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Cape Town WIFI mesh nets
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If you have a buddy that is connected to the wug and internet you could share his internet connection over the wug. What you do over the wug infrastructure is your business as long as it does not negatively affect another users experience and you are not making a profit.
Contact some wisps operating in your area. Same tech, commercial nature.
KingLv
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I have but so far have not found one that can provide the service in my area.
After battling with Telkom 
since November 2012, and tolerated weeks without Telkom 
response to my repeated complaints about adsl drop-outs, long reconnection times, up to 17 copies of the same e-mail in my client due to repeated drop-outs, slow internet, paying for 45 Mbps when their equipment barely deals with 1 Mbps...
I have reported the same complaints so many times - only to find their auto response echoes the same Fault Report Reference for nearly 2 months, but still no-one deals with the problem!
Are there any WUG links in the area of Marina da Gama, Cape Town Southern Suburbs?
since November 2012, and tolerated weeks without Telkom response to my repeated complaints about adsl drop-outs, long reconnection times, up to 17 copies of the same e-mail in my client due to repeated drop-outs, slow internet, paying for 45 Mbps when their equipment barely deals with 1 Mbps...I have reported the same complaints so many times - only to find their auto response echoes the same Fault Report Reference for nearly 2 months, but still no-one deals with the problem!
Are there any WUG links in the area of Marina da Gama, Cape Town Southern Suburbs?
MDE
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There are but the wug does not supply internet. www.ctwug.za.net/start_hereAfter battling with Telkom
I have reported the same complaints so many times - only to find their auto response echoes the same Fault Report Reference for nearly 2 months, but still no-one deals with the problem!
Are there any WUG links in the area of Marina da Gama, Cape Town Southern Suburbs?
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Pardon the noob question, but is this similar , part of, or completely different to the CTWUG setup?
MDE
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Which part?
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Why dont we have any wifi in airport mall
MDE
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Wow. A dead thread. I wonder why? Here near an informal settlement close to Grabouw there is no Telkom. They do not service where copper pairs are snatched to get the next bit of tik. So I get by on Vynet's Mikrotik network (no pun intended) to the tune of R399 p/m at 4 mB down and .5 up. For what it is worth, that is the same speed and cost for nearly the same service quality in Anchorage Alaska, where I still have to spend some time. There the connection is symetric, and the charges $35 US p/m. The wireless in AK is needed as the copper is a long loop, to long for ADSL. The cable TV can work, but then it is a monopoly, loves to charge for over the cap, thus those who live there refuse to use it.
While cleaning up in AK, I found my first internet via wifi invoice. 1996 I think. It was for 512 K symetric at $1,500 p/m. Before that it was all dial up modem. We ran our own MX and Apache server through that. For the business. Which was a TV station. Too expensive for a home. Or our business. Like SA, AK is remote and not well connected. Unlike SA, there is virtually no competition regulation. SA is great. Except more spectrum should be sloshed over to the WISP people. They try with what little they can get in license free spectrum. They try.
For those who have an interest in long term connectivity, mesh networking should be looked at. Threats of censorship and network inequality abound. It is time to share connectivity.. bounce up and down and connect to locals. That is all.
While cleaning up in AK, I found my first internet via wifi invoice. 1996 I think. It was for 512 K symetric at $1,500 p/m. Before that it was all dial up modem. We ran our own MX and Apache server through that. For the business. Which was a TV station. Too expensive for a home. Or our business. Like SA, AK is remote and not well connected. Unlike SA, there is virtually no competition regulation. SA is great. Except more spectrum should be sloshed over to the WISP people. They try with what little they can get in license free spectrum. They try.
For those who have an interest in long term connectivity, mesh networking should be looked at. Threats of censorship and network inequality abound. It is time to share connectivity.. bounce up and down and connect to locals. That is all.
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When I did have Telkom I gave my neighbours free internet, as in an hour a day via my Mikrotik. 4 people connected, shared costs (I did no more than cover cost), and got full time on my lousy copper 4 Mb/s down pair. It was a nice first try on an idea that mesh could help, sharing might help, and in mesh servers could help.
I think a couple of times I saw people parking near our property with laptop open using the free service in whatever their emergency might have been. I felt it was a valuable community service.
As for me, I don't have hard wire analogue telephone. All voice communications, mostly Skype and the like, but some VOiP are via internet. And from SA we do hard core research.... me mostly telecommunications and medical. So we know interrupted connections are serious. Sharing via mesh would help.
I had a spare laptop & I just gave it to our gardener. He asked for our spare TV, but I would not give it to him. Modern TV sets are nothing but crippled computers. Many use Android or Linux OS. So I said, here is something better. A TV you can talk back to. He never before had touched a computer. His mobile phone is not smart. So not even that. I gave him a few hours training. He is a quick learner. Who knows? One day he may get a fantastic job. Earn more than I. It is possible. Sharing. If even one person is cut out of the economy, the nation has lost potential. Maybe he will become a better gardener.
Main problem? He hardly earns enough to connect to the internet at his home. It won't happen. None of his neighbours have wifi. He can see a high site, so there are a lot of WISP feeder signals, but he does not have the money. I encouraged him to try to get a few near by friends to drop DSTV or whatever, and sign up for a shared account. I know he cannot do the IT Tech yet. But..... it would be so easy if he could do some meshing. [there... on topic. Right?]
I think a couple of times I saw people parking near our property with laptop open using the free service in whatever their emergency might have been. I felt it was a valuable community service.
As for me, I don't have hard wire analogue telephone. All voice communications, mostly Skype and the like, but some VOiP are via internet. And from SA we do hard core research.... me mostly telecommunications and medical. So we know interrupted connections are serious. Sharing via mesh would help.
I had a spare laptop & I just gave it to our gardener. He asked for our spare TV, but I would not give it to him. Modern TV sets are nothing but crippled computers. Many use Android or Linux OS. So I said, here is something better. A TV you can talk back to. He never before had touched a computer. His mobile phone is not smart. So not even that. I gave him a few hours training. He is a quick learner. Who knows? One day he may get a fantastic job. Earn more than I. It is possible. Sharing. If even one person is cut out of the economy, the nation has lost potential. Maybe he will become a better gardener.
Main problem? He hardly earns enough to connect to the internet at his home. It won't happen. None of his neighbours have wifi. He can see a high site, so there are a lot of WISP feeder signals, but he does not have the money. I encouraged him to try to get a few near by friends to drop DSTV or whatever, and sign up for a shared account. I know he cannot do the IT Tech yet. But..... it would be so easy if he could do some meshing. [there... on topic. Right?]
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There is another Wireless network in Cape Town, CTWug. Fairly active, and offers a lot of services free of charge.