Alternative Iburst Hardware

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Hi Everyone

I was wondering if there was any alternative hardware a person could use instead of the Iburst provided modems, surely linksys or dlink have somthing that could tap into the correct frequency ?

Just a thought and a peep to see if there may be a way to get around thier current huge hardware prices.
 
Unfortunately iBurst is not an ope ntechnology like ADSL, it's owned by Kyocera. They are, as far as I know the only manufacturers of the hardware. South Africa is also only one of two countries (Aus being the other) where it's been rolled out on a large scale.

http://global.kyocera.com/prdct/telecom/office/iburst/index.html

However, the cost of a USB modem in Aus is around R1500 (AU$300) Maybe you can get one from there?
 
Also keep in mind that Australia operates on a different frequency to us, therefore you cannot us their equipment here.
 
mm very interesting information, well perhaps in time there will be somthing :)
 
AFAIK

AUS iBurst UTD will work here with some modifications.

iBurst uses proprietary technology, the modems are single-source i.e. made in Japan. Unless that changes there will not likely be a second-source for iBurst hardware.
 
Out of curiosity - what the hell can you then do with the modem after the contract's over?? As far as I gather it will mostly be used as a doorstop?

BTW, like ur sig JTech.
 
well If you are like me and happy with Iburst keep going just a pity the voip is not good :) or else try bidorbuy :)
 
JTech said:
AFAIK

AUS iBurst UTD will work here with some modifications.
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Hmm, interesting. I wonder how iBurst would feel if someone started importing units.
 
They probably wouldnt feel to happy about it. Probably try sue you for some stupid reason, like competition or something.

Actually you could probably get away with it.. but I dont know if it will even be worth it after shipping and the modifications, its only R700 or so cheaper. Might work out a bit better i geuss.

And Canada also use a bit of Iburst right?
And its being rolled out in Kenya.. woohoo
 
well it will be a biatch to get your account going ...

when i bought my modem from Hi-Fi Corp i got told i have to sign a 12month contract with them .. so i told them to sell me the modem and stuff off ....

well this is where it got tricky .... :mad:

phoned iburst told them got the modem want to sign up ... :cool:

huge mistake i made was .... " ok sir where di you buy the modem from" ??

me: hi-fi corp ...
Them : hmmm :p have fun you have to sign up with them no-one else wanted to help me .... but luckly i got out of the 12month contract ...
 
hehe well thats new, obviously the seller makes some money on the monthly subs too and not just the equipment hence Iburst probably did not want to step on any toes.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
And its being rolled out in Kenya.. woohoo
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And the UTD and UTC have the same, cheaper price tag attached (+- R1750.00). Looks like they only have 2 packages avaliable though, but based on download speed, not usage. (+- R875.00 for a 128kbps connection p/m and +- R2196.00 for 256kbps connection p/m, and I quote "Flat rate for unlimited access").

Do those rates look reasonable for the speeds offered? They dont look too bad to me.
They also claim " Roaming: customers traveling to SA and Australia have option of using the service with the same equipment directly from their laptops."

Take a look
http://africaonline.com/infinet/index.html

They also have an interesting "Fair Usage Policy"
http://africaonline.com/infinet/Aficaonline_fairpolicy.pdf
 
That's why I went with a private reseller. Bought the modem and had them put me on a month-to-month. It was a Saturday and by the time I took delivery in Centurion and got home in Sandton everything was ready for me to use.

Hifi corp tried to stick me with a 24 monther. But I had done my homework.
 
Hmm, interesting. I wonder how iBurst would feel if someone started importing units.
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Probably the same thing that m-web tried to do to me 7 years ago when I created an unlocking firmware for their R99 big black box modems. They gave up eventually as they don't have the brains to argue against me.

What I did was I bought a Rockwell modem with an identical PC board from the States, made a copy of it's EPROM with an EPROM programmer, burned that into a blank chip and retrofitted it to big-black-box modem and voila, it works on any ISP.

First they tried to glue the chip to the board, all I did was desolder the EPROM's socket from the bottom and pulled the chip off with pliers, put new IC socket and off I went. Then they put potting compound on top of the EPROM which I then simply cut the chip off with a Dremel tool and replaced socket and put new chip. Eventually they just gave up!
 
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JTech said:
Probably the same thing that m-web tried to do to me 7 years ago when I created an unlocking firmware for their R99 big black box modems. They gave up eventually as they don't have the brains to argue against me.

What I did was I bought a Rockwell modem with an identical PC board from the States, made a copy of it's EPROM with an EPROM programmer, burned that into a blank chip and retrofitted it to big-black-box modem and voila, it works on any ISP.

First they tried to glue the chip to the board, all I did was desolder the EPROM's socket from the bottom and pulled the chip off with pliers, put new IC socket and off I went. Then they put potting compound on top of the EPROM which I then simply cut the chip off with a Dremel tool and replaced socket and put new chip. Eventually they just gave up!
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LOL. thast great JTech.. fighting those idiots... Ive always hated Mweb. I remember back in the day when *everyone* had those big black boxes. I had no idea they were locked to MWeb as a ISP.
Dirty stuff.. I geuss theres always been a problem for small ISP's, first Mweb tnow Telkom.
 
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