CellC vs iBurst

All I know is that after reading the chaos that Telkom claims is happening at a number of their exchanges, even if I had the money I wouldn't go ADSL...so wireless it's going to stay. Whether it's iBurst or CellC, that depends on what things look like when my contract expires next year.
 
Im battling with issues on my telkom exchange for 3 months now, they only have really started looking at it now, helps if Telkom had sent the right technician to the Telkom exchange in the first place. They kept sending a voice technician instead of a transmission technician to my exchange for last few months :P

For now I am happily using iBurst, but will look into Cell-C HSPA+ as a seconday connection to replace my crap Screamer Wimax connection which keep timeing out and dropping, but will need to wait when they launch it ain Joburg and if see my area is covered.
 
ginggs said:
:confused: Did you mean "1Mbps is actual speed, unlike Cell C"?
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I meant "1Mbps is theoretical maximum, that unlikely to reach at normal conditions. Cell C have speeds that are reachable normally."

So far, not happy with iBurst at all, neither my friend (he changes to Cell C too). Unusable during day or simply absent.
 
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@jagtiger.+1.You'll be lucky to get half of that speed.You get close to it at odd hours but never full 1Mbps.
 
I usually get about 0.86-0.89 Mbps, but with most ISPs you wont get the full quoted Mbps.
 
Jagtiger said:
I meant "1Mbps is theoretical maximum, that unlikely to reach at normal conditions. Cell C have speeds that are reachable normally."
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Ah, OK.

My experience on iBurst has completely different, I regularly get 1Mbps and that speed is sustainable for hours (extensively tested during the free after-hours period, thanks to Bubbles :D).

I think the top speedtest.net score in the Cell C forum is about 12-13Mbps.

Hence my confusion about your post; iBurst's advertised speed is 1Mbps and people do get that speed, whereas Cell C advertise 21Mbps but nobody is getting close to that.
 
I get + - 300 kbps during the day and + - 800kbps during the evening on iBurst.

If I get 4 MBps on Cell C, I'll be happy.

Looking at the speedtests on the Cell C section, the latency on Cell C is better than iBurst. (For me anyway)
 
Looks like there is extreme over-subscription in my area or something like that. My connection gets dropped for no reason (just everything stops and needs "F5") and struggling to get 100kbps.
 
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With the white iburst UTD, I would get 5 leds and +900Kbs at home. Moving a few degrees or shifting it around (10-15cm) would make the difference revving up from 350Kbs to +7-800kbs. So oversubscription is not the only thing that affects performance. At work it is always 5Leds, downloads are speedy - sometimes a 5MB mp3 in under a minuite - but we don't use the dashboard much. Work is 1KM away from the nearest tower and home is under 3KM line of sight.

Still, in a hour and a bit I am off to CELLC ... I have tried hard to justify the UTD and Uncapped Anytime, but CellC is a no-brainer for affordability on moderate use.
 
Vis1/0N said:
With the white iburst UTD, I would get 5 leds and +900Kbs at home. Moving a few degrees or shifting it around (10-15cm) would make the difference revving up from 350Kbs to +7-800kbs. So oversubscription is not the only thing that affects performance. At work it is always 5Leds, downloads are speedy - sometimes a 5MB mp3 in under a minuite - but we don't use the dashboard much. Work is 1KM away from the nearest tower and home is under 3KM line of sight.

Still, in a hour and a bit I am off to CELLC ... I have tried hard to justify the UTD and Uncapped Anytime, but CellC is a no-brainer for affordability on moderate use.
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It is possible, but it wasn't like that 2-3 years ago. I didn't changed anything on my side. Friend was getting 800kbps with same position as now, and it went very bad recently. At mine place or his (he have a tower at distance of about 500m with line of sight).
 
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I bought the ibusrt external aerial a while back but has never used it.Does it make a huge diff?
 
BOYAH said:
I bought the ibusrt external aerial a while back but has never used it.Does it make a huge diff?
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Yes, when I first bought iBurst had no signal. Then I connected to antenna, that is outside on mast and got almost 100% signal.

For me, it makes now no difference on some week days...

However, right now it does:
With antenna:



No antenna:

 
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I get between 300Kbs and 700Kbs on my old school ruler antenna but I think I'll hook up the other 1 just to check.
Thanks.
 
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