Cheap uncapped wireless, if there is such a thing?

MraL said:
I expect that you may be using a cheap local only account and you're frustrated you cannot see our website. I'm sorry about that, I can understand such frustration but it's no reason to take out your frustrations. One of the reasons why we're called Vanilla is because we are 'no frills'. That means we keep our overheads low and similarly our pricing as competitive as possible. We don't waste. I've had people sending me messages putting down myadsl forums because of this comment and that's not fair to your community.
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Thanks for your concern about my internet connectivity, but thats a little off topic...

Now most ISP's with a largish userbase would be quite happy to host websites on their infrastructure.
Why is this? Well, you pay for Xmb/s of transit bandwidth, and you end up using Xmb/s of bandwidth on your inbound. Most of your outbound bandwidth sits idle, because you have more eyeballs on your network than content.

But then again, these rules only apply to real ISPs, with real transit and peering agreements. So I would understand why some ISPs would be reluctant to host content if they don't get paid for the traffic.

My appologies for drawing attention to your ISP.
 
best performance service (never oversubscribed)

daffy said:
Thanks for your concern about my internet connectivity, but thats a little off topic...

Now most ISP's with a largish userbase would be quite happy to host websites on their infrastructure.
Why is this? Well, you pay for Xmb/s of transit bandwidth, and you end up using Xmb/s of bandwidth on your inbound. Most of your outbound bandwidth sits idle, because you have more eyeballs on your network than content.

But then again, these rules only apply to real ISPs, with real transit and peering agreements. So I would understand why some ISPs would be reluctant to host content if they don't get paid for the traffic.

My appologies for drawing attention to your ISP.
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I'm not sure if I fully agree here.

Yes, you may be correct that many/most ISPs buy Xmb/s of transit bandwidth and pay a fixed fee for that. They then oversell that bandwidth many times to try and make as much money as possible. Unless the ISP has a very large user base (i.e. the top 3) the performance will be poor at times.

We do not pay a fixed fee because we actually believe in metered usage. In order to deliver the best possible performance we want to incentivise our suppliers by paying per GB usage. This way they give us a maximum burst potential which also allows us to give our customers the best possible performance. We could make more money your way but how sustainable is that?

Out of interest, we also carefully balance our incoming and outgoing bandwidth as we really do not only offer connectivity but also do alot of various hosting here.

Cheers,
 
Hows my wireless ISP choices in my area compare?

Option 1:

150k bandwidth
Uncapped
Unshaped
Line switched between satellite and fibre meaning any internet app goes down several times a minute.
R450 a month

Option 2
256k
Unshaped
Uncapped
Reliable
25c a meg

I hate you Telskelm, I really do for refusing to upgrade my exchange to fixed line ADSL.
 
Our wireless is really competing with dsl and sorry it's only in CT.
5Mbps synchronous with fixed IP
Unshaped
Uncapped
R650 p.m
R69 per GB (min 5GB)
(we've met 99.9% uptime since we've provided - i.e. for the past 6 months)
 
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