Bandwidth versus HDD pricing

Just look at who is running this country and you will understand that corruption bribery etc is in order or just look further north same thing..... :confused:

Till they get rid of this fat cats and corrupt individuals nothing will change.
 
I've had 4Mb uncapped 'mistakes' once or twice, and seriously you run out of things to download. I suspect that uncapped fibre people download on demand, watch and delete. This way there is no abuse of uncapped and downloading constantly just because you want to get full value for money or 'rape' your ISP. Sigh, the things we have to do in this country and the terms invented just for our situation.
 
There's a guy in my area that started up an ISP for our suburb and he only charges R350 p/m uncapped. One of my friends got it already and i tested it, downloaded 80Mb in 2 minutes. Not bad at all for the price. way faster than the current telkom adsl i am using. So i guess for us in this area bandwidth is cheaper than hard drive storage space
 
It's probably cheaper to fly to London, buy an internet account and download to a hard disk than using currently available South African broadband (sic) services.

But then I expect this to be rectified once we reach the 19th century.
 
Fiza said:
There's a guy in my area that started up an ISP for our suburb and he only charges R350 p/m uncapped. One of my friends got it already and i tested it, downloaded 80Mb in 2 minutes. Not bad at all for the price. way faster than the current telkom adsl i am using. So i guess for us in this area bandwidth is cheaper than hard drive storage space
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Care to share how he is doing this?
 
bekdik said:
It's probably cheaper to fly to London, buy an internet account and download to a hard disk than using currently available South African broadband (sic) services.

But then I expect this to be rectified once we reach the 19th century.
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There was an article a few years back about how it would have been quicker and cheaper to fly to Hong Kong, download a 100GB worth of content (IIRC) on one of their highspeed connections, and fly back, than it would be to dl it from South Africa.

It doesn't seem like all that much has changed. :mad:

At the moment, the cheapest solution is to post a 1TB disk to a friend in the UK, let them do the downloading, and post it back. The latency is not fabulous, but if you have a few disks in the rotation, you can do reasonably well.

You do run the risk of the PO helping themselves, though. :eek:
 
If I can just interject something here. Overseas countries don't need oodles amount of space. If they want something they download it in like 5 min for a movie, then delete it after they are done.

In fact, anything they need, they download it, wait 3 min for it to finish, watch it, then delete it. They don't need to store anything because their speed is lightening fast compared to our snail paced on marijuana speeds.
 
Sharing through mobile devices is very known here...

At my school, every learner have cellphone with Bluetooth. One just download via dial-up and then redistribute to other learners by Bluetooth, and in turn, others do same thing.

As result, everyone have around 50-100 songs per phone device/card, updated regularly.
So, for learners lack of broadband is not problem, because there is other way around: collective downloading!


About movies...

Its better to buy original licensed DVD, it will be same price..
Even there are overseas companies that record disks with full required content (like TV series that are hard to find in a shop) and send to any point of world. Prices are fair compared to "broadband" ones...

In conclusion I can say that portable devices > "broadband" (aka narrowband).
 
The article presumes that everyone downloads and stores their own ' pirated ' goods be it software, music, or movies.

It's far more likely they find a source who has ' connections ' and visit him frequently with their usb portables.

or so I've heard.....:erm:
 
daveza said:
The article presumes that everyone downloads and stores their own ' pirated ' goods be it software, music, or movies.

It's far more likely they find a source who has ' connections ' and visit him frequently with their usb portables.

or so I've heard.....:erm:
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Also, it is popular to record to blank DVD, than using USB portables (cannot call 1TB, 3,5" HDD "portable"), using "Exchange Policy" i.e. they exchange recorded DVD copies (with different content).
 
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Fiza said:
There's a guy in my area that started up an ISP for our suburb and he only charges R350 p/m uncapped. One of my friends got it already and i tested it, downloaded 80Mb in 2 minutes. Not bad at all for the price. way faster than the current telkom adsl i am using. So i guess for us in this area bandwidth is cheaper than hard drive storage space
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I'd also love to know. Message and enlighten me.
 
RoganDawes said:
Care to share how he is doing this?
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im not exactly sure how he is doing it. But damn i dont care. It works, It's fast and it's very cheap so i'm not even going to ask. It's completely wireless internet, he just installs an antenna with a receiver or something like that and he has a massive antenna on his roof. And anyways he's only offering it to our suburb and i think the suburb next to us also.
 
Fiza said:
There's a guy in my area that started up an ISP for our suburb and he only charges R350 p/m uncapped. One of my friends got it already and i tested it, downloaded 80Mb in 2 minutes. Not bad at all for the price. way faster than the current telkom adsl i am using. So i guess for us in this area bandwidth is cheaper than hard drive storage space
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After this, I'm a bit confused.. 5Mbps? Wow. What he uses for backbone?

And this reminds me of my LO assignment I had wrote recently, where they wanted to see my example of entrepreneurship... I wrote that I can make kind of ISP for a suburb via wireless without limits for a cheap price... And now happens exactly what I wrote. :eek:
 
The speed of broadband services worldwide is increasing rapidly with the...
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Yappity yappity yap yap yap yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn.

FFS PLEASE tell us why this article is considered "relevant"...
 
Mean_Monster said:
Guys just keep in mind that not everybody that visits www.mybroadband.co.za are experts on the matter of telecoms in South Africa.

Staff Reporter might be reporting something that you are aware of, others out there in South Africa might think that R 200 a month for a 1GB connection via adsl, in other words 24/7 internet is cheap.

So I see these articles as education to the rest.
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+1

Have to agree with the unique SA mobile storage solution to sharing media content.

U see it everywhere these days between young and old, walked into a store in Canal Walk and saw they had a new film on a laptop. Asked the sales rep if he could copy it for me and in no time my segate was out and we were sharing. The price and hassle of downloading the film just did not make sense and he got 10 films.

Once we get our usage and connectivity speeds sorted out then cloud computing can become a reality.
 
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