There must have been some serious issue with 8ta on Wednesday. Was going to post a separate thread, but will rather add it here. I have quite bad reception at home. This is not just limited to 8ta, but also to Vodacom and MTN. My data bundle is on 8ta and to make it work properly, I have to use a directional antenna directed at the Randjiesfontein tower in Midrand. On Wednesday, May 1, I had my normal 38-50% signal on my router. Sometime in the afternoon it dropped to 3%. I could initially also not get to the 8ta balance page. An hour later I could get to the page, but was unable to see my data balance. All this was because of problems on 8ta's side. Yesterday my signal on the router was back to normal. No changes on my side.
I would love for 8ta to provide us with a web page with the status of their towers and maybe even their self service portal. This is not the first time I have experienced a "tower failure". The last time this happened I spent 2 hours repositioning my router in the house to get better signal. Eventually gave up and it came right the next day. If I knew the tower was down, I could have left it and waited it out.
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