Network utilization Wingo/Swisscom vs Salt?

    • Hey combs

    I’ve been with Salt for years and the network in my area (Basel) is overloaded every evening, there are constant interruptions, and you regularly have to wait forever for videos. Also relatively often during the day (every few days).

    In your experience, is this also the case at Wingo/Swisscom? Just normal for a mobile network?

    Or would switching to Wingo be a significant improvement in this regard?

    I don’t know how independent this forum is haha, but I would still be interested in feedback.

    Greetings Roman

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    • @Peingichiob27

      Basically, this kind of thing always depends on where you live and stay. However, the Swisscom network often offers more, with a few exceptions. If you are not satisfied with Salt, I would definitely switch to Wingo.

    I’ve already tried all 3 providers and with Swisscom both directly with Swisscom and with Wingo

    I never had any problems with utilization with either Swisscom or Wingo, Wingo has a little less priority, for example I have 700 Mbits in a speed test with Swisscom and “only” 600 Mbits with Wingo

    I’ve never had Wingo being unusably slow (except when the signal was very poor, e.g. in basements).

    By the way, Sunrise is the worst in terms of utilization, e.g. after work on a crowded train, less than 1 Mbits, WhatsApp sends me a huge delay, making phone calls is impossible (but you don’t do that on a crowded train anyway🙂)

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    Thanks to 5G and the massive expansion, Swisscom has one of the best networks in the world for good reason. Nothing more needs to be said about it.

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    Hello @Peingichiob27

    I recently heard that in Austria, where they are also trying to make 5G and such attractive to all customers…

    Customers say during the day it works to some extent, but as soon as everyone is home and turns on their TV, etc., the speed drops.

    And you have to say, if X 100 people watch a stream from Netflix at the same time, the good download needs 12MB, now you can extrapolate it.

    And then it always depends on how the cell phone antenna is connected to the main network.

    Some have fiber optic connections and others are connected via radio link.

    And the other question is still how quickly will they be connected there. And what generation of cell phone tower is it……

    It’s best to test the 3 different providers at the same time with 2 other colleagues at your favorite location and then make your own judgment.

    Greetings Lorenz

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    We have 2 Swisscom mobiles and 2 Wingo mobiles in our family. We don’t have the problems you described with any of the devices. I can recommend both to you!

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    Regarding the connection of the cell phone antennas: New antennas are practically only connected to the core network via fiber optics, with all 3 providers. For existing radio-linked antennas, the connection will be converted to fiber optic. On funksender.ch you can see whether an antenna could be connected to a radio link.

    Swisscom is likely to have the smallest number of locations connected to radio links.

    In Germany, for example, connection via radio links is still common practice. They even sometimes have problems connecting antenna locations to the power grid…

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    8 months later

    Swisscom simply has the best mobile network - neither Salt nor Sunrise can hold a candle to Swisscom in terms of network coverage. Wingo is a registered trademark of Swisscom and therefore logically runs on the Swisscom network. It is a low-cost brand and most Wingo subscriptions do not include 5G. In addition, you do not enjoy the free customer service in the shop or on the hotline, as is the case with Swisscom. The data packages are more expensive with Wingo. Since I don’t need 5G, I switched my subscription from Swisscom to Wingo and have a prepaid card from Swisscom because the data packages are cheaper with Swisscom and it can’t hurt to have a second number for online orders, where advertising calls will follow sooner or later. With Samsung, you can have two SIM cards inserted and easily switch between Sim1 and Sim2.

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