R50 Uncapped 24hrs - Discussion

[Palladin1979]

purchased a r50 one day thingy but my air time is still being deducted!!!!!!! what is going on?????? anyone please help......

 

[NeonNinja]

Did you know? that in Sweeden they canreach speedss of up to 100 mbitps (12.5 mbytesps for downloading). Thanks to fiber optics

Cool, I like your english and spelling. Are you referring to mobile broadband or ADSL? ADSL fastest, is like 1Gbps. 100Mbps = 12.5mb/s, whoa that's quite fast and impressive if it's mobile broadband.

 

[NeonNinja]

Has anyone on MTN been having slow download speeds (I'm talking 14kBps or approx 110kbps) lately. I'm in PTA east and have this problem as does a friend in Fourways.

Used R50 bolt for the first time afternoon on Wed 26th of May. It worked well at first. Had download speed of 151kBps until I hit the 120MB soft cap. Was thottled to 120kbps and that was fine until about 11pm when the line went dead. Couldnt get it to work so cancelled the balance of the bundle after downloading something like 520MB.

Switched back to conventional bundles @ 20 cents/meg and its been hell ever since.

Call MTN and I get stupid stories about "resetting my line" or that speeds are "dependent on the network in the area".

Suggestions anyone?

Clueless... Are you running at 3.6Mbps? You should get at least ~2.0Mbps; you're saying you're getting 900Kbps = ~ 110kB/s. If that's the speed, it's not that bad; be persistent, they'll resolve it eventually.

 

[NeonNinja]

purchased a r50 one day thingy but my air time is still being deducted!!!!!!! what is going on?????? anyone please help......

Load R50, activate it. Seems though you've activated. Exhaust your airtime then, simple.

 

[kidnotorious]

Clueless... Are you running at 3.6Mbps? You should get at least ~2.0Mbps; you're saying you're getting 900Kbps = ~ 110kB/s. If that's the speed, it's not that bad; be persistent, they'll resolve it eventually.

Was referring to 110 kilo bits per sec... as in 12kilobytes per sec or excruciatingly slow.

Bought another R50 bolt yesterday, loaded it, no change in speed. Let the bundle expire and now my system is back to normal and I'm able to surf at normal 3G speeds.

I suppose the lesson is that if the 24hour bolt isn't expired by the system, then the bandwidth throttle remains in place.

 

[NeonNinja]

Was referring to 110 kilo bits per sec... as in 12kilobytes per sec or excruciatingly slow.

Bought another R50 bolt yesterday, loaded it, no change in speed. Let the bundle expire and now my system is back to normal and I'm able to surf at normal 3G speeds.

I suppose the lesson is that if the 24hour bolt isn't expired by the system, then the bandwidth throttle remains in place.

Sharks! That's s'pose to after throttling.

Yeah, it's full speed till 150MB, after you're throttled for the duration of your 24hr period to 128kbps/12kB/s.

 

[shubz]

Hi - I bought a R50 bundle last nite no joy my internet simply doesn't work actiavted and restarted nothing stil I called
Mtn call centre thrice everutime they say they will activate and I must restart
On the third attempt I received a sms to say bundle succesfully removed. I just lost a R50 with O internet usage what a rip off!

 

[NeonNinja]

What error were you getting? No signal at all? Page time outs, 503 error? Your connection is OK, must be. From what I hear I deduce you were using a cellphone, what model? Are you sure you had activated the 'MTN profile default' on your wap settings? How were you trying to access the Internet? Default browser? Or third app, Opera Mini, BOLT etc, or accessing other applications. Were you certain that the correct profile was active at the time?

What was precise duration of your purported '24hr bundle?'

 

[shubz]

I'm using a nokia n76 tried my Lg VIewty and also my usb modem none worked the activation lasted approx 1hr30min
Couldn't connect on any of these devices keeping in mind that the sim card I use frequently for surfin

I was getting signal all the time 3g icon showed I just coldnt log on not even on mtn homepage

 

[shubz]

Ok so Mtn refunded my money, after endless calls to the contact centre
Runing currently but speeds went from 2mb/s to 4kb/s can't even browse proper, first and the last thank you

 

[Kaleb]

well I activated this R50 uncapped was working perfectly for 2min was getting superfast speeds then suddenly shot right down to 1kbps

 

[Spyral-RSA]

Ok MTN NEED TO REMOVE THIS SERVICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everytime I have loaded the 1day bolt

1st bolt expired after 4 hours "Still waiting for a refund"
2nd bolt No problem
3rd bolt expired within 11 hours " R50 was refunded"
4th bolt expired 16 hours after activating

5th bolt (today) loaded at 12:24 activated at 12:27 tried to load google took almost 5min to load page, phoned MTN to refresh my number told them the problem sorry you have already used your 150mb sorry there is nothing they can do the system said 150mb has been used in 150mb in 10min on edge "I HAVE THE FASTEST CONNECTION IN THE WORLD"

It shows you that MTN fails to employ call center staff & techies that are qualified for the job, I think I just saw an advert somewhere for MTN call centre staff needed it said " Nobody with grade 4 or above qualification needs to apply for the job) LoL

So this was the last time I will ever use this service MTN can take it and stick it up their gat.

 

[Romito]

I second that. loaded it last night, ran utorrent it was 160kB/s for like 2 min and after 98mb it went to btwn 0.9-3.1kB/s. not even worth surfing at those speeds. Need to discover other glitches in the system i say. Anyone have any luck? pm me...

 

[Tweak]

i used to download on mtn at 150-200kB per second on my own personal Uncapped plan thanks to hackers LOL


Hey look 1000 posts

 

[Freeusnow]

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[Romito]

Seriously? how and u still have it?

 

[Keeper]

Ok MTN NEED TO REMOVE THIS SERVICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO they shouldn't

I like this service - If you don't, then DONT USE IT - Simple. :wtf:

Stop Eliminating Internet Options for the rest of us - the more choices the better

 

[dal2000]

Terrible service. After 150mb my download speed gets reduced to 4 kb/s.

 

[skateboardt]

Activated the service last night and could not use at all, cant connect to sites
called customer service and they told me they having problems with the service...

 

[AirWolf]

There is also the undersea cable problem at the moment affecting a lot of ISPs.