CellC vs iBurst

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Ok,

I have iBurst with the contract becoming renewable soon.

CellC is expected to have 3G service at my home by then as well.

Technically CellC 3G is reported to be way beyond anything iBurst can deliver.

At an effective cost of R250 pm for 5GB bandwidth, it is a no brainer as well.

What will iBurst offer to keep me as a client?
 
For me, iBurst cannot provide me anything of CellC's.
No speeds, no latency, no reliability.
After hours offering is useless due to slow speeds. I can only download about 1,5GB, which is nothing for downloads (because most downloads exceed this size).
 
Cell C sounds much juicier.Its the price that is so awesome as you'll never realistically expect to get anywhere near 21mbs.
 
Download speed for iBurst never above 1Mb/s...practical speeds usually around 0.7Mb/s and slowed down to 0.3Mb/s on Saturday. CellC reckons a max practical speed of 7Mb/s - even if they are lying, I doubt if they would inflate their pratical speed claim 10x of reality.

Bottom line: Waiting for CellC to hit Pretoria :-)

Or VC or MTN to adjust rates, but unless iBurst jacks it's speed, the byebye iBurst is a no-brainer.
 
I think iBurst would prove to be alot better in the latency front. Most cellphone technology are quite high with regards to latency.
 
It sounds as if CellC is going to be the answer for me, but glad I still have a few months left on iBurst to make sure that CellC manages to deliver on its promises of speed and reliability. These are early days for them, and I expect teething issues in one form or another.
 
ginggs said:
I'm assuming Whiptaka means unlimited downloads after hours is something that iBurst can offer to keep him as a client.
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LoL, that would make more sense. But that isn't really something that would keep a gamer with Iburst.
 
R167 per month if you use own modem and just go for the data sim.
 
Just be careful when going CellC, there's going to be a huge adoption rate (it's cheaper than DSL!) so there might be a very quick degrade in quality. It'll be good for browsing, but latencies might suffer meaning that gaming won't be an option.

Same thing happened with Telkom 3G for me, I was in the "beta" phase of it, and it was very good. But when it was released officially my latencies shot through the roof. Not that I'm suggesting you shouldn't go to cellc, just a heads up on what may happen.
 
I will surely get this package when it releases, a 3MB/s speed is always welcomed , you guys cant argue, games keep on getting worse in the online department thanks to our crappy internet speeds. Maybe this a new turning point for us, "The grass is always greener on the other side"
 
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Wolfy said:
I will surely get this package when it releases, a 3MB/s speed is always welcomed , you guys cant argue, games keep on getting worse in the online department thanks to our lack of crappy internet speeds. Maybe this a new turning point for us, "The grass is always greener on the other side"
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Yeah, with telkom, max was 7.2, and after public release it was going 3M+, so there wasn't a huge knock on throughput. So with cellc, I'm confident that you're going to look at 7M speed on average.

But don't think that a 21M lines will improve latency. Remember, WoW only a very small amount of bandwidth, yet it's till laggy. TF2 runs at about 15KB/s (128K line speed), but it still suffers from lag even if you are on a 3M line. Each user that connects to the tower will require routing, processing, shaping and priority cellphone data at each point in the chain. Even if it's an extra 5ms per user, with 10 people on a tower for any reason (sms, phone call, data, location update, switching on phone, data gathering, keep alives) will nail you 50ms. so from an awesome 30ms to more than double 80ms.

It's amazing how fast and good these services are... and yet somehow they are never enough for us...
 
Yep. I'll get this for browsing, or else, someone starts using iBurst on my home network (browsing), latencies sky-rocket through the ceiling and into space.
 
I dig what your saying eltherza, lag will still be the number one problem no doubt during certain times throughout the day. But be rest assured it will be a pleasure playing on it after hours :) only thing I'll miss will be the little bandwidth i save when downloading after hours
 
Wolfy said:
I dig what your saying eltherza, lag will still be the number one problem no doubt during certain times throughout the day. But be rest assured it will be a pleasure playing on it after hours :) only thing I'll miss will be the little bandwidth i save when downloading after hours
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But thats the issue with 3G actually, in the residential areas normal daytime use is very low, it's the after hours "free minutes", "call more", "Yebo for less" and all those blurred specials kick in. So from 7 [or 8] till about 10 or 11 quality goes down :( It's why the qaulity goes down on 3G, those phone calls. (Even worse at the end of the money when people just want to use up the free minutes ).

But if you are looking for before/after that, then I would think it would be awesome. Weekends would also be pretty good too.

Still, cellc for is faster and cheaper than.. well... everyone so far, how can you pass that up?
 
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