Contention ratios

Not many dial up users are power users because of the costs involved....but with uncapped dsl theres just a flat rate. People can dload as much as they like so there are many more power users...im not sayin that all dsl users are power users...but probably over 40% of them are... so if theres a contention ratio of 35mbps:1000 and 400 people are constanly dloading then you would probably never get speeds higher than 35000/400 - about 90kbps???
 
Quite correct, if all the Sentech users downloaded all at the same time, the service would be useless and crawl along at 0.5Bps. Of course every single internet connectivity is exactly the same if not worse, so this is a pretty pointless argument.

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I have been on a 56k connection for about 6 yrs now and so have most of my friends. I download on one weekend +- 1gig and so do they.

We all considering mywireless! Im just waiting to see 2 things. local gaming pings(i don't expect great international, "local is lekker" ;) ) and the price of the modem upfront.

2 weeks 2 go!!

..- dot dot dash ;)
 
freeek, you insane? or going insane?

planetmars isn't offering a modem upfront... or gimme the url before I bitchslap youz :)
 
apparently, if you sign up with planetmars you can win win win, not sure what ;). goto www.planetmars.co.za/broadband. then go the broadband forums link. check it out

..- dot dot dash ;)
 
I believe it was mentioned on this forum what you could win, something like a free year (though you still have to pay for the second year!).

Still I don't think I would sign up with a company whose catch phrase is "Chicks love a phat pipe" [;)]
 
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<br />Quite correct, if all the Sentech users downloaded all at the same time, the service would be useless and crawl along at 0.5Bps. Of course every single internet connectivity is exactly the same if not worse, so this is a pretty pointless argument.
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and, like I said, if 40% of the users dload at the same time we would all get speeds under 90kbps...and most of the time there probably are 40% of the users downloading(I think)??? So we would hardly ever get over 90kbps???
 
man you ppl worry too much, you just see these figures and you get all confused. Just calm yourselves down and watch what happens, I am pretty sure sentech would not sell a service to you if they expected you to have basically no bandwidth. So just forget about the contention ratios if it still confuses you, after all action speak louder than words (or numbers ;p).
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by MOnk</i>
<br />man you ppl worry too much, you just see these figures and you get all confused. Just calm yourselves down and watch what happens, I am pretty sure sentech would not sell a service to you if they expected you to have basically no bandwidth. So just forget about the contention ratios if it still confuses you, after all action speak louder than words (or numbers ;p).
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well said, monk =) [}:)] whatjooo playin nowdays, btw. You should get some call of duty going, come represent. [:D]
 
Yeah COD is da **** !!! :P sneaky sneaky rifleman .... :P

Haven't played anything online for ages, just playing good SP games for a while now :P (you know, POP, HW2, MP2, NWN, KOTOR) .... hehe more than enough to keep me busy ..... but I'll get back into online when I find a worthwhile game, CS is just not my thing anymore :p
 
Hi there

Why don't you try America's Army. It is a great game with a local server on games.saix.net

FUN!!! [:D]

The fun is endless. Don't forget about Raven Shield which in terms of graphics and level of game play is probably the most advanced game in South Africa at the moment. Thus you cannot do anything but give it horns! [}:)]

Cheers
Antowan

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<br />Tried Wolf:ET or CPMA?
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He who does not understand the value of war at the right time, cannot comprehend the value of life at any time - Anonymous
 
<i><br />man you ppl worry too much, you just see these figures and you get all confused. Just calm yourselves down and watch what happens, I am pretty sure sentech would not sell a service to you if they expected you to have basically no bandwidth. So just forget about the contention ratios if it still confuses you, after all action speak louder than words (or numbers ;p).</i>

Or IP numbers. Every power user I've spoken to about MyWireless wants a dedicated IP address. I really don't see the big issue - they have to dish out IPs on a permanent basis *anyway*.

Let's hope we don't have to create a mywireless.co.za so complain, like Telkom's ADSL users have done. Oh, bummer, mywireless.co.za already belongs to Sentech...

--deckert
 
Deckert, you can ask for a static IP on the 512k package. This is the package that most SOHO and power users would choose anyway. Also I believe Sentech are bringing out business packages later this year which will more than likely include static IP's.
 
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