silver6933
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Vodacom 4bars. Actual download speed less than 2 Mb/s
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Vodacom is losing grip?
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My home internet runs on Vodacom LTE. It is amazing how the network quality has deteriorated over the last couple of months. When I took out this contract about a year ago, I was getting average download speeds of 30Mbps and about 15-20Mbps upload speeds. I was able to stream 4K content from Youtube like it was no challenge at all. It would instantly start to play on my TV. Pure bliss.
Now I can't even stream a song from Youtube music without it stopping to buffer every couple of seconds. It's beyond useless. I've had a browser tab spinning in circles for 10 minutes now. Normal web pages won't even load.
I have good reception to the tower - the issue must be with their network. Or too many subscribers, who knows.
Anyway, this is extremely disappointing.
Now I can't even stream a song from Youtube music without it stopping to buffer every couple of seconds. It's beyond useless. I've had a browser tab spinning in circles for 10 minutes now. Normal web pages won't even load.
I have good reception to the tower - the issue must be with their network. Or too many subscribers, who knows.
Anyway, this is extremely disappointing.
Same here as well. In Fourways, JHB. I used to get between 40 and 50mbps download speeds about 1 to 2 years ago. Now I get between 3 to 8 mbps, if I'm lucky. Thank goodness we have fibre in the area. But when there has been load shedding, we have to rely on Vodacom LTE, but during load shedding it's even worse at between 1 to 3mbps on LTE. Guess everyone in the area just books onto the mobile networks when there is load shedding. Great stuff. 