vodacom non-speed!

[Shads]

I made a huge mistake I had a blackberry 8520 and could not handle GPRS only browsing. Finally got irritated and bought a Torch! The problem? I only get GPRS speed!!! In Durban - behind the hotels on the beachfront!!! And Vodacom says there are no plans to upgrade in the area!!! Why do I even bother? And I loose signal all da time - phone goes to SOS every hour or so!

 

[slave]

Vodacom not fantastic in JHB either.

About a year ago I ported from MTN to Vodacom because the new MTN tarriffs were a rip-off. The one thing I regretted immediately is the Vodacom network. I use a blackberry bold and most times I enable 3G the signal is poor and furthermore drains my battery within 2 hours. Using 2G my battery lasts 18 hrs+. I constantly get SOS/no signal, dropped calls deluxe irrespective of where I am in JHB so I guess its not isolated to just DBN.

 

[rezabz]

I'm on VC in jozie and no complains here. Wanted to try Mtn out for a month to see whoch was faster. MTN was extremely slow!! Used it for abt 2days before I threw away the Mtn sim and put my old VC sim back in. With Mtn my download rate was no more than 30kbps, whereas with VC I've gotten up to 220kbps (on 3g with a Bold 9700).

 

[nSidious]

Why dont you get an ADSL connection for your house/apartment. I'm sure you can get some awesome speed on that. Then just connect to it via Wifi on your Torch or 8520. Sorted!! I always use my ADSL-Wifi (4mb line) to watch youtube vids when I'm laying in my bed and cant fall asleep. Then leave your phone in 2G-only mode and you should have signal all the time for calls and texting and what not and so forth.

 

[techead]

Then leave your phone in 2G-only mode and you should have signal all the time for calls and texting and what not and so forth.

stupid question here... but who do you switch to 2g mode? Will it really save THAT much battery?

 

[Dolby]

Ah man ... my warning would have come in handy here

I think we should make my old thread : STAY AWAY FROM VODACOM BIS a sticky!

That said - I *only* had issues for 4 months non stop and they seem to have stabilized

 

[Dolby]

HTC - not surw which BB you have, but on the Torch it's :

Options > Networks and Connections > Mobile Network > select Network Mode to 2G

 

[nSidious]

2G only mode will save you a lot of battery power especially if you in a crapy area that keeps switching back and forth between 3G and 2G. My Bold 9700 seems to cope much better than my HTC Desire with 3G but then again my HTC is still awesomer!!