10 Gbps broadband tested
Broadband speed boundaries pushed in latest XG-PON passive optical network system tests
Broadband speed boundaries pushed in latest XG-PON passive optical network system tests
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g-d-zilla
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SA Internet: A TOTAL RIP-OFF
What I want to know is why our costs are SO ENORMOUSLY HIGH when people in the UK get 8MBps line speeds at £16 (16 GBP) per month! That's R194.00 a month. Why are these service providers STEALING money from POOR South Africans making us all PAY through the necks for abysmal service?
What I want to know is why our costs are SO ENORMOUSLY HIGH when people in the UK get 8MBps line speeds at £16 (16 GBP) per month! That's R194.00 a month. Why are these service providers STEALING money from POOR South Africans making us all PAY through the necks for abysmal service?
What I want to know is why our costs are SO ENORMOUSLY HIGH when people in the UK get 8MBps line speeds at £16 (16 GBP) per month! That's R194.00 a month. Why are these service providers STEALING money from POOR South Africans making us all PAY through the necks for abysmal service?
errr, its been told over and over...Telkom owns the copper? Those wire thingies your internet works through?
oh, and the UK is a first world country that you CANNOT compare our country to.
ldmelsa
Executive Member
What I want to know is why our costs are SO ENORMOUSLY HIGH when people in the UK get 8MBps line speeds at £16 (16 GBP) per month! That's R194.00 a month. Why are these service providers STEALING money from POOR South Africans making us all PAY through the necks for abysmal service?
UK???
Do you have Google Earth? Use it to have a look at "why". Now, add to that the fact that they live on top of each other.
telecoms infrastructure per capita?
Lightscribe
Banned
So where do I sign up for a test account? 
So where do I sign up for a test account?
*waves arms like a chicken with mad cow sickness*
I wonder how much it would cost to make your own copper network to say..... SEACOM? XD
*looks at bank balence*
"Dad, can I borrow some cash?"
lol
Peering
Just remember that all the cost that we have to connect from SA to the UK is for OUR ACCOUNT. The ISP's in the UK probably don't pay interconnect fees to other counties, to use a Chuck Norris explanation, "We don't pay to connect to you, you pay to connect to us". Same deal with the US etc... I am not saying it is correct, it really frustrates the crap out of me, but it is the world we live in.
If we really wanted to piss them off there must a little data manipulation stating the following,
if the original source of the connection is not in SA, but in the UK, the max speed is 2 k/sec, else if original source is SA, and not the UK then unlimited, same counts for US etc,,,, but I think this might backfire on us....
What I want to know is why our costs are SO ENORMOUSLY HIGH when people in the UK get 8MBps line speeds at £16 (16 GBP) per month! That's R194.00 a month. Why are these service providers STEALING money from POOR South Africans making us all PAY through the necks for abysmal service?
Just remember that all the cost that we have to connect from SA to the UK is for OUR ACCOUNT. The ISP's in the UK probably don't pay interconnect fees to other counties, to use a Chuck Norris explanation, "We don't pay to connect to you, you pay to connect to us". Same deal with the US etc... I am not saying it is correct, it really frustrates the crap out of me, but it is the world we live in.
If we really wanted to piss them off there must a little data manipulation stating the following,
if the original source of the connection is not in SA, but in the UK, the max speed is 2 k/sec, else if original source is SA, and not the UK then unlimited, same counts for US etc,,,, but I think this might backfire on us....
