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hArTh

14-02-2004, 03:28 PM

Any possibility of posting the GPS coords of the Newlands tower?

Want to use a GIS package to see how far away form it I am :)

[:D] <- Me with MyWireless service (eventually)

ProAsm

14-02-2004, 05:43 PM

Newlands: 18.2800 East -33.5823 South [;)]

hArTh

14-02-2004, 09:14 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ProAsm
 Newlands: 18.2800 East -33.5823 South [;)]

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[}:)] <- Horns for the quick helpfull response.

[:X][:X][:X][:X][:X]

hArTh

14-02-2004, 09:27 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ProAsm
 Newlands: 18.2800 East -33.5823 South [;)]

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Dude I'm 2.856 km away from the Newlands tower as the mossie flies.

Good or bad? Will intervening building topography be an issue?

TIA

ProAsm

15-02-2004, 12:10 AM

Nope - you'll be ok - probably get about 3 bars signal which is more than good enuf [:)]

hArTh

15-02-2004, 08:40 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ProAsm
 Nope - you'll be ok - probably get about 3 bars signal which is more than good enuf [:)]

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[}:)] <- Double helping of horns
[}:)] <- Double helping of horns

Nickste

15-02-2004, 10:08 AM

Hey Harth!
Where about are you in Newlands? Cos i am also in da Newlands area, near Ravensberg to be excact. Where can i type in da GPS cords to see where the tower is?

Chow, Nick[:)]

Nick Smit
adsl@nicksmit.za.net

hArTh

15-02-2004, 10:44 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Nickste
 Hey Harth!
Where about are you in Newlands? Cos i am also in da Newlands area, near Ravensberg to be excact. Where can i type in da GPS cords to see where the tower is?

Chow, Nick[:)]

Nick Smit
adsl@nicksmit.za.net
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I'm in Mowbray actually so if you are in Newlands itself you should be fine.

I have a Garmin GPS map database which I used to check my distance.

Give me your street address and I'll give you your distance.

If you dont want to post it here, email me at harth19@hotmail.com

[}:)]

sybawoods

15-02-2004, 11:56 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by hArTh
I'm in Mowbray actually so if you are in Newlands itself you should be fine.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"> If I'm not mistaken, Mowbray may be closer to Salt River, where there will also be a Sentech tower. Best you check both [;)]

Andre

15-02-2004, 11:59 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ProAsm
 Newlands: 18.2800 East -33.5823 South [;)]
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Unless I'm missing something, I make that to be somewhere in the sea.

hArTh

15-02-2004, 12:08 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by sybawoods
 <blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by hArTh
I'm in Mowbray actually so if you are in Newlands itself you should be fine.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"> If I'm not mistaken, Mowbray may be closer to Salt River, where there will also be a Sentech tower. Best you check both [;)]
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Will check. Thanks Syba.

Amazing how the same bandwidth starved people hang around all the same sites [:o)]

hArTh

15-02-2004, 12:09 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Andre
 <blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ProAsm
 Newlands: 18.2800 East -33.5823 South [;)]
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Unless I'm missing something, I make that to be somewhere in the sea.
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Drop the minus on the South coord [;)]

hArTh

15-02-2004, 12:10 PM

ProAsm,

Could we have the coords of the Wynburg and Salt River towers ?

TIA

[}:)] <- If we get them
[V] <- If we don't

ProAsm

15-02-2004, 01:23 PM

Wynburg: 18.2815 E | 34.0014 S
Salt River: 18.2733 E | 33.5542 S
[:)]

BTTB

15-02-2004, 01:24 PM

Where does one find a list of these towers?

<hr noshade size="1">You can take Telkom out of the Post Office but you can't take the Post Office out of Telkom.

hArTh

15-02-2004, 03:05 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ProAsm
 Wynburg: 18.2815 E | 34.0014 S
Salt River: 18.2733 E | 33.5542 S
[:)]

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Haha ProAsm is a one-man customer-satisfaction-machine [8D]

I'm equi-distant from the Salt River and Newlands towers. 2.9 kms each way [B)]

Andre

15-02-2004, 05:46 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by hArTh
Drop the minus on the South coord [;)]
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I think I get it now. The coords are in degrees/minutes/seconds, but written as looking like decimal degrees.

hArTh

15-02-2004, 05:58 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Andre
 <blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by hArTh
Drop the minus on the South coord [;)]
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I think I get it now. The coords are in degrees/minutes/seconds, but written as looking like decimal degrees.

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[}:)] <- Some horns for you ...

freeek

15-02-2004, 10:35 PM

yo harth could you check mine 2. Im in rylands, ruth road

..- dot dot dash ;)

hArTh

15-02-2004, 11:34 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by freeek
 yo harth could you check mine 2. Im in rylands, ruth road

..- dot dot dash ;)
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You're 6 km from the Newlands and Wynburg towers.

Find me the GPS coords of a closer tower and I'll check for you again.

[}:)] <- Last set of horns for the night :snooze:

sybawoods

16-02-2004, 12:04 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by hArTh
Amazing how the same bandwidth starved people hang around all the same sites [:o)]
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"> Yup, like moths to a flame. Have some [}:)] [}:)] yourself

sybawoods

16-02-2004, 12:11 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by BTTBWhere does one find a list of these towers?
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In this thread >> http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1712

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Here is the actual phase 1 tower deployment for MyWireless. Please don't ask me for dates on when the towers will go live, and where other towers might be placed. I don't know.

Key:
- Operational tower
[+] - Installed, not yet operational
[P] - In Process of being installed

Johannesburg
Sentech Helderkruin
Sentech Tower
Sentech Fourways
Randburg Metro Centre
Northpark Plaza
Linksfield
Council Mineral Tech
Killarney
Hurlyvale
Marlboro
Bedfordview
[P] Hyde Park
[P] Horizon View
[P] Morningside
[P] Sandton City
[P] Woodmead
[P] Lonehill
[P] Allendale Road
[P] Bryanston CC
[P] Bez Valley
[P] Northcliff
[P] Floracliffe
[P] JHB Intl.
[P] Lyndhurst

Pretoria
[+] Kingsley Centre
[+] Kilner Park
[+] La Montagne
[+] Menlo Park
[+] Sunnyside
[P] Zita Park
[P] Elardus Park
[P] Lyttleton Manor
[P] Hennopspark
[P] Samrand

Durban
[+] Sentech Durban North
[+] Sentech The Bluff
[+] Sea Cow Lake
[+] Sunningdale
[+] Mal Park
[P] Melkhour road
[P] Rockford
[P] Bay of Plenty
[P] Umlazi
[P] Overport
[P] Chartwell

Cape Town
[P] Milnerton
[P] Durbanville
[P] Amanda glen
[P] Loevenstein
[P] Blouberg
[P] CTN Intl.
[P] Goodwood
[P] Salt River
[P] Wynberg
[P] Sea Point
[P] Newlands
[P] Parow North
[P] Camps bay
[P] Constantia
[P] IS<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

armitage

16-02-2004, 08:18 AM

all the ct towers are still being installed where as the durbs towers are running but not activated yet. how is sentech gonna b able to supply cape town with the launch date in just one month and apparently the beta testing hasnt even started here yet.[:(]

Proud South african rip offs.

hArTh

16-02-2004, 09:03 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by freeek
 yo harth could you check mine 2. Im in rylands, ruth road

..- dot dot dash ;)
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Looks like Cape Town International Airport tower would be best for you.

Proasm, Could you do the honours with the GPS coords? [:D]

[}:)] <- Early morning horns from the med school computer lab

ProAsm

17-02-2004, 12:32 AM

Oops - late night blues [:D]
18.3523 E | 33.5736 S

shark182

17-02-2004, 09:46 AM

Does anyone know if Tamboerskloof will be covered?
I can't seem to see a tower that looks like it'll cover the City Bowl area?

freeek

17-02-2004, 07:56 PM

"Looks like Cape Town International Airport tower would be best for you"

newlands is closer than cape town international to me. it's kewl im gonna go for another service.

..- dot dot dash ;)

TheRoDent

17-02-2004, 08:11 PM

How about ProAsm do us all a monster of a favour and list all the towers and their GPS coordinates? :)

Please? Pretty please? With sugar on top?

hArTh

17-02-2004, 08:39 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by TheRoDent
 How about ProAsm do us all a monster of a favour and list all the towers and their GPS coordinates? :)

Please? Pretty please? With sugar on top?

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ProAsm can't do that because Telkom will then use these: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/jdam.htm , on the towers.

They're GPS targeted ...

Once released, the bomb's INS/GPS will take over and guide the bomb to its target regardless of weather. Guidance is accomplished via the tight coupling of an accurate Global Positioning System (GPS) with a 3-axis Inertial Navigation System (INS).

Do never test Telkom.

Click here to see why: http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=41193

[}:)] <- Edit because I forgot to put some horns in my post

SpEYEder

17-02-2004, 09:09 PM

Anybody have any idea whether there'll be coverage in Newton Drive (Meadowridge/Bergvliet) in Cape Town? I saw there was mention of Two Towers (cliche by now - Sorry JRR) ie Wynberg and Constantia but I've no idea how far away they will be from my house - Any info would be greatly appreciated [^]

Keep yer EYEs open & Trust no-one!

Andre

17-02-2004, 11:04 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by SpEYEder
 Anybody have any idea whether there'll be coverage in Newton Drive (Meadowridge/Bergvliet) in Cape Town?
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Looks like you are about 4.3k's from the Wynberg tower.

SpEYEder

18-02-2004, 10:24 PM

Thanks Andre - I'll have to get my application in then (judging by what I've read in the forum they should have finished processing my app and got my modem to me by the time they switch on end o' March [;)])

Much appreciated for the hard work [}:)]

Keep yer EYEs open & Trust no-one!

wired

25-02-2004, 06:08 PM

Ok, so im a newbie in this forum...but I do know IT!

hArTh?? I see you helping some ppl here. Could you help me out to please?? Im in Cape Town, in Edgemead... in Wimbledon way. There are three towers near me 1. Milnerton 2. Goodwood 3. Parow North What the chances you can give me the rough distances from those towers to that road??

These are exciting times...I really wish this whole Sentech thing picks up...[:p]

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love

Strobemeister

26-02-2004, 10:13 PM

ProAsm
How bout a tower or 2 in Somerset West/Gordon's Bay area? C'mon, its a big, populated area, lotsa wealthy, bandwidth-hungry people around here. In fact, i'm the only poor person i know here. People are talking about it here, all the time. Towers, we want towers.
[:D]

ps. did i mention we want Towers?

Telkom - South Africa's Handbrake to progress.

ProAsm

27-02-2004, 12:27 AM

LOL @ Strobemeister [:D]

ggmeyer

01-03-2004, 01:20 PM

Have you tried
http://www.netcontacts.biz/coverage.asp

and

http://www.wo.co.za/products.html
Both do Wireless Broadband internet access in capetown!!???

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Strobemeister
 ProAsm
How bout a tower or 2 in Somerset West/Gordon's Bay area? C'mon, its a big, populated area, lotsa wealthy, bandwidth-hungry people around here. In fact, i'm the only poor person i know here. People are talking about it here, all the time. Towers, we want towers.
[:D]

ps. did i mention we want Towers?

Telkom - South Africa's Handbrake to progress.
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freeek

01-03-2004, 10:08 PM

and www.uninetwork.co.za but i recommend www.wo.co.za. I am currently on uninetwork but will be switching in the week! uninetwork was great untill they started offering more options. Now there are 2 many users on. Im on the R399 package, so basically i get the worst priority.

Wireless rocks, surfing is unreally fast.

..- dot dot dash ;)

silversurfer

02-03-2004, 09:50 AM

carefull, i was told they are they exact same company ;) will be funny if they are, and they charge u another setup cost.

freeek

02-03-2004, 04:46 PM

they not the same company. can't charge you another setup cost as it is installed. All they/you must do is point the device in the other direction

..- dot dot dash ;)

freeek

06-03-2004, 07:40 PM

funny thing, the mywireless patch antenae and the other wireless companies antanae's are exactly the same.

..- dot dot dash ;)

Cloud

07-03-2004, 10:56 PM

hmmm, didn't know bout these companies.

are they legal? what happens if i sign up and they shut down. will i be able to use their equipment to hook up to sentech?

this is tempting, since the 19th seems far away indeed and i am sick of only being able to browse the net after 7 during the week.

any info would be cool.

freeek

08-03-2004, 01:58 PM

email wireless online about your queries. He should answer them. You can use the hardware as a patch antenae and the wireless bridge for other purposes. If you stay near uct --> uninetwork. tableview,maitland,tigervalley, sea point --> wo

..- dot dot dash ;)