Mobile data bundle consumption test with 100MB file - Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, Cell C

They have a minimum billing unit which is 100KB. if there is 50KB you still billed 100KB. Obviously with a file download there would be large packets and few small ones so its a bad test. Try something interactive.
 
So this is an average and no guarentee of background data. There is overheads.
can work on a 5% over head and this is within margin.
 
#suggestion

I got no problem with a word / article write-up

additionally however why don't you just make a video as well , that would be more "fun" to watch
Do all these kinds of mobile tests / airtime and data tests and other stuff in video format
 
Why use a phone? It is hard to ensure that there is no background processes.
Why not just use a modem, and a Linux box and user wget to fetch the file using a modem.
That ensures no unaccounted overheads.
 
There are overheads when dealing with mobile websites and dynamic content (which WeTransfer uses) - never mind packet loss and checksum verification.
 
WalkWithMe said:
So this is an average and no guarentee of background data. There is overheads.
can work on a 5% over head and this is within margin.
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Remind me next time you fill.up.with Petrol and they charge you for 5% more because "overheads".

Surely if MTN and Vodacom were faster there should be less overheads... There is something a bit fishy here.

CPA say anything about Weights and Measures? Who checks they aren't just scamming us?
 
richjdavies said:
Remind me next time you fill.up.with Petrol and they charge you for 5% more because "overheads".

Surely if MTN and Vodacom were faster there should be less overheads... There is something a bit fishy here.

CPA say anything about Weights and Measures? Who checks they aren't just scamming us?
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Read up on TCP. It was designed decades ago
 
Speed does not determine overheads. Only the rate at which such could accrue.
 
richjdavies said:
Oh right. I forgot that MTN and Vodacom use TCP but Telkom and CellC don't... /S
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The experiment is flawed. averaged out. There was no way of knowing the test iscolatd out. Packet sizes. signal strength, quality. network jitter. TCP is about reliability not efficiancy.
Busy networks are more likely to have retries. That is TCP.

This is a rewash of ADSL capped data usage 15 years ago.
 
richjdavies said:
Remind me next time you fill.up.with Petrol and they charge you for 5% more because "overheads".

Surely if MTN and Vodacom were faster there should be less overheads... There is something a bit fishy here.

CPA say anything about Weights and Measures? Who checks they aren't just scamming us?
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Yeah, your lack of understanding on how internet traffic works.
 
When I was still able to keep a log of daily usage Cell C would only charge me for 90-95% of usage. If you count 2.5% in overheads that would put it at 95-97.5% of actual usage. The method used here is clearly flawed as a lot of these transfer services have additional overheads and caching. Why not pick a random file or two from the internet?
 
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