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GreatBigMouth

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My iBurst contract is finally nearing expiry date and I've decided to make the switch to ADSL. I can't figure out what would be the best package though. I download a lot, and would probably need about 10GB Intl bandwidth per month. Which ISP and which package is the most cost effective and value for money right now?
 
Axxess:
Axxess 10GB - R599
Axxess 4096/512kbps - R359
= R958

(Axxess is really easy, if you run out of cap, you can still browse their site, then you can top up at R59/GB)

Telkom:
3GB/30GB - R239
DoBroadband 4096/512kbps + 3GB/30GB - R554 (Price set to rise)
= R793

There might be better packages? I don't know...
 
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Is there a budget?

I'd get DoBroadband3 (R520 odd) - 4Mbit line + 3GB TelkomInternet account (which tends to give you 6GB and over ;)) and then a 10GB SAIX account with WebAfrica* for about R500 (can't get exact price as WebAfrica site is down atm).

Your 3GB TI account would give you 30GB local bandwidth once the international cap has been reached.

* There are numerous other ISPs which offer good prices on 10GB accounts, I just prefer WebAfrica. :)
 
The TI accounts are rather good value wise, even if you are only after the local bandwidth. Other than that SAINET has rather good prices. Do not forget the once-off R99 activation fee though.
1 GB - R49
2 GB - R79
3 GB - R139
4 GB - R189
6 GB - R249
10 GB - R449
 
What about Openweb? Apparently they have VPN accounts for 10GB Intl and 10GB local at R349pm? Are they any good?
 
Nexus have 10GB (+10GB local) for 549 - unshaped after hours..
Also some nice topup packages
 
Is there anyway around that 3Gint + 30Gb local. What i mean is it will only use local after all your international is finished. Cant you get them to run independently?
 
AR_GTR said:
Is there anyway around that 3Gint + 30Gb local. What i mean is it will only use local after all your international is finished. Cant you get them to run independently?
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Nope, you need two separate accounts for that - one international, one local.
 
WebAfrica's good and their price on a 10GB account (R490) isn't bad, one of the cheapest.
 
dionb said:
Nexus have 10GB (+10GB local) for 549 - unshaped after hours..
Also some nice topup packages
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+1. IS Fibre Semi-shaped works much faster for international downloading than SAIX shaped does (according to my testing - see link in my signature), but (from what I hear) not during business hours (when the bandwidth is shaped). After doing my testing, I was completely convinced that IS Fibre Semi-shaped was the way to go and I have since cancelled my SAIX shaped accounts.
 
How does the OpenBrowse service work? Since you can transfer Intl HTTP traffic with it, won't you be able to download using HTTP as well?
 
GreatBigMouth said:
How does the OpenBrowse service work? Since you can transfer Intl HTTP traffic with it, won't you be able to download using HTTP as well?
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Yep, it would be great if OpenWeb was clear about how their service worked. Fortunately, I pointed out the ambiguity surrounding it a little while back and was informed by knowledgable forumites who know how it works: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=123457#13 (follow the replies to that post).
 
 
ld13 said:
It seems quite clear to me...

http://www.openweb.co.za/openbrowse.php
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Well, it is not detailed enough for me. If you are interested, see the post (#13) that I linked to for what I needed clarification on.

In summary, I can understand that VOIP won't work and they say so. But they say "will gladly transfer any HTTP/HTTPS traffic for you", and then "will not transfer ... and can't be used for downloading, streaming..." which is a contradiction. File downloads, and 'streaming' - assuming they are referring to streaming videos from YouTube, are HTTP/HTTPS traffic (but I see now that they probably mean streaming straight to Windows Media Player, etc. rather than streaming videos within your browser which are usually just FLVs/Flash). They could clarify file downloads as those from FTP sites, usenet, etc. instead of implying that one would not be able to download files from sites like download.com or softpedia.com, which, as it turns out, is what they (apparently) disallow: you are not able to download executables, etc.

I don't think its too much to ask them to clarify common questions like those that I had.
 
ld13 said:
It seems quite clear to me...
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No, it's not.

There are no limitations on browsing, and OpenRouter will gladly transfer any HTTP/HTTPS traffic for you!
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Here they state that all HTTP traffic will be transferred.

Please note that OpenBrowse will not transfer any other protocols, and cant be used for downloading, streaming, Voip, etc.
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Here they state that you can't download anything. Let's say you want to download a file from FileHippo or similair website. That counts as HTTP traffic, which "will gladly be transferred", but it also counts as downloading.

So no, they are not too clear about how this service actually works. ;)
 
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