How to choose the broadband internet option perfect for you

I dont have a choice - as far as broadband is concerned it's ADSL or its nothing.
 
"Speed is not an important consideration"

who the hell lied to them...
 
The author was wearing very dark glasses when he "researched" this article, IMNSHO. Although he mentiones iBurst, he restricts wireless pricing to R600 for 1GB cap. We all know you can get G3 for that price (modem not incl.). Then he goes on to mumble about a few other things before saying his choice would be Telkom ADSL.

There is no easy way to decide which is best for you. All sorts of factors must be taken into account before making that decision.

I'll stop ranting now. :)
 
What the author is trying to say is do your homework on the different options before signing the 24 month contract for a service that cost a gazillion rand a month and only works kind off for 5 minutes a day.
 
stretching 1GB

A handy calculation has been done by iBurst, with a gigabyte you can browse over 30 000 standard web pages, or download 2 000 mp3 music files or send 150 000 e-mails (without bulky attachments)
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Don't know what MP3 those are, but at ½MB per MP3 - not much! :confused:
 
Howcome if the ISP's are now selling Local cap seperately (or should I rather say seperate account needed) don't they pull their fingers out their a$$e$ and differentiate between local and international bandwidth? They are SO capable of doing it!!!!!!!!!

BUT they're just like telscum...where there's money to be made...shaft the consumer. I look at x-sdl's offering of a IS ADSL package. What use is 27Gig local cap for me (even though I can play games then) if my wife can't use the connection to browse international once that is used up?!?!?!?:mad:

The ISP's, IMHO, are just as bad as telscum...if you're able to differentiate between local and international once my 3Gig is used you're able to do so from word GO!!!!! SO DO IT!!!!
 
and what the hell is this R437 charge for? o and what about the instalation charge? eh?
 
carudden said:
Don't know what MP3 those are, but at ½MB per MP3 - not much! :confused:
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Some moron someone added an extra zero in... at 5mb an mp3, it takes only 200 mp3's to use 1gb...

200/2000 it's all the same when u use Telkom mathematics! ;) The folk at iBurst should know better than to trust the green and blue actuaries! Unless it was intentional...:rolleyes:
 
Chavez said:
The ISP's, IMHO, are just as bad as telscum...if you're able to differentiate between local and international once my 3Gig is used you're able to do so from word GO!!!!! SO DO IT!!!!
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Will someone from one of the ISP's please explain either why this is not possible or why they are shafting us?

Is there perhaps an explanation somewhere on MyADSL w.r.t. this?
 
Raithlin said:
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There is no easy way to decide which is best for you. All sorts of factors must be taken into account before making that decision.

I'll stop ranting now. :)
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I agree that it isn't an easy decision to make, but there are many broadband converts that have tried applying for ADSL, and after months of waiting for Telkodemonopolies to get its act together, simply end up going wireless anyways. If you want broadband now [as in ASAP], then ADSL is in many cases a waste of time waiting for it to be 'installed' or more accurately 'activated' on an existing telephone line, if you don't even have an existing telephone line then you're probably going to struggle even more to get ADSL...

If one goes for HSDPA, then the same HSDPA modem [PCMCIA data card or USB] can work with either a Vodacom or MTN sim card, although Vodacom still hasn't released pre-paid data bundles [PPDBs], and MTN's coverage is not as widespread as Vodacom's. If one goes for either Sentech's MyWireless or iBurst, then you're stuck with a proprietary modem that doesn't work on any other broadband network.

Regardless of whether it's wired or wireless broadband that one gets, the best advice is not to get tied into a contract - at least you can change your mind later on and get something else.
 
ic said:
If one goes for HSDPA, then the same HSDPA modem [PCMCIA data card or USB] can work with either a Vodacom or MTN sim card, although Vodacom still hasn't released pre-paid data bundles [PPDBs], and MTN's coverage is not as widespread as Vodacom's. If one goes for either Sentech's MyWireless or iBurst, then you're stuck with a proprietary modem that doesn't work on any other broadband network.
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I'm in that situation with Sentech right now since they castrated their only good product. I'm wondering how far i can throw that modem...:D

luckily my ADSL installation is IMMINENT :rolleyes:
 
I was shocked when I read this thinking that RPM wrote it. Mostly becasue he used those Iburst "what you can do with a gig" figures.

But the rest isnt too bad, who does really care about speed that much over 384 kb? Have you ever surfed on 384, its still fast enough, by far. Especially when you could get capped on that connection in a day or two with 3 gigs.

His wireless reviews didnt really help Iburst much, mostly because he quoted 1 gig as usually costing R600, which is more than Iburst's price for 3 gigs, or the same price as 3 gigs with the modem bundled. He also talked about activation costs which they dont charge at all.

Oh, and about that modem which doesnt work for any other service, well.. show me the hundreds of ADSL networks you could connect to if Telkom ADSL doesnt serve you too well and wireless would be better? The SNO wil be one next year some time, and probably the only other for a few years..
 
GiBi_Wan said:
tell me about it... and only 384 is supported on my exchange (wanted to upgreade to "up to" 4M... :(
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That doesnt sound right - are you sure it's not because you're just too far from the exchange?
 
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Ekhaatvensters said:
..., who does really care about speed that much over 384 kb? Have you ever surfed on 384, its still fast enough, by far. Especially when you could get capped on that connection in a day or two with 3 gigs.
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:confused: ummm maybe you only use your connection for surfing, and maybe you only have one PC connected up to whatever broadband device you use, but some of us use broadband [such as it is|isn't in SA] for more than just browsing and with more than just one PC|notebook connected and generating traffic at the same time, so having more than 384kbits/s is essential depending on one's circumstances.
 
Pro-Helkom

Well don't intend to move to Centurion. They dont even have phone lines. lol!. Faster? Stable?. :p . Copper cable is old technology. :D
 
ic said:
:confused: ummm maybe you only use your connection for surfing, and maybe you only have one PC connected up to whatever broadband device you use, but some of us use broadband [such as it is|isn't in SA] for more than just browsing and with more than just one PC|notebook connected and generating traffic at the same time, so having more than 384kbits/s is essential depending on one's circumstances.
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Yep I have 3 PC's connected, now optimally for that I would want 4mb or higher, yes, so that when one PC's pulls a http download it cant suck all of the bandwidth. I get you, but I was more talking about in the context of the article, where he says unless you want to stream video etc.. so I kind of included any special case where you might need more speed. I just mean that for one PC 384kb really is enough, DSL384 is speedy...

I know more that one PC isnt a very special cercumstance... silly of me. I am usually the one saying the same thing as you when peole say they dont care about the speed upgrades Telkom gives.
 
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