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  1. Rouxenator

    Welgevonden getting VDSL

    After having no capacity on ADSL round about the middle of the year things returned to normal a month ago. Recently it seems Telkom has a nice little weekend project going. Every weekend, Saturday and Sunday, we have Telkom technicians working on a new install. Someone in our estate asked them...
  2. N

    adsl price help

    I need help to research of the cost of installing a new adsl line , I do have an existing pre paid line but I don't want to lose the billing system I'm on because I pay rental per year (the waya waya system ) can anybody advise me as to which is the cheapest ISP to provide adsl with rental for...
  3. C

    Official Crystal Web ADSL performance feedback thread Part 2...

    Finally, a thread where we get to own the first post. :D This thread is intended for customers to interact directly with Crystal Web management about the performance of the ADSL network and to post feedback about the performance of the network and accounts. Numerous new types of accounts will...
  4. Kevin Lancaster

    Top 10 broadband countries

    Top 10 broadband countries The number of fixed broadband lines globally pushed through the 700 million mark for the first time in Q2 2014
  5. T

    So I am using an 8ta Telkom stick and experiencing google chrome location problems

    What happens is, that I stay in Gauteng right. But when I put in the 8ta sim-card/"USB stick" into my computer the internet location goes to DURBAN, KZN, CAPE TOWN and even Centurion........of which latter is a place in Gauteng but not in the area where I stay. I stay near Pretoria, but not...
  6. Kevin Lancaster

    High-speed broadband against moral standards: religious leader

    High-speed broadband against moral standards: religious leader One of Iran’s highest clerical authorities has stated that high-speed and 3G Internet is “against Sharia” and “against moral standards”
  7. Rouxenator

    Amobia is Awesome!

    While my second time with Amobia started out a bit shaky with a rather long waiting period for the install it turns our they have really upped their game. Any time, night or day, week or weekend, I can email them with any connectivity issue I have and they will call me back. I have never had...
  8. Kevin Lancaster

    SA Internet users are suffering

    South Africans: victims of Internet apartheid South Africans are suffering because of a lack of locally hosted services by big international firms, writes Ronald Bartels
  9. N

    What happened to uncapped cellular broadband?

    I was payimg R300 for uncapped wireless broadband, then my contract expired and mtn informed me that they are no longer offering uncapped wireless broadband, I now have to fork out R300 for only 2gigs of data a month...this is a joke...and why isn't the competition commissioner addressing this?
  10. Kevin Lancaster

    Telkom's broadband plan

    Telkom’s integrated broadband plan To successfully achieve leadership in broadband, Telkom has developed an integrated broadband plan
  11. Kevin Lancaster

    SA's broadband prices and your reasons to be angry

    Why you can be (a little) angry about SA’s broadband prices South Africa’s entry level broadband prices are not bad, but local consumers are still paying too much for relatively slow speeds
  12. Kevin Lancaster

    Make your house more valuable with broadband

    How to easily increase your home’s value People are willing to pay significantly more for houses in areas offering very fast internet speeds
  13. QuintonB

    Thebumpy road to open-access mobile networks

    Open-access wholesale mobile networks can’t guarantee success The path to establishing and operating an open-access, wholesale-only LTE-based wireless network is problematic
  14. Kevin Lancaster

    Latest worldwide Fibre vs DSL stats

    Fibre versus DSL: worldwide broadband stats Point Topic sheds light on the take-up of fixed broadband services at a country and technology level across the globe
  15. Kevin Lancaster

    Move away from mobile broadband: minister

    Beware over-reliance on mobile broadband: minister Telecommunications and Postal Services minister Siyabonga Cwele says South Africa must move away from an over-reliance on mobile broadband
  16. Kevin Lancaster

    World record broadband speeds achieved over copper

    World record broadband speed of 10Gbps using copper Alcatel-Lucent sets new world record broadband speed of 10Gbps for transmission of data over traditional copper telephone lines
  17. Kevin Lancaster

    100% Internet connectivity promised by government

    Government’s silly promise of 100% broadband Gauteng premier David Makhura has promised 100% Internet connectivity in the province, but in reality it means very little
  18. G

    Internet speeds in Bergvliet. Can this really be due to a congested exchange?

    Greetings, Ever since the Telkom upgrades earlier this year, my internet experience has suffered. I used to play Battlefield 4 on my 4mbps uncapped Afrihost account last year but I have since downgraded to a 2mbps capped account in the hope of improving my internet but I am unable to play even...
  19. N

    EW wisp in Cape Town

    I am scanning good signals toward Tygerberg Hill/Plattekloof in Cape Town for ssid's: EW-05 Sector tv, EW-07 Sector Good, EW-08 Sector Mill Anyone know which wisp this is or have contact details please?
  20. V

    Reality Check - SA vs Netherlands

    CAUTION: Depression may follow. So my brother lives in the Netherlands and his 100 Mbps line (cable bundle, with telephone and digital tv, unshaped and uncapped @ ~€65) just got upgraded for free to 180(!) Mbps recently. Puts SA ISPs' recent free upgrades from 1Mbps to 4, 4 to 10, etc. into...
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