After more than a year of not using Safaricom 3g, seems there aren't many choices...
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.
hmmm guess I'm stuck with Safcom. I was abt to jump the boat to Orange cos of pricing and all. 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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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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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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