Vodacom Data Not Working As Expected

[Solitude]

I get very fast speeds using Vodacom LTE and I have great signal. However I only use Vodacom as a backup because it just isn't working right.

Webpages don't load correctly and it looks like it's elements on a page that comes from a different domain. For instance on this page I get:

"Server not found

Firefox can't find the server at ox.mybroadband.co.za." at all places where ads are supposed to be shown. So MyBroadband will probably be angry to know that on Vodacom I get no MyBroadband ads. Well up until I refresh it once or twice.

On a thread with Youtube videos? The same thing until I refresh the page a couple of times.

Same problem on Facebook where external images aren't loading.

My Raptr app doesn't work correctly on Vodacom at all.

If I do some recurring ping tests I don't get any dropped packets so the problem is something else.

Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone know how I can fix this?

 

[sajunky]

Ping use different protocol frames, not TCP. It indicate that problem is at Vodacom gateway servers.
Linux has utility called tcpping, you can use it to meassure response times when using TCP protocol (like any WEB browser).

 

[Nerfherder]

I think they in compress the data, there was some noise about this before... you should be able to swap to another APN to resolve this

 

[sajunky]

I think they in compress the data, there was some noise about this before... you should be able to swap to another APN to resolve this

They have many users on the same IP address, so they do filtering at application layer - redirecting incoming packets to the relevant user. Is seems it doesn't work as it should. Response come to someone else and such person is paying for incoming traffic he/she didn't request.