Crappy throughput on VM

[MyDraadloos]

Ever since adding more airtime yesterday it has been as slow as watching paint dry.

Web pages time out, won't open or is so damn slow you just give up.

Gonna shut everything down in 30min and see what happens in the morning.

 

[kingrob]

Ever since adding more airtime yesterday it has been as slow as watching paint dry.

Web pages time out, won't open or is so damn slow you just give up.

Gonna shut everything down in 30min and see what happens in the morning.

Can it be that Virgin decided to 'cap' you?

 

[RompelStompel]

Also in Pretoria - slow speeds on VM.

 

[MyDraadloos]

Can it be that Virgin decided to 'cap' you?

Not possible, I ran my account down to R 0.00 and then recharged it ...... how could this have any effect ? But then again anything is possible.

I'm outa here ..........

 

[kronoSX]

it was slow yesterday but its fine today.Its ups and downs.

 

[Prometheus]

Seems fine on the hsdpa side...

 

[Syndyre]

Seems fine on the hsdpa side...

I thought that loophole had been closed?

 

[Prometheus]

I thought that loophole had been closed?

[weird voice on]
You didn't see anything...
[weird voice off]

 

[CellBel]

Ever since adding more airtime yesterday it has been as slow as watching paint dry.

Web pages time out, won't open or is so damn slow you just give up.

Gonna shut everything down in 30min and see what happens in the morning.

I had the same problem with VM's GPRS for most of the time the last 5
months here in the platteland.
So monday morning i bought myself a MTN PAYGo, bought R100.00
airtime with which i bought 100Mb for 1 month, and what a pleasure
to surf again with web pages that does not take ages to open.
Well OK that is 50c up, but my stress level is much lower now.

 

[antowan]

Yup! Lynnwood used to be fast. Now it just sucks!

 

[antowan]

http://www.virginmobile.co.za/virgin-portal-customer/contactUs.do

Emailing them right now!

 

[Syndyre]

[weird voice on]
You didn't see anything...
[weird voice off]

Capiche.

 

[antowan]

Hi Antowan,

Thank your for getting in touch with Virgin Mobile.

We have been experiencing major problems with our connections, however, our Data Specialists are working on these problems.

We sincerely apologise for this inconvenience.

Yours in Mobility
Virgin Mobile Team

Email I got from them.

 

[MyDraadloos]

Having trouble staying connected to the TurdoCash forum.

I keep getting logged out because there is seemingly now connection.

Earlier today I could not send mail......... they seemed to be blocking random ports and 465 which is Gmail SMTP or throtteling to death.

K@k throughput , but I guess cheap access means cheap service.

 

[antowan]

Lets give'em a chance. If they pull through it would be a brilliant boon for South Africa at their prices. Come on VM! Come on!

 

[Syndyre]

Lets give'em a chance. If they pull through it would be a brilliant boon for South Africa at their prices. Come on VM! Come on!

They've definitely improved since the early days.

 

[Prometheus]

They've definitely improved since the early days.

They actually got worse than the early days and then improved again. Guess the load was just too much for them.

 

[MyDraadloos]

I have sent off 2 e-mails, both have been unanswered ........ it is OK when it works, but when they screw up they do it in a big way.

 

[Syndyre]

I have sent off 2 e-mails, both have been unanswered ........ it is OK when it works, but when they screw up they do it in a big way.

Who did you email?

[email protected] is a waste of time, seems to work better if you email a specific person.

 

[antowan]

Ag no man! Come on VM! I tried it last night again. It starts up perfect and then within 5 seconds the "connection reset" errors kick in.