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teraside
09-08-2007, 10:08 AM
Hey dudes, I'm away from my adsl line until Monday unfortunately, I am currently connected with an Edge capable phone, roaming on Vodacom.

At my house, the phone works fine and gives me Edge speeds, where I am now, I only get gprs speeds and it's fricken crawling, no jokes.

I've tried onspeed in December to give a boost to the internet, but I've downloaded it so many times just to use the trial, lol.

Do any of you know of an app (free preferably) which I could use to boost the connection, which is similar as onspeed? I don't want to change Windows settings etc. got an app to do that last night and I lost connectivity completely, had to load trusty WinsocksXpfix to fix it :p

Please muchachos, help a friend out ;)

Btw. my friend gets 3G on his Vodacom card at the exact same location, so I don't know what's up.
Syndyre
09-08-2007, 10:23 AM
Btw. my friend gets 3G on his Vodacom card at the exact same location, so I don't know what's up.

You can't get 3G on VM.
teraside
09-08-2007, 10:28 AM
Dude, that's not what I'm saying. If he gets 3G, I should get Edge.
Syndyre
09-08-2007, 10:37 AM
Dude, that's not what I'm saying. If he gets 3G, I should get Edge.

Not necessarily, they're completely different technologies running on completely different networks. I'm in an area now that has Vodacom 3G/HSDPA coverage but no EDGE, only GPRS on 2G.
teraside
09-08-2007, 10:47 AM
Okay, so why do I get Edge at my house, which is literally 2.5 km away? That does not compute.
Syndyre
09-08-2007, 11:36 AM
Okay, so why do I get Edge at my house, which is literally 2.5 km away? That does not compute.

You're probably connecting to a different tower now because the signal strength is stronger from a non-EDGE tower.
DragonLogos
09-08-2007, 12:34 PM
I set up a system the other day, first on VM and then on Voda 3G - when doing the 3G install it asked if I wanted to optimise the system, which I said yes - long story short - later noticed that VM was flying much better - had to get the job out, but will look into it sometime
teraside
09-08-2007, 09:12 PM
Not necessarily, they're completely different technologies running on completely different networks. I'm in an area now that has Vodacom 3G/HSDPA coverage but no EDGE, only GPRS on 2G.

Must be, it sucks though, do you know of any free apps like onspeed? ;)
AirWolf
09-08-2007, 09:59 PM
Not necessarily, they're completely different technologies running on completely different networks. I'm in an area now that has Vodacom 3G/HSDPA coverage but no EDGE, only GPRS on 2G.

Same here.


Must be, it sucks though, do you know of any free apps like onspeed? ;)

Any app you do get is only likely to have a neglible effect on GPRS speeds IMO.
Mantis
16-08-2007, 03:56 PM
You can get 3g on Virgin if you change the network to roam on Vodacom. Sometimes the speeds are worse though
saintm
16-08-2007, 06:44 PM
You can get 3g on Virgin if you change the network to roam on Vodacom. Sometimes the speeds are worse though

Uhm ... not so much ...

Have you been successful with this lately? Been quite a major discussion point in the forum recently saying that it can't be done. Or has something slipped through the cracks somewhere? (please say it can be done! that would be GREAT!)
AirWolf
16-08-2007, 08:38 PM
You can get 3g on Virgin if you change the network to roam on Vodacom. Sometimes the speeds are worse though


Uhm ... not so much ...

Have you been successful with this lately? Been quite a major discussion point in the forum recently saying that it can't be done. Or has something slipped through the cracks somewhere? (please say it can be done! that would be GREAT!)

Previously you could roam on Vodacom's 3G network, but were still limited to the Virgin/Cell C top speeds i.e. EGDE. From my own experience you can no longer roam on Vodacom 3G.

PS. I'm using the real Vodacom 3G HSDPA now;)
Conspirator
17-08-2007, 01:49 PM
It automatically kicks me off the VC 3G network. Recently I've even had trouble roaming on EDGE-only VC.
ndlovu_f
17-08-2007, 03:40 PM
Uhm ... not so much ...

Have you been successful with this lately? Been quite a major discussion point in the forum recently saying that it can't be done. Or has something slipped through the cracks somewhere? (please say it can be done! that would be GREAT!)

Please note that you can connect to VC but you will only be limited to GPRS & EDGE. Althought your phone might display 3G, VC does not allow you to utilise 3G.