Contended, Uncapped Survey

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MrBEEP

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Hey Guys

We are looking at introducing our own contended, uncapped ADSL solution.

We are still pretty much doing research, but a strong interest will inspire to speed up the process.

The solution will allow all protocols, with some shaped at some times. Eg.
P2P will be shaped during office hours (but also not to a level where you cant use it.)

You wont need to rent/buy a router from anyone. You can simply enter the username and password into your current router / modem.

Local gaming will work great, and international gaming add-on accounts will be sold as well, for a small extra fee, that will give you the best gaming pings to international servers.

All in all, this solution has been tailored for both home users and businesses, with no contracts.

Pricing: Well, it is still VERY early, but these are the figures we are playing with at the moment. Please note, these will probably still change alot, as we do all our calculations.

When comparing pricing to othr providers, please remember, our solution offers p2p access.

128k: R749
192k: R899
384k: R1119
512k: R1350
1024k: R2600

These prices will include VAT.

Please can you be so kind as to provide your input, suggestions, comments etc.

Warm regards
MrBEEP



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Hi MrBEEP

Good show! How about an uncapped offering without P2P if it will cost even less? Some of us don't even need P2P but can't justify the cost of uncapped ADSL that some ISPs are pushing.

Cheers
 
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ZuBS_ said:
Will 2 concurrent logins be allowed?
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Hey,

Unfortunately not. If it is allowed, you can share your account with someone else, use double the bandwidth, and only pay for one. Unfortunately that won't be financially viable for us :(

However, you will be able to setup more than one computer at your home, using the same router/modem.

Thanks
MrBEEP
 
titanium said:
Hi MrBEEP

Good show! How about an uncapped offering without P2P if it will cost even less? Some of us don't even need P2P but can't justify the cost of uncapped ADSL that some ISPs are pushing.

Cheers
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Hey titanium,

That is a GREAT idea!

Let me work out some costs, and propose pricing.

:)
 
titanium said:
Hi MrBEEP

Good show! How about an uncapped offering without P2P if it will cost even less? Some of us don't even need P2P but can't justify the cost of uncapped ADSL that some ISPs are pushing.

Cheers
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There is another offer just like that somewere.
 
We wont be using their ADSL bandwidth, we will be supplying our own.
 
Yeah I'd definitely be interested in this offering without the p2p. :)
 
Scooby_Doo said:
There is another offer just like that somewere.
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Yes, from IS, DataPro, etc. at ridiculous pricing (R1500 - R2700 for uncapped. non-P2P - that is *not* cheap!)

If MrBEEP can offer uncapped, non-P2P at one third of the price he's going to get a lot of customers.
 
I am also interested in the uncapped non-p2p offering, price dependent of course!
 
The prices on this uncapped proposal sound very good. I like the fact that one would not have to rent a router. Would this also be a 12 month sign up contract - like most other ISP's are doing?


MrBEEP said:
The solution will allow all protocols, with some shaped at some times. Eg.
P2P will be shaped during office hours (but also not to a level where you cant use it.)
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This is what worries me. UUNET uncapped also started shaping P2P protocols claiming they were "usable" - and then ended up being 1 or 2k/s most of the time. Not really worth it then.
 
Quote: P2P will be shaped during office hours (but also not to a level where you cant use it.)

Please give us an example (estimate) of what the difference may be ? e.g Day compared to night ?
 
I'll consider a no p2p solution too, and if you can bring the price below R1000 for 1 Mbit heh
 
KillerX said:
This is what worries me. UUNET uncapped also started shaping P2P protocols claiming they were "usable" - and then ended up being 1 or 2k/s most of the time. Not really worth it then.
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I hear you - before I knew better and was a regular b-t user that was the main reason with my unhappiness with UUNET. Course that R750 per month for uncapped looks pretty good these days even with most p2p protocols shaped out of existence and lets face it - there are alternatives to torrents available. So I'd also be interested in hearing more about the non-p2p service.
 
During office hours, all business protocols will get a much greater priority (http / https / mail / remote desktop - vnc etc)

But P2P's will be shaped to about 15kb/s during office hours.

Early evenings, P2P's will be shaped on a burstable speed, given higher priority.

After 22:00 every night and until 07:00 every morning, it will be a free for all, when all ports are unshaped, and all will get equal priority.

BTech said:
Quote: P2P will be shaped during office hours (but also not to a level where you cant use it.)

Please give us an example (estimate) of what the difference may be ? e.g Day compared to night ?
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