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So Airtel called me this evening. They said they saw that I subscribed and wanted to ask about my experience.

I was ambivalent. They have been good in my location lately, but I didn't want to praise them because they may start misbehaving after that. Anyway, I told them the truth. I told the agent that their service in my location has significantly improved. I also told them about how abysmal the network becomes immediately I step out.

Finally, and more importantly, I warned them that any iota of reduction of quality service from them will prompt me to swiftly dump them for MTNN.

They thanked me and promised to keep improving. I interrupted when they asked me to not hesitate to call them if I witness any problems, by telling them that I won't call, I will just explore alternatives.

Here is hoping they keep their words as I kept mine by doing 3 months sub on sustained quality service.

Abkid:
you are not getting me bro the huwaei variant comes with physical sim so no need for welcome back and for the mtn welcome back only wahab has done that. Not to talk of price 7,500 different if not that i alternate between ODU SIM, I would still save more when I do the 3 months or 6 months plans.

Okay, I didn’t know Airtel has the type with physical sim as the last time I went they stopped giving that one out, my friends who went after too were able to get only the eSIM, also for the price different the cap and noncapped makes up for it especially for people who use more than 1tb and don’t want throttling, also the fact that you can now use it via MIFI is good, 3 people here have successfully done it that I’ve seen.

michlins:
most times, what you are watching is upscaling and not really 4k especially on two phones

once o insert the sim into my zlt when I get home
I usually get 120mbps plus before it drop to 65 mbps only when am mobile that when I use the Mifi
Airtel is fucking so good where I am

michlins:
most times, what you are watching is upscaling and not really 4k especially on two phones

Netflix on phone is limited to FHD seff not 4K

dustmalik:
You're not getting value for your money at this speed. I would be very angry if this is the speed I was getting. You paid for a 50Mbps plan, but not getting up to 2/5th of the speed.

By the way, Netflix, Prime and the rest of them reduce the quality of your streams so that you can use that slow connection to stream the so-called 4K streams on their platform. What you are streaming is not 4K. It's a compressed/lossy video quality.

I only get that on the Mifi once am home and the sim get to my Odu I get 120mbps plus so when am mobile and I’m getting 18-25mbps while still being unlimited it’s over worth it bro

Abkid:
I only get that on the Mifi once am home and the sim get to my Odu I get 120mbps plus so when am mobile and I’m getting 18-25mbps while still being unlimited it’s over worth it bro

Lol when you start hitting 1TB and FUP kick in you go hate Airtel i have been there before

dustmalik:
This is why I stick to MTN. I can't be streaming and be worrying about my data getting slowed down due to FUP. It's more expensive, but you're getting more value.

I thought MTN is 800gb FUP on their ODU?

Airtel and MTN are both suddenly poor in my location in Ibadan. In fact, it sometimes seems like they share masts.

Elxandre:
Airtel and MTN are both suddenly poor in my location in Ibadan. In fact, it sometimes seems like they share masts.

I used to use MTNN unlimited broadband bundle which was capped at 150GB. After you hit 150GB, they will give you 5GB daily until the period (30 days) expires.

When it was good, it worked very well. But I experienced so many downtimes. I was not a heavy data user that time as well.

My data usage increased while NCC allowed the ISPs to increase the data prices. MTNN reduced the daily data allocation to 2GB, and, I think, increased the price. I became quite frustrated. I then started subbing 200GB capped. The advantage of this one was that I could roll it over with small broadband sub if I didn't finish it in the 30 day period.

The summary is that all these networks have the ability and willingness to frustrate. We just hope they do the right thing of rendering the services we pay for.

NSEstudent:
So Airtel called me this evening. They said they saw that I subscribed and wanted to ask about my experience.

I was ambivalent. They have been good in my location lately, but I didn't want to praise them because they may start misbehaving after that. Anyway, I told them the truth. I told the agent that their service in my location has significantly improved. I also told them about how abysmal the network becomes immediately I step out.

Finally, and more importantly, I warned them that any iota of reduction of quality service from them will prompt me to swiftly dump them for MTNN.

They thanked me and promised to keep improving. I interrupted when they asked me to not hesitate to call them if I witness any problems, by telling them that I won't call, I will just explore alternatives.

Here is hoping they keep their words as I kept mine by doing 3 months sub on sustained quality service.

they called me couple of days ago and asked why I no longer subscribe to their data. I told them how terrible my experience has been. They said they will come pick up their device, I told them to be fast about it

Elxandre:
I thought MTN is 800gb FUP on their ODU?

No. I used almost 2TB last month and over 3TB the month before. It's unlimited with no FUP, as far as i know.

morikee:
Netflix on phone is limited to FHD seff not 4K

The truth is that 4k on Netflix is trash. Prime and other streaming services have a better 4k than Netflix.

michlins:
they called me couple of days ago and asked why I no longer subscribe to their data. I told them how terrible my experience has been. They said they will come pick up their device, I told them to be fast about it

Come pick up their device? Lol

They used to call me any time I hesitated to sub.

dustmalik:
No. I used almost 2TB last month and over 3TB the month before. It's unlimited with no FUP, as far as i know.

Moving the Airtel ODU sim won't let me do the counting of data usage. Some people did say theirs isn't capped but I guess we'd never know for sure.

dustmalik:
No. I used almost 2TB last month and over 3TB the month before. It's unlimited with no FUP, as far as i know.

which tier do you use boss?
The 100Mbps for 45k?

Elxandre:
which tier do you use boss?
The 100Mbps for 45k?

30k for 50Mbps

NSEstudent:
Moving the Airtel ODU sim won't let me do the counting of data usage. Some people did say theirs isn't capped but I guess we'd never know for sure.

I tested Airtel ODU for 2 straight months and at both times my speed was capped at 2Mbps after using exactly 1TB.

dustmalik:
I tested Airtel ODU for 2 straight months and at both times my speed was capped at 2Mbps after using exactly 1TB.

Other people's testimonies corroborate your experience as well. But some others say they used 3TB without speed reduction on this thread as well.

NSEstudent:
Moving the Airtel ODU sim won't let me do the counting of data usage. Some people did say theirs isn't capped but I guess we'd never know for sure.

it's capped

NSEstudent:
Go to settings then extensions. Click the search icon at the top right corner and type the name of the extension you want.

I think I'm getting something wrong because this is what I'm seeing here

epoxide:
I think I'm getting something wrong because this is what I'm seeing here

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epoxide:
I think I'm getting something wrong because this is what I'm seeing here

Make sure to install megarepo extension before u search. To do this, click on add extension, ignore the first line and go on to the second line and just put megarepo, search and install. Make sure to press the download button by its side after adding it.

dustmalik:
No. I used almost 2TB last month and over 3TB the month before. It's unlimited with no FUP, as far as i know.

What exactly do you do to amass that kind of data usage. I'm just wondering why

Mykcool:
Add these extensions; PlayzTV, PlayfyTV, Cricfy and any other sports extension you fancy.

I have tinkered with all these free options, including match streaming apps, websites, and this cloudstream and I can categorically tell you that Sports stream add-on on Stremio/nuvio is heads and shoulders above the rest.

TNT sports FHD on CRICfy with cloudstream pales in comparison to same TNT FHD on Sports stream on Stremio. Maybe using BlueStacks emulator with cloudstream is a contributing factor to the poorer quality but that notwithstanding, sports stream add-on still Trumps it.

dustmalik:
I tested Airtel ODU for 2 straight months and at both times my speed was capped at 2Mbps after using exactly 1TB.

Same here not even once and i always complain about that the worst thing be say even your latency will be affected when they throttle you

Hullabaloon:
I have tinkered with all these free options, including match streaming apps, websites, and this cloudstream and I can categorically tell you that Sports stream add-on on Stremio/nuvio is heads and shoulders above the rest.

TNT sports FHD on CRICfy with cloudstream pales in comparison to same TNT FHD on Sports stream on Stremio. Maybe using BlueStacks emulator with cloudstream is a contributing factor to the poorer quality but that notwithstanding, sports stream add-on still Trumps it.

how do I install this Sports stream add-on on nuvio?

I like as Apple TV is now available in Nigeria and it's part of your iCloud subscription

Meklex:
how do I install this Sports stream add-on on nuvio?

Just Google sports stream addon nuvio reddit. You will see multiple reddit threads on it

One hack I noticed for Airtel. When streaming match at night and it starts buffering a lot, a simple rebooting the IDU often fixes it. Did it yesterday with Chelsea vs Brentford match

Hullabaloon:
One hack I noticed for Airtel. When streaming match at night and it starts buffering a lot, a simple rebooting the IDU often fixes it. Did it yesterday with Chelsea vs Brentford match

Did that yesterday but it didn’t really help. Funny part is that I’m getting 50Mbps but watching live match on IPTV keeps buffering. Please what more tweaks can I do on my Airtel ODU to boost its performance

Keepinmahcul:
Did that yesterday but it didn’t really help. Funny part is that I’m getting 50Mbps but watching live match on IPTV keeps buffering. Please what more tweaks can I do on my Airtel ODU to boost its performance

If truly you're getting 50mbps and streaming still buffers, then your IPTV source is at fault.

Debroslink:
If truly you're getting 50mbps and streaming still buffers, then your IPTV source is at fault.

Exactly what I wanted to say. From experience some streams and sources can be very problematic