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essyk
#31 Posted : Tuesday, June 12, 2012 12:25:04 PM
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Joined: 11/15/2011
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I think am the only loyal safcom customer But they disappoint me!

June 1 they had this offer.Buy credit and get half offer.
So I top my modem with 1k and expect 500 free bundle after converting the sh 500.
Was seeing myself with 2000MB.smile instead of the usual 1500.

Kumbe ni ndoto.You cannot convert the offer into bundles and enjoy browsing.
Take back ur credit! nkt.
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
mzeiya411
#32 Posted : Tuesday, June 12, 2012 9:17:21 PM
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Joined: 1/17/2010
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Location: Twiha


Here's Zuku from home:



Very interesting. When you change the server to the UK, speedtest shows you the "real" speed it works at:

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Interesting when guys post speedtests the server is usually their providers servers thus negating the whole process. One needs to speedtest to an offshore server to really know the quality of your provider
someuser
#33 Posted : Friday, July 20, 2012 10:05:48 AM
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Joined: 7/20/2012
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This obviously depends a lot on where you are located. I live in Mkomani in Mombasa. Orange and Airtel don't even get a reliable signal for making phone calls in my apartment. I've tried them both and they were both epic fails. Safaricom is the only semi-reliable choice for me. Since they removed the unlimited bundles, I now have much more reliable service as you could tell that someone was hogging all the bandwidth on a regular basis before. I don't mind paying extra if the service is good.

By the way, I've used my orange modem in Kikuyu, Nairobi and Kisumu and never got anything above dial up speed. I've only tried airtel in my apartment to no avail. I really wish there was a viable alternative but as it stands, I have to stay with Safaricom for now. I get around 2Mb/s most days and around 0.5Mb/s on a bad day during peak use times which is passable for me.
nakujua
#34 Posted : Friday, July 20, 2012 10:13:20 AM
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Joined: 12/17/2009
Posts: 3,583
Location: Kenya
someuser wrote:
This obviously depends a lot on where you are located. I live in Mkomani in Mombasa. Orange and Airtel don't even get a reliable signal for making phone calls in my apartment. I've tried them both and they were both epic fails. Safaricom is the only semi-reliable choice for me. Since they removed the unlimited bundles, I now have much more reliable service as you could tell that someone was hogging all the bandwidth on a regular basis before. I don't mind paying extra if the service is good.

By the way, I've used my orange modem in Kikuyu, Nairobi and Kisumu and never got anything above dial up speed. I've only tried airtel in my apartment to no avail. I really wish there was a viable alternative but as it stands, I have to stay with Safaricom for now. I get around 2Mb/s most days and around 0.5Mb/s on a bad day during peak use times which is passable for me.


its okay to sell safcom, lakini are you sure orange can not get one 3g speeds in nairobi ?
someuser
#35 Posted : Friday, July 20, 2012 10:32:32 AM
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Posts: 2
For interests sake, this morning's test result on Safaricom through E5 wifi router:
And if I use portable hotspot on my Android phone:
muganda
#36 Posted : Friday, July 20, 2012 11:48:34 AM
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Thank you @mzeiya for the Truth. If @someuser could also post speeds to London then we can begin to get somewhere...
jaggernaut
#37 Posted : Friday, July 20, 2012 12:38:36 PM
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muganda wrote:
Thank you @mzeiya for the Truth. If @someuser could also post speeds to London then we can begin to get somewhere...


Do those living in London post speeds to Nairobi or Sydney or California or Mumbai etc since all the content they access isn't held locally in london?
muganda
#38 Posted : Friday, July 20, 2012 1:45:53 PM
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Joined: 9/15/2006
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Unto every man his own portion.

If @jaggernaut you are satisfied with 'Speedtest' from Nairobi to Nairobi, so be it; knowing full well anyone with an ulterior motive could post such a test to show link between any two nodes on the ISP same network (say client/branch to HQ).

For me I need genuine Speedtest between Nairobi and Europe/US with a genuine link to speedtest.net for result - not just someimage from someISP by someuser.

The former is a PR exercise, the latter a true attempt at calibration smile

jaggernaut wrote:
muganda wrote:
Thank you @mzeiya for the Truth. If @someuser could also post speeds to London then we can begin to get somewhere...


Do those living in London post speeds to Nairobi or Sydney or California or Mumbai etc since all the content they access isn't held locally in london?

mzeiya411
#39 Posted : Friday, July 20, 2012 1:46:18 PM
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Joined: 1/17/2010
Posts: 142
Location: Twiha
jaggernaut wrote:
muganda wrote:
Thank you @mzeiya for the Truth. If @someuser could also post speeds to London then we can begin to get somewhere...


Do those living in London post speeds to Nairobi or Sydney or California or Mumbai etc since all the content they access isn't held locally in london?


Unfortunately most of the online content is offshore thus needing to pingtest to outside countries
Mastermind
#40 Posted : Friday, July 20, 2012 3:10:27 PM
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Joined: 1/25/2012
Posts: 1,624
Location: Langley
essyk wrote:
I think am the only loyal safcom customer But they disappoint me!

June 1 they had this offer.Buy credit and get half offer.
So I top my modem with 1k and expect 500 free bundle after converting the sh 500.
Was seeing myself with 2000MB.smile instead of the usual 1500.

Kumbe ni ndoto.You cannot convert the offer into bundles and enjoy browsing.
Take back ur credit! nkt.


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