MTN 1 Day Uncapped Internet Bundle Tested

[Krosis]

Hi

I'm not really an MTN subscriber but after witnessing someone I know purchasing the 1 day uncapped bundle only to barely use it, I saw it as a challenge to see just how much could be squeezed from it. I whipped out an old MTN sim that was conveniently lying around and went to work. I was surprised 24 hours later. I was able to squeeze about 16GB from it. I reckon I could've done 4 or 5 more gigs had some of the torrents I had lined up downloaded at full speed.

I'm now curious to see if anyone can get more out of it, so I'm hoping some of you might share your findings.

I was testing this out on my old Galaxy SII, the connection was mostly HSPA+ but MTN has the tendency to have weaker signal quality in my area. So it'll be interesting to see to what extend this affected the already throttled speed.

 

[Chingha]

And what does this cost?

 

[Krosis]

And what does this cost?

It's 30 bucks, have no idea if it's just a promo thing though.

 

[Randux]

Whoah! I'll definitely test this tomorrow I hope I get the same result.

 

[Segg]

Jeeze, I thought they throttled it after something like 150MB? OP I hope for your sake this is a prepaid sim

 

[Krosis]

Jeeze, I thought they throttled it after something like 150MB? OP I hope for your sake this is a prepaid sim

They do throttle you. But in my case browsing wasn't affected much, you will notice the slower downloads though.

 

[xcaliber]

There goes the network

 

[Segg]

They do throttle you. But in my case browsing wasn't affected much, you will notice the slower downloads though.

But still, 16GB in 24 hours doesn't make sense to me

 

[NeonNinja]

No ways you can do that much if you were throttled.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Jeeze, I thought they throttled it after something like 150MB? OP I hope for your sake this is a prepaid sim

Not if you keep the connection session alive before the 150mb. Throttle can only kick after the new session starts.

Remember someone posting something about keeping the session alive will give you full speed for the whole 1 day.

 

[NeonNinja]

You'd think they force a new session after 150MB.

I'll try this tonight. Got LTE

 

[vavyn]

Hmm.. Need to get myself a prepaid sim and test it out.

 

[RichardG]

I can confirm it still works managed to get 50 GB in a day..

 

[Sodan]

Wait, what? How does one get this?!

 

[vavyn]

Just asking. Do I have to purchase it at 12.01 or I can purchase it at anytime and it will last for 24 hours?

 

[janinki]

Subscribed

 

[cavedog]

I tried it before with my LTE mifi. Even on LTE exactly 150mb they throttled the speed 128k or 12KB/s download.

 

[NeonNinja]

So it works for some and some it don't... Hmm.

 

[NeonNinja]

Just bought R30, activated. 150MB quicktime. 3 minutes later this:





Venture failure.

 

[Krosis]

Just asking. Do I have to purchase it at 12.01 or I can purchase it at anytime and it will last for 24 hours?

I purchased mine at around 8pm and it was cut same time the following day.