Amobia/Aerosat wireless

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Census

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Anybody thinking of moving to or joining Amobia do so at their own peril for numerous reasons.
1 You will burn R2k for installation on something that will never work.
2 Their network is definitely oversubscribed.
3 They don’t really care about their customers.
4 Support is outsourced to Aerosat which is a bunch of clowns calling themselves “technical”
5 Aerosat staff will revert back to you ASAP, they never do.

Amobia is also involved with MWEB WIMAX, can somebody from MWEB confirm if their services are stable?
 
My 2c

The R3k installation is steep...
I was on their 3mbit uncapped beginning of Feb this year, connecting to Webb's DV2 hs.

Found the speed on uncapped intermittent & sporadic, the rolling window of 10GB over 3 days was too restrictive & I required a public IP to do nat with. So downgraded to the 1mbit / 1.5gb cap for R199. Using it for web & email. (Got unshaped uncapped dsl for the heavy traffic.)

Speed is great on the capped account:
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Haven't experienced downtime exceeding 1 hour since on uncapped & have always found their tech support friendly & they always got back to me.
 
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Census said:
Anybody thinking of moving to or joining Amobia do so at their own peril for numerous reasons.
1 You will burn R2k for installation on something that will never work.
2 Their network is definitely oversubscribed.
3 They don’t really care about their customers.
4 Support is outsourced to Aerosat which is a bunch of clowns calling themselves “technical”
5 Aerosat staff will revert back to you ASAP, they never do.

Amobia is also involved with MWEB WIMAX, can somebody from MWEB confirm if their services are stable?
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Thanks for this but what exactly are you basing these findings on? Would be useful to have some specifics on these assertions:
1... something that will never work? A common comment I've seen here has been about below par speeds and not really "doesn't work"...
2...definitely oversubscribed? what's network capacity versus number of subscribers?
3...customer care? ...ummm, did this level of service or lack thereof happen just to you or 1000's of other customers that you know of?

I'm not an Amobia advocate but there's a clear distinction between comments that should be on "HelloPeter" and a forum like BB, I suppose.
 
My connection with them isn't active untill the first of the month but so far thier customer service and time to reply to emails and questions has been quite good
 
Moe5508 said:
Thanks for this but what exactly are you basing these findings on? Would be useful to have some specifics on these assertions:
1... something that will never work? A common comment I've seen here has been about below par speeds and not really "doesn't work"...
2...definitely oversubscribed? what's network capacity versus number of subscribers?
3...customer care? ...ummm, did this level of service or lack thereof happen just to you or 1000's of other customers that you know of?

I'm not an Amobia advocate but there's a clear distinction between comments that should be on "HelloPeter" and a forum like BB, I suppose.
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1 - If you purchase an I7 processor and you get home and realize it’s an I5, I assume you will be happy and keep the I5 processor?
2 – Amobia cannot sustain their uncapped services, their suggestion will be moving your account to capped services.
3 – How do I know, are you implying it’s cool to even have one unhappy customer? All customers should be treated equal.

Not an Amobia advocate, an Amobia or Aerosat employee perhaps?
 
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Yeah, Amobia or AeroSat employee perhaps...back with more testimonials. A speedtest I ran on my set up early this evening. But seriously, am just another guy who's recently made the switch from Neotel Flex Data service to uncapped Wimax with Amobia and so far (day 1...) connectivity, speed etc look OK and perform not so shabbily compared to the advertised performance limit of 3Mb/s. Let's try some torrents and gaming next...
 
I'm confused. First everyone said that it's wifi and now everyone is saying Wimax. Can someone that knows for sure please confirm. If it is Wimax, then I will be moving over asap.
 
@SharkBait, didn't mean to be sarcastic at all. Sorry the tone of that "LMGTFY" doesn't quite come out right and actually comes out rudely I agree - apologies for that...I just like the animation though. Does Telkom still have their WiMax offering? Wonder how that compares to the Amobia service in terms of cost (initial and monthly) and packages...
 
NP dude.

Everyone says that the telkom wimax thing is a thing of the past. Even if you phone them. When I had it, costs where as follows for a 512 connection. Couldn't get anything slower or faster.

Telkom installation: R500 IIRC
Monthly: R240
You could use any ISP: Cheaperst ;)

Have a look around, I did have a thread here somewhere with speedtests and the lot, but that was a while back as well. Pings where pretty good, same as adsl and the weather didn't influence it at all.
 
Ive been with Amobia for more than a year and only been offline about 4 times and then for no longer than 2-3 hours. Im on the 3mb capped package and Im happy as can be with speeds etc. My latency has recently gone up a bit from 46 to around 72, but other than that, no issues. Money well spent imo. I recommend it to all my friends.
 
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