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brix25
Joined: Aug 20, 2003
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From: Cape Town, South Africa
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Right now I'm conecting to the net using my N70 as a modem and to be honest it's pretty straight-forward.
@Rhino: I can't believe those bloodsuckers are blaming you for the demise of free GPRS on Vlive.
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Rhino8
Joined: Jan 07, 2005
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From: South Africa (Bloemfontein)
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i am being blamed coz i own a website named 74466 and the guy who split on then used the nick 74466. pretty straight forward. i am being framed. lol, but i dont care anymore
Blaming it on zuma is a good idea, but the poor guy has soo much on his plate.
BTW i am also on web with phone as modem, and it is nice and fast on virgin aT the moment
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brix25
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@Rhino: How fast your Virgin Mobile connection? I'm getting 4,5kbps at best and seemingly I can't use 3G which simply refuses to connect when the phone is placed in "Dual Mode". I'm also getting constant disconnect errors which means I've got to "refresh" the connection in the "One Touch Access" pane.
Any tips and tricks are welcome.
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francoislr
Joined: Jun 15, 2006
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From: Pretoria, South Africa
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Being worshipped by the guys at prodigits is like being a special olympics champ...
My connection with my phone was as straight forward as it can get... Okay, maybe not, my irq settings gave me crap. Got it working eventually. I get about 40-70 kbps speed, nice and fast by crap south african standards:) |
brix25
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@francois: Are you connecting via 3G?
EDIT: It seems I'll have to retract that earlier statement of not being able to connect to the 3G network...I'm currently connected and it sure as hell is fast...Will take a speed test later but this one's good.
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francoislr
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@ brix, yes, 3 is the g i connect on. Gprs would never reach those speeds in my wildest dreams, which was the female dog with my previous phone, the big reason i never really used the net on my phone then, or at least, not much. I did a lot of stuff on the net with it, but couldn't do nearly as much with my 6220 as with my w900i now. Gprs was not just slow, it was suing the powers that be for the title of tortoise, which at that stage was allocated to these creatures with shells and who moved really slow...never kept up with the case so do not know what happened with that..
Enough of this silliness, and onto other silliness-cultural this time. I am trying to overcome the cultural demon of calling older people oom and tannie. It is ingrained into the culture that it is an address of respect, but i realised adults hate it. It is not a problem i have with english people, them i address as i should. It is just my afrikaans friends's parents and aunts and uncles:) lol! Sleep well chaps- off to bed. |
Rhino8
Joined: Jan 07, 2005
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From: South Africa (Bloemfontein)
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@brix, i use GPRS which mostly have a 6-8KBS connection on virgin, which is to me waayyyy more than enough for the amount of surfing i do.
Unless we get better priced data, i will stick with slower gprs speeds, rather that being surprised with my airtime running oout faster due to a faster connection.
I will however have to wait and see if and when voda launches pre paid data bundles (which has been in testing for the last 2 weeks) to see what their rates is, but i doubt them beating virgin on price.
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JK
Joined: Feb 24, 2005
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@ Brix I use mines as a modem to, i get around 325+!! Thats not bad for me!  |
brix25
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The overall experience was quite good, so good that I'm considering subscribing to one of Vodacom's data plans. I'm also toying with the idea of connecting via wi-fi, checked on the net and there don't seem to be any wi-fi networks in my area (Green Point). In October I'll hopefully be moving to the Cape Town city centre and hope to pick up more wi-fi networks there. Or I might skip all that and see what WiMax has to offer.
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JK
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On 2006-08-31 09:22:06, brix25 wrote:
The overall experience was quite good, so good that I'm considering subscribing to one of Vodacom's data plans. I'm also toying with the idea of connecting via wi-fi, checked on the net and there don't seem to be any wi-fi networks in my area (Green Point). In October I'll hopefully be moving to the Cape Town city centre and hope to pick up more wi-fi networks there. Or I might skip all that and see what WiMax has to offer.
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Rhino8
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From: South Africa (Bloemfontein)
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@ BRIX
You are now speaking mario`s language re wifi/wimax.
I would not subscribe to vodacoms data bundles just yet (not on a fixed basis that is) I am waiting to see what the imact of the sno will be in dataq prices, the way i see it, with them supplying wholesale could make for some changes, and then again, they also have to go through telkom 4 the time being so i wonder if it will really have an effect.
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TeenInvader
Joined: May 13, 2005
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From: South Africa - Jo'burg
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I must try virgin. I've been thinking but never get to do it.
I must get myself a 3G fone. GRPS always do Avg 3KB when I'm browsing. I can't even check out porn in the net with that speed.
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Falcon786
Joined: Sep 09, 2005
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From: Vereeniging-South Africa
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Yeah i been using my phone to connect my pc up for a while now but only for basic things like checking email coz dam networks taking forever to roll out 3g in my area!Which is quite shocking as most teens in my area wouldn't use anything less than say a 6230i in our relatively upper bracket area.But the connection so much quicker and easier to setup instead of connecting to telcom...(usb that is)
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TeenInvader
Joined: May 13, 2005
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I am falling for the Samsung D820. Any other Manufacturer challanging this ultra slim design ?
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francoislr
Joined: Jun 15, 2006
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From: Pretoria, South Africa
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I want to be the first to officially welcome Neotel, our second national operator....
http://www.neotel.co.za
Guys, I really hope this helps turn around our country...Telkom has killed big business here, so this could help boost foreign investment....What do you think?
Snippet from the website:
The initial wholesale international voice and data services offered by Neotel to other telecom players will gradually be augmented by national telecom services for wholesale and enterprise customers by the end of 2006, with consumer services targeted for introduction towards the end of the first quarter of 2007.
This is what I was hoping for...i am getting excited...=)
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