R50 Uncapped 24hrs - Discussion

[onaz]

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...

Thats strange well i i am using my phone as a modem and my phone capable of 7.2mbps maybe thats whats helping me i got capped when i reached 1.2 gig and my signal is not that good aswel have like 3 bars on my phone, ok wel started downloading from 1am till now and i am already on 3 gig and going strong

 

[Budza]

Assuming you hit 150megs in the first hour:

(128 (kb / s)) * 23 hours = 1.26342773 gigabytes. Not that great

ADSL = downloads. 3G = mobile internet browsing etc- light usage. See www.sainet.co.za for great 3G prices- R89 for 300MB

EDIT:

All this assumes they don't "forget" to activate this service somehow and screw you with R2/meg charges. Got no faith in these Mofo's.

 

[Romito]

what dl protocols are you using? has ur cap kicked in yet?

 

[onaz]

ok wel i am only using opera 10.51 i have a rapidshare account so i am only downloading from that

 

[Romito]

i also noticed that if i use dap it boosts my other protocols dl speed by 0.6 mbps on a 3.2 mbps connection.

 

[onaz]

what dl protocols are you using? has ur cap kicked in yet?

it kicked in within an hour but i had already reached 1.2 gigs, i am downloading like 6 files at the same time

 

[Romito]

your cap kicked in n ur speeds?

 

[Keeper]

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...

listen bud, not to burst your bubble or anything but OFCOURSE it is 128 KiloBIT - if it was KiloBYTE that would mean it would be faster than ADSL 386 (as that is 386 KiloBIT, too)

they don't call it a throttle for nothing man.

PS: 3.6 Mb/s connection at FULL SPEED = 400KiloBYTES a second - did you really think you will get a Uncapped 128KiloBYTES/second throttle for only 50 bucks? seriously man?

learn the difference. R50 for 1 - 3 Gigs is AWESOME!

thanx onaz for the input, i'm gonna try it this weekend too!

 

[onaz]

your cap kicked in n ur speeds?

downloading 5 files at
36.0 kbps
40.1 kbps
17.0 kbps
30.0 kbps
19.0 kbps

For some reason sum times it adds up to more than 128kbps i don’t know what’s going on but well it works for me

oh by the way i am on 3.4 gigs now and still going strong

 

[Romito]

nice, guess tomorrow im gona try downloading the whole day to see how much i can squeeze out of it.

 

[wizardofid]

Thats strange well i i am using my phone as a modem and my phone capable of 7.2mbps maybe thats whats helping me i got capped when i reached 1.2 gig and my signal is not that good aswel have like 3 bars on my phone, ok wel started downloading from 1am till now and i am already on 3 gig and going strong

The problem as such is not the throttling is the freaking unstable connection it was never a constant rate it would continually drop to no connection activity for a few seconds before getting information before dropping to no connection activity even with full signal....

The connection was drop 12 times on their side.....which rarely happens on a data bundle.....

 

[wizardofid]

listen bud, not to burst your bubble or anything but OFCOURSE it is 128 KiloBIT - if it was KiloBYTE that would mean it would be faster than ADSL 386 (as that is 386 KiloBIT, too)

they don't call it a throttle for nothing man.

PS: 3.6 Mb/s connection at FULL SPEED = 400KiloBYTES a second - did you really think you will get a Uncapped 128KiloBYTES/second throttle for only 50 bucks? seriously man?

learn the difference. R50 for 1 - 3 Gigs is AWESOME!

thanx onaz for the input, i'm gonna try it this weekend too!

Sorry bud go and listen to the 141 menu it clearly states 128kiloBYTES and I do know the difference.That is why I called the call center this morning to confirm and he him self said 128kiloBYTES making sure he understands the difference

*Edit* listen to the 141 menu again it clearly states 128kilo"BYTES"

 

[onaz]

mm it did that twice last night wel u need a download manage it kind of helped cause i just resumed when the inet was back on track

 

[Keeper]

Sorry bud go and listen to the 141 menu it clearly states 128kiloBYTES and I do know the difference.That is why I called the call center this morning to confirm and he him self said 128kiloBYTES making sure he understands the difference

128KB * 8 = 1024kbs

Did you really think you will be getting an Uncapped 1mbs connection for 24 hours, for only 50 bucks?

seriously man we get 1.8mbs or 3.6mbs MAX speed with 3G, they are not going to throttle you down to 1mbs

 

[onaz]

i have just reached the 4 gig mark now thats gansta

 

[Romito]

major! now thats wat i call bang for a buck!

 

[onaz]

ok so far i have downloaded 5.4 gig worth of stuff for only R50,

 

[Romito]

thats like less than R10 per gig. impressive. il post tomorrow how much i was able to download.

 

[onaz]

thats like less than R10 per gig. impressive. il post tomorrow how much i was able to download.

use opera its cool. ok i have my R50 ready for midnight

 

[onaz]

i am tired i am closing off with 7.1 gigs downloaded in one day using the 24 hour cap mtn data bundle, can some one please break my record