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hi,

Recently got me the Internet 5 promo from 8ta (10gigs sounded gooooood), but when i eventually got it, my download speeds were up to **********.......

My 3G modem is capable of 7.2mb speeds, and i live in Hatfield Pretoria with really good signal... but i only get like, 400kb/ps speeds (50KB/ps) on average.......some times it jumps to 2mb/ps but only for a few seconds.

I just want to know if im the only one with this problem or are there any others with this slow speeds?

Thanks....

I do know that 8ta's coverage can be a bit patchy. What you need to check is if it is doing roaming on MTN which is what it will do if it cant pick up actual 8ta signal, if so then that is why you have poor speed.

Either way you will never get the full 7.2mb/s , but 400k does sound rather slow

i know their coverage is patchy, but come on, in Hatfield it must be fine ! ill find out about the MTN roaming........

and im not expecting download speeds of 7mb.... anything above 1.5mb/ps would be fine, but not 0.4mb/ps....

Their coverage will be fine, the network will just be oversubscribed.

jamin_za wrote:Their coverage will be fine, the network will just be oversubscribed.

True,

I'm getting way better DL speeds at 04:00 in the morning than during the day.

The general consensus over at MyBB is that if you have 8ta anywhere but in Cape Town you're going to suffer. There are exceptions, of course, but that appears to be the overall feeling.

Well in my case it might be slower but I'm not getting the dropped connection humus that I had with Vodacom.


So I'm not complaining. Yet.

doo_much wrote:Well in my case it might be slower but I'm not getting the dropped connection humus that I had with Vodacom.


So I'm not complaining. Yet.

Where are you situated ? and what modem do you have ?

So this is the speeds i get late at night.......

That's pretty good for 3G

How do you feel about going nocturnal?

just to report back, dont know what happened over the holidays, but 8ta improved a lot... like 300% better!! Previously, during the day, i would get like 0.5mb/ps dl speeds with 200ms ping..... now its this and at night its even better !!! thumbs up for 8ta Internet promo 5

EDIT: Just to clarify, my location is Hatfield, and signal is excellent!

Puento wrote:thumbs up for 8ta Internet promo

I read that as thumbs up for internet porno

brofist!

Well your 8ta got better and mine got worse.... A LOT worse. On both my desktop pc with a huawei e173 and my iPad with its own microsim For the last week or so my downloads have been in the 10-15kbps range. Sometimes even slower than that. Having used 8ta since October last year, I never had issues until now. Downloading 800kb worth of email from google took 20-30 minutes. Web pages constantly time out. Even browsing the web is damn near impossible. I have complained via the correct channels and await with baited breath for feedback from 8ta.