Afrihost Mobile Feedback Thread

[The_Unbeliever]

Hi Girls (and Guys)

Do post your experiences (and feedback) in this thread.

Thanks.

 

[Hectic]

Requested by Afriman.

We're loving the feedback here so far guys!
If possible, could you keep the posts coming but in our Mobile Feedback thread? Makes tracking any potential issues much easier

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/554047-Afrihost-Mobile-Feedback-Thread

 

[The_Unbeliever]

My issues is :

Spotty coverage - both at home and at work. Which can't be helped. I'm still trying to find a "sweet" spot at my house.

Work is a different matter.

Apart from that, I've been testing it all over the place wherever I go. Some places have excellent speeds, some have poor speeds.

Depends on whether you have a [good] tower in your area.

But I'm very impressed with it. Will be trying it in other areas out as well.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Requested by Afriman.

We're loving the feedback here so far guys!
If possible, could you keep the posts coming but in our Mobile Feedback thread? Makes tracking any potential issues much easier

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/554047-Afrihost-Mobile-Feedback-Thread

That's the Delivery thread I started this one, so that we can start clean without any clutter.

 

[whatwhat]

Spotty coverage in La Lucia. a MTN phone gets 3G signal while the mifi device gets 2G/Edge sitting next to each other on the desks.

 

[AfriGuy]

Spotty coverage in La Lucia. a MTN phone gets 3G signal while the mifi device gets 2G/Edge sitting next to each other on the desks.

What's your coverage looking like, according to this map?
http://www.afrihost.com/tools/network_coverage_map/

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Uniform shades of grey/orange/yellow is not a good indicator of signal strength, unfortunately.

If we can also have the tower locations on the map... Maybe the gr8signal.co.za map will do better, just use MTN settings?

Both home and work is covered in grey (3G 2100) and yellow (2G) but not in brown (3G 900)

And 2G sucks.

 

[ichigo]

What I find funny about my areas coverage is that we have a tower close to my house yet no coverage on the map?

 

[dabbler]

Spotty coverage in La Lucia. a MTN phone gets 3G signal while the mifi device gets 2G/Edge sitting next to each other on the desks.

Switch the device to 3G only. It's in the settings. That is if you know there is 3G coverage. Prevents it from changing to Edge.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Switch the device to 3G only. It's in the settings. That is if you know there is 3G coverage. Prevents it from changing to Edge.

This?

 

[Mr.Jax]

Looking good!

Received mine about an hour ago.
Signal strength is orange.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2926906048
Download: 6.13Mb/s
Upload:1.13Mb/s
Ping:40ms

 

[AfriGuy]

Looking good!

Received mine about an hour ago.
Signal strength is orange.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2926906048
Download: 6.13Mb/s
Upload:1.13Mb/s
Ping:40ms

Those are some good looking stats! Is this indoors?

 

[Mr.Jax]

Yup, indoors.

 

[Mike2408]

My device was delivered about an hour ago. Here's my speedtest results at work. Plattekloof, Cape Town.



Will post a speedtest result from home later.

 

[Wall]

just got my result. It was initally quite slow. ( speedtest, nor google were opening up )but it seems fine now
my results:

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2926997118

 

[The_Unbeliever]

#14 = not too bad

Is jealous!

 

[jun_tao]

Got mine an hour ago.

Here are the results.


Ormonde, Johannesburg

 

[AfriGuy]

My device was delivered about an hour ago. Here's my speedtest results at work. Plattekloof, Cape Town.

View attachment 67443

Will post a speedtest result from home later.

Some rocking speeds right there! Keep 'em coming

 

[Dan C]

Unfortunately slow. Test from home. (coverage map shows 3g, but the mifi says 2g ... maybe I should try the force trick)

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2924908967

 

[Lazy.Me]

For anyone who is interested, the Huawei App on iPhone and Andriod provides some cool info and stats for the device