That's weird, we've usually seen good results with them.
Did you ask us to follow up the ref#?
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That's weird, we've usually seen good results with them.
Did you ask us to follow up the ref#?
Solitude
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Nah, I just waited for MTN's reply and then posted here.
The last couple of evenings things were much better though so for now I'm happy.Afriguy, do you know of a company that does antenna installations? I don't want to try and do it myself. Would rather someone experienced do it.
Nah, I just waited for MTN's reply and then posted here.
Afriguy, do you know of a company that does antenna installations? I don't want to try and do it myself. Would rather someone experienced do it.
If you do submit another form I'll gladly follow it up for you
In terms of installation, MTN outsource the work - I'm not sure by who/ what company though. I think it's a pretty straight forward task though. Drill some holes, install it, point and shoot and you're good.
Maybe these links will help:
http://www.antennas.co.za/Scenario/Select/2
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/630443-The-Poynting-antenna-discussion-thread
Solitude
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Thank you very much AfriGuy! I will go have a look at those links now.
No worries, keep me posted on how things go! Some huge improvements can be pulled through with these antennas.
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Count yourself lucky - I never heard anything back from them.
w1tw0lf
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Seems like the old bug stuck its head out again.... got a capped page with data left
w1tw0lf
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Sorted via email support already. Thank you anyway
Solitude
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Tonight I'm getting great speeds but terrible pings. Something not right with the connection. Will try Diablo III now and hope for the best.
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Everything was working great.
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Everything was working great.
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Dan C
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Afriguy, any chance you can get MTN to upgrade East London ? Anywhere in East London the signal goes from 3g to edge in a matter of seconds. My ADSL is dead tonight and I have 3 afrihost sims , which are useless ATM. So I had to get Vodacom LTE data which was expensive, but works 100% better than MTN.
MTN speedtest : about 10kbps
Vodacom : 36mbps
MTN speedtest : about 10kbps
Vodacom : 36mbps
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Tonight I'm getting great speeds but terrible pings. Something not right with the connection. Will try Diablo III now and hope for the best.
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Everything was working great.
Great to hear things came right
Was the rest of the weekend also smooth sailing?
Afriguy, any chance you can get MTN to upgrade East London ? Anywhere in East London the signal goes from 3g to edge in a matter of seconds. My ADSL is dead tonight and I have 3 afrihost sims , which are useless ATM. So I had to get Vodacom LTE data which was expensive, but works 100% better than MTN.
MTN speedtest : about 10kbps
Vodacom : 36mbps
I don't think upgrading the entire EL would be a quick fix
I know MTN are always doing roll outs though (I got LTE in my area 2 weeks back, sorry to rub it in 
) so I'm sure you can expect some improvements.I'm sure you have already, but have you checked our coverage map for your area? If it's spotty you can log a coverage query with MTN.
Sorry about that
If you're still having troubles please drop me a PM with your info so I can have things reset.
Sorry about that
If you're still having troubles please drop me a PM with your info so I can have things reset.
Seems to be working now. I will check later today if it still works at home.
Cool beans, keep me posted!
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I have been using afrihost/mtn for some time now and everything was fine at the beginning everything was working good, good speeds etc. But from last year around November it has been getting worse at night around 7 it will slow down to 20-30 kbps and only let up and 11-midnight.
So from my side I filled in the mtn-afrihost coverage complain form thingy.But mtn never got back to me but afrihost did... after A while I got so fed with mtn not coming back to me I called them self and finally found a guy that will help me we spoke and after A hour or so when he got my details he said he will email me.
On the 2014/12/04 he email me with the following details on the tower:
From then I left it alone to see what happens but it has gotten worse and worse it has gotten to the point that the last week it goes so slow the modems in my house would drop connection or go down to 5kbps.(my signal is fine and its more then one modem)
I have been really patience about this but this has gotten to the point that I can't work nor play or using my internet for anything. I would really like for afrihost to step and find out what mtn is going to do or have plans for this tower.I am paying afrihost every month and for sure as hell they can find out what is happening . The case number is in the email qoute.
At this rate I am gonna have to move to somebody else its just getting worse and worse afrhost could really step up and ask mtn what the plans are for this area. I am very displease at how bad it has gotten
So from my side I filled in the mtn-afrihost coverage complain form thingy.But mtn never got back to me but afrihost did... after A while I got so fed with mtn not coming back to me I called them self and finally found a guy that will help me we spoke and after A hour or so when he got my details he said he will email me.
On the 2014/12/04 he email me with the following details on the tower:
From then I left it alone to see what happens but it has gotten worse and worse it has gotten to the point that the last week it goes so slow the modems in my house would drop connection or go down to 5kbps.(my signal is fine and its more then one modem)
I have been really patience about this but this has gotten to the point that I can't work nor play or using my internet for anything. I would really like for afrihost to step and find out what mtn is going to do or have plans for this tower.I am paying afrihost every month and for sure as hell they can find out what is happening . The case number is in the email qoute.
At this rate I am gonna have to move to somebody else its just getting worse and worse afrhost could really step up and ask mtn what the plans are for this area. I am very displease at how bad it has gotten
I have been using afrihost/mtn for some time now and everything was fine at the beginning everything was working good, good speeds etc. But from last year around November it has been getting worse at night around 7 it will slow down to 20-30 kbps and only let up and 11-midnight.
So from my side I filled in the mtn-afrihost coverage complain form thingy.But mtn never got back to me but afrihost did... after A while I got so fed with mtn not coming back to me I called them self and finally found a guy that will help me we spoke and after A hour or so when he got my details he said he will email me.
On the 2014/12/04 he email me with the following details on the tower:
From then I left it alone to see what happens but it has gotten worse and worse it has gotten to the point that the last week it goes so slow the modems in my house would drop connection or go down to 5kbps.(my signal is fine and its more then one modem)
I have been really patience about this but this has gotten to the point that I can't work nor play or using my internet for anything. I would really like for afrihost to step and find out what mtn is going to do or have plans for this tower.I am paying afrihost every month and for sure as hell they can find out what is happening . The case number is in the email qoute.
At this rate I am gonna have to move to somebody else its just getting worse and worse afrhost could really step up and ask mtn what the plans are for this area. I am very displease at how bad it has gotten
Really sorry to hear about this
I know it sucks not having great throughput in the area. Sounds like there's congestion here though. If you have that ref# from the coverage query and email - shoot me a PM and I'll escalate things with MTN.
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