Network Woes During Load Shedding

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6spdmanual

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Now I know it’s to be expected. A slight drop in network quality and strength should be expected during load shedding . But what the **** is this? It’s Cell C by the way so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised.

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Mobile networks can't keep up during load shedding in areas where the towers are either not covered by backup batteries, are inadequately covered, worn out or do not have enough time to recharge between outages..

Whatever remaining towers are still online, then get oversubscribed and just comes to a grinding halt pretty much..
 
Our area gets none loadshedding outages, have seen the mtn tower running full speed when it had no power for 12 hours or so, through its pretty new around 3 years old.
 
Today it was after power cuts.
I recently and today experienced something never before like this, no internet, but router is synced and logged in to ISP, nothing.......Then I change the DNS to default in Router and I can access some SA sites and UK sites and some other .COM sites, but mostly no internet. Then after a couple of hours it clears.

I also experienced from Vodacom SMS's take hours to arrive, so I cannot use random pin activation, it expires before I can use it. This started some weeks ago. SMSes from wife is instant.
 
Worst thing for me is the tower I usually connect to is on a different LS schedule, so it sometimes goes down when my house is still online, so I lose internet and phone connectivity even when I'm not load shedding.
 
Fjorko said:
Worst thing for me is the tower I usually connect to is on a different LS schedule, so it sometimes goes down when my house is still online, so I lose internet and phone connectivity even when I'm not load shedding.
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Yeah thats how my rain 5g was for few days i had it, so canceled within 7 days lol
 
Vodacom in my area is garbage (10mbps), but when load-shedding hits it's like sub-2mbps.
 
Loadshedding is the reason I got a phone that supports two SIMs since MTNs signal gets very poor but Vodacom stays up.
And then I got a UPS for my routers so I have wifi all the time.
 
Back on EDGE tonight thanks to Cell C. MTN seems to hold up well this side during load shedding.
 
You have about 30-90 minutes in my area then all the networks are screwed,....

(I was at a site yesterday where the security guard had been given instructions to phone their office if there are any problems....good luck when the power is off mate....The sticky fingered brothers know when to target you now....Great security company by the way.... no 2 way radios!...)
 
My area only has 1 cellphone tower servicing the entire area, and all the service providers use the same tower. The whole tower goes down every time there's loadshedding. They don't even pretend to have any backup power.
 
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