HSDPA - show of hands

[vodacom3g]

Can we get a quick show of hands in which area the guys are getting the slow HSDPA throughput, especially the very low throughput sufferers (<100Kb/s).

Something like:

Area - suburb - typical speed

eg:

Pretoria - Waterkloof - <100Kb/s

 

[gboy]

Knysna - Knysna Hights < 100kb/s

But hopefully will be sorted out soon.

V3G thanks a million for your effort.

 

[Gunny]

Kempton Park - close to airport - >100kb/s <300kb/s this morning for bit last night i was getting over 1000kb/s

JHB - Benoni South >300kb/s <400kb/s right now.

Going to be in Bruma and Roodeport later today and post those speeds.

 

[ant101]

Cape Town - Maitland Area ( Between the towers of Epping/Century city /Old mutual)

Typical Speeds:
Speedtests on myasdl vary:
Telkom Speedtest :
* Download time: 7.772 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 525 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 64.3 (kiloBytes/second)
Broadstar , Miami Fl. Broadbandreports.com dslreports.com Speed test result on 2006-06-06 06:51:55 EST:
Your download speed : 381 kbps or 47.6 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 55 kbps or 6.8 KB/sec.

Sourceforge 32MB download: Starts downloading at 125KB/s ends at 65 KB/s. (could be a busy server I suppose?)

 

[ArminM]

Alberton between 60 - 120 kbps - sometimes in the evening it's better.

 

[Gunny]

JHB - Bruma

Download Speed: 761 kbps (95.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 37 kbps (4.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

Thats not bad

 

[Deiphos]

Rustenburg - Protea Park - < 60kb/s

 

[3G4me]

Uvongo - KZN South Coast

Normally okay, but tonight something is wrong.

On Vodacom Speed test, 221 kilobits download, 28 kilobytes. Done it a few times, this was the top speed.

We normally get between 800 and 1100 kilobits, 3 bars of signal and using an Option nozomi card with 64k sim.

Something has definitely fallen over... ADSL is normal.

 

[Gunny]

JHB - Roodeport

Download Speed: 76 kbps (9.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 56 kbps (7 KB/sec transfer rate)

 

[diabolus]

Centurion - Lyttelton - 100kbits/s if i'm lucky [3G speeds and lower primarily].

That's IF i manage to connect. I am on GPRS at the moment because the 3G/HSDPA is just too unstable.

I had HSDPA speeds [800kbps+] back in April when the big swop started, never saw anything above 200kbps since then .

 

[vodacom3g]

OK, discounting the braggers (those with speeds in excess of 100Kb/s!) and Gboy, most people seems to be around the Pta area with some in Jhb.

Any more? No Mountain goats or Banana boys?

Remember, we're specifically after the sub 100Kb/s souls. Not that we're discounting the other low speeds, it's just that they're probably two separate issues and I'm trying to get a geographic feel of the very low ones.

Thanks for all the feedback, btw.

 

[internaut]

Is that 100 in kilobits or kilobytes?
The reason why Im asking is because I dont think Id be bragging with 100+ kilobits. If it's kilobytes well then I fall in the hapless souls group who get a max of 60 Kilobytes/s download.

 

[vodacom3g]

Is that 100 in kilobits or kilobytes?
The reason why Im asking is because I dont think Id be bragging with 100+ kilobits. If it's kilobytes well then I fall in the hapless souls group who get a max of 60 Kilobytes/s download.

Unfortunately it's 100kbits/s.....

 

[jpd]

What's going on in Welgemoed

Last Result:
Download Speed: 197 kbps (24.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 114 kbps (14.3 KB/sec transfer rate)


Last week I was averaging over 1,000 although I never got above 1,400 kbps even though I am 200m from tower.

I ran the speed test 6 times now and performance is terrible.

Any ideas V3G?

 

[vodacom3g]

Last Result:
Download Speed: 197 kbps (24.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 114 kbps (14.3 KB/sec transfer rate)


Last week I was averaging over 1,000 although I never got above 1,400 kbps even though I am 200m from tower.

I ran the speed test 6 times now and performance is terrible.

Any ideas V3G?

Welgemoed, Cpt or Jhb?

 

[WRX1KNP]

Something wrong 2nite ...

Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg. 2 bar signal (my usual!)

After 3 attempts (first two timed out) GamCo Bandwidth Meter:

68.5 Kbps

"Normal" for here is 5-600 Kbps

"Best" is 1.77 Mbps (V3G has the Screenshot)

WTF?

Only Google loads fast (page must be cached EVERYWHERE)

- R

 

[Gunny]

Still in Roodeport and it took me 25 min to d/l a 4.5 meg driver

Download Speed: 35 kbps (4.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 21 kbps (2.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

 

[grim]

I don't know if this is related but my 3g connection at my house has been dissapearing every few days for anything from a couple of mins to a couple of days for the past 3 weeks now. I've been using 3g now for about 8 months and i've always had good speeds and 3g coverage where i stay. Signal stregth is always very good on average -60 to -80 dBm.

 

[vodacom3g]

Can we please get some throughput feedback from the guys in the Pretoria and Durban areas.

What is your throughput like this morning?

 

[zerofocus]

Samrand: past 2 days < 30kbit/sec (and im not being funny, its serious) normally about 200kbit/sec (still sucky)