Broadband internet? What a joke!

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swordfish1

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Hi guys,

I use to chat a lot on the ICQ little while ago, or more precisely before I got iBurst. Few friends I regularly chat with asked me last few days why I am offline almost all the time and I appear only for few moments online every now and then ... and I told them: because I switched to broadband internet!

Well, most of my friends live overseas so they don't understand the irony of the situation in SA, they have real broadband connections for at least 2-3 years now and they have forgotten what that thing dial-up is.

I am really happy for them, but here in SA, until few weeks back I was happily using dial-up over the weekends, and it was performing great 99% of the time. It was disconnecting max once per weekend and all protocols were working 100% with no restrictions whatsoever. This was my happy time ... ahhh memories.

3 weeks ago some people told me that iBurst is great, works very well etc. etc. ... and I believed them. So I decided to switch so I can have internet connection 24x7, and I was happy agreeing to 64 Kbps speed limit after the cap, I don't really need some incredible speeds, as long as it is 24x7 and reliable I am happy. So I was expecting to have a 24x7 modem-like connection - nothing more, nothing less.

Yes but it did not work out. For the last 2 weeks, I have been unable to successfully use iBurst for anything but web browsing, almost none of the other protocols work properly. So today I had to resort even in using my laptop and my cell phone GPRS to do some actual work, while I was supposedly connected via broadband connection on my desktop pc.

I am cancelling my contract and moving back to dial-up. It is so much more reliable than this so called broadband. I waited until now hoping that somebody will do something and fix the problems, but after I read the management explanation (IT Web) of the account suspension crap few days ago, I don’t believe that ISP managed by people that don’t have a clue what Mbit is, will ever be able to provide anything even close to decent service.

So, that is it, I just wanted to share my view on the broadband in SA. I am absolutely shocked from the complete incompetence of iBurst staff, both technical and management, and I wish that their company go bankrupt very soon, before other unsuspecting customers get caught into this scam.

Thanks for reading.

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because there is no international after the cap and I mostly use international, so I will be left without internet once I go over the cap.

I need internet connection (possibly slow - >= 64 Kbps is ok) that I don't have to worry about caps etc. and that will cost me flat max R600 per month.

I do download stuff quite often, but I am not normally in a hurry for my downloads even if they take a week :-) so slow is ok, but don't like counting how many bytes I have transfered since the begining of the month, that is just not part of my definition of broadband.
 
Sword, R600 a month = Iburst.
My 64k isdn cost me R1500+ a month, and believe me I was connected for +- 2hours a day, during call more time
 
Well, I am not Rockefeller so I can't afford paying 2K for internet connectivity.
 
yeah, i mean it sucks you're on northcliff, that is a really really sh*tty basestation, i'm not sure what option you have, even when they fix thier shapign stuff you'll still be on a bad basestation, ADSL is too expensive for what you get and no one wants to dial up, wether 56k or ISDN... so i dunno.
 
nooo, I don't think there is a technical problem here, I had about 4 days of really good connection/speed etc and everything was working 100%, but this are 4 days out of about 17 now, so I know that it works, it is all about the WBS bullsh1t and incompetence!
 
Your line speed is approximately 1155.2 Kbps or 141.6 kBytes/sec

Erm I aint doing bad... well than I dont know how much longer it is going to last :( So let me get back to enjoying it. The only thing that aint working so good is p2p and torrents :'(
 
he he, what you going to use your 141 KB/s for if you don't have P2P :-)

mine is also fast, but big deal, I can't use it for anything but http, and I don't download a lot of stuff from http so it is useless! I prefer 64 Kbps "all protocol" internet rather than 1 Mbit "http only" internet :-)
 
you know what I should do, get some peopel to help test proxies and then have an automated list so people can do what I do with torrents
 
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