Vodacom Problems: Slow Throughput, trying to Connect, DNS, High Latency

[erb]

Spent the day at the mybroadband offices testing Neotel. Not even a hint of a dropped connection, or slow through-put. I will be changing to them when there is coverage in the Ballito area.

 

[Jeanmarlee]

neotel

Burgersfort, Limpopo
Maybe you can give more info about your progress with neotel. The problems with vodacom broadband in this area seem to worsen rather than improve...

 

[garyb01]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!! Now thats better:

Last Result:

Download Speed: 2220 kbps (277.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1057 kbps (132.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

PLEASE leave that switch in the ON position!

Um........I asked so nicely........to please leave it in the ON position!!!

 

[shadowfox]

I'm getting zero throughput again - Cape Town, Woodstock area. This seems to happen every couple of days.

[EDIT]

Wait ... its even worse - I can't even ping remote servers now

 

[therock]

last night i was playing war3 on bnet the europe server and my ping was 140ms but i still got kicked bcoz other people had 20 and 40ms but 140ms is awsome for my vc 3g on a E272 in durban isnt it? i usually get 190-240ms btw.sry to hear about cpt seems cities have different on and off switches.:O

can someone tell me how vodacom conects us from the tower to other countries?thx:~

 

[Alacrity]

I have download-speed problem in Highveld(Centurion). My download speed lately is only 20kB/s?

 

[garyb01]

Was watching Karate Kid on TV last night for the first time in 24 years again, and it seemed so very much like the Vodacom HSDPA experience of late...............wax on, wax off.....switch on, switch off..........switch on, switch off.........and again...........

 

[SlowInternet]

For the last few hours my internet is crawling at a snails pace. Will check tomorrow morning if its better.

 

[vodacom3g]

For the last few hours my internet is crawling at a snails pace. Will check tomorrow morning if its better.

Told you to change your nick

Not aware of any sepcific problems, so might be a tx issue in your area. Any thunderstorms?

 

[morkhans]

International is sucking for me this evening. gmail, youtube all taking ages to load.

 

[UtianG]

Vodacom 3G - the best broadband for your zim dollar



FFS Vodacom !!!!!!!!!!

No throughput, disconnects, timeouts GALORE!!!!

PATHETIC PATHETIC PATHETIC!!!!

How is it possible that this damn excuse of a 3G network can STILL be THIS unreliable ...

This has been going on for the whole of 2008 already...

Can some1 please tell me how the "F" do you still get to be in the top 3 broadband ISP's in S.A ????



"Vodacom - The best broadband for your zim dollar"

 

[therock]

ohhhh just a thought if mtn and telcom offer faster speeds at less money(specifically telcom)why is voda still charging for 3.6mb/s .give us more speed ,we use up our cap quickly and buy more .cant w8 for when 10gigs becomes the norm instead of one gig.

 

[SlowInternet]

Told you to change your nick

Not aware of any sepcific problems, so might be a tx issue in your area. Any thunderstorms?

No thunderstorms or anything - just hot and humid. Everything is fine this morning - so for the the moment I'm smiling again

 

[UtianG]

Vodacom 3G Notwork

Still no joy on the Vodakom 3G Notwork

Is anyone even looking into this?

Prolly too busy counting the money they are making off us.



For what it's worth:
PPDB,
HTC Touch Diamond,
Work Hours (Parow East), After Hours (Brackenfell-Vredekloof)

 

[rabbiddog]

Been fine here - although uploads are a bit slow

Mobile Network Bearer : HSDPA/3G/UMTS
Network Name : VodaCom-SA
Signal Strength : Good
Connection Time : 8 Hours 23 Minute 15 Second

Download Speed: 2218 kbps (277.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 112 kbps (14 KB/sec transfer rate)

Maybe there is something up with your signal strength or tower.

 

[Praeses]

Is it just me or is the vlive APN pretty much dead? Having serious trouble connecting to it, so I'm using internet APN instead. Was just wondering if it's just me...doesn't bother me much though

 

[AirWolf]

Is it just me or is the vlive APN pretty much dead? Having serious trouble connecting to it, so I'm using internet APN instead. Was just wondering if it's just me...doesn't bother me much though

Are you trying the vlive apn on your phone or pc?

The vlive apn is only zero-rated when visiting the vlive site [on your phone].

 

[Praeses]

Are you trying the vlive apn on your phone or pc?

The vlive apn is only zero-rated when visiting the vlive site [on your phone].

On my phone. It used to work fine for mxit (probably with normal data rates). I see it connects but no data traffic taking place when I connect to mxit. Could be a mxit problem I guess since I see gmail loads fine via it.

EDIT: I see it works fine now for mxit even. Wonder if it had something to do with the congested network I experienced last night? Does vlive apn maybe get a lower priority or something? internet apn's EDGE was barely usable (probably high latency) and the vlive wouldn't connect. Should probably do a ping and speedtest the next time I experience it.

 

[JimM]

HSDPA in my location is up and down like a tarts knickers!

I did manage a very erratic 12Mb download just now and then got dumped off again.

Even the myBB home page took ages to appear just now.

 

[UtianG]

WOW!!! Speed Test Results in Beaufort West

This is awesome!!! I'm on holiday visiting my folks in the middle of the Great Karoo (Beaufort West) and I'm getting amazing speeds.



http://speed.vodacom.co.za/speedtest/

Download Speed: 3274 kbps (409.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 378 kbps (47.3 KB/sec transfer rate)


http://www.speedtest.net/

Download Speed: 3340 kbps
Upload Speed: 387 kbps

If only i could get these kinda speeds in Cape Town (Brackenfell and Parow East to be exact).