No data throughput - sandton

Sinbad

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Hi
Signed up over the weekend, and currently not impressed.
I have full signal on my phone, and it says it's using HSPA+

There is no data flow at all. No email updates. Play store not working. No internet. Nothing.

wtf? This is NOT a good start.
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galaxy s2

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Hi
Signed up over the weekend, and currently not impressed.
I have full signal on my phone, and it says it's using HSPA+

There is no data flow at all. No email updates. Play store not working. No internet. Nothing.

wtf? This is NOT a good start.
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Welcome to the club. Its nothing new. I've been having this problem for the past 17 weeks & still no resolution. My 10 year old son loves the android play store. When i was on Vodacom, downloading games from the playstore was a pleasure. But on Cell C, no such luck. Cant download F... all. Even a google page is a mission to load.
 

Sinbad

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Welcome to the club. Its nothing new. I've been having this problem for the past 17 weeks & still no resolution. My 10 year old son loves the android play store. When i was on Vodacom, downloading games from the playstore was a pleasure. But on Cell C, no such luck. Cant download F... all. Even a google page is a mission to load.

It works from home no problem, and was even working for me at Delporton hill in Krugersdorp yesterday.
Worked fine in Sandton this morning too, stopped at 8:30, started again at about 12 and then died at 12:30...
 

Maverick Jester

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Don't worry, same issues as you (and I am a few blocks away from you).

HSPA+ is patchy at best, I revert to EDGE whilst in the office...
 

Haldex

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I tested over the last month with a prepaid sim. Didn't experience issues like this.

Cell c is suffering with congestion.
When one tower is under load, another takes over, redundancy built in.
It's always going to be intermittent to dead.
It's the end of the month, lots of users finishing their bundles so they don't lose it, then new bundles are available for the new month.
You can expect throughput in the middle of the month.

mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/504652-No-Data-connection-but-full-signal
 

whatwhat

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Cell c is suffering with congestion.
When one tower is under load, another takes over, redundancy built in.
It's always going to be intermittent to dead.
It's the end of the month, lots of users finishing their bundles so they don't lose it, then new bundles are available for the new month.
You can expect throughput in the middle of the month.

mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/504652-No-Data-connection-but-full-signal

Please stop spreading misinformation.
 

Brunette Babe

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I'm using Cell C and have great speeds in Sandton.

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whatwhat

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Well done again!
I think the time is wrong on your IPad.
Did you know you can use LTE on your iPad? That's more than 20Mb/s!!! But you can't, shame man.

lol. Neither can Vodacom or MTN users on their iPads. Silly troll.
 

Haldex

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lol. Neither can Vodacom or MTN users on their iPads. Silly troll.

Lol what what whaaaat?
Apple are lousy hey.
Maybe she could try and reach 42mb/s? Maybe 30mb/s on HSPA?
Either way well done to her.
She managed a connection lol.
 
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