Stone Age MTN

[klopc]

When will we be freed from our Dark Africa Stone Age connectivity? We were forced to go Wireless at our home because there were no spare capacity from Telkom in our area. After more than a year of begging Telkom we went the MTN fastlink route. It is so frustrating. Webpages takes eons to download (if they do at all). Connectivity speed is mostly given in Bytes/Second. NOT kB/s even. Speeds are around 50 B/s. There are exceptions, but the pleasant suprises are few.

I hope the Industrialised Imperialists conquer us, hang our leaders, and give us fast internet. I promise to be a loyal subject to whichever motherland's monarch.... PLEASE FREE US FROM THIS OPPRESSION

 

[dal2000]

Welcome to the club. During the day, mtn is pretty much terrible. Vodacom gprs seems to be better...

 

[Mudshark]

They dont care

 

[upup]

Some people?
How far do you stay from the mtn tower?
Have you got a external antenna?
Have you got a usb or pcmia [ that card thing ]

If all that is good, higher speed.

3g only goes 2km.

 

[marco]

My connection and speed has been amazing for the past few months. No more dropping and timed out.

 

[Voldemort]

3g only goes 2km.

Really? Is that your final answer

Im 5kms from the tower that serves me and it serves me just fine with HSDPA, its all a case of direct line of site, cell breathing and user congestion mainly

 

[Terencek]

Not sure whether it's the signal or the MTN server which has degraded in my own case, but it now takes ages before my e-mail client can actually send out my queued mail via the MTN smtp server (mail.mtn.co.za).

Used to be almost instantaneous when I hit the Send button, now takes half a minute or more to start Sending. Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[ginggs]

Im 5kms from the tower that serves me and it serves me just fine with HSDPA

Antenna?

 

[ginggs]

Anyone else experiencing this?

No, we all use smtp.gmail.com.

 

[Terencek]

But only from within gmail, surely? Or am I missing something here -- that anyone can use gmail's smtp server?

 

[ginggs]

But only from within gmail, surely?

No, from any email client that can send mail via TLS encrypted authenticated SMTP. Thunderbird, Outlook and Apple Mail can all do this.

Or am I missing something here -- that anyone can use gmail's smtp server?

You do need a gmail account, but you can associate your other email addresses to that account and after they've send you a verification email you can send mail 'from' your other addresses.

A bonus is you don't have to change your SMTP settings when switching networks (3G/ADSL/iBurst/work/internet cafe, etc).

 

[Terencek]

Hmmmm -- interesting, thanks! As Michael Caine would have said: "Not a lotta people know that!"

 

[Voldemort]

Or Bill Nye the science guys with his:"did you know that?"......"now you know!"