MTN 1 Day Uncapped Internet Bundle Tested

Nope, no luck for me. 150mb and throttled. First time experiencing this bundle having read this thread and I'm not impressed to say the least. A 3GB limit would be fair in light of current pre paid prices and 5 would be a winner, imagine 10GB for R80 to do you those ad hoc downloads. Who is this bundle even targeted at? You paying R40 to surf the web for a day and you can't download any large file. 40 bucks just to surf the web, who does that?
 
Suspect99 said:
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Some lucky souls have managed several gigs before getting throttled, was going for that myself. They might as well do away with the FUP and raise the throttled speed to 512kbps instead of 128kbps, I could live with that judging by my experience. But no, that would doing right by the consumer and these guys don't do that. This is why I am weary of selling them spectrum, the least the government could do is use it as leverage to get them to play fair.
 
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Gudnews said:
Some lucky souls have managed several gigs before getting throttled, was going for that myself. They might as well do away with the FUP and raise the throttled speed to 512kbps instead of 128kbps, I could live with that judging by my experience. But no, that would doing right by the consumer and these guys don't do that. This is why I am weary of selling them spectrum, the least the government could do is use it as leverage to get them to play fair.
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There is a trick to not getting throttled, still needs a bit of luck, the gudnews is that I managed a decent 20 gigs today and yesterday.
If you get the MTN sky bundle for R79 bucks you still only get 150mb, but only throttled to 384kilobits, activate it at 12am and it is valid for 2 days basically as it expires at 12am on the following day.Web pages actually load snapping, the theoretically max you can get is still only around 4.5gig if you get throttled.Youtube loads but you will need to watch at lesser quality, I load this bundle especially when I want to watch/download a few youtube tutorials.

Otherwise it is still cheaper to buy the late night bundles for R10 a gig, and do this when I want to do some updates.Load a weekly 2gig bundle for R99.00 bucks and I am sorted. Airtime budget is R600 a month and I still manage to get done what fixed line guys get, but with the added benefit of not having to worry about a bill or line rental at the end of the month.
 
wizardofid said:
There is a trick to not getting throttled, still needs a bit of luck, the gudnews is that I managed a decent 20 gigs today and yesterday.
If you get the MTN sky bundle for R79 bucks you still only get 150mb, but only throttled to 384kilobits, activate it at 12am and it is valid for 2 days basically as it expires at 12am on the following day.Web pages actually load snapping, the theoretically max you can get is still only around 4.5gig if you get throttled.Youtube loads but you will need to watch at lesser quality, I load this bundle especially when I want to watch/download a few youtube tutorials.

Otherwise it is still cheaper to buy the late night bundles for R10 a gig, and do this when I want to do some updates.Load a weekly 2gig bundle for R99.00 bucks and I am sorted. Airtime budget is R600 a month and I still manage to get done what fixed line guys get, but with the added benefit of not having to worry about a bill or line rental at the end of the month.
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Whats your monthly overall usage? Why not consider something like Afrihost 10GB + Afrihost Plus, that's 20GB of anytime LTE data for less than R600.
 
I tried this bundle two weeks ago, managed to squeeze out about 45 gigs in downloads. The only reason I couldn't download more was because 1. I had nothing to download. 2. The 24 hours ran out :).

I tried it again last week and got throttled after the 150 MBs message came through.
 
What's the key to getting gbs of downloading and not mbs?
 
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