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ambyzown
Joined: May 11, 2005
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From: Lagos-Nigeria
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On 2005-12-06 08:17:04, mikkyroy wrote:
lol. mine's around 24-30kbps when i'm downloading but its timeouts....
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Not possible with an mtn connection. if you are downloading using opera, the speed will be displayed under transfers as the last column. check actual speeds and report back. alternatively, do a speed test using dsl speed report.
@coola: I've been doing the disconnect-reconnect trick, but sometimes, reconnecting becomes a hassle. and changing the maximum speed does not make a difference. |
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brix25
Joined: Aug 20, 2003
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From: Cape Town, South Africa
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I can't confirm the 1,1Mbit/sec connection...mario2002 was boasting to me.
Right now the 512kb/s product from Telkom.
AYA you night want to emigrate to South Korea.
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OluYom
Joined: Oct 27, 2004
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AYA do u still use your Starcomms? what's the speed like during non-peak periods say btw 11pm and 6am?
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Nope; I dont use it for internet access anymore. My objective report: everything seemed to work fine during the Free access period, but once I paid, my experience (after the period of non-service) was frequent downtimes. I found that for the majority of my daily slot (8 am to 6pm), I could not browse, and whenever i could it was agonizingly slow.
And to think that Starcomms compels you to pay for the full month in advance - and then you end up with a connection almost as useless as MTN GPRS' these days. There is the possibility that Starcomms works well for some others out there, but - hey! - you asked for my experience.
IMHO, Glo GPRS, for example, is much more reliable on the average. Its just that for heavy users, you pay through your nose for GPRS usage.
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ambyzown
Joined: May 11, 2005
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From: Lagos-Nigeria
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@Brix25: Why do you want our Aya to emigrate to South Korea? can he achieve 2mb internet connection speeds there?
@Mikky: Thats more likely. But then, a 2.5-4kb/s speed on MTN GPRS is a feat I haven't achieved since the early days of its free service. I also experienced some burst of speed two weeks ago after MTN removed some good cash from internet users accounts, and we decided to murder our SIMs. I guess we have a high concentration of awoof lovers in this my area  |
Angelgirl
Joined: Nov 08, 2004
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From: Lagos State, Nigeria
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On 2005-12-06 08:17:04, mikkyroy wrote:
@Angel: what's up? have u been able to get ur phone fixed?
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Yeah Mikky, i got my phone back, it was then MTN decided to go off, have not seen any Gprs signal since today, but when i switch my line to glo, i get a full bar, cant afford to browse on glo when MTN is sharing awoof!  |
mamba
Joined: Nov 21, 2004
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Vmobile has started sharing the december awoof, I received 2,000 naira while my friend got 4,000 naira.. These guys are really good.. Vmobile is the best network in Nigeria. |
ambyzown
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mamba I got N2915 on saturday, N2k for the knockout promo and N915 as 5% bonus on monthly airtime usage. this is in addition to my making calls at rates as low as N28.8 per min across networks. Vmobile is the no 1 network for me. |
mamba
Joined: Nov 21, 2004
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Vmobile appears to be the most user friendly network and they give out freebies willingly.. Their 12 free SMS to any network is more useful to me than the one offered by MTN and glo, call success rate is ok and they don't seem to have all the nasty conjestion problems associated with MTN.. They've really improved and I'm very sure of remaining with them for a long time. Their Vstep plan is so cool, I guess that's what ur using Amby? |
OluYom
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My wife also got N2,000 on Sunday. While I am not a vmobile subscriber, I must agree that Vee does have a number of good things going for it now. Hope they keep it up.
Me - I am sticking with Glo till death ( or The Rapture!) do us part 
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OluYom
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BUT vmobile GPRS has been disappointing at my end in the last 2 weeks: it times out just as bad as MTN such that there are days I hardly get a connection, and even when I do, its broken within seconds. That is not good.
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mamba
Joined: Nov 21, 2004
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I've been using the same Vmobile to browse web and it's working well for me. faster and more reliable.. could be a location thing.. |
ambyzown
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On 2005-12-06 21:37:16, mamba wrote:
I've been using the same Vmobile to browse web and it's working well for me. faster and more reliable.. could be a location thing..
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Same here, I particularly haven't noticed any timeouts since I began using it for web browsing. The only down side is the inability to download ".exe" and some other file types. But it beats using MTN anyday. |
Senisho
Joined: Nov 02, 2005
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From: Lagos, Nigeria
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Hurray! Our transformer is back on-line after about 6 days. @all, guess wat I'm doing now: I'm putting 2 naked wires together just 2 see sum electrical sparks, eh eh eh eh eh ah ah ah ah(crazy laugh). |
ambyzown
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On 2005-12-07 01:20:00, Senisho wrote:
... @all, guess wat I'm doing now: I'm putting 2 naked wires together just 2 see sum electrical sparks, eh eh eh eh eh ah ah ah ah(crazy laugh).
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Go on Son, create some sparks, and blow up the transformer again. you might even see some fireworks |
brix25
Joined: Aug 20, 2003
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@amby: South Korea is the most wired country in the world and they have had 2Mbit/s connections to every home when our internet was still being power by a steam engine (ISDN) reaching a small minority.
It doesn't quite make economic sense to lay 1000s of kilometre of fibre-optic cable in Africa but we can do the next best thing by going wireless.
Just a another titbit, WiMax is already being tested in SA and hopefully a product should be available next year, around the same time that HSDPA( Vodacom) comes on stream for speed junkies who love doing it mobile.
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