3g Service RESTRICTED at work?!

achtungfemme · Apr 5, 2012, 10:05 AM

During this week at work I have notice that my 3g service (or even 2g service) does not work when I am at work. My iphone will not load any pages or apps that require internet service. But then when I get home everything is normal. I have had good internet at work before, but it now seems disabled.

Is this possible?? Is it possible for them to restrict it? I do not get any specific errors. It just keeps loading and loading and then timing out.

McGiord · 04:39 PM

Do you mean:

1) you have bad cellphone coverage or reception when you are at your workplace?

2) Or if your employer is purposely blocking any external cellphone signal?

achtungfemme · 04:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by McGiord

Do you mean:

1) you have bad cellphone coverage or reception when you are at your workplace?

2) Or if your employer is purposely blocking any external cellphone signal?

My PHONE service is totally fine. I get calls, texts, have full bars. It is just when I go into safari or an app that I am not able to load ANY app that requires internet.

McGiord · Apr 5, 2012, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by achtungfemme

My PHONE service is totally fine. I get calls, texts, have full bars. It is just when I go into safari or an app that I am not able to load ANY app that requires internet.

Check the Settings, do you have for any reason the cellular data service turned off?
Did you reach a cap in your data service plan?

Are you roaming?

Here in the US AT&T has an app called mark my spot, that helps to report coverage and service issues, when we face issues like you are describing we send a report through that app and they improve the coverage by adding more cells or other improvements.

By your user name it seems like you are in a german speaking country.
What is the name of your carrier?

achtungfemme · Apr 5, 2012, 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by McGiord

Check the Settings, do you have for any reason the cellular data service turned off?
Did you reach a cap in your data service plan?

Are you roaming?

Here in the US AT&T has an app called mark my spot, that helps to report coverage and service issues, when we face issues like you are describing we send a report through that app and they improve the coverage by adding more cells or other improvements.

By your user name it seems like you are in a german speaking country.
What is the name of your carrier?

I am actually in NYC and on At&t. Just a U2 fan :-)

I have an unlimited data plan and my service is enabled. It seems that at home though, I get service fine. I even think when I step outside, I have data service. Just wondering if it is possible to restrict data service only. If a company can do that?

jessica. · Apr 5, 2012, 10:49 AM

My 3G service in my work building is shoddy at best. I don't think the company is doing it, I think it's just a weird zone.

ogm1er · Apr 5, 2012, 10:50 AM

I had the same prob, I work in a hospital.
What you need to do is, make sure your wifi is on, then go into settings for wifi and most of the time your work should have a free guest wifi network. connect to that, then open up safari, there should be a login page for your works network, simply enter an email address as the name, and then try loading your destination url page.

AndroidTriumph · Apr 5, 2012, 10:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by achtungfemme

My PHONE service is totally fine. I get calls, texts, have full bars. It is just when I go into safari or an app that I am not able to load ANY app that requires internet.

As crazy as this sounds, I have also noticed this in the past. But I always assumed it was because I was in a big building that just had bad service at work.

Mobile923 · Apr 5, 2012, 12:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by achtungfemme

During this week at work I have notice that my 3g service (or even 2g service) does not work when I am at work. My iphone will not load any pages or apps that require internet service. But then when I get home everything is normal. I have had good internet at work before, but it now seems disabled.

Is this possible?? Is it possible for them to restrict it? I do not get any specific errors. It just keeps loading and loading and then timing out.

I've had the same experience in my old work place. This was in Tribeca, downtown Manhattan... about 3 blocks away from the AT&T building.

Voice and Texting were fine but anything with data, I'd have to walk around my office looking like I'm scanning for life forms just to send an iMessage.

Ste Nova · Feb 22, 2013, 02:44 AM

it will just be the building materals being nice and thick and stopping the signal... as for the windows

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...e-signals.html

DerekRod · Feb 22, 2013, 01:07 PM

My office building is built purposely to keep cell signals out tons of wiring and metals in the wall.

aliensporebomb · Feb 22, 2013, 04:33 PM

Do you work at a secret government installation? That could explain it.

quietstormSD · Feb 22, 2013, 09:04 PM

Maybe you're on their guest WIFI and it's not really the 3G signal

wxman2003 · Feb 22, 2013, 09:34 PM

I have a similar problem at work but with LTE. What will happen is LTE will switch over to 3G even though I am at full bars. It only occurs near a certain group of computers. Really weird.

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achtungfemme macrumors member Join Date: Jun 2010	3g Service RESTRICTED at work?! During this week at work I have notice that my 3g service (or even 2g service) does not work when I am at work. My iphone will not load any pages or apps that require internet service. But then when I get home everything is normal. I have had good internet at work before, but it now seems disabled. Is this possible?? Is it possible for them to restrict it? I do not get any specific errors. It just keeps loading and loading and then timing out.
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Ste Nova macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: LL22, UK	it will just be the building materals being nice and thick and stopping the signal... as for the windows http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...e-signals.html __________________ iP5/32 black unlimited tethered data, ip4/32 black, iPad3/32gbwifi black, 2 x iP3gs/32 black, nikon d7000 with eyefi , honda s2000, audi a6 le mans
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ogm1er macrumors newbie Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: California	I had the same prob, I work in a hospital. What you need to do is, make sure your wifi is on, then go into settings for wifi and most of the time your work should have a free guest wifi network. connect to that, then open up safari, there should be a login page for your works network, simply enter an email address as the name, and then try loading your destination url page.
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wxman2003 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Apr 2011	I have a similar problem at work but with LTE. What will happen is LTE will switch over to 3G even though I am at full bars. It only occurs near a certain group of computers. Really weird. __________________ iMac I5, Macbook, iPad 4, iPhone 5, iPod, ATV 3
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