Sentech/Nowire dead, now what?
With the garbage dump finally shutting down, what can I do with my modem?
Can I use it to connect to another ISP, or is it just dead weight? Maybe use it to toss at some scum sucking helkom,eks'dom etc. employee?
Maybe a coaster or what?
What options do I have, other than emigrating?
I am in the same boat. I enquired today about getting adsl because there is no telkom3G and I dont trust notel further than I can throw them and iburst's accounts department has scared me away forever. I suspect nowire will want their modem back in its original box with the original receipt. Oddly enough I have had no notification from them about the closing of mywi. I wonder if they know?
I survived MyWireless and lived to tell the tale.
Ideas for old Sentech modemsOriginally Posted by GimmeGigs
- Use it as a night light
- Keep it in your car to fend off hijackers
- Open it up and salvage the components. Sell the lead to a scrap metal plant
- Buy some high site equipment that will inevitably be flogged for 20 cents and create your own network
- Sell them on eBay to unsuspecting people
- Door stop
- Chock for your car tire
- Light it on fire, pee on it, tie it to a brick and throw it into Sentech's window
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With the garbage dump finally shutting down, what can I do with my modem?
Can I use it to connect to another ISP, or is it just dead weight? Maybe use it to toss at some scum sucking helkom,eks'dom etc. employee?
Maybe a coaster or what?
What options do I have, other than emigrating?Okay, this is my "I told you so":
This is the fundamental reason why wireless does NOT work in this country. You need to buy your equipment upfront Or sign a costly 24 month contract. Then the provider sells you THEIR bandwidth to you, leaving you no choice. That's basically going (taking Telkom example) :
Here's a phone line with ADSL, but you're only allowed to use TelkomInternet, nothing else.
If I were you guys I would look into getting Telkom Wimax. Telkom Wimax allowes you the choice of bandwidth provider (Axxess, Web Africa, Mweb or whoever provides ADSL lines)
They have no upfront modem costs (other than the installation fee) and even though it's only 512k, reacts exactly like an ADSL line. It terminates into their ADSL network so you know you will get bandwidth and not some point to point jump between towers to a hub that doesn't have enough bandwidth allocated.
There's no "here, you would need a special static IP address to play your favorite online games" because guess what, to the world you'll be on an ADSL line. You have a DSLAM for yourself (like a normal line) everything.
And it's only R240! Add onto an Uncapped IS Express account for R899. You'll have 512k uncapped for just over R1000. With more than decent speeds for online gaming or whatever you need without having to pay the phone line rental.
Also. NO CONTRACTS. It's month to month.
OhGats, if only you could connect directly to GimmeGigs with your sentech modem!
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ach I grew very attached to my modem, I even gave it a name "Old squeaky". The pair of us have downloaded our 10G per month for nearly 4 years. When I moved house I was connected immediately, I did not have to apply for a line or sit sans connection for weeks. Twas truly plug and play. My problem is I live in rental accomodation and getting telephone lines is a major pain because you never know if you will actually get a line or not. Sigh...
"wat se jy ou squeaky?? wat nou? ou Piet en ou Joe?"
en ou squeaky se niks...
Wimax... let me see what sez telkom... I heard you can only get it if there is no copper to your premises. There is copper accoridng to ye olde telkom shoppe.
I survived MyWireless and lived to tell the tale.
Nope, there was a line running to my place (where I had ADSL previously) which I canceled back then. I applied for Wimax and got it, no conditions.
But apparently they have no stock of Wimax equipment?
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They're so frackin useless, don't worry, they'll want squat from you. What do do with my dish...?
"One man can make a difference..."
Try and pawn it for scrap perhaps. Maybe join the JAWUG/PTAWUG while you have some sort of signal booster (although, you'd have to spend some cash in getting a router again specially for their network)
This is the exact reason why I advise AGAINST wireless:
a) You have to purchase the modem/router/wireless equipment outright or be locked in a 24 month contract
b) If the signal isn't strong enough they don't want to cover so you require to spend more in additional equipment just to get a decent lock on a tower.
c) You buy bandwidth (or get bandwidth) they provide, so it's not independent like with Telkom ADSL (or Telkom Wimax) where you can choose who your ISP is.
d) Once they fold and fall, they leave you holding useless equipment and without an internet connection
Ja ,wish I knew about this 3 years ago, still stuck with a modem I paid R2000 for, gonna be come an expensive paper weight now.
Project Reality is not for the masses, this has a much higher learning curve then your classic arcade game.Real men play Project Reality.Can you?
Just make sure you give the following a miss:
1) If they ask you to sign a 24 month contract
2) If they ask you to purchase equipment upfront to access their system because you opted not to sign a 24 month contract
3) They're the provider of the connection AND the bandwidth
If you avoid those things then you'll be fine in future.
I was in Hifi Corp today and they were selling MyWi modems at their computer dept, when I told the salesperson that they were selling paperweights he was shocked and had no idea that MyWi had min dae. sigh... I still dont know what I am gonna do. Telkom Wimax is a no brainer where I live.
I survived MyWireless and lived to tell the tale.
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