{"id":781,"date":"2012-03-29T20:43:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2012-03-29T20:45:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T17:45:38","slug":"utl-3g-a-painful-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"UTL 3G \u2013 A painful experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been testing 3G-based Internet access provided by Uganda Telecom.  The test locations were in the Northern suburbs of Kampala.  My experience with this connection type was not a good one.  Here is why.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on your location, the 3G signal is very weak.  Typical strengths range anywhere form 0 to 19%.<br \/>\nThe 3G signal seems to degrade through out the day and by 1 pm, the signal goes off.  I was able to get the assistance of an engineer, when ever that was the case, however, after 7pm the connection would fail completely.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet connection when successful is painfully slow. So much slow that it feels like your are using a GPRS\/2G connection.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been told that this service by UTL will improve in the future, but for now, I would discourage anyone who wants to use a mobile 3G connection from this ISP.  <\/p>\n<p>While the UTL service is unlimited per month and at a competitive rate of 80,000\/= (Uganda shillings), it is not worth the trouble.  <\/p>\n<p>Save your self the trouble and look at alternatives like Orange Uganda.   Next I will see how the service from Orange and the other providers is like.  <\/p>\n<p>If yoou have any experience with UTL, and other ISPs, please share your experience in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been testing 3G-based Internet access provided by Uganda Telecom. The test locations were in the Northern suburbs of Kampala. My experience with this connection type was not a good one. Here is why. Depending on your location, the 3G signal is very weak. Typical strengths range anywhere form 0 to 19%. The 3G [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}