Opinions - Fastest Dial-up ISP in SA?

[MaD]

Provider: @lantic
Price: R75/month unlimited
Time: Saturday awie, 3:30+pm
From: Blouberg (CT)

Ping statistics for 155.239.157.254:
Packets: Sent = 6961, Received = 6961, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 91ms, Maximum = 246ms, Average = 145ms

I download just over 200 megs a nite mon-thurs, and just over a gig on weekends.. for 75 beans that's awright ;) That totals round 7 gigs a month.. I don't know where Telkom got the DSL story wrong but hey if you have patience dialup is allright with R7 call [:)] I average round 5.2KB/s anytime (international) even if only connected at 48kbps.

Provider: MWeb
Price: R135/month
Time: Saturday awie, 4-ish pm
From: Blouberg (CT)

Ping statistics for 155.239.157.254:
Packets: Sent = 5671, Received = 5608, Lost = 63 (1% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 241ms, Maximum = <u>18246ms</u>, Average = 2945ms

Ummmm... ja.. thank the heavens it's my old man's account not mine [:D]

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Just imagine where SA would be now if it weren't for Telkom

[TheRabbi]

Mweb ISDN is the fastest. It used to be UUNET corporate dial-ups until they switched over to SAIX POPS.

@lantic is just a SAIX reseller, like most other ISP's. (@lantics support sucks.)

[MaD]

I've always thought MWeb is very slow.. I download the same file from the same place with @lantic and then MWeb - @lantic 5+ KB/s, MWeb maybe 2KB/s if i'm lucky. They're overloaded, everyone uses them because they've been around longer than the rest... but the newer ISP's are faster IMHO, especially 56k dial-up.

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Just imagine where SA would be now if it weren't for Telkom