Vodacom makes HSUPA free

vodacom3g said:
To clarify. Everyone is automatically on the 1800/1400 profile, including yourself. No need to 'upgrade' to anything and this will work on any of your modems that support the speed. If your modem only supports a lower speed (like the E220 only support 384 in the uplink), you'll get whatever is the lower speed of the modem or the profile (1800/1400 in this case.)

If you want to try the 3600/1400 profile, you need to activate it as a VAS service @ R49.
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If I understand this correct... I would (should) achieve HSUPA speeds, even without subscribing to the 3.6 service?
I only achieved 300-380kbps uploads (good signal), so I paid my R50, subscribed to the 3.6 service, and immediately, achieved much faster upload speeds (same good signal). (B970 modem)
So to me it seemed to me that the profile changed... BUT, download speeds are not at all noticeably faster .... (pings seem better on 3.6) but download speeds are so similar to what it was, u wouldnt notice that its now on 3.6 service....
Could just be co-incidence though at times of tests...?
I put a 75 meg bundle on to do whole lot of testing to see if the extra R50 worth it.... sofar still undecided. (except for good upload)
Of course not expecting 3.6mbps on 3.6 service, but would have liked to see it notibly faster than standard flavour connection...
 
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TheRoDent said:
Uhm, duh....

Any provider that charges by the meg should make better uploads free. It's simple economics.
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for this exact reason i really dont see howcome they still charge for having 3.6mbps instead of 1.8mbps. sure they dont get the R49, but like u say it will make one download a lot of 'junk' a lot quicker without noticing which will make the R49 look like pennies...
 
albert123 said:
for this exact reason i really dont see howcome they still charge for having 3.6mbps instead of 1.8mbps. sure they dont get the R49, but like u say it will make one download a lot of 'junk' a lot quicker without noticing which will make the R49 look like pennies...
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Thanks - I thought I was going crazy here....
 
E220 speed cure?

vodacom3g said:
To clarify. Everyone is automatically on the 1800/1400 profile, including yourself. No need to 'upgrade' to anything and this will work on any of your modems that support the speed. If your modem only supports a lower speed (like the E220 only support 384 in the uplink), you'll get whatever is the lower speed of the modem or the profile (1800/1400 in this case.)
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Thanks for the heads up, v3g. Are you aware of any firmware updates to remedy this speed limit for the E220?

Or perhaps a Vodacom "upgrade" promo...etc... to trade it in for a new one (E272, etc)? :)
 
StefK said:
Thanks for the heads up, v3g. Are you aware of any firmware updates to remedy this speed limit for the E220?

Or perhaps a Vodacom "upgrade" promo...etc... to trade it in for a new one (E272, etc)? :)
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No, UPA requires a newer chipset in the modem, so there won't be an software upgrade for the E220 to UPA.
 
99% of internet users don't need very high upload speed... it's the 1% that needs it won't mind spending the extra R49 per month. I know I got a 4MB line at one site because we needed 512KB uplink, but we will never use the downlink at more than that.

Why not keep the R49 per month surcharge for faster uplink and simply reduce the per MB costs...
 
After the initial (free) period of testing, I was not impressed with my download speeds at all, reaching around 2300kbps tops. So, I opted not to pay the R49 per month.

Two days before the end of January, curiosity got the better of me and I paid the R49 just to see if there was any improvement.

This is the best results from a number of tests, done at various times of the day and night:

Download Speed: 1841 kbps (230.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 941 kbps (117.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

I think I wasted my R49 !!! :mad:
 
Shred said:
So we still have to pay R49 to get 3.6. Oh well....
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Vodacom has made its High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), which promises upload speeds in excess of 1 Mbps, free to all its mobile broadband subscribers.

Previously only subscribers who paid an additional R 49.00 per month for 3.6 Mbps HSDPA had access to HSUPA.


Am I missing something here? As I understand it, they are scrapping the R49 fee altogether.

:confused:
 
Steinie said:

Vodacom has made its High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), which promises upload speeds in excess of 1 Mbps, free to all its mobile broadband subscribers.

Previously only subscribers who paid an additional R 49.00 per month for 3.6 Mbps HSDPA had access to HSUPA.


Am I missing something here? As I understand it, they are scrapping the R49 fee altogether.

:confused:
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No. Previously you got UPA and DPA-3.6 for the R49.

Now UPA has been removed from the R49 and everybody gets it.

You still pay R49 for DPA-3.6.
 
V3G

What is the fastest PCMCIA modem that I can use in the Linksys router or on my network for multiple connections without setting up a shared connection? (HSUPA/HSDPA)
 
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rabbiddog said:
V3G

What is the fastest PCMCIA modem that I can use in the Linksys router or on my network for multiple connections without setting up a shared connection? (HSUPA/HSDPA)
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Can't remember a UPA PCMCIA modem, so your uplink is still going to be at 384.

Is this related to your unrestricted APN question? (answer to that is you must use the unrestricted apn, BTW).

If (as I suspect) you want to host over this router, it'd make sense to get a UPA modem or router.
 
Yes. So I would need to go unrestricted, and I think that the 384 uplink would be too slow. I should then be able to host on PC and Xbox.

Which is the best router to use?
 
rabbiddog said:
Yes. So I would need to go unrestricted, and I think that the 384 uplink would be too slow. I should then be able to host on PC and Xbox.

Which is the best router to use?
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Morks would insist the Huawei B970 is the one. And I'd have to agree.

And old laptop with an E272 or similar could work as well.
 
Are there no HSUPA PCI Express modems that would fit into a PCMCIA adapter that would fit into the Linksys WRT54G3G router?
 
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