vodacom GPRS slow

[Snowolf]

and just to make sure I did another run:
Download time: 64.562 seconds
Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 63.2 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 7.7 (kiloBytes/second)

I've been raving to every one today about the great service.
guess this is the only place that you guys get any kind of technical feedback.
short of granny susan phoning 111 because she does not know how to send a SMS.

 

[No 3]

gprs slow

how on earth do u guyes get 50k out of a vodacom gprs connection. lol i have a motorola v360 and during the day i get .5 to 2.2k and after one in the morning i get 4.5 - 9k/s. i could have just aswell used a telkom line and a 32k us robotics modem. and how one earth do other guys clock speeds like 360k - 600k that ive seen screenshots of and still others mentioning speeds of up to 2MB/s. i live close to a tower but the signel is weak on the motorora. my other old phone that uses cell c always has coverage...it jumps to mtn, voda or any available tower or network and the signel always stays full.

 

[Iam3G]

how on earth do u guyes get 50k out of a vodacom gprs connection. lol i have a motorola v360 and during the day i get .5 to 2.2k and after one in the morning i get 4.5 - 9k/s. i could have just aswell used a telkom line and a 32k us robotics modem. and how one earth do other guys clock speeds like 360k - 600k that ive seen screenshots of and still others mentioning speeds of up to 2MB/s. i live close to a tower but the signel is weak on the motorora. my other old phone that uses cell c always has coverage...it jumps to mtn, voda or any available tower or network and the signel always stays full.

I think you're getting confused between Kbps(Kilobits Per Second) and KBps(KiloBytes Per Second).

To my understanding, Kbps is your Connection Speed(this being 56Kbps) and deviding that by 8 to get your Transfer Speed(this being the speed your downloading or uploading from)

Anyone please correct me if i'm grabbing at straws? I derived that from HSDPA speeds where 3.6Mbps = 3600Kbps, which when devided by 8(because there are 8 Bits in 1 Byte) gives you the speed in KiloBytes Per Second.

 

[ic]

how on earth do u guyes get 50k out of a vodacom gprs connection. lol i have a motorola v360 and during the day i get .5 to 2.2k and after one in the morning i get 4.5 - 9k/s. i could have just aswell used a telkom line and a 32k us robotics modem. and how one earth do other guys clock speeds like 360k - 600k that ive seen screenshots of and still others mentioning speeds of up to 2MB/s. i live close to a tower but the signel is weak on the motorora. my other old phone that uses cell c always has coverage...it jumps to mtn, voda or any available tower or network and the signel always stays full.

GPRS is based on 2.5G technology, and doesn't go higher than about 80kbits/s, whereas download speeds of around 2Mbits/s [with Vodacom], and higher, would be using 3.5G technology aka HSDPA.

By today's definition, when compared to 3.5G, GPRS is effectively the same as dialup, and therefore it is slow. Get yourself an HSPA modem if you have 3.yG coverage in your area(s).

PS: welcome to MyBroadband .

I think you're getting confused between Kbps(Kilobits Per Second) and KBps(KiloBytes Per Second).

To my understanding, Kbps is your Connection Speed(this being 56Kbps) and deviding that by 8 to get your Transfer Speed(this being the speed your downloading or uploading from)

Anyone please correct me if i'm grabbing at straws? I derived that from HSDPA speeds where 3.6Mbps = 3600Kbps, which when devided by 8(because there are 8 Bits in 1 Byte) gives you the speed in KiloBytes Per Second.

You're grabbing at straws.

Both kbits/s and kBytes/s are measures of data transfer speed where kBytes/s == kbits/s divided by 8.

Connection speed can be measured in either of those, but Connection speed is more of a theoretical concept [e.g. what Windoze says] and doesn't necessarily represent actual throughput [data transfer] speed.

Data Transfer Speed could also be measured in bits/s, Bytes/s, Mbits/s, MBytes/s, Terabits/s, TeraBytes/s, etc.

 

[Iam3G]

You're grabbing at straws.

Both kbits/s and kBytes/s are measures of data transfer speed where kBytes/s == kbits/s divided by 8.

Connection speed can be measured in either of those, but Connection speed is more of a theoretical concept [e.g. what Windoze says] and doesn't necessarily represent actual throughput [data transfer] speed.

Data Transfer Speed could also be measured in bits/s, Bytes/s, Mbits/s, MBytes/s, Terabits/s, TeraBytes/s, etc.

Thanks IC. I knew there was something i was missing.

 

[Snowolf]

I know this is a old post but I do need to give some feedback, vodacom have upgraded to 3g in our area, speeds are good