New GPRS download speed...

[YelloFever]

I'm getting 54 KBytes/s

MTNDD

 

[MavChat]

BTW my panel shows HSDPA.... could I be getting these speeds because my Yagi is pointing in the wrong direction or maybe getting interference from the trees etc. in the area?

 

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ok quit bragging about it...lol

 

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Strange as this was during a strong gust of wind....

 

[YelloFever]

BTW my panel shows HSDPA.... could I be getting these speeds because my Yagi is pointing in the wrong direction or maybe getting interference from the trees etc. in the area?

Possible

MTNDD

 

[CeeBee]

Guys
Remember we launched the new tariffs on Sunday with the promo = More users on prepaid and more usage on contract hence reduced speeds and congestion.
Hope that explains things?
MTNDD

o koek that does not sound good ... i hope were not gonna have an iBurst situation where there all the new users are gonna cause too much congestion of the networks, hopefully MTN will up the network capacity accordingly
I was in a place last night where I had (indicated) 4bar signal on HSDPA and try as I might could not get faster than 368kbps (peak, most of the time less than 250 )

 

[YelloFever]

o koek that does not sound good ... i hope were not gonna have an iBurst situation where there all the new users are gonna cause too much congestion of the networks, hopefully MTN will up the network capacity accordingly
I was in a place last night where I had (indicated) 4bar signal on HSDPA and try as I might could not get faster than 368kbps (peak, most of the time less than 250 )

They are in process with planned work should be completed by Sunday

Obviously there will still be issues during the peaks but yeah capacity shouldn't be a issue

MTNDD

 

[CeeBee]

cool bananas

does somebody monitor the average loads on the towers to advise planning if a tower get too overloaded too often to recommend another tower for the area? or only investigated if there are queries/complaints?
whats the process?

a query from an idiot .... do all the EDGE and now the 3G phones in the areas affect the connection speeds of people connected via data cards/phones etc, or do they only become a factor if they too connect to internet in a cell?

 

[Insider]

cool bananas

does somebody monitor the average loads on the towers to advise planning if a tower get too overloaded too often to recommend another tower for the area? or only investigated if there are queries/complaints?
whats the process?

a query from an idiot .... do all the EDGE and now the 3G phones in the areas affect the connection speeds of people connected via data cards/phones etc, or do they only become a factor if they too connect to internet in a cell?

Every geographical area has individual radio planning teams who look after the capacity of voice and data on every tower.

There are also performance tools and performance teams looking at the network from various viewpoints including end-to-end user experience.

EDGE and 3G phones can impact data cards as voice takes precedence over data (voice and data uses the same spectrum). This only happens during really busy periods like the 90 minutes after 20:00.

 

[YelloFever]

Every geographical area has individual radio planning teams who look after the capacity of voice and data on every tower.

There are also performance tools and performance teams looking at the network from various viewpoints including end-to-end user experience.

EDGE and 3G phones can impact data cards as voice takes precedence over data (voice and data uses the same spectrum). This only happens during really busy periods like the 90 minutes after 20:00.

I couldn't agree more

MTNDD

 

[CeeBee]

great thanx 4 the info.
so the EDGE/3G phones only a factor when the guys busy making calls, ... not just connected to network during standby?
suppose the calls (still) go via the voice network, and not using the 3G data network as well? (similar to voip) - guess in near future u will be able to make a call on the data network a-la voip?

 

[YelloFever]

great thanx 4 the info.
so the EDGE/3G phones only a factor when the guys busy making calls, ... not just connected to network during standby?
suppose the calls (still) go via the voice network, and not using the 3G data network as well? (similar to voip) - guess in near future u will be able to make a call on the data network a-la voip?