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Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
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kronoSX
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no 3g as yet or what
blue-eye-boy
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I use virgin at the moment. I'm very happy with it. It's a bit slower the vadacom or mtn, but not that much. For the rate they offer, I'm willing to eccept that. Just remember, if you use them, set your phone to select the network manually, and then set it to use vodacom network. Then you dont have trouble.
No 3G, just Edge.
What irritates me is when it goes down or drops the connection.
Manually select VC to roam on. Disconnections almost non-existent. Mine "hangs" from time to time, but after a minute or two starts up again.
Slower. On VC my average DL speed is anything from 10kbps to 70kbps. But at least I stay connected. On Cell C the speed is great, anything up to 110kbps, but I can't stay connected longer than 5 minutes to enjoy it.
Keep in mind that I'm not in a large city, and capacity (Especially VC - the only 3G provider here) could be overloaded. Hell, you should see what happens in town when our 1 set of traffic lights go on the blink!
Keep in mind that I'm not in a large city, and capacity (Especially VC - the only 3G provider here) could be overloaded. Hell, you should see what happens in town when our 1 set of traffic lights go on the blink!
It's not only that - as far as I'm aware Vodacom is deliberately giving Virgin Mobile and Cell C customers roaming on their network lowest priority for data, meaning they first make sure their own customers have all the bandwidth they need and then ration the remaining scraps to the Virgin Mobile and Cell C users. I prefer staying on Cell C towers - much faster and reliable enough.
Which I suppose is fair - as long as there is enough bandwidth to go around. Unfortunately I can't say the same thing about the Cell C reliability - I literally cannot stay connected for longer than 5 minutes on Cell C.
Many users complain about frequent disconnects and stalls. My connection used to suffer from that, but it's fine now, except for the annoying fact that, after I have connected and disconnected GPRS, I often have to reset my phone before I am able to connect again. I never had this problem on Vodacom. Overall, I still prefer VM, though.
Skeptik
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Interesting ... It would be handy to find out where this info originated or is it just a gut feeling?
I can't remember exactly, but it was definitely on MyADSL with enough evidence to have seemed credible to me at the time. It makes sense to me, anyway.
I also seem to recall reading something like that around here somewhere.
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I get the same slow grps speeds and disconnects on Vodacom itself. 3G network works fine but seems is limited by the Cell C link to 512kbps where on Vodacom I get 1.3Mbps. The problem has been mentioned here numerous times but they either don't do anything about it or they're artificially crippling their gprs in favour of their financial interest in 3G and hsdpa at Cell C and VM's expense. I mean why do anything about your poor network when your competitor suffers the brunt of it and all their customers run to you.