3G is operating like a flat battery here in Centurion, especially Lyttelton. When I connect its like:"Look mommy, I am going really fast". A few minutes later and it sucks. I get a few bytes per second and eventually nothing works.
Yesterday I was busy with a PHP page and I needed to secure a few details before logging off. It took me 1/2 hour to get a 15kbyte file uploaded. I had to use another internet connection to test it as the process requires 6 pages to load.
To get more speed I have to refresh/reconnect. This is irritating because everytime I want to email, receive email or access internet I have to disconnect and reconnect.
Sometimes this refresh thing works for a few minutes other times seconds. I find disconnecting and reconnecting gives a bit of relief. If I want a bit longer uptime I have to disconnect from the network (i.e. Dash off) and then reconnect. Maybe it is the time I take to get everything started again that is adding to the 'added performance'.
This only stated a few days ago. The funny thing is that I don't get any disconnections, the connection just slows down to nothing. At the present location I used to get 40 to 50kbyte/s downloads.
What really ticks me off is that I wanted to use my last 50Mbyte yesterday and now it is all gone.
I have just checked my Outlook response time. It is already taking 10 to 20 second per email account just to check if there is incoming email. In about 5 minutes I will have to reconnect.
Anybody else with the same problem?
VMS
Yesterday I was busy with a PHP page and I needed to secure a few details before logging off. It took me 1/2 hour to get a 15kbyte file uploaded. I had to use another internet connection to test it as the process requires 6 pages to load.
To get more speed I have to refresh/reconnect. This is irritating because everytime I want to email, receive email or access internet I have to disconnect and reconnect.
Sometimes this refresh thing works for a few minutes other times seconds. I find disconnecting and reconnecting gives a bit of relief. If I want a bit longer uptime I have to disconnect from the network (i.e. Dash off) and then reconnect. Maybe it is the time I take to get everything started again that is adding to the 'added performance'.
This only stated a few days ago. The funny thing is that I don't get any disconnections, the connection just slows down to nothing. At the present location I used to get 40 to 50kbyte/s downloads.
What really ticks me off is that I wanted to use my last 50Mbyte yesterday and now it is all gone.
I have just checked my Outlook response time. It is already taking 10 to 20 second per email account just to check if there is incoming email. In about 5 minutes I will have to reconnect.
Anybody else with the same problem?
VMS
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It happened about 5 times last night and seems to be an ongoing problem.