Bandwidth
by subacati
:awww:.
Mtn introduces new data rates and new data bundles!.
I'm used to chugging along at a slow 45KB/s and paying through my @$$ for data. But now it looks like I'm suck with Operamini because 'cruising' along at a mere 16KB/s is just pure torture!! :insane:. …
What really pisses me of though, is their, "we're doing you a favour by fugging you in the @$$" attitude! :irked:.
Upload speeds are already governed to about 8KB/p! Which explains why downloading Opera from Namibia takes five minutes, but downloading the same binary from South Africa takes half a bloody hour? :mad:.
:insane:. It already takes eight hours to download the Ubuntu live cd image! :yikes:. and that's only about 700MB :cry:.
subacati 
Doesn't Opera Turbo help you out?
I mostly use Firefox these days. The convoluted process for installing Opera on Linux is just too much work. :awww:.Even then, I found that Opera Turbo suffers from the same latency problems as Operamini. :left:.The point is, how can they call it "broadband" when it's too slow for even mobile YouTube? :insane:.I'm still trying to figure out how it's possible to set up a server when South Africa only has hsdpa but no hsupa? :left:.When I enquired about ADSL. I was politely informed that it's just a rumour. Apparently Telkom's 'ADSL' is analogue! :insane:.So basically, 'broadband' is now just a dead legacy in South Africa. :cry:.
😦 shit.
I remember my dial up days. So annoying :awww:
i get max of 30kbps I am used to that 😛