only to the speed of the Internet, but also to a tritely stable network. “Catches” well (and quickly) now in any part of the house and anywhere on the street.
The reason is simple: this place was affected by the modernization of MTS.
other than that, 80 megabits per second is the lowest speed we could catch. To find her, I had to go to the veranda, which is behind the trees and the surroundings of the house and the forest on all sides.
We walked to the nearest tower, took a picture especially for you. She appeared recently, and it is she who should be thanked for more than 200 megabits in the blink of an eye in the areas around.
Now what?
View current MTS coverage map throughout Russia, you can official site operator.
If you have a dacha, or you live outside the city, try to find this place on the map. Perhaps there is already a fast LTE:
The states of MTS, which we soon saw at a dacha in the suburbs, do not even think about Wi-Fi.
It’s no joke, I would even be glad if it caught worse. After all, we went to rest, not to work. You see, there is no reason to excuse yourself in the format “I can’t answer, the Internet is bad.” Anyway.
Source: Iphones RU
