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Rosaudio

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How does Cable differ to ADSL and will we ever see Cable being introduced to the South African market anytime soon. Is it possible? Do we have to wait until the LLU?

Ive heard it is much faster than normal ADSL
 
Rosaudio said:
Much better I understand now but it looks very much like ADSL except adsl here is crap and does internet really come out of a rain cloud and wtf they stole my ip adress
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This is a tech site, you should not be on here if you didn't know that very elementary principle of the internet. :rolleyes:
 
copacetic said:
This is a tech site, you should not be on here if you didn't know that very elementary principle of the internet. :rolleyes:
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this is a tech site? wtf i thought it was a general place for maing fun of poeple from places from like PE

arrg... now i will have to leave and find nother forum :(
 
Rosaudio said:
this is a tech site? wtf i thought it was a general place for maing fun of poeple from places from like PE

arrg... now i will have to leave and find nother forum :(
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Well, that too. :p

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People from the Cape like to smell their own farts.
 
copacetic said:
Well, that too. :p

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People from the Cape like to smell their own farts.
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wow that was strange, i just did that and then opened up this thread and read your post :wtf:

It smelt good though and made me hungry :(
 
Rosaudio said:
How does Cable differ to ADSL and will we ever see Cable being introduced to the South African market anytime soon. Is it possible? Do we have to wait until the LLU?

Ive heard it is much faster than normal ADSL
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In the USA they've been watching cable TV for years where you get your 100 TV channels via a physical cable network to the house. To provide cable broadband they split that existing tv cable to the house, so one end goes to the TV and the other to your computer or router. You won't see 'cable internet' in South Africa because there is no existing TV cable infrastructure in SA to begin with.

Instead of building a cable tv infrastructure in SA we jumped the whole cable TV scenario and went straight to satellite TV. In SA you'll have ADSL via telephone line, or via wireless, or cellular, or eventually via fiber optic to your house (which is by far the fastest). As for LLU; it will give companies the ability to compete for access to your existing phone line from the exchange to your house, therefore increasing competition and lowering prices. But this has nothing to do with cable TV/broadband.
 
copacetic said:
I love mine too. :p
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We'd probably love each others too! :)
Globetrotter said:
In the USA they've been watching cable TV for years where you get your 100 TV channels via a physical cable network to the house. To provide cable broadband they split that existing tv cable to the house, so one end goes to the TV and the other to your computer or router. You won't see 'cable internet' in South Africa because there is no existing TV cable infrastructure in SA to begin with.

Instead of building a cable tv infrastructure in SA we jumped the whole cable TV scenario and went straight to satellite TV. In SA you'll have ADSL via telephone line, or via wireless, or cellular, or eventually via fiber optic to your house (which is by far the fastest). As for LLU; it will give companies the ability to compete for access to your existing phone line from the exchange to your house, therefore increasing competition and lowering prices. But this has nothing to do with cable TV/broadband.
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Thanks - awesome post. Understand completely now :)
 
GTS have been trying out implementing cable Internet access in gated villages, but so far they did not manage to get it right.

The frequencies for the DStv broadcast and Internet access keep on interfering with each other. As for speed - when it did work, it was comparable to a 384Kb/s ADSL line.

Just visited one of their previous subscribers last night, and removed the cable modem and switch that they paid a premium for, which is useless now.
 
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Yeah, America has had cable TV for over 50 years, it started when people in the Mid West (I believe) could not get good reception, they then stuck out antennas somewhere far from the house and ran a cable to their house, South Africa on the other hand is way more civilized therefore there is no need for Cable TV as we took the jumped the gap, and now we are at satellite TV.

Open to correction...
 
Cable TV came was introduced early in America due to poor reception prior to satellite, it allowed a guaranteed level of quality. There are advantages to it over Satellite TV, like not being affected by weather, but Satellite TV has the advantage of not needing additional high bandwidth cables run to a high house. The pretty big advantage of cable TV, is that the same cable can be used for internet access and because they are already quality high bandwidth cables (not poor quality copper telephone lines designed only for carrying voice), can handle speeds of up to 400mb/s and latency only matched and beaten by fibre. Of course, for that kind of speed you would be paying almost as much money as we do for DSL, so generally only businesses fork out the money for it.
 
Blackhand said:
Of course, for that kind of speed you would be paying almost as much money as we do for DSL, so generally only businesses fork out the money for it.
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No true, millions of normal cable internet users in the us.
 
Thanks for reminding us how backwards out internet still is :mad:
 
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