Sunday, September 02, 2012

Orange 3G Internet Everywhere settings

After the nasty experience with Airtel last week, where I bough a weekly unlimited bundle for Ksh 750 and never got to enjoy Internet due to a technical hitch, I decided to purchase the Orange 3G Internet Everywhere modem.

It can be pretty frustrating when you start experiencing EDGE speeds, especially when the signal strength is pretty good where I reside. This almost led me to dialling up the Customer Care to ask the reason for the low speeds that never exceeded 100 kbps, till when I decided to do a Google search.

A very helpful hint came from Wazua.co.ke, and it is interesting to note that Orange is selling modems with a key parameter that affects adversely the Internet speeds experienced by its uses. Apparently its dial up parameter reads by default as *99#, which if changed to *99***1# automatically connects you on HSPA+, and enjoy speeds in the range of 1-2 mbps. Its better than being on EDGE, and am pragmatic enough I can never enjoy anything beyond 7.2 mbps, leave alone 21 mbps or the newly announced new speeds of up to 42 mbps.

The key setting are as below:

APN:bew.orange.co.ke
Access number *99***1#

2 comments:

  1. Well that idea doesn't work my friend and you must be lucky that your modem did manage speeds of up-to 100kbps. I practically threw their modem away due to a speed cap of 30kbps since the first day.

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  2. All service providers have modems that never work well, it's advisable to find out from users what their experience is for they're better suited to give advise than the service provider who's main objective is to make money.

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