Safcom may have just finally nailed a qos pre-paid unlimited internet on 3G
I've been out of touch with safcom products but early this week had to setup one for a friend. He bought the B220 3g wifi modem and I completed the setup. We decided to test the 1GB/128kbps service. After the 1GB bundle got exhausted, I tested the 128kbps services and it seems to work quite well. Hopefully we will know the results at the end of the bundle being exhausted.
From a tech point of view, I got thinking what was in Safcom's mind doing this and it struck me they just might have have gotten it right. Considering the cost of seacom/teams, that 128kbps service is really a non-shared bandwidth, which is excellent, explained the reason why it held a constant download. I know 3G is limited to 256kbps on uplink, so duplex 128kbps is very possible. In a summary, I think Safcom should remove the GB bundles and sell by capacity. A good example maybe 128 kbps unlimited = 3K, 256k unlimited = 5k etc. I'd rather work with a smaller capacity and an un-shared non-bursty service. The latencies also held well on 128kbps.
Have these been your experiences with the unlimited service? Me thots.
I think Bundles bring in more revenue than unlimited speed constrained plans and that is why all the telcos including orange maintain bundles. Problem is bundles work best with phones which are less likely to be data munchers as compared to PC's what with torrents and what not. They may just decide to go all out ISP and offer the different speed packages minus the bundle business. . .may just work. . On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:05 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been out of touch with safcom products but early this week had to setup one for a friend. He bought the B220 3g wifi modem and I completed the setup. We decided to test the 1GB/128kbps service. After the 1GB bundle got exhausted, I tested the 128kbps services and it seems to work quite well. Hopefully we will know the results at the end of the bundle being exhausted. From a tech point of view, I got thinking what was in Safcom's mind doing this and it struck me they just might have have gotten it right. Considering the cost of seacom/teams, that 128kbps service is really a non-shared bandwidth, which is excellent, explained the reason why it held a constant download. I know 3G is limited to 256kbps on uplink, so duplex 128kbps is very possible. In a summary, I think Safcom should remove the GB bundles and sell by capacity. A good example maybe 128 kbps unlimited = 3K, 256k unlimited = 5k etc. I'd rather work with a smaller capacity and an un-shared non-bursty service. The latencies also held well on 128kbps.
Have these been your experiences with the unlimited service?
Me thots.
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I am 2 days into the unlimited service and so far so good. However, the connection resets every time I try running apt-get. Content filtering ? On 11 November 2010 14:33, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
I think Bundles bring in more revenue than unlimited speed constrained plans and that is why all the telcos including orange maintain bundles. Problem is bundles work best with phones which are less likely to be data munchers as compared to PC's what with torrents and what not. They may just decide to go all out ISP and offer the different speed packages minus the bundle business. . .may just work. .
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:05 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been out of touch with safcom products but early this week had to setup one for a friend. He bought the B220 3g wifi modem and I completed the setup. We decided to test the 1GB/128kbps service. After the 1GB bundle got exhausted, I tested the 128kbps services and it seems to work quite well. Hopefully we will know the results at the end of the bundle being exhausted. From a tech point of view, I got thinking what was in Safcom's mind doing this and it struck me they just might have have gotten it right. Considering the cost of seacom/teams, that 128kbps service is really a non-shared bandwidth, which is excellent, explained the reason why it held a constant download. I know 3G is limited to 256kbps on uplink, so duplex 128kbps is very possible. In a summary, I think Safcom should remove the GB bundles and sell by capacity. A good example maybe 128 kbps unlimited = 3K, 256k unlimited = 5k etc. I'd rather work with a smaller capacity and an un-shared non-bursty service. The latencies also held well on 128kbps.
Have these been your experiences with the unlimited service?
Me thots.
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..apt-get uses http...no content filtered there... Bernard On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
I am 2 days into the unlimited service and so far so good. However, the connection resets every time I try running apt-get. Content filtering ?
On 11 November 2010 14:33, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
I think Bundles bring in more revenue than unlimited speed constrained plans and that is why all the telcos including orange maintain bundles. Problem is bundles work best with phones which are less likely to be data munchers as compared to PC's what with torrents and what not. They may just decide to go all out ISP and offer the different speed packages minus the bundle business. . .may just work. .
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:05 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been out of touch with safcom products but early this week had to setup one for a friend. He bought the B220 3g wifi modem and I completed the setup. We decided to test the 1GB/128kbps service. After the 1GB bundle got exhausted, I tested the 128kbps services and it seems to work quite well. Hopefully we will know the results at the end of the bundle being exhausted. From a tech point of view, I got thinking what was in Safcom's mind doing this and it struck me they just might have have gotten it right. Considering the cost of seacom/teams, that 128kbps service is really a non-shared bandwidth, which is excellent, explained the reason why it held a constant download. I know 3G is limited to 256kbps on uplink, so duplex 128kbps is very possible. In a summary, I think Safcom should remove the GB bundles and sell by capacity. A good example maybe 128 kbps unlimited = 3K, 256k unlimited = 5k etc. I'd rather work with a smaller capacity and an un-shared non-bursty service. The latencies also held well on 128kbps.
Have these been your experiences with the unlimited service?
Me thots.
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my experiences.... bad. but that's what i paid for... bought the 300mb/32kbps bundle. i get good 3g reception in my hostel room, and get downloads at more than 2mbps [256kBps.... 1kBps=8bps] when its not capped.... and thats GREAT. .. but when capped to 32kbps [a mere 4 kBps], i wonder if the techies at safcom practically tested their data-caps... 4kB/s is barely usable with todays' heavy websites and web-apps. more ideally, the 1gb bundle should be capped at 128kBps [..or 1mbps -> less than half of ur expected 3mb/s max on 3g].... down to capping the 300mb bundle at 32kBps [256 kbps. and from looking at local internet prices, safcom would still make profits. On 11/13/10, Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com> wrote:
..apt-get uses http...no content filtered there...
Bernard
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
I am 2 days into the unlimited service and so far so good. However, the connection resets every time I try running apt-get. Content filtering ?
On 11 November 2010 14:33, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
I think Bundles bring in more revenue than unlimited speed constrained plans and that is why all the telcos including orange maintain bundles. Problem is bundles work best with phones which are less likely to be data munchers as compared to PC's what with torrents and what not. They may just decide to go all out ISP and offer the different speed packages minus the bundle business. . .may just work. .
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:05 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been out of touch with safcom products but early this week had to setup one for a friend. He bought the B220 3g wifi modem and I completed the setup. We decided to test the 1GB/128kbps service. After the 1GB bundle got exhausted, I tested the 128kbps services and it seems to work quite well. Hopefully we will know the results at the end of the bundle being exhausted. From a tech point of view, I got thinking what was in Safcom's mind doing this and it struck me they just might have have gotten it right. Considering the cost of seacom/teams, that 128kbps service is really a non-shared bandwidth, which is excellent, explained the reason why it held a constant download. I know 3G is limited to 256kbps on uplink, so duplex 128kbps is very possible. In a summary, I think Safcom should remove the GB bundles and sell by capacity. A good example maybe 128 kbps unlimited = 3K, 256k unlimited = 5k etc. I'd rather work with a smaller capacity and an un-shared non-bursty service. The latencies also held well on 128kbps.
Have these been your experiences with the unlimited service?
Me thots.
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Get the 2Gb/512Kbps bundle....works great.... Bernard On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:29 AM, SkunkWorks KU Followers < skunkworks.ku@gmail.com> wrote:
my experiences.... bad. but that's what i paid for...
bought the 300mb/32kbps bundle. i get good 3g reception in my hostel room, and get downloads at more than 2mbps [256kBps.... 1kBps=8bps] when its not capped.... and thats GREAT.
.. but when capped to 32kbps [a mere 4 kBps], i wonder if the techies at safcom practically tested their data-caps... 4kB/s is barely usable with todays' heavy websites and web-apps.
more ideally, the 1gb bundle should be capped at 128kBps [..or 1mbps -> less than half of ur expected 3mb/s max on 3g].... down to capping the 300mb bundle at 32kBps [256 kbps. and from looking at local internet prices, safcom would still make profits.
On 11/13/10, Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com> wrote:
..apt-get uses http...no content filtered there...
Bernard
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
I am 2 days into the unlimited service and so far so good. However, the connection resets every time I try running apt-get. Content filtering ?
On 11 November 2010 14:33, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
I think Bundles bring in more revenue than unlimited speed constrained plans and that is why all the telcos including orange maintain bundles. Problem is bundles work best with phones which are less likely to be data munchers as compared to PC's what with torrents and what not. They may just decide to go all out ISP and offer the different speed packages minus the bundle business. . .may just work. .
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:05 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been out of touch with safcom products but early this week had to setup one for a friend. He bought the B220 3g wifi modem and I completed the setup. We decided to test the 1GB/128kbps service. After the 1GB bundle got exhausted, I tested the 128kbps services and it seems to work quite well. Hopefully we will know the results at the end of the bundle being exhausted. From a tech point of view, I got thinking what was in Safcom's mind doing this and it struck me they just might have have gotten it right. Considering the cost of seacom/teams, that 128kbps service is really a non-shared bandwidth, which is excellent, explained the reason why it held a constant download. I know 3G is limited to 256kbps on uplink, so duplex 128kbps is very possible. In a summary, I think Safcom should remove the GB bundles and sell by capacity. A good example maybe 128 kbps unlimited = 3K, 256k unlimited = 5k etc. I'd rather work with a smaller capacity and an un-shared non-bursty service. The latencies also held well on 128kbps.
Have these been your experiences with the unlimited service?
Me thots.
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I have had KDN, Zuku, Safaricom and Now Accesskenya, I can say without a doubt that Safaricom has the best internet experience bar the price. I have managed to stream a full soccer match on the connection with minimum interruption. If only the price was affordable, I would not consider any other provider. Kiania D. On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:05 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been out of touch with safcom products but early this week had to setup one for a friend. He bought the B220 3g wifi modem and I completed the setup. We decided to test the 1GB/128kbps service. After the 1GB bundle got exhausted, I tested the 128kbps services and it seems to work quite well. Hopefully we will know the results at the end of the bundle being exhausted. From a tech point of view, I got thinking what was in Safcom's mind doing this and it struck me they just might have have gotten it right. Considering the cost of seacom/teams, that 128kbps service is really a non-shared bandwidth, which is excellent, explained the reason why it held a constant download. I know 3G is limited to 256kbps on uplink, so duplex 128kbps is very possible. In a summary, I think Safcom should remove the GB bundles and sell by capacity. A good example maybe 128 kbps unlimited = 3K, 256k unlimited = 5k etc. I'd rather work with a smaller capacity and an un-shared non-bursty service. The latencies also held well on 128kbps.
Have these been your experiences with the unlimited service?
Me thots. _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
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