CRUIZING THE WAVES WITH SENTECH

[ckleynhans]

I have been a while on MyADSL but today will be the first day that I got here on broadband. My Sentech MyWireless service is up and running but I still have a headache from the number of times that I lost my temper in the last few days. I don't care too much about ping times (latency) because I don't really got this for gaming. All I can say: "I am smooth sailing and it is good man!!!"[}:)] I think the biggest problem with Sentech is that they overcommitted themselves. They should have simulated their process first before they committed to 3 days after application. They have also made the mistake not to study their subcontractors properly. But I would give them a chance, we have waited long enough for release from the oppresing monopoly. Hope Sentech becomes part of the private sector soon. Would like to buy some shares when they do!

[ProAsm]

There are many changes coming soon.
Almost all gripes, suggestions, ideas, complaints and compliments have been noted and taken care of wherever possible.
I am positive the outcome will be to the satisfaction of everyone concerned.
Sorry but at this stage I cannot elaborate on any details.

[;)]

[AcidRaZor]

I signed up with 512k, why can't i get a static ip? [:(] i'm going to use this for my work too *sigh*

have to wait I guess, I dont really feel like paying any MORe for a feature like that anyway, after it has been said I would get a static IP with 512k, thats why I took the package...

now i'm just waiting for that lame ass courier company!

[ckleynhans]

Something I have said before about Telkom and ADSL still holds true. An "Always On" service with a static IP address is the key to a powerful economy. Lots of new possibilities reveal themselves. The most important is that every house can have one or more Webserver which can be accessable from outside at any time. Now this may sound ridiculous, who wants that in their houses? The truth is that there are webservers on the market that can fit in your pocket. They can be used in security systems, etc etc. and can be very useful to monitor from an internet cafe (with Mywireless from your own laptop) when you are on holiday or out of town. You can also switch the lights on and off and you may know when the power failed or tripped (bit difficult without power I admit). In any case, the point is that STATIC IP addresses are the key to many things and a webserver at home doesn't need to clog the whole network!

[flashvc]

IP blocks are also expensive, but yeah...

Maybe Sentech should provide a static IP package, and a NAT'd IP package where the latter is much cheaper, but you still get same speeds [:)]

getting around the dynamic IP isn't that difficult, esp for simple things like connecting to your web server at home, it becomes more difficult when you want to run your own SMTP server, and basically impossible if you want to run your own DNS server.

Check out services like http://www.dyndns.org/
They've come a long way and are offering quite a few services for dynamic IPs [:)]

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[ProAsm]

It would seem that when you guys think of a Dynamic IP, you immediately think of ADSL where your IP gets switched every 24 hrs, or ISDN or even Dialup Modem, where when you switch your PC off the ADSL/ISDN/56k modems disconnect.
The concept of a Dynamic IP with a wireless connection is very different to this and is almost as good as a Static IP and only those that already have the system will know what I'm talking about.
The wireless modem is an <b>always on</b> device, even when you switch your computer off, or even remove it from the room or what ever the modem remains connected.
As long as the modem is powered it is connected, so to retain the same IP all you need to do is make sure the modem is never switched off or go out of range, and for a base station that is a not difficult thing to do, even if the mains fails, the internal batteries will maintain power for about 2 hours.

[ckleynhans]

I agree that as long as everything goes well you should retain your IP address. The same can apply to ADSL if Telkom didn't deliberately apply a certain policy. The problem is that it isn't very practical to assume that the line will never fall. I had a few falls since I got online yesterday, some because my signal dropped and others apparently because the network dropped. Hopefully, this will be teething and will be stable later. The problem is that when you go on holiday you want reliability and an IP address that change unexpectedly doesn't guarantee that.

[AcidRaZor]

Thing is, I'm going to use the modem at my work PC during the day and my home pc during the night (or not at all at the work pc, depends)

Now, our live site only allows certain IP addresses to connect via terminal services and UNC... and I would need that if I start doing other contracts again, because driving from site to site is hectic on my car AND budget (30k service coming up again only after 3 months I made 17k on the poor thing)

[stevedavies]

Yeah - nice theory, ProAsm.

Except when your network and/or DHCP server(s) go down - when it comes back everyone gets different addresses.

With always on you need an IP address per user anyway, so why not just assign them statically for those who know to ask?

Steve

[AcidRaZor]

Added to my other post I mentioned this in...

If sentech is afraid of people hosting servers, who'd want a server who can only upstream at 128k in anycase? Right?

And for those of you with ADSL, most have their own exchange servers ANYWAY, so why not just give us the damn IP addresses and stop whining about how I'm going to rape you at CS with my l33t new wireless connection [:p] [:D]

[martin]

C'mon dude, the "l33t" was not necessary [:D]

[silversurfer]

l337!!!!11!!!1one!

[mithrandi]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">The concept of a Dynamic IP with a wireless connection is very different to this and is almost as good as a Static IP and only those that already have the system will know what I'm talking about.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
How is this "almost" as good as a Static IP? I can't think of any purpose involving static/dynamic IPs for which Sentech would work, but SAIX ADSL wouldn't; if the IP address changes, then you can't use it for things that require static IPs. Whether it changes every 24 hours, or every 24 days, doesn't really make all that much difference as far as I can see.

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[ProAsm]

I was only making a suggestion and the way it works will serve some purpose to many but not all.

[mithrandi]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> I was only making a suggestion and the way it works will serve some purpose to many but not all.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
That's quite all right, I think I came over a bit more aggressively than I intended. I'm still curious to know what these purpose(s) are, though; care to let me into your brain? [:D]

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