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Kai

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Hello All.

I currently have Mywireless, and would like to move over to ADSL - capped is better than nothing... right?

Which company would you guys say is the best in pricing/service as an ISP?

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I'm counting down myself....

I've been told the M-WEB option with 9GB is not a bad option to look at.
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As i keep saying prices are all the same, pretty much, why don't u support our fellow myADSL'ers. ODS, you see the ad every day. Plus they offer uncapped ADSL if you need and a big plus soon will be offering UNcapped and UNshaped. www.ods.co.za

There is no peace without war!!!
 
yep. so far ODS seems to be tops. they get their bandwidth from Tiscali, which is where I wanted to join originally... so I reckon I'll go with them...

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All ISP's that offer ADSL goes through SAIX am I not correct?

Sentech, 99% downtime guarunteed!
 
yes and no. Most do but the isp's add a few treats and whistles with the package. As far as i know Data Pro uses there own bandwidth and as i understand from the post from Dean, ODS will soon be using there own.

There is no peace without war!!!
 
"We are launching a new product, Uncapped Unshapped ADSL, The ADSL will terminate in the USA via VPN connecions we have to our server in the states, the services will inititaly be a 1:5 user ratio on 512k and then will increase, If you are intrested, Please email me." -Dean Henstock www.ods.co.za



There is no peace without war!!!
 
I have 3 Internet Solutions 3 gig accounts and the other day got an Mweb 3 gig account as well. One thing i can say is that for some reason the mweb account is waayyy slower than using my IS accounts. During most of the day, the speeds are pretty bad, compared to my IS accounts which always seem uncongested. On mweb reactontime on browsing is slow, and testing yesterday i only got average of 20kb/s from local ftp servers. That just plain stinks!
 
Flururo
Mweb probably have a higher contention ratio than IS, so you're probably sharing your bandwidth with more users on your MWeb acc. than your IS acc.


Telkom - South Africa's Handbrake to progress.
 
Whoops
Just read another post which informs us that all contention ratios are the same no matter which ISP u use, so ignore my useless previous post and start headbutting your monitor during periods of slowness like the rest of us [:D]

Telkom - South Africa's Handbrake to progress.
 
I'm with MWeb on a 6 gig package. My speeds seem OK. Browsing is quick, but with a slight delay and most downloads come down at full tonk.
Only during the day do I notice that browsing is impaired, but not always either.

3gig R329
6gig R539
9gig R739


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I'm also probably joining Kai and most of the other MyWireless users in looking towards ADSL. One requirement I have picked up in my recent experiences, is that there be no contract.

Does ODS require a long term contract? Difficult to see from their website.
 
Be warned -
With shaping - Telkom or any other ADSL (All are controlled Telkom anyway) (IS will compete later) - as i was saying - with shaping, when you are merrily playing a game or streaming video/audio, if somebody else requests html, your network packets will be interrupted until their requests are fulfilled.
Therefore, ADSL is no good at all for services that require a constant stream of data. Otherwise - browsing, email - its fantastic.

The more you know - the worse it gets.
 
That's a gross oversimplification of protocol shaping, and for most realtime applications (especially those that are local) you should see almost zero impact on performance and responsiveness.
 
It is truly sickening. I've done the maths before but reading it again guuurrrrr.
A 30GB account here is R3970 against about R300 in UK. And R300 gets you 1MBps.And no shaping.
SA Connectivity is doomed. The brain drain will accelerate. IT okes are wasting their lives here.

I'm off to vomit over my Telkom William.
 
I just got back from 7 years in the Netherlands. And starting to cry... Had a ADSL line there, with 1.5Mbps downstream, 640kbps upstream, no shaping, no cap, <i>and the speed was guaranteed!</i> All that for R800. Just the link to the US was sometimes slow.

So why am I back? Well... better weather makes waiting for the connection bearable!



Et tu, Brute?
 
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