Yay or Nay?

[Skeletor]

Hello People

I was think of going from my current 4mb ODS connection and switching to the Neotel Prime Unlimited. My usage is about 150gb a month on average so I would like to know will neotel permit me to continue this usage?. Another issue is the online gaming side, I usually just play WoW so the ping wont mather but I do have the urge now and then to play some FPS's online (CSS, TF2, etc). Would you guys recommend the switch or rather go for a lets say an Openweb uncapped account. Im fed up with ODS's incompetency in regards to their accounts department

[matrixweb]

Hello People

I was think of going from my current 4mb ODS connection and switching to the Neotel Prime Unlimited. My usage is about 150gb a month on average so I would like to know will neotel permit me to continue this usage?. Another issue is the online gaming side, I usually just play WoW so the ping wont mather but I do have the urge now and then to play some FPS's online (CSS, TF2, etc). Would you guys recommend the switch or rather go for a lets say an Openweb uncapped account. Im fed up with ODS's incompetency in regards to their accounts department

unlimited === uncapped so yeah they should

[Keeper]

I usually just play WoW so the ping wont matter

really? ping doesn't matter in WoW? (Seriously, not sarcastic as I always am..)

[Vinaduro]

Hi Skeletor

I've had Neotel for about a month or so, and I'm rather irritated with them. I have the 10GB package with them, and here are the issues I have:
1. They can't tell you how much bandwidth you have used for the month.
2. You don't get a public IP address, i.e. you share an IP address with multiple users, so you can't do any of the following (when I enquired about this, their reply was, "we don't support that feature yet" so I asked them what 'feature' they were referring to, and they replied "the one you want to do".):
a. Run any type of server, like http, ftp, etc.
b. You can't telnet/ssh into your PC from a remote location.
c. You can't even request a DCC chat with a friend on IRC (although if they are not on neotel, they can initiate the DCC chat).
d. You will have problems with certain p2p applications.
3. The people in their call centre have no idea what's happening there.

I would recommend you wait until they have sorted all of their issues out, and then maybe look at moving over to them.

Take it from someone that learned the hard way.

[marine1]

Thanks for the information Vinaduro

[chubster]

Hi Keeper

I've had Neotel for about a month or so, and I'm rather irritated with them. I have the 10GB package with them, and here are the issues I have:
1. They can't tell you how much bandwidth you have used for the month.
2. You don't get a public IP address, i.e. you share an IP address with multiple users, so you can't do any of the following (when I enquired about this, their reply was, "we don't support that feature yet" so I asked them what 'feature' they were referring to, and they replied "the one you want to do".):
a. Run any type of server, like http, ftp, etc.
b. You can't telnet/ssh into your PC from a remote location.
c. You can't even request a DCC chat with a friend on IRC (although if they are not on neotel, they can initiate the DCC chat).
d. You will have problems with certain p2p applications.
3. The people in their call centre have no idea what's happening there.

I would recommend you wait until they have sorted all of their issues out, and then maybe look at moving over to them.

Take it from someone that learned the hard way.

That is odd, since other people reported to recieve a public IP address. Which means you can host your own apps/p2p.

Why it appears to be "blocked" remains to be seen.

[Johand]

1) Nay - no ethernet device.
2) Nay - coverage not up to par yet.
3) Nay - 24 month contract only.
4) Nay - technology doesn't really cater for voice and data at the same time
5) Nay - technology has absolutely horrible latency
6) Nay - no idea what throughput is going to be when user base go up.
7) Yay - not telkom


Uhm... I'd wait until they give better packages, better coverage, cancellation options and ethernet devices. Maybe. I doubt that my Wii will work decently even if they give an ethernet/WiFi device due to latency.

[Migs]

c. You can't even request a DCC chat with a friend on IRC (although if they are not on neotel, they can initiate the DCC chat).

So that means DCC File download is out of the question as well?



d. You will have problems with certain p2p applications.

Torrents as well? could you list which p2p apps you had problems with?