Wi-Tribe’s Account Portal Troublesome :Day 10

One thing I’ve become aware of is that the wi-tribe portal where you can check your usage history is down most of the time. 9 times out of 10 you won’t be able to access it. That’s one thing the Witribe will have to work on and resolve as soon as possible and the reason for that is that your consumption stacks up so soon for some inexplicable reason that if you’re kept in the dark for too long courtesy the non-working portal, you would go overboard pretty soon.


And that’s one of the fallacies of the wimax technology. You cannot keep it switched on all day as I’ve done a couple of times, because when you do that, the data keeps getting accumulated in your account until pretty soon you have reached the limit. In nine days I had been reported to use up 2.3GB of my 5 GB limit although I had hardly downloaded any mammoth or even watched streaming videos. The most I had downloaded was 700mb and tested the streaming quality by checking just a couple of videos on youtube. The same goes for the rest of the family members who for the most part just focus on Facebook, and I have serious doubts about facebook being a big data chucker.

What we have been guilty of is keeping the device on even when we weren’t really using it. The conclusion is that wimax in Pakistan hasn’t reached the level where you can keep it on all the time or to download to your heart’s content.

It is very much similar to the dial-up system where you only switch on the modem when you need to do something. Otherwise you keep it shut lest it costs you money. In other words it’s a glorified form of dial-up where the speed is not that bad, however the inconsistency of dial-up is present in wimax as well. Or maybe it’s just in witribe and the rest of the brands – infinity, wateen and qubee are consistent.