Getting educated on hsdpa data bundles

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I have a mtn voice cotract. I would like a data bundle for my Dell latitude e6500 laptop. I was told that I can take a data bundle on my voice contract or take a data bundle contract. I read up on the specs for my laptop that I have hsdpa 7.2 mini-card. So I do not need a hsdpa device on my bundle.
What are the options youll can sugest ?
 
first of all buy a single bundle on your sim right now, or test with your airtime. 20 MB will do.

test your speeds using www.speedtest.net
buy a R2 vodacom SIM, load 20MB's onto it and test again.

check which is faster - the MTN sim or the Voda SIM.

point? no use in signing a 2 year contract and finding out your 3G signal is crap.

you already have the modem, so test it first. please.
 
Agreed, test first get some prepaid sims add a little data or airtime to it and test.

Test wherever you will be requiring 3G/HSDPA access from.
 
Regardless which network is fastest do not take a contract with either at this stage - prepaid data is the same price as contract to the best of my knowledge.

You are thus free to leave when service is not acceptable or if either gets better infrastructure where you utilise most.

If you travel a lot it might be worthwhile to keep both sims active on prepaid as neither VC or MTN has excellent strength everywhere. i.e. you might find at home MTN is great and at work Vodacom is great.

In my humble opinion the only reason for a contract is the free modem, with both networks you also receive points for using the network on prepaid - at Vodacom you can swap these points for a phone or a modem, I am not sure exactly what you can get from MTN for your points. The point is you can still get a modem or save money without the 24 month contract

What i like most about prepaid is that I can decide how much I would like to spend - i.e. on a contract you must pay your monthly subs regardless if you use all your data or none, on prepaid you can decide - 500mb this month 5 gb next month - you get my point
 
Also, try www.sainet.co.za

They sell MTN bandwidth much cheaper than MTN. No contract. 500MB = R149.00. MTN 350MB = R169.00
 
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