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@greenhulk I'm just very amused at why you think others aren't using the thing.

Do you realize what it takes in data consumption to watch 720P football streams ? Watch 1080P movies and shows all the time? Do dev work day in day out?

Lol.

Is it until they post screenshot to brag? Unlimited internet is nothing new. Even before 4G we have been enjoying that so kini big deal? When spectranet had unlimited plan I paid for it. When swift had, ditto. Even today Smile has unlimited plan
Countless mtn , glo etc fbt.

Abeg let's face serious issues. No be this kain thing dey trip person please

Is it just me or network is really slow tonight? Can someone please confirm.

o gaa o.


as per say we no get 10k to pay for internet abi bawo?


see as this boy wash put for my head unto nairaland. na wah.

well, na me pass my boundary sha.

Stanley08:
So much bullshxt falling off you. The only reason i pay for Ntel is because of Unlimited. As i now wanted to download Call of Duty nko? Coming here to say shxt about abuse. The people that download games all over the world and use the internet they paid with their HARD EARNED money. What do you think they use to download it? Dial-up connection? Limited internet? It's until i pay 1K for 1.5GB on Etisalat 44times, that is when I'm doing it right yes?
Oga just park well abeg. 'Anywhere in the world, this is abuse of service'. Lol WTF?!
When FIFA 17 came out, i was chatting with my guy online in the UK. It is 40GB. I told him i already pre-ordered the game, he said he didn't buy it yet. He bought it immediately as we were talking. The same 40GB that Spectranet was telling me 11hrs left, he downloaded it in just over 30mins! 40GB in 30mins!
He started playing it before 1 hr and i was busy restarting Spectranet router.
He abused the service too right? Or is his case different?

bozz007:
lol. Jokers don full here now. Taking someone's internet usage as bragging.....smh. Better think well about your life and be sure of what is really bothering you.

e don do please. make una no vex. i won't comment about your posts anymore
enjoy the carnival whilst it lasts.

i think i can afford every byte of data i need on any network, likewise everyone here, irrespective of how its priced.
so please, e never bring quarrel.


i'm pretty sure that i can explain my POV with enough logic, likewise you guys too.


and lets not insult each other please. by all indications many of us won't say these words to the other folks when we meet them IRL.
cause i know some folks here who had graduated and were working at the time nairaland was started. so if you gauge their age and standing in life you will see that they aren't our mates by any measure. lets be guided please

Lol.
Glo is 621-50

It's likely to be InterC...... plausible sef because that MNC is a very early one, and remember InterC bought one older network license...

Learnt they will soon launch in Lagos.....

When they see the way you are abusing their service and advertising it online for others to join you and decide to kuku stop the unlimited, you will calm down.

Dunno what you will miss by not posting this type of thing. Anywhere in the world this is abuse of service

dustmalik:
Spectranet

dustmalik:
I know what I'm talking about. Whether your lte phone supports band 40 or not, it will see it. That doesn't mean it can work with Spectranet.
Same way a 4G device that doesn't support ntel's band 3 or 8 would still see 62140, or a 4G device that doesn't support Smile's band 20 would still see 62127.

its not spectranet.

Booted my CPE to check

dustmalik:
Spectranet

really?

my phone does not support spectranet's band(also tried my sim in it too) but it shows that signal too

i don't think its spectranet o

Dam5reey:
Now you're are saying what exactly the same we said..
MTN launched 4G... And the Coverage already beats the NTELs coverage...

that is inevitable. You cannot compare a new service to one that has been on ground for over 10 yrs. It costs good money to build out networks. so this complaint is unfair.

if it was that easy, why haven't the other 4G networks covered more than their token lagos, port harcourt, abuja?


The issue is, are they improving the coverage? personally, i'd say no. You can't convince me 6 months is too short to cover half of lagos. they haven't covered a quarter of lagos.


Ntel is a data only service provider. their problem is that they received a universal license.

Their first problem is that coverage has not improved at all. i should know, i got a sim the week the sim cards landed in lagos.
they are not building out. The service is the same way its been 5 months ago.

maybe because of funds (this $ issue is not helping you know, if a mast used to cost 10 million before, it will cost like 70 million now..........)



Secondly, with all due respect to them, they seem to have very wack engineers. But hey, i'm sure if they read this thing they will have my head.
but my own experience with their network ehn


Thirdly, i don't know their rationale for expansion, but it kinda appears foolish to me that they have service at Ikotun, Egbeda and not at Ikeja. i was at oregun today, 0 bars.

i don't understand that type of thinking....... maybe they think ikotun people have more money or are more thirsty for data.
afterall, Etisalat increased data prices in the middle of price wars and a recession because they wanted to reduce the number of people subscribing to their network.

so..... boya i'm not knowledgeable enough

This thing is not the way you guys paint it.

The other networks aren't doing VoLTE too. they still carry voice via switch, not data.

meanwhile, factor in the reality that all that needs to happen to cure the voice problem is an application configured to their network specifically. which i think they have already. Smile has similar. its way cheaper too, and is where the market is heading.

Whatsapp/facebook calling etc are proof of this. What they need to do is encourage you to do the calls via their own service, or just forget about that and give you the data you will use to make the calls.

Already, international calls are like 300naira per minute to call nigeria from abroad, dunno the rates from Nigeria. Same calls via whatsapp will use maybe 40mb PER HOUR

Where do you think the market is heading in that scenario?

all you need for data calls are good servers. one big server farm will serve the entire country, with 1 or 2 redundancies in other places. Hell they might even decide not to locate the server in Nigeria at all!!


for switch calls you probably need to visit that MTN switch at Ojota to see the kind of equipment they need to maintain just to carry your calls and SMS, and they have that in almost every state.



So there really isn't the need to invest money in 2G/3G when those will be obsolete soon. in 5 yrs they will start turning off those 2G radios and repurpose the spectrum. Infact they already repurposed some of it.

You can't be planning strategy for such a business and be telling them to spend millions of dollars on switches.


so these aren't the issues

tuta1:
Hello Tia, honestly don't know where the BB is, but I can confirm this Mtn sim is working and it's LTE enabled too. Awesome speeds. Screenshot below.
The last image shows mobile on LTE.

Can confirm my guys moderm are all smoking hot free also.

Which APN do you use for your Visafone(MtN) line in gsm phone?

Does the bb plan work in gsm phone?

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Reediano:
There is nothing like N1K unlimited in the post

Reediano:
The all new super value starter pack which goes for N1,000 offers consumers 30 days unlimited access to social network sites, 30 days access to unlimited browsing , 30 minutes Short Message Service [SMS] and 30 minutes calls to any network.

Edit your post then. There's quite a number of 'unlimited' in there

purplekayc:
are you referring to
apt-get -f install ?

Or simply sudo apt install ......

It will automatically pull all dependencies too.

purplekayc:
How do I resolve the issues of missing dependencies when installing software using synaptic package manager.?

Synaptic should solve that automatically. It should pick the dependencies too. Unless you have held back some packages.......

But then, why not just use the terminal if you have identified the app you want to install via synaptic?

DharkPoet:
Thanks, this could be coming late, but thanks a lot for the assistance.

Have you solved the issue?

greenhulk:
Must be the location. I get 1-2 bars in my house snd get speeds of betwen 20-30mbps download and 8mbps upload steadily. When I go to some locations woth 5 bars I get 7mbps download and 20mbps upload.

It's what I've observed. They are like Glo. Location dependent. Some places good, some crap

pheesayor:
I redeemed one of my booked sims today, using on lenovo A2010 and there's just one bar here, speedtest shows 2.72Mbps download and 0.26Mbps upload, slower than swift that I want to switch from, though I'm streaming without buffering, at least for now. I'm almost convinced to go for this, signal bar is 1, fluctuates higher to 3 at times.

Are you still using ntel?

Yes I am. It's been decent for 2 days, meaning 2-3 Mbps

That 1 bar will be problematic. That's the situation for me at home too. At work is where I get fullbars.

It's a gamble for u o. Hope u have a fallback plan for their downtime

pheesayor:
4llerbuntu, greenhulk saint2ace please I need your opinions as I need to decide before close of work today, thanks.

Udezer69 did you get your ntel? How has the performance been?

its dependent on location. verify.

unlimited won't be forever.....

be ready for downtime every other week. always having 'node issues'

DharkPoet:
Each time I try installing Ubuntu again, it tells me unable to install bootloader.

for SINGLE BOOT INSTALL ON MACS

Intel Macs have an EFI instead of a BIOS as in an 'IBM compatible' system. A different partition table scheme, GPT, is used on the hard drive.

You NEED TO and can convert your hard drive partition format with gparted on the Ubuntu LiveCD.

Insert the Ubuntu LiveCD into your Mac and Shutdown. Restart the Mac and hold the Option Key. When the boot selector screen comes up, choose to boot from the CD.

Choose you language and and select "Try Ubuntu". This won't make any changes to your Mac.

Once you get to the Ubuntu desktop, start gParted.

From gParted's menu, choose Device > Create Partition Table...

In the Dialog Box that comes up, heed the large, bold warning at the top, and click the "Advanced" triangle to enable the option to create a new partition table format.

Make sure to choose "msdos" for the type of partition table and click "Create".

Once your disk has been converted there should be no partitions in gParted. You can create your custom partition layout here or exit gParted and start the Ubuntu Installer and use it's partitioner to do the dirty work.

Proceed through the install as normal


It should work normally now.

Stanley08:
7Mbps or 7MBps? 8Mbps = 1MBps. (megabits , MegaBytes)?






I do not know for sure that it's fixed yet. I want to subscribe, however i want to make sure i have reception at my office in V.I. if they don't... Lol bye bye

Megbits not bytes, bits.

most guys keep getting deceived by speedtest.net showing fantabulous numbers for testing connections to main isp servers in lagos or abuja.

r

greenhulk:
U can't tether over VPN on Android.

you can actually. i put up a tutorial on my blog a while back, but the blog is closed now. sadly.
not sure i can remember the steps again unless i try it. but no time.

Stanley08:
Ntel said they have fixed the node that was bad, so internet is now always fast. Is this correct?

nope.

but i've since come to realize they are like Glo. work well in select locations.

but even with full bars in one such location, i still can't do more than 3Mbps. 7Mbps in the midnight.

greenhulk:
Same problem I'm facing on ps4. Always on NAT 3 and can't even connect to PSN. Its frustrating that I have to use etisalat whenever I want to connect to ps4 which is slow as hell.

have you guys tried a VPN?

Etisalat is already testing. It's just not switch on yet.

Glo isn't switched on too in most places

Search for a signal manually on your 4G capable device.

Guys who knows the ADMIN password to a Spectranet CPE?

normal login is user/user

i'm looking for the admin one

2 days in a row now I've been having really poor speeds BTW 70-12kbps max

Am I the only one experiencing this?

Have they started throttling, because signal is even better than it used to be this weekend, but speed is terrible.

I experienced this about 2 months ago for about 2 weeks + suffice to say this sub will be my last for a long while. Rather go to swift and get reasonable service.

I don't see the point of Internet slower than 2G

tuta1:
Took the dive to MTN boss, immediately after that, sms and all started working, so my autorenew kicked in. Now I have my 30k and 10tb lol.

You won't receive calls from it but you can dial and make calls from it , check balance, both ways work 775 and *888* free 20sms,from above image u can see I've just used 1sms, loading MTN Sim via MTN recharge card, Visa via vip route. Below image is both of them, using 10tb to surf on MTN lol.

Tuta, after the mtn migration the bb still surf? Blow up my mail this man, no dey do like that

I've been doing 20kbps - 200kbps for 3 days now.

To say I am frustrated and disappointed is an understatement.

aril:
Please what is the apn for ntel after ticking static. I should I type ntel.com.ng

I want configure my 4G LTE wireless.

Thanks in advance

APN = Ntel

Nothing more or less

blackweaver:
never had to or tried to, I always use the wifi of the modem. Any reason why you're trying to do so?

Desktop at home. No WiFi. The USB WiFi I had is busted.

Read up some more about it. Seems its called a USB Ethernet connection. Not much by way of documentation

@blackweaver. Have you ever been able to.use a MiFi on Ubuntu via USB?

Can't seem to this spectranet version to work.

You know on windows its not exactly dialup. It works more like tethering. It doesnt have a dashboard. U just plug it in and it creates a virtual land.

Network manager actually detects it. I located some drivers for it and installed so it is detected.

USB modeswitch also installed and tried.

I think that because its not dial up network manager doesn't know what to do with it. Tried WVdial, no results.