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

[supersunbird]

GPRS seems to be down again for both me (in Garsfontein) and my girl (in Centurion).

What is Vodacom doing the past 2 days at early evening that is breaking their GPRS?

 

[AirWolf]

GPRS seems to be down again for both me (in Garsfontein) and my girl (in Centurion).

What is Vodacom doing the past 2 days at early evening that is breaking their GPRS?

I was trying HSDPA and that is down too

 

[bodhi]

It seems I'm only having hassles connecting to VC HSDPA / 3G in the evenings.

I'm right on the edge between Hatfield & Arcadia

 

[Iam3G]

In the evenings, my speed is sacrificed for stability. At work i get a bit of both.

 

[PsychoR8der]

12:10pm connection dropped from hsdpa to gprs signal, then I lost the connection, reconnected, couldn't find 3g signal.... disconnected.....couldn't connect for 5 min. And now I'm at least online again.

Looks like some towers still aren't fixed. Can you guys maybe let us know what towers in what locations "should" be fixed by now? Just want to know how far along this crap is.

 

[Csnoopy]

Last night I was partying with the 619's again, just upped and died around 9pm.

Managed to connect on the 10th try this morning ......... it takes a long time to try and connect 10x.

Have had to reconnect at least 5x today and the bandwidth has the consistency and speed of frozen treacle.

AX-LLR4-882UF

SNAP ????
@v3g Looks like a Total breakdown in the Centurion. Do you know what went wrong.
Thanks.

 

[kingrob]

SNAP ????
@v3g Looks like a Total breakdown in the Centurion. Do you know what went wrong.
Thanks.

Same here, couldn't connect, got 619 errors all the time.

I'm in Irene, Centurion.

 

[supersunbird]

And will it happen again tonight?

 

[morkhans]

I was having intermittent throughput problems last night and rather than the normal blank pages I kept getting "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)" when trying to access sites.

A disconnect and reconnect seemed to sort things out, but I did hit a few 619 errors before getting connected again. (PPDB).

 

[Csnoopy]

619 Errors

And will it happen again tonight?

PLEEEASE NO. Dialup is costing money. VC where is my refund ?

 

[kingrob]

Let me guess - this only affected prepaid 3G/HSDPA Vodacom customers?

 

[vodacom3g]

Let me guess - this only affected prepaid 3G/HSDPA Vodacom customers?

Could be, would've been great if forumites mentioned if they're on pre-paid or contract.

 

[stix]

Contract - latency is terrible !

 

[kingrob]

The king is on prepaid.

 

[AirWolf]

Top-up here which in effect is prepaid.

 

[vodacom3g]

Contract - latency is terrible !

stix, were you getting the very low throughput? Like 30Kb/s?

I remember someone posted from Cpt and I asked for address details...

What are you seeing on speed.vodacom.co.za?

 

[stix]

// No Kb/s try bps

Speed = 1542 kbps dl
Speed = 265 kbps ul

// Still suffering from the need to refresh every second page on international sites

 

[vodacom3g]

// No Kb/s try bps

Speed = 1542 kbps dl
Speed = 265 kbps ul

// Still suffering from the need to refresh every second page on international sites

K, so it's not a local radio / transmission problem. You're pretty much flying there.

What do you get to the NY server at http://speed.net?

 

[stix]

// i get some weird ISP page ?!?!??!
// The latency only tends to effect International sites

 

[bodhi]

It seems I'm only having hassles connecting to VC HSDPA / 3G in the evenings.

I'm right on the edge between Hatfield & Arcadia

PPDB.

Also had trouble in connecting last night when using a contract (Top Up) sim (paying the R2 / MB out of bundle rate)