3g on Virgin?

[paulcrill]

Hi all

I was wondering how I go about setting my iphone up for 3g or Edge so that I can check my email etc when I'm away from my wireless home connection.

Can I do that, as I seem to remember someone saying Virgin doesn't even have 3g.

 

[DJNgoma]

No, Virgin doesn't have 3G but it does have EDGE. All you do is set the access point as

vdata

and check the IPs are zeroed, played with an iPhone a month ago and took a few seconds to guess where it was.

 

[jvk]

or you can just go to the virgin menu (automatically on your phone once you insert a virgin sim) and select send setting ...then you just follow the prompts and you done !

 

[MeLaW]

I don't like the speed of GPRS. I would rather port to Vodacom or MTN...for the benefit of 3G

 

[jvk]

true...but i use it for browsing and occasionaly for small downloads 5mb or less and it seems ok for me. plus it's cheaper per meg than the other service providers .

 

[elL0L]

I've downloaded a 150MB file. Took me 2h. Was awesome . . .

 

[DJNgoma]

I don't like the speed of GPRS. I would rather port to Vodacom or MTN...for the benefit of 3G

At R2 per MB without bundle.

EDGE is also available.

 

[elL0L]

And there aren't 3g available everywhere.

 

[DJNgoma]

And there aren't 3g available everywhere.

because of Cell C.

 

[jvk]

I've downloaded a 150MB file. Took me 2h. Was awesome . . .

d@mn ! thats awesome.

biggest file i downloaded was 6mb i think. i buy R110 virgin recharge that usually lasts me about a month and a half or a month if im downloading nintendo roms etc

 

[Tweak]

because of Cell C.

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