Cape Town

Moose,

Most of the Formulites it Cape Town live in the Northern suburbs. Unfortunately Sentech STILL does not cover the Nortern Suburb. Sentech says durbanville will be up in november, but they do not say which year.

Fortunately,
The WISPs have taken their chance and they provide service where there is none. Why are they illegal, ask ICASA why, because I don't know.

/ranting and raving off

Sorry about that, I've been waiting for Sentech since March (When they said they would cover me).

The product has improved a lot recently, I would say go for it. It's much better that ADSL of you need to download more than 3GB a month (thats about 5 computers worth of emails and browsing in one month).

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Thanx Sapphiron,
I had UniNetwork out as well, but their transmitter isn't pointing in my required direction (no sighnal) [:(]

I myself am 1Km from Durbanville Tower and waiting (and waiting and...).

L8r
 
Anyone connecting to the Blouberg tower? Whats the stability / speed like ?
 
Hopefully getting wireless online today hehe gonna be kewl me, my pc and eve-online and a crap load of roids to mine. wooooot

Proud South african rip offs.
 
don't forget no p2p hee hee

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death - life is only a dream - and we're the imagination of ourselves.” – Bill Hicks
 
DURBANVILLE TOWER IS UP

I guess ranting and raving helps.

no to get my contract uncancelled (hier kom die k@k)



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Cloud/Freek honestly im more partial not to get a wisp considering all of their services are to a larger extend small man ops. but the situation im faced with in that sentech cant get to me and i refuse to pay for a connection thats gonna cost me 1K a month and be inactive for 29 days of the month yeaah right.

so im left with the wisps.
uninet is karp expensive in their initial cost. im sorry i just dont have the dough at one stage ever to blow on 2.5k for an installation and then i still have to pay subscription costs. no way. so my reason for going with wireless online is that in the light of all the bigger evils out there wo seems to be the lesser of 3 evils im faced with.

Freek/Cloud u guys pbly work for uninet if anyone goes and looks at all your threads its basically just waxing uninet the whole time.

If you work for someone dont employ these underhanded tactics just to get ppl to look at your company different light rather try and get users that are actual customers to talk about their experiences with your company.

Proud South african rip offs.
 
lol, what a joker.

If u actually went and read my previous posts, u'd c that i used to be a 56ker. I sat around waiting for sentech the same way u did until i finally considered going with a wisp. WO couldn't get a signal where i live, so i let it go. i found out afterwards that they don't allow p2p, which made me thank my lucky stars i had no signal.

uninet, at first, seemed to me to be very expensive, but then u look at adsl and the initial setup costs involved with that, and suddenly uninet doesnt look so bad. plus u get R1200 back when u are no longer a subscriber, which basically means u only pay about R1250 to start off, which isn't so bad (ok, plus first months sub).

if u can tell me that sentech delivers a better service than uninet does, then i might consider switching. but judging by this forum and its members it aint looking too bright. at least i know i can download off http at 15k without breaking a sweat, which is more than i can say for many of the current sentech subscribers.

so, there u have it, i dont work for uninet, in fact, i don't work at all - i'm a student ;)

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death - life is only a dream - and we're the imagination of ourselves.” – Bill Hicks
 
Hi!

Does anyone know where the tower for Durbanville is situated? What is the maximum distance that can be between you and the tower? Both with and without an external antenna?

I had a look on the Sentech Coverage area, and I'm out of signal, but signal is good 500m away from me.

Thanks!

Bees

Still on ISDN... watch this space.
 
Im now connected to the Blouberg tower on the 256 package. So far Im happy with both local and international speeds. Using a download manager, I was getting between 8 - 30K /sec on international downloads.

Another strange thing, I had a NoWire/Umoya rep out here doing signal tests. Even though Blouberg is around 2.5km away, I was picking up Parow. However, he was saying I wont be able to actually connect to Parow because the authentication distance is restricted to just over 5km.

bees, this is most probably relevant for you... Can anyone else confirm this?
 
Still no complaints on my side. Boosted my signal by 6 - 8% by using a pringles container on top of the modem antenna. International Torrents been ranging from 15K - 25K/sec. I dont have any local sites so I havent been able to check that side.
 
I'm getting the same sort of speeds also. +- 12-18K/sec avg during office hours and 16-30 after hours.
My signal strength was about 10%. I got it up to 35% just by putting a cooking pot lid behind it :-)
Since then my speeds have improved slightly, but I don't have any summuries yet.

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Hi
I can confirm that you cannot connect to a tower at a distance of greater than around 6km. However, I have managed to get connected at 6.2km once (could have been an error in the GPS coordinates of the tower). Generally speaking though, you will find that your ping times and speeds are really poor at anything more than 5.2km or so. At these distances, it is usually necessary to have a high gain antenna installed. These will cost from around R1500 for a 12dB Yagi antenna to around R2800 for a monster grid antenna with 25dB of gain. (remember for every 3dB of gain, that is a doubling of signal power.)

Hope that helps.

JustConnect
 
R1500 and R2800? Wot make are these?

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Connection, you must be crazy...

These are from the Miro distributor pricelist
PA-12-YAGE 12dBi Yagi Antenna 300.00 excl
SAY-2420 20dBi Yagi Antenna 945.00 excl
PA-27-58-GRID 27dBi Grid Antenna - 5.8GHz 950.00 excl
 
What speeds are you refering too? Im on a 256 package. But the speeds have changed since my previous CT posts. International downloads get capped at 8K - 10K/sec if the downloads are larger than 400-500K. Local is still decent, provided the int. cap isnt running.
 
Personally (just based on current advertisements) I can’t see anyone in the Cape Town area signing up for Sentech. If I compare Sentech’s products & prices (and the various complains here about their poor service) with those of Netcontacts (www.netcontacts.biz), then surely Netcontacts beat them by far or am I missing something?

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