pjvandyk
New Member
I have done some reading on international internet access satellite solutions. There are a few companies providing solutions specificly for africa on the C-BAND. The equipment is quite expensive, for the earth station, 1.8 meter dish and 5W BUC you would pay round about R40 000. For the montly internet access you would pay R3221.76 for the 512k/128k link. These speeds are guarenteed and your internet service will either be connected directly on the us backbone or the european backbone. A few of the companies I checked out were based in Manhatten New York and the internet service hooked up there. Quality of service are compared with ADSL services in the states and europe.
(If you use Sentech VSAT your internet service will be connected in Johannesburg, so maybe this is great for local bandwidth and you still have bad international bandwidth)
So this means you skip the SAT-3 cable, which is our international bandwidth bottleneck.
Most of these sollutions are based on iDirect technology, which means you get crisp and snappy response times. Not the same as Sentech's VSAT which is based on older technology.
Now you might say whoa this sound very expensive especially the equipment!
For 128k diginet connection with telkom you pay more or less R11 000 per month and
for 512k diginet connection you pay more or less R46 000 per month. Thats a ripoff!
And then you still sit with the SAT-3 cable between you and the world.
A few companies can say share equipment and have their own accounts with the solutions provider.
Maybe this is the way to go in the future.
Alot of other african countries use these services.
PJ
(If you use Sentech VSAT your internet service will be connected in Johannesburg, so maybe this is great for local bandwidth and you still have bad international bandwidth)
So this means you skip the SAT-3 cable, which is our international bandwidth bottleneck.
Most of these sollutions are based on iDirect technology, which means you get crisp and snappy response times. Not the same as Sentech's VSAT which is based on older technology.
Now you might say whoa this sound very expensive especially the equipment!
For 128k diginet connection with telkom you pay more or less R11 000 per month and
for 512k diginet connection you pay more or less R46 000 per month. Thats a ripoff!
And then you still sit with the SAT-3 cable between you and the world.
A few companies can say share equipment and have their own accounts with the solutions provider.
Maybe this is the way to go in the future.
Alot of other african countries use these services.
PJ