@john
@JohnAha!That must be the missing link!It looks like these people got me on that one!On 22 February 2012 20:58, John Doe Smith Kamau KipNg'etich Jones <skunkworks.ku@gmail.com> wrote:
@moses muya
... i hope you realize that bandwidth is measured in kiloBITS / sec
and that most download managers instead display speeds in kiloBYTES / sec
kilobits/sec is what most routing gear for traffic shaping
.... so, 512kbps [kiloBITS/sec] = 64kBps [kiloBYTES/sec
On 2/22/12, David Njuguna <dnjuguna@gmail.com> wrote:
> Two things:
>
> 1. They should avail information on what the volume threshold is so we can
> regulate ourselves.
> 2. One Mbps is a more 'respectful' speed limit I find 512 (safaricom) and
> 256 (orange) just plain disrespectful.
>
> David
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Moses Muya <mouzmuyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> @wash
>>
>> I am in total agreement!However,let us look at the details,shall
>> we?Safaricom advertises "Unlimited Internet",but they cap it at 512
>> Kbps.Since this is a 'shared' connection,you will never come anywhere
>> close
>> to 512Kbps,the best I've had is 47Kbps.Do you see that, a tenth of the
>> advertised service!For the last few days,the connection keeps going off
>> atleast once every two hours and it stays like that for at least 15
>> minutes
>> to 2 hours!If you call customer care,they simply tell you that they are
>> not
>> experiencing any problem.But why would I call them if there was no problem
>> in the first place,I do not like them that much!At some point they seemed
>> to have increase the threshold to 1Mbps because I could now get 98Kbps.In
>> short,it is not something that they have not control over! :)
>>
>> On 22 February 2012 12:29, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:19, milele forever
>>> <milele.forever@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Seems am not alone here, Safaricom is getting more desperate by the day
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I don't find it strange when a setup like Safaricom experiences a
>>> technical problem. Tell me of the best techie you know who has never had
>>> any mishap with the equipment assigned to them? They don't run equipment
>>> from God!
>>>
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