3G signal gone?

[Haasbroek]

Hi,

Living in Gordons Bay.

3G Signal gone most of yesterday and during the night.

Could only connect with GPRS to do internet.

Did anyone else notice problems on 3G the past 48 hours?

Or is it just my tower that collapsed?

PS: It is back online now again, but I've seen when it eventually does come only it only stays online for like 5 minutes just to disappear for a few hours again.

Help

 

[Iam3G]

Ja, for the past few days its been a bit erratic, but mine isnt as bad as yours as i still retain my 3G Signal. It seems to have stabilized.

 

[Iam3G]

Hi,

Living in Gordons Bay.

3G Signal gone most of yesterday and during the night.

Could only connect with GPRS to do internet.

Did anyone else notice problems on 3G the past 48 hours?

Or is it just my tower that collapsed?

PS: It is back online now again, but I've seen when it eventually does come only it only stays online for like 5 minutes just to disappear for a few hours again.

Help

I just remembered, upgrade to version 3 of VMCLite and set it to use 3G Only.

 

[threegee]

This has become a daily occurence for me over the last few weeks, every day the problem is blamed on something else.

This morning is no different had 3G all morning until 9:30am and then BAM ... gone yet again.

Now I am told a bunch of Telkom sites are down which is strange because prior to 9:30 am everything was working ... how do a "bunch" of Telkom sites all go down at the same time?

I suppose like with everything in SA today Vodacom will blame Telkom, Telkom will blame Eskom and Eskom will blame nobody because Eskom is just so wonderful and perfect. Must be time for some multi-million Rand Eskom bonuses to be paid out again, such sterling performance

 

[Sneeky]

Last 2 months things have gone downhill and fast.
Right now my connection resets every few minutes.
Trying to log a call to 155 and even that drops and I get a connection error on my phone.
This is very annoying.

 

[tian]

3G signal Gone

Hi there,

don't know of the technical detail will interest you, but this is what I think is happening.

All Vodacom Base stations (3g or not) give priority to voice(normal telephone above data(GPRS,3G WAP etc.) so if the voice part is very busy, the basestation will automatically put all data-request lower in the list of priority.

this is especially true during normal peak hours (09:30 - 17:00)

 

[TMoose]

My 3G is dead. I'm in Joburg. Can't connect to it at all, only GPRS. Extremely slow. If I use 3G only it doesn't connect at all. If I choose 3G preferred and I manually select the 3G network it says I'm not allowed.

 

[vodacom3g]

This has become a daily occurence for me over the last few weeks, every day the problem is blamed on something else.

This morning is no different had 3G all morning until 9:30am and then BAM ... gone yet again.

Now I am told a bunch of Telkom sites are down which is strange because prior to 9:30 am everything was working ... how do a "bunch" of Telkom sites all go down at the same time?

I suppose like with everything in SA today Vodacom will blame Telkom, Telkom will blame Eskom and Eskom will blame nobody because Eskom is just so wonderful and perfect. Must be time for some multi-million Rand Eskom bonuses to be paid out again, such sterling performance

Not quite, we 'blame' whoever or whatever is actually responsible. If it's us, we say so, if it's a software bug, we say so, if it's Telkom, we say so.

Fact is we've had a serious problem with transmission in the last week or 3. A few days ago we lost a large number of base stations due to such a fault. Sounds like you're seeing something similar.

Remember the network looks like a distributed star, the closer you get to the core the more people can be affected. So if the link to a core element is taken out, it can affect a large number of people downstream. Even with re-routing (if that's not out as well).

Finally, remember Vodacom generate its revenue from you being able to connect. So you can ask yourself; why would Vodacom benefit in any way from the network being down?

Think about it.

 

[SoTrue]

Finally, remember Vodacom generate its revenue from you being able to connect. So you can ask yourself; why would Vodacom benefit in any way from the network being down?

Except that unused contract data bundles expire at the end of the month - in the short term Vodacom will not lose, but the customer will.