Telkom WiMax and Mweb uncapped

[doeppie01]

I have a quick question. Can I use say the Telkom WiMax 512kbps with Mweb uncapped 512kbps? That will cost me then R539.

[ciruis]

To my knowledge, i don't think so.

[doeppie01]

But on the telkom website they give you a option of a 1 gig you can use with the WiMax at like R79. Now that 1 gig is the same as the 1 gig for the normal ADSL line? Is Screamer then the only uncapped WiMax i can use??

[lemaC]

Yes , my setup is like that and it runs like a dream.

[Archie1]

To my knowledge I think you can.

[doeppie01]

Awesome thanks for the reply's. I guess because of the wireless the ping will be a bit high for online gaming?

[doeppie01]

Just spoke to a MWEB rep and she said it's not possible. Do these companies go look for the supidiest people to put behind a telephone??

[solo7]

lol

[lemaC]

I play BFBC2 every night and had no lagging problems at all, latency will be higher than on normal dsl but still work 100%, don't know if it might have an effect if there are more people in your area that connects to the base station.

[Playoff]

I play WOW on Screamer and no lagging problems either. In game latency to European servers is between 180 and 220.

You cant use a Telkom WiMAX connection and MWeb broadband but I don't know why you would want to?
A telkom 512 WiMAX connection will cost about R240 a month. Even if you were able to get MWeb 512 uncapped on this WiMAX line for R299 you would wind up paying R539 altogether monthly. And this is on a MWeb "uncapped" ADSL account that admits throttling on torrents and higher latency.

I pay R549 for my Screamer uncapped 512 WiMAX account with no throttling on peer to peer and low latency for gaming.

If you dont need uncapped then look at their capped packages which cost R23 per Gig as opposed to Telkoms R79/Gig

[lemaC]

@ Playoff
"You cant use a Telkom WiMAX connection and MWeb broadband but I don't know why you would want to?"
You can, my setup is like follow: Telkom 512 WiMax + linksys wrt54g(router) + MWeb 512 uncapped, it logs in like normal DSL.(PPPOE)

[diegoa]

Telkom Wimax is portable, so it is possible to use MWeb with it.

[Vin]

Good luck getting Telkom WiMax. Have a look at the other threads, Telkom does not do new WiMax installations any longer -- even though they still advertise it on their website.

[doeppie01]

'Coz Screamer costs R1600 for all the hardware. Telkom costs about R550. If they can't give me ADSL then they must atleast give me WiMax. 3g is too damn expensive!

[shearder]

I use Telkom wimax and Afrihost uncapped 512kb package and it works a dream!!

EDIT: No longer use AFrihost - they changed me to IS network and it sucked!! I am now with Openweb. I am finding speeds MUCH better.