BitCo Consumer Review

garthvs said:
Lol... looks like you can take 4 links to 4 different towers from your home.
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Garthvs what do the different shades of purple actually mean?
At my location, I am in the 5th outer ring of shade of purple, what does that mean exactly with regards to signal quality etc?
 
Garth, I'm moving somewhere between Harties and Pta in a couple of months (close to sunset view railway station which google finds). No coverage there at all :(. You're welcome to put a tower up on the plot if you wish :)
 
lived666 said:
Garthvs what do the different shades of purple actually mean?
At my location, I am in the 5th outer ring of shade of purple, what does that mean exactly with regards to signal quality etc?
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Yeah good question, I'm also in one of the outer rings, but luckily far from the edge of it
 
If you scan on the 5GHz spectrum then yes. And you need something powerful such as MikroTik or Ubiquiti.
 
We are very conservative with our coverage rings so we do occasionally install clients that have good elevation outside a ring. The last edge of the rings are 8km away from the tower, or put another way, each ring has a radius of 8km.

The performance of your link is the same, whether you are 100m away from the tower or 8km away from the tower. We spend a bit more on our equipment rather than install links that "only just work".
 
You wouldn't be able to see any SSID or signal details from our equipment as the tower equipment does not run "standard" Wifi.
 
I am 7.2km from my tower and test conducted I could run 10mb/s easily. My 4mb uncapped is rock solid.

Lived666, let them come and do a test.

Here are some stats off my Ubiquiti Nano Bridge M5

Signal Strength: -60 dBm
Horizontal / Vertical:-64 / -62 dBm
Noise Floor:-95 dBm
Transmit CCQ:87.5 %
TX/RX Rate: 117 Mbps / 19.5 Mbps
Distance:4.5 miles (7.2 km)

If they use proper equipment, you won't have a hassle. They sound like they are keeping their customers happy.
 
Looking forward to Bitco site visit soon ! , I'm also on outer edge in Heuweloord , but pretty elevated , just holding thumbs I have LOS :)
 
Deadmanza said:
Have my sales invoice :D Just waiting on the install team to come out now!
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what package you getting? im skeptical about the 2 meg package. i do an average of 150 to 200 gigs and worried that i would be throttled most of the time, although i believe you can still use the net when throttled
 
Stillie said:
what package you getting? im skeptical about the 2 meg package. i do an average of 150 to 200 gigs and worried that i would be throttled most of the time, although i believe you can still use the net when throttled
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5MB uncapped hoping I can get around 150GB a month.
 
if you can only get 150gigs on 5mb package id rather stay with afrihost business slightly cheaper
 
Stillie said:
if you can only get 150gigs on 5mb package id rather stay with afrihost business slightly cheaper
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Erm ... no its not

R797 + R?? Telkom voice line rental compared to R855 odd. The only good thing about that adsl package is that its unshaped
 
NightCrawlerNic said:
Erm ... no its not

R797 + R?? Telkom voice line rental compared to R855 odd. The only good thing about that adsl package is that its unshaped
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iv got a 2meg business which is 400 odd plus telkom which brings my total bill to about 650
 
Gave my details via the website, only signed up for the 2mb, if I'm happy with the product after a couple of months I'll upgrade to the 5-10mbs
 
We have close to 50 new home users up and running so far and the feedback has been really positive.

We are still fairly new to supplying home Internet so if anyone is not extremely happy with the service please PM me or contact our support desk and we will see how we can tweak the service to suit your needs.
 
Gary, will you be dual stacking ipv6 any time soon?

Would be get to see an internet access provider move in this direction. Let me know if you want to chat about ipv6, our entire network is native ipv6 and it works like a Boss!
 
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