Sign up with GoogleMy letter to the Advertising Authority of SA - await reply
1)
http://www.iburst.co.za/default.aspx?link=iburst_technology
iBurst
iBurst technology is a wide-area mobile broadband technology offering a unique combination of high speed, wide range and high base station capacity.
As a result the iBurst network is able to provide data rates of up to 1 Mbps to each user with a maximum base station capacity of 20 Mbps.
2)
http://www.iburst.co.za/default.aspx?link=new_latest
Some 150 base stations now provide coverage to almost 45 000 subscribers nationwide
3)
http://www.iburst.co.za/default.aspx?link=new_latest_news&blogs=21
iBurst’s wireless broadband service, which will cost as little as 12 cents a megabyte from 1 April, is up to three times faster than 3G and 17 times faster than dial-up. iBurst’s most affordable package from April is “Play Intro” offering 200 megabytes of data at R149 per month.
Dear Sir
I reside mainly in Hong Kong and have owned a house in South Africa for more than seven years.
In Hong Kong we actually have 'high speed internet'.
I have a connection of 8 Mbps which includes three free channels of Now Broadband streaming TV so I can watch non stop movies on my TV through the broadband connection whilst using 4 Mbps for internet use , or without the streaming TV to use the full 8 Mbps. This costs R 230 a month and of course there is no ridiculous charge for bandwith use.
If I chose another provider, HK Broadband I can have 100 Mbps (yes one hundred Mbps ) connection for approx R 200 a month with no cap or 1 Gbps for R 1400 a month.
Of course no cap is applied to any broadband service in Asia or USA or UK etc .
Since Telkom here are a cartel unopposed and charge as they wish for a poor line I opted to use the iBurst system as being more cost effective for my situation where I visit SA 4-5 times a year.
I bought the iBurst modem and had a professional company come in and put an external aerial on my roof.
I always have 5 green lights showing a good connection. I live on a hill in Ferndale. Notwithstanding the iBurst network frequently drops out.
I frequently get up at 0430 to access my Hong Kong machines using GotomyPc - The download speed at that time of the morning over iBurst should one presumes be
maximum 'up to 1 Mbps' as in their claim. This is hogwash. I recently downloaded a file from a US Microsoft server (the same file I downloaded in Hong kong at a true 8 Mbps zipped onto the computer in no time - the same file here showed a download speed that dropped to 12 kbps - the best I have ever had hovered around 36 kbps.
I am talking download from high speed servers at a time when few people will be using the iBurst system.
This week listening to 94.7 radio , iBurst is still advertising speeds of up to 1 Mbps. This is misleading and untruthful and impossible to achieve.
I refer to the iBurst website links above.
Item 1) states 'up to 1 Mbps to each user with a maximum base station capacity of 20 Mbps'. That means to obtain this mythical speed rate only 20 users at a time can be logged on to the base station. At 0430 in the morning still I can get no more than 90 kbps dropping within seconds to 30 - 40 kbps.
Item 2) states they have 45,000 subscribers using 150 base stations.- the maths equates to an average of 300 users per base station. Obviously some areas like Randburg will have far more than 300 users logged into a base station.
In any case, 300 users (if all logged in) sharing 20 mbps equates to 66 kbps if the system is working at maximum efficiency which of course it cannot be giving signal and atmospheric deflections etc. This is barely ISDN speed. This is not 'high speed broadband'.
I read that iBurst caps the speed at 46 kbps during the day - how can they possibly claim to be a broadband connection at that type of speed ?
Item 3) is flagrant misleading advertising. "is up to three times faster than 3G and 17 times faster than dial-up."
I see no difference from speed on iBurst to when I formerly used dialup to Imaginet.
This is not a broadband service and should not be advertised as such.
Yours faithfully,
1)
http://www.iburst.co.za/default.aspx?link=iburst_technology
iBurst
iBurst technology is a wide-area mobile broadband technology offering a unique combination of high speed, wide range and high base station capacity.
As a result the iBurst network is able to provide data rates of up to 1 Mbps to each user with a maximum base station capacity of 20 Mbps.
2)
http://www.iburst.co.za/default.aspx?link=new_latest
Some 150 base stations now provide coverage to almost 45 000 subscribers nationwide
3)
http://www.iburst.co.za/default.aspx?link=new_latest_news&blogs=21
iBurst’s wireless broadband service, which will cost as little as 12 cents a megabyte from 1 April, is up to three times faster than 3G and 17 times faster than dial-up. iBurst’s most affordable package from April is “Play Intro” offering 200 megabytes of data at R149 per month.
Dear Sir
I reside mainly in Hong Kong and have owned a house in South Africa for more than seven years.
In Hong Kong we actually have 'high speed internet'.
I have a connection of 8 Mbps which includes three free channels of Now Broadband streaming TV so I can watch non stop movies on my TV through the broadband connection whilst using 4 Mbps for internet use , or without the streaming TV to use the full 8 Mbps. This costs R 230 a month and of course there is no ridiculous charge for bandwith use.
If I chose another provider, HK Broadband I can have 100 Mbps (yes one hundred Mbps ) connection for approx R 200 a month with no cap or 1 Gbps for R 1400 a month.
Of course no cap is applied to any broadband service in Asia or USA or UK etc .
Since Telkom here are a cartel unopposed and charge as they wish for a poor line I opted to use the iBurst system as being more cost effective for my situation where I visit SA 4-5 times a year.
I bought the iBurst modem and had a professional company come in and put an external aerial on my roof.
I always have 5 green lights showing a good connection. I live on a hill in Ferndale. Notwithstanding the iBurst network frequently drops out.
I frequently get up at 0430 to access my Hong Kong machines using GotomyPc - The download speed at that time of the morning over iBurst should one presumes be
maximum 'up to 1 Mbps' as in their claim. This is hogwash. I recently downloaded a file from a US Microsoft server (the same file I downloaded in Hong kong at a true 8 Mbps zipped onto the computer in no time - the same file here showed a download speed that dropped to 12 kbps - the best I have ever had hovered around 36 kbps.
I am talking download from high speed servers at a time when few people will be using the iBurst system.
This week listening to 94.7 radio , iBurst is still advertising speeds of up to 1 Mbps. This is misleading and untruthful and impossible to achieve.
I refer to the iBurst website links above.
Item 1) states 'up to 1 Mbps to each user with a maximum base station capacity of 20 Mbps'. That means to obtain this mythical speed rate only 20 users at a time can be logged on to the base station. At 0430 in the morning still I can get no more than 90 kbps dropping within seconds to 30 - 40 kbps.
Item 2) states they have 45,000 subscribers using 150 base stations.- the maths equates to an average of 300 users per base station. Obviously some areas like Randburg will have far more than 300 users logged into a base station.
In any case, 300 users (if all logged in) sharing 20 mbps equates to 66 kbps if the system is working at maximum efficiency which of course it cannot be giving signal and atmospheric deflections etc. This is barely ISDN speed. This is not 'high speed broadband'.
I read that iBurst caps the speed at 46 kbps during the day - how can they possibly claim to be a broadband connection at that type of speed ?
Item 3) is flagrant misleading advertising. "is up to three times faster than 3G and 17 times faster than dial-up."
I see no difference from speed on iBurst to when I formerly used dialup to Imaginet.
This is not a broadband service and should not be advertised as such.
Yours faithfully,
... its only right that iBurst pays to have a good forum like yours