Cheap Reliable Internet in complexes ?!

[oober]

I'm looking at buying a place in the near future and I have been looking for places in the Midrand area. There are hordes of new complexes being built but it seems that hardly any of them have fixed lines installed. It seems that if you are one of the lucky complexes you may get fixed lines in about 5 years or so... seriously WTF? 5 YEARS!#$

So now I'm wondering what are all these hundreds of thousands of people doing for internet access? And how much are they paying for it? Are they doomed to pay thousands of rands for internet access since they must turn to the Cell Providers? Am I to be told that bandwidth hungry people don't go live in new complexes? :wtf::twisted:

 

[DagegeN]

I'm looking at buying a place in the near future and I have been looking for places in the Midrand area. There are hordes of new complexes being built but it seems that hardly any of them have fixed lines installed. It seems that if you are one of the lucky complexes you may get fixed lines in about 5 years or so... seriously WTF? 5 YEARS!#$

So now I'm wondering what are all these hundreds of thousands of people doing for internet access? And how much are they paying for it? Are they doomed to pay thousands of rands for internet access since they must turn to the Cell Providers? Am I to be told that bandwidth hungry people don't go live in new complexes? :wtf::twisted:

Well I am in the same boat as you and as in fact thousands of people are in the same boat.

I recently bought a house in a complex with no Telkom infrastructure in place, we have almost no Cell coverage.

So i joined the body corp and got elected as vice chair person, so now with a minor tech-savvy brain and the lust for internet I have started a revolution in our complex, for some poor people that just sat down and took it like a dying dog I for one said NOT A CHANCE! :wtf:

So it has been now almost a year with a 4m mast on my roof. Just to get a thin slice of broadband.

So my tip for you, get involved in your "closed community" ask who want internet, maybe start a survey collect data and approach ALL MAJOR ISPs for help.

Soon i will be cured from the disease call InternetLessNess.

 

[kilos]

So i joined the body corp and got elected as vice chair person

Just spoke to some friends of mine - and boy oh boy are the old fuddy duddy old folk the worst to kick
against such a move, good luck with your efforts.

Pity you cannot get a "ADSL over Wireless" solution - start off with a 4 Mb/s Uncapped ADSL account
from Axxess/Afrihost/OpenWeb etc close by outside your complex and wireless the bandwidth to
your development - illegal yes - but for many folks thats the only alternative unless you chat to
your local WiSP who can provide you with a service which you can resell or rather they can resell.

Setup a Mikrotik Hotspot on your 4m mast by purchasing one of these Mikrotik Routerboard RB433AH
with 2 wireless cards, one connects to your ADSL remote connection and the other acts
as a 2.4 Ghz hotspot.
Sell these great little Wifistation devices to those users have a poor signal in their house, that can connect direct to their PC or laptop (if internal wireless card has a poor signal) comes with a 4m USB cable

Many many possibilities