Vodacom BIS working at full speed

[Porsche Driver]

Ever since last Wednesday the BIS service at my home location has been working really well.
On device web browsing is very fast. I am experiencing no disconnects / time-outs.
Web pages open instantaneously. BBM messages go through immediately. Emails hit my device timeously.
My Blackberry experience is finally working the way it was designed to.

I have a feeling the backhaul on the site that serves me has been upgraded by Vodacom.

I will refrain from thanking Vodacom simply because I have suffered for years with the Vodacom BIS service, and choose not be thankful today !

[DrYes]

Jannie is that you?

[jannievanzyl]

Jannie is that you?

No, but most likely my doing.

[Porsche Driver]

Jannie , if i give you the cell id of the site that serves me can you check if the backhaul on that site was upgraded in the last week ?

[jannievanzyl]

Jannie , if i give you the cell id of the site that serves me can you check if the backhaul on that site was upgraded in the last week ?

You can, but everyone should have seen a substantial improvement from Wednesday. What speed do you get on Fancy Speedtest? I've been sitting on 1 to 2Mb/s.

[Porsche Driver]

You can, but everyone should have seen a substantial improvement from Wednesday. What speed do you get on Fancy Speedtest? I've been sitting on 1 to 2Mb/s.

I've just done a couple of speed tests using Fancy Speedtest.
I'm getting around 1.2Mbps.

So if it wasn't the backhaul that was upgraded on the site serving me, what has Vodacom done that has brought the BIS service back to life ?

[Segg]

Must say I'm also getting way better speeds, I thought it was just because I was by the tower and the shopping center was pretty much empty, +1 to Vodacom then! Also quite keen to know what you guys did

[teraside]

I can't say the same here. Signal has been off a few days in the week in Mpumalanga with Vodacon and BIS speeds suck as well. I've also had BBM problems. My complaints fall on deaf ears though, so who cares. At least I'm on prepaid and can port my number any time I please, which will be soon I think.

[jannievanzyl]

I've just done a couple of speed tests using Fancy Speedtest.
I'm getting around 1.2Mbps.

So if it wasn't the backhaul that was upgraded on the site serving me, what has Vodacom done that has brought the BIS service back to life ?

Pretty much what we started a while ago. Just going step by step. Latest changes on Wednesday. When you see complaints from some around slow BIS downloads from 'certain' sites, smile.

[Porsche Driver]

Pretty much what we started a while ago. Just going step by step. Latest changes on Wednesday. When you see complaints from some around slow BIS downloads from 'certain' sites, smile.

Jannie the cell id's I'm picking up are 12011, 12014 and 12016.
Can you please check if that site has had a backhaul upgrade ?
I would appreciate it.

[jannievanzyl]

Jannie the cell id's I'm picking up are 12011, 12014 and 12016.
Can you please check if that site has had a backhaul upgrade ?
I would appreciate it.

Area?

[Porsche Driver]

Area?

Johannesburg

[koeksGHT]

Not much improvement :/ guess that's Edge speeds for you.. Haha need 3G

[jannievanzyl]

Johannesburg

Have asked.

[Porsche Driver]

Have asked.

Thank you Jannie !