depnding on where you are, orange 3g can be as fast as safcom. havent used it in a while but while in langata a while back, i consistently and reliably clocked 2mbps, with little jitter on that graph on the huawei modem client i was using (was using an unlocked saf modem) .... but ive heard stories of downtimes, and bugs with the billing system when u pay the 1k for one week unlimited.... but those are quite rare anyways. so if u have a good orange 3g signl where u r, lucky u :-) On 3/27/11, Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com> wrote:
ping www.google.com -t
Pinging www.l.google.com [209.85.153.104] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=233ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=380ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=593ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=257ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=256ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=342ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=241ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=239ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=348ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=396ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=244ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=401ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=240ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=219ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=218ms TTL=54 Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes=32 time=326ms TTL=54
Ping statistics for 209.85.153.104: Packets: Sent = 16, Received = 16, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 218ms, Maximum = 593ms, Average = 308ms
tracert www.bbc.co.uk
Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.246.95] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 107 ms 3 ms 3 ms 192.168.43.1 2 * * * Request timed out. 3 262 ms 100 ms 139 ms 196.201.217.2 4 417 ms 159 ms 178 ms 195.229.27.77 5 274 ms 148 ms 149 ms 195.229.0.89 6 256 ms 160 ms 147 ms 195.229.1.177 7 286 ms 329 ms 298 ms 195.229.0.214 8 395 ms 338 ms 300 ms bbc-gw0-linx.prt0.thdoe.bbc.co.uk[195.66.224.103] 9 298 ms 290 ms 287 ms 212.58.238.153 10 285 ms 345 ms 289 ms te12-1.hsw1.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.234] 11 367 ms 308 ms 299 ms 212.58.255.12 12 457 ms 318 ms 297 ms bbc-vip016.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.246.95]
Trace complete.
Not bad...but there's always room for improvement.
./bernard
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:38 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Orange 3g+ has become a dialup service, frequently drops out and also looses internet gateways connecitivity. It's become a very poorly managed network. Speedwise, it closely resembles Edge.
Over then back to Safcom. It surely has improved quite a lot and the rates are now similar to what Orange offered a while ago i.e 1ksh/Mbyte. Am still to try AFOL services in a few months time so keeping an open mind. Orange and Airtel 3g are still dreams, so Safcom I think now takes the lead over real 3g versus competitive pricing. The only thing I noticed was that Safcom 3g seem to be routing internet connecitivity over satellite, the average is about 610ms. Not run traces as don't have time to.
Me thots.
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