Vodacom 3G sucks!

[irneb]

That's the usual problem with that dongle modem from Voda-sucks. Mine was working at best for about 20min, then no connection, unplug - restart - reconnect ... doesn't want to read the modem ... restart again with the modem connected - blue screen ... disconnect, reset, plug in before the Win Logo comes up, finally ... connect ... ahh another 20min (max).

That's the major reason I went with my phone directly. I've now got a Motorola Milestone ... frikken awesome speeds (max of 12MB/s - average of 4MB/s) and yes I've tested phoning from & to it while downloading (no prob whatsoever).

I'm a bit green , because the Milestone 2 just came out: Has built-in 3G hotspot for up to 5 devices. No cables needed . Although I suspect battery life's going to be poor when you've got both its 3G and WiFi turned on.

[Dave A]

That looks sweet!

My first phone was a Motorola, but I've been a Nokia diehard ever since. Maybe time to take a closer look at Motorola again.

[garthu]

My latest problem is i really battle to buy bundle airtime though the *111# service. Took me around 3 hours before i got bandwidth tonight. Seems to be getting worse as well with the messages "All connections busy" and "failed"

Anyone tried the new Cell dongle and packages??

[irneb]

Actually I prefer the SMS Mymeg ### or MyGig #.# to 100 instead of the *111# service. Although the data bundle's not immediately available: this week it took a few hours for it to come through. So it seems V's servers are overloaded (at best) or they're just screwing with us again (most probably).

[irneb]

That looks sweet!

My first phone was a Motorola, but I've been a Nokia diehard ever since. Maybe time to take a closer look at Motorola again.

I've had 2 Nokias in the past: an old die-hard 5110 (which died on me), and more recently an E64 - the E64 was the one with the dodgy data connection (see one of my earlier posts). I've had a Phillips Savy in the 90's, as well as one of those old Ericsson bricks.

But the best phone overall which I've ever had (prior to my newest toy) was (and still is) a Siemens ME45. That thing had quite a few features (after the flash upgrade) above even top-of-the-range Nokias of the time (not colour though) ... but what I loved about it is its ruggedness: Once dropped it 3 storeys onto a concrete floor, then it bounced and fell into a pool. Went down and dove into the pool to gather the bits ... had a surprise, it was still on and working, only a scratch on the side to show that anything happened. So for me the "resistance to dust, shock and water" meant: Water proof and built like a rubber ball. And it's still used as my back-up phone, which I've had to use numerous times when a MotoRazr (absolute CR@P) and the E64 (lesser CR@P) bombed out on me.

[Martinco]

Have you noticed that on Monday 3 Jan 2011 there was NO internet access via Vodacom 3G.
I had to drive to a friend in Toti to use his ADSL to do my company and private IB payments.
Well done Vodacom !

[tec0]

Vodacrap hit a new all time low yesterday. After trying to phone there help-desk from a smart phone I realize that the menu system didn't respond. Tested it on a second smart phone same thing... So I phoned them using another phone. Thing is an elderly person I know is partially deaf and her English is none existent. I explained this to the Vodacom person that was just as arrogant as always. It didn’t matter how I explained the situation she insisted to speak partially deaf person??? WTF is wrong with Vodacrap? Are they so thick that they cannot understand that the person is partially DEAF!!!! [Lacking or deprived of the sense*of*hearing wholly or in part] Basically the phone get used for MMS SMS and not much else.

Steps I took to rectify the problem:
Got angry with the help-desk and hanged up.
First took out the SIM card and Memory Card aka (Micro SD card)
Reset the phone to factory default.

Made a backup of the SIM and Memory Card before installing both cards.
Using the *111# Menu I found the phone install option "in this case it was the last option on the second menu"
Installed both MMS and Internet settings using this menu and it solved the problem.

No thanks to Vodacrap's unhelpful arrogant useless pathetic help-desk.