BitCo Consumer Review

BitCo said:
Hi Guys,

I will request some technical detail on the power consumption of the equipment and post this info for you so that you can work around the ongoing power problems.

All our high sites have battery backups and we have mobile generators on standby if we experience prolonged outages.

Mike
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As a possible reference I have an APC Back-UPS-RS 1500Gi (865W) + APC BR24BPG External Battery.

This gives me around 3 - 4 hours plus of up time without Eskom.
This maybe overkill however; I have capacity to run a microserver + LCD monitor. I completed the entire installation of the UPS in an hour - I had to modify a multi-plug bar to cater for the 2 pin plugs and also modify the PoE injector power cable to fit on the UPS.

If you need pictures...give me a shout.
 
Morning,
Is there anyway I can speed up the soaking of my connection. I really need the connection working, my soon to be gone ADSL has dropped again. It is now sitting at 576kbps
Ciao
 
MoRpHiN01 said:
Morning,
Is there anyway I can speed up the soaking of my connection. I really need the connection working, my soon to be gone ADSL has dropped again. It is now sitting at 576kbps
Ciao
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Hi Morphin01,

Can you PM me your real name so i can see how far your soak is and what i can do for you :-)

Mike
 
CriticalConsumer said:
As a possible reference I have an APC Back-UPS-RS 1500Gi (865W) + APC BR24BPG External Battery.

This gives me around 3 - 4 hours plus of up time without Eskom.
This maybe overkill however; I have capacity to run a microserver + LCD monitor. I completed the entire installation of the UPS in an hour - I had to modify a multi-plug bar to cater for the 2 pin plugs and also modify the PoE injector power cable to fit on the UPS.

If you need pictures...give me a shout.
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Thanks for the info, i am sure many users on this thread would appreciate it :-)

Mike
 
koeksGHT said:
Are you guys literally plugged into Google?

Tracing route to google.co.za [74.125.233.3]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 5 ms 4 ms 6 ms 154.127.-.-
3 4 ms 5 ms 4 ms google.jb1.napafrica.net [196.46.25.166]
4 5 ms 6 ms 5 ms 72.14.237.239
5 22 ms 7 ms 4 ms jnb01s07-in-f3.1e100.net [74.125.233.3]



Pinging google.co.za [74.125.233.3] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 74.125.233.3: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=60
Reply from 74.125.233.3: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=60
Reply from 74.125.233.3: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=60
Reply from 74.125.233.3: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=60
Reply from 74.125.233.3: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=60
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Hi KoeksGHT,

Yes you are correct we peer directly with Google :-)

We try to peer directly with as many providers as possible to achieve the lowest possible latency across our network

Mike
 
BitCo said:
Hi KoeksGHT,

Yes you are correct we peer directly with Google :-)

We try to peer directly with as many providers as possible to achieve the lowest possible latency across our network

Mike
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Couldn't be happier ;) Upgrading soon!

Any news on higher speed plans? Even capped?
 
koeksGHT said:
Couldn't be happier ;) Upgrading soon!

Any news on higher speed plans? Even capped?
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Hi KoeksGHT,

Glad to hear it :D

I don't think we would ever launch capped packages but we are definitely considering some higher speed options for 2015

We are still relatively new to the home broadband space so learning the market as we go along but we defiantly see the need for some higher speed packages next year :-)

Watch this space....

Mike
 
We are still relatively new to the home broadband space so learning the market as we go along but we defiantly see the need for some higher speed packages next year :-)
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defiantly - that's the spirit, Mike, shake the industry :-)
 
BitCo said:
Hi KoeksGHT,

Yes you are correct we peer directly with Google :-)

We try to peer directly with as many providers as possible to achieve the lowest possible latency across our network

Mike
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Hi Mike,

Any chance you can peer directly with WoW so that you guys can fix my latency issue... No?.. well then if your guys could just fix my latency issue that would be amazing. kthx
 
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BitCo said:
Hi Guys,

I will request some technical detail on the power consumption of the equipment and post this info for you so that you can work around the ongoing power problems.

All our high sites have battery backups and we have mobile generators on standby if we experience prolonged outages.

Mike
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Thanks

I work mainly from home, and it's a real PITA to get in the car and drive to work just because the power is out. Unfortunately 3G is not an option unless I move my desk to the street :)
 
I have been streaming HD content continuously without any issues recently...I can safely say this makes it best internet experience I have have ever experienced now :)
 
BitCo said:
Hi KoeksGHT,

Glad to hear it :D

I don't think we would ever launch capped packages but we are definitely considering some higher speed options for 2015

We are still relatively new to the home broadband space so learning the market as we go along but we defiantly see the need for some higher speed packages next year :-)

Watch this space....

Mike
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I would say higher speeds are a great idea but price would need to be looked at as well!
 
BitCo said:
Hi KoeksGHT,

Glad to hear it :D

I don't think we would ever launch capped packages but we are definitely considering some higher speed options for 2015

We are still relatively new to the home broadband space so learning the market as we go along but we defiantly see the need for some higher speed packages next year :-)

Watch this space....

Mike
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New link speeds incoming = awesome progress.
Price at which these speeds manifest themselves will have to be better than current pricing. Based on the current trend in FTTH and other wireless options available it would suggest that pricing of the current flagship product and everything below it would have to decrease.

Let's hope that this is taken into consideration when launching the new services.
As for my review on this WISP...I have never had such stable internet performing at the promised speeds. So well done team ;)
 
Garthvs / BitCo

Out of interest : What's BitCo's current state/take on IPv6 ?
Is the current BitCo system IPv4 only, or does it support both ?

I realise that IPv6 is probably still a long way off for the internet world at large, I'm just curious.
Sometimes all this NAT and port-forwarding (anti-NAT) stuff is really wearying!
 
jcheek said:
Garthvs / BitCo

Out of interest : What's BitCo's current state/take on IPv6 ?
Is the current BitCo system IPv4 only, or does it support both ?

I realise that IPv6 is probably still a long way off for the internet world at large, I'm just curious.
Sometimes all this NAT and port-forwarding (anti-NAT) stuff is really wearying!
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Hi Jcheek,

I will let Garth answer this one :-)

Mike
 
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