i just checked my internet window (that opens when i insert the dongle in) and it said transmit rate was 2.97kbs when i clicked to go back to tech forum. im assuming that is completely pathetic even for prepaid wireless?

PATHETIC, Hell even gprs is faster than that

Townhall? wats that?

While browsing you wont get the real speed. Downloading huge files the real speed can be tested. On cnet.com their are many software for testing network data transfer speed

Jay i was talking about 600mb with edge network......

Whatever network,able to dload only 600mb per day is too less

problem with broadband is the ping packets eveything are huge. So out of about 10mb 3mb of that data is wot you get the other is network data. At the end the networks are robbing people on a huge scale with broadband

yes i believe you when i dreaming mtn is 2 rand a mb unless you bought data bundles which will work out 80 sents a mb which is still f ing expensive because you pay like wot R500 bucks to that tarrifs. Torrent or no torrents the costs are the same because you are using a modem so you will have to connect to a router to get the adress your looking for and that routers belong to mtn nice try

yeah 3g broadband in sa is fken expensive and slow

7mbit is the fastest you get with a modem 20mbit iburst started but its for malls and airports only. the goverment try to force them to bring the prices down but they are so stupid why not just open it up so that any company can come and start a network. the more competition the cheaper the prices like US and UK

i use gconnect tho i get 900mb for R200 with 3g but then u gotta buy one of their sims

helkom if you buy a gig its around R70 some cases its R25 but iyou have monthly rental fe's of the line and your speed depends how far are you from the centre which determines they line they can offer you.cell companies dont have lines they have towers which 3 of them share most of the times so maintenance are minimum. why so expensive then?

Nexus advertise prepaid R15 per GB on the site it say R59 per gb adsl its prepaid and unused data is carried over month to month. they also chargee for full 4MB uncapped without throttling for R2499. 4Mps is R1299 for uncapped but throttling down to 256kbs during the day 4Mps after hours and weekends

MTN has said that its high speed 3G and HSPA wireless broadband network has been upgraded and is now capable of reaching theoretical download speeds of up to 14.4Mbps and upload speeds of up to 5.7Mbps. The company also announced that it would soon provide its users with access speeds of up to 21Mbps

MTN customers using the exclusive MTN F@stlink E230 modem can already benefit from these improved speeds. The MTN F@stlink E1820 USB modem, which supports HSPA+ up to 28.8Mbps downlink and 5.76Mbps uplink, will be available for sale in March 2010.

this is a good site for finding the cheapest internet for you http://www.adslsouthafrica.co.za/adsl-broadband-packages.html

Yeah, ping the only thing stopping me playing pj64k online. i got laughed at cause my ping level was over 700 and i was trying to play people

gconnect gives u 9gb for R200 if u use adsl also prepaid but u got 30days to use it