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[Hark3n]

I drastically need advice in choosing a speed as well as an ISP for my ADSL needs.

My needs is as follows:
Moderate surfing
Weekly Upgrades (Linux User)
Occasional p2p and gaming

I have no idea in what usage class I would fall.

I tried the wireless route, but that did not work.

Currently I'm back on dail-up.

Any advice would be welcome.

BTW. I live in Brackenfell, Cape Town

 

[mancombseepgood]

Adsl

ADSL 384 with unshaped Verizon R99 per 1gb... just IMO.
Speak to Alan at Vanilla - www.vanilla.co.za (they are based in CT)
month to month accounts with options to burst to higher bandwidths throughout the month if required.

 

[Hark3n]

I've been looking at Helkom's ISP price-list and Cybersmart looks like the cheapest. Can anyone comment on thier service?

 

[Boodles]

ADSL 384 with unshaped Verizon R99 per 1gb... just IMO.
Speak to Alan at Vanilla - www.vanilla.co.za (they are based in CT)
month to month accounts with options to burst to higher bandwidths throughout the month if required.

OMG - I think i might know this Alan guy. I knew the owner of that domain and his name was Alan and he used it for exaclty what it says, 'vanilla'. But now i see its internet services.

Oh, and he's a pom.

Onepostwonder, can you clarify this?

 

[Paul_S]

I've been looking at Helkom's ISP price-list and Cybersmart looks like the cheapest. Can anyone comment on thier service?

I've been with Cybersmart for 3 months and had no problems.
There have been a couple of times that something was down (like an e-mail server) but they fix things fast. The other times it was Telkom infrastructure (like ESRs down).
Speed is fine too (maxes out line) on local and international.

 

[mancombseepgood]

Lol

OMG - I think i might know this Alan guy. I knew the owner of that domain and his name was Alan and he used it for exaclty what it says, 'vanilla'. But now i see its internet services.

Oh, and he's a pom.

Onepostwonder, can you clarify this?

No, but his phone number is there... whats the vanilla comment - sorry but i don't get it... based in the waterfront

 

[Vampir0]

I've been looking at Helkom's ISP price-list and Cybersmart looks like the cheapest. Can anyone comment on thier service?

I've been with Cybersmart for about 3 months now and had no problems (except once right at the beginning, but that’s sorted quickly). I use a 3Gb Cybersmart account for normal browsing and a 30Gb Local only account from Openweb for my torrents and local browsing. And I'm very happy with both of them.

I also have an @lantic 1 Gig account for backup...just incase

 

[hatfield]

I am with Openweb and their service is brilliant!

I also have a TelkomInternet account which is ok considering from where it comes.