R50 Uncapped 24hrs - Discussion

[Romito]

that aint bad at all. ideal time to activate is 01:00. will try it out since mtn refunded me for 12 hours i was disconnected.

 

[Joe505]

Im currently trying to get the data bundle loaded. This operator tells me no this bundle has not yet launched, like wtf! Absolutely useless bunch of people really!

 

[Ockie]

how do you load this bundle btw?

 

[Spyral-RSA]

Hi to Load the 1 Day unlimited bolt ONLY AVAILABLE TO PAY AS YOU GO CUSTOMERS

Step 1: recharge your account with only R50.00 (no more or you will loose it)
Step 2: dial *141*6#
Step 3: select "Unlimited data"
Step 4: option 1
Step 5: You will receive a sms saying "Y'ello you've successfully loaded a MTN broadband Unlimited 1Day bolt on data bundle please activate before 2010xxxx by dialing *141*6*5*3#" (AT THIS STEP THERE IS ALSO A BUG IN THE SYSTEM THAT THE 24HOURS CLOCK STARTS SO ONCE BUNDLE IS BOUGHT ACTIVATE IMMEDIATELY)
Step 6: Dial :*141*6*5*3*1#
Step 6: You will receive a sms saying "Y'ello Your MTN broadband Unlimited 1Day bolt on data bundle is now active. It will expire in 24 hours from time of activation.

DO NOT LOAD IT DURING THE DAY THERE IS A BUG IN THE SYSTEM THAT WILL DEPLETE YOUR BUNDLE AFTER 12:00 AM SO ONLY LOAD IT AT 01:00AM AND THEN IT WILL EXPIRE THE FOLLOWING MORNING AT 01:00AM!

THE DIAL THE CONNECTION...

MTN SETTINGS

Profile: MTN
apn: MYMTN (all caps)
call number: *99#
user name: (leave blank)
password: (leave blank)

Hope this helps you all

Spyral

 

[Joe505]

Thanks spyral. tried that but got some message stating that serivice is only available to top up customers or something. and thing is i am on a top up contract. thanks anyway. The people at the callcentre are really pissin me off

 

[elL0L]

Help me please. I bought R50 airtime, bought the bundle. Waited a half hour for the confirmation sms, but didn't get it. So I dialed *141*6*5*3#, and selected activate bundle, but got a internal error. So I deactivated it, hoping I would get my airtime back, but my account is still R0.

 

[elL0L]

Okay now I got a text:

Y'ello. Your MTN Broadband Unlimited 1Day Bolt-on data bundle is now active. It will expire in 24 hours from time of activation.

Now when I want to activate, (they doesn't say how in the text), I get the message that I must buy a bundle first.

Look like I was to hasty, any way to salvage the situation?

 

[onaz]

Okay now I got a text:

Y'ello. Your MTN Broadband Unlimited 1Day Bolt-on data bundle is now active. It will expire in 24 hours from time of activation.

Now when I want to activate, (they doesn't say how in the text), I get the message that I must buy a bundle first.

Look like I was to hasty, any way to salvage the situation?

you should have read Spirals post as he explains it there is a bug in the mtn system

 

[elL0L]

I discovered the thread too late. Looks like Mtn will give my money back, thankfully.

 

[onaz]

i am giving this a try tonight

 

[onaz]

ok so far so good i am downloading 4 files each downloading at 54kbps thats before the cap

 

[onaz]

i am off to bed ok so far i downloaded like 750 mb in 58 min

 

[Ockie]

780mb in 58min? really?

 

[Keeper]

Cool - i'm gonna be checking this out this weekend

Vodacom will probably come up with some lame "Uncapped Internet @ 32kbs using some hacked safari browser" or something to counter MTN's Uncapped


Cheers Vodalosers!

 

[onaz]

780mb in 58min? really?

ok all in all i downloaded 2 gig worth of stuff this is not bad i got my cap around the 1.2 gig mark

 

[onaz]

My speed is around 70kbps - 80kbps with that 128kbps cap on not too bad at all, at the moment i am downloading 3 files

 

[onaz]

You know what Empty N did a good job here i am just not happy about the recharging at 1:00am thing any ways thanks to Spyrial your info helped

 

[wizardofid]

Well the 24 hour "unlimited usage" is completely useless after the 150mb fair usage from after 7pm (activated at 09:10) I could only get another 200mb till 7am.What is worse is you are suppose to be throttled to 128KBytes according the 141 MTN menu clearly stating 128 KBYTES. I was however given lower network priority which meant the non stable connection speeds ranging from 5.33 to 13.9kb and it was not a constant rate the average speed was 7.45kb according to bandwidth manager.

Since my connection is G3 only egde works and connect at a far lower speed that the 128kbytes my average speed is around 200- 240 Kilobits (20-24kbytes) I was screwed completely as my connection is far below their limit.

Further more a few mins after the service expired I used my normal cap to check speeds and was right back to the normal speeds.As a note even before I reached the 150mb limit (around 90mb)I was already throttled.....

I am not happy about this it was completely useless after I reached the the limit and not even the full 150mb...

 

[onaz]

I just reached the 3 gig mark this is awesum and i only paid R50

 

[Romito]

i was able to get 3.7 gb n my cap never kicked in. activated at 01:05 and disconnected at 6. it kep on disconnecting and refused to connect using my e220. the whole time i was connected thru my touch diamond n every 20 min or so had to press connext on d phone. i was usng bittorrent, limewire pro and opera 10.5 simultaneously. my avg dl was btwn 1.4 to 2.4 mbps. gonna do it again friday to see if can get abour 6gb.