Slow upload speeds in Cape Town

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wndrbees said:
My service has also deteriorated significantly since January.
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PM'd the Cell C rep on Saturday, got reply today, was asked to mail onlinesupport. Did mail, got phone call back in couple of hours, impressed with response time.

He also said they are working on major problems in Stellenbosch. Mentioned that "Planning and Optimisation" are going to take a look a Plumstead and then my query (Rondebosch) next.

Took a drive Sunday throughout Rondebosch, there are areas where the signal is very strong, obviously closer to towers, however my street's signal has gone from -77 -> -85 -> -93 -> -103 to none in the space of a month and a half. My usual Cell ID (40502) went down this past weekend, which killed it completely but is up again today, however, as evident from speedtest, still very slow speeds.

I am hoping they can help us, prepared to work with them.

FYI, some tower sightings:
Police station, Landsdown Rd
Red Cross, Klipfontein Road
Engen / Mercedes, cnr Protea & Main (did not see actual tower, RSSI:>-51dBm)
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I was really pleased with their online email support today not one generic copy and pate email :)

That is a big improvement on the last time I had to email them with a problem

I hope they sort out this issue.
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Brackenfell is just as slow.
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Whats happening Cell C? ..... Whoooooooosh is now Kapoooooooooot
 
speedtest.net won't even load. My Telkom 384 kbps DSL is now 10x faster than Cell C :wtf:
 
1geoff99 said:
speedtest.net won't even load. My Telkom 384 kbps DSL is now 10x faster than Cell C :wtf:
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Maybe Cell c is busy with upgrades in Cape Town tonight.... speed test won't load, one time it did show that i am using a IP address in CT... a first
 
Speeds seem to be slightly better over the last 20min, hopefully they sort out the problem
 
Mobile app, down 100kbps up 200kpbs.

Really bad the whole of today. :(

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my speeds also shot to crap now - so maybe they are working on stuff
funnily enough i am getting 0.5Mbps down and 1.8 Mbps up ^^
 
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Net died for a bit,now back up. Speeds are much much better, in CT but speedtest.net says Durban? http://www.speedtest.net/result/1157703384.png Dont have issues with net going down for maintenance but they should do better to keep users informed. Hopefully its sorted soon
 
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Creeping over the 1000kpbs mark this morning, but uploads are not impressive.

Thing is, I use Cpt servers and get pings of 999ms, and Jhb is 169ms.

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I couldn't get to speedtest.net either late last night and overall surfing felt really slow.
 
Yeah, speeds were very quick from 12am - 9am and now slow again, not as bad as yesterday.... yet
 
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Speedtest to the Vodacom hosted server is still very slow but tests run to the MTN one is showing improvement.

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Browsing speed is also a lot better than yesterday
 
Sent email to support re slow speeds in Rondebosch - and received reply today. They were aware of the problem and it appears to be sorted. Thank you David at Cell C support! J
 
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