I am just about to connect to this provider which seems to be a subsidiary of Liquid Telkom. They have faiba, Wimax and VSAT options. I have chosen the Wimax Home package dubbed HaiMax which has 5mbps and 10mbps plans.
I would like views from villagers who use the provider, or have heard of someone. How is their quality of service. Do they deliver on their promise?[ATTACH=full]296896[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]296897[/ATTACH]
Wimax is easily affected by weather. I would prefer fibre
Faiba haijafika kwa village, no option. Telkom walinipa home plan ile ya 4k a month. They say you get 6GB a day at full speed then 10 at 1mbps and 10 at 512kbps.
Was interested in the 6 part, but they consistently throttle down without hitting the daily quota and do not reset at midnight as promised. Nimechoka kucontact customer care kila saa ni kama naomba
But I used Wimax about 10yrs ago when Zuku still had it, so can live with it. It doesn’t rain everyday in Nakuru
Utateseka sana. Those guys are so unreliable…I had to switch to safaricom home fiber…
Ukiweka hai tupatie update. I’m also in a remote area kule fibre haijafika and I’ve been considering hai wimax 5/10mbps.
Brian, more on this please. What location, which plan. What was the experience daytime and night time. You can use figures here (I paid for X and consistently got X daytime and X night time.)
Hiws
How’s wimax-a p2p connection from the client’s radio to the BTS - affected by weather? Ama unafikiria it works like VSAT ? wacha mchezo kijana.
That’s cool, You can try Wimax then. I was also considering Hai at some point before https://expressdata.co.ke/ laid fibre in my neighbourhood
This was my package back then, it was 2018. “Your PesaPal payment of KES. 4,499.00 to Hai Telecommunication Limited has COMPLETED. Confirmation code: MEV4OYC9GO. www.pesapal.com”. I think That was 10 or 20mbps, I’m not quite sure. They claimed it was dedicated, but would really go very slow, especially during the night. Their customer care was also very unreliable…
Hmm, I am the impatient type with slow internet. Maybe eventually I will end up with Safcom bundles. Was using faiba 4g then when the stay at home campaign started their speeds fell overnight. Switched to telkom but they are thieves consistently keeping me at 1mbps punda ameshoka. I think if hai can give me even 3-4mbps consistently I can let it slide. Subscribed to their 10mbps package. Waiting for them to come install
If only I had a friend in town and setup a point to point long range wifi and make the faiba connection to their home:rolleyes: work from home ni ngumu in the village
I changed to Safaricom Home Fiber and I surely can’t complain a thing. Whenever I travel upcountry, Safaricom bundles are ever reliable. With a Postpay of 1000 bob per month, I get 400 minutes and 5GB, which I have never exhausted!!
Let the technicians come and do a survey first. Being wimax, it would depend on distance from a transmitting station and presence of obstacles. They can measure the signal strength and maybe also recommend elevating your antennae for best reception.
If signal is good, start off with the 5mbps package and only upgrade if you consistently get your full bandwidth.
I am using hai. Mashinani you won’t get 5mbps but 2mbps. But the 2mbps is fast enough if you are near their base station.
You’re speaking about the 5mbps package right? Because I chose 10mbps. That would make it roughly 50% of advertised speeds. I guess I could live with it, I don’t have many options at this point. But Safaricom is making serious inroads where I live, I wouldn’t be surprised they’re at my door step before end of year
I mean unless you are around nrbi, the highest you can get away from Nairobi is 2mbps
Chukua Safaricom unlimited 4G for home. Am sure you are not so remote. But the thing has an external antenna to boost net. Its 3,999 per month for 3Mbps DEDICATED. Key word is dedicated. This is not a shared link.
Wimax reception is actually affected by the weather .i once worked as tech support for iwayafrica and they had wimax clients all over westy, Loresho, Parklands sides na whenever it rained the pandres those sides would give us an earfull of punjabi dross.
during good weather days tho, you could consistently hit 1 mbps download for their cheapest package which retailed @ 10k monthly . think safcom waliaribu hiyo market yao na FTTH .
For rural internet , l’d recommend KDN think they have an arrangement with safcom where they backhaul on the fiber in the base stations in your locality and then provide you with an antenna on your rooftop .Not sure about the cost implementations tho
Is it really unlimited? I gave up on getting truly unlimited wireless Internet from the mobile network operators.
Also what happens when out if 4g coverage, does it falls back to hspa+
It is truly unlimited. Unfortunately it works with LTE 4G only. If out of coverage it wont work. But it has an external antenna for clear reception. I used to stay in a remote area before with 2 bars of 4G network. And it was working fine. Now am back to Nrb, it had to be mapped again but its stable even without external antenna.
Telkom wako na WiMax? Na offer ziko aje?