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RichardG said:
According to ICASA, they cannot offer you a service, If you not fully covered...

I was down in Edenvale, got only 1 bar could make a phone call, internet downloads around 20 KB/s
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Then telkom shouldnt offer people 4mb lines when they cant get full 4mb :eek:
 
matrixweb said:
then why dont neotel do that "up to 2.4mbps"
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Cause unlike Telskum, Neotel believe in a "quality" service. That, they claim, is what makes them different and I can well understand that. I run my business the same way. Not the cheapest but better quality. :D
 
matrixweb said:
Then telkom shouldnt offer people 4mb lines when they cant get full 4mb :eek:
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I suppose you do not read..

DSL speeds cannot be guaranteed due to factors including line length, copper quality and network availability. Telkom does not have control over the throughput speeds once the World Wide Web or your ISP's equipment is reached.


So, there we have it.
 
CDMA the next update could go up to 14.1mbps right? so then could NEOTEL extend coverage to anyone who has minimum 512k of that?

"For the NeoConnect service Neotel is using CDMA EV DO, with maximum throughput rates of 2.4 Mbps. This will increase in future to 3.1 Mbps when EV DO Rev A is employed while EV DO Rev B promises peak speeds of up to 14.1 Mbps."

When willl Rev B become available?
 
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Well i know cdma most definately doesn't go upto 114mbps. I assume that was a misstype though.

As for the updates I have done my utmost to try and get this info from neotel, but they have provided me with very little if any. The Rev A update is currently being tested to the best of my knowledge and will hopefully be implemented before the end of the year from what i understand. The Rev B update is unfortunately no where near ready to be implemented and I highly doubt it will be available anytime soon.

As for extending covergare to included anyone that can get 512kbps of the speed I don't think this will ever really happen, as i don't think it works like that. Assuming you don't have coverage and you can only get 512kbps i would think it is because the signal to the tower is very low and i am pretty sure that it would be a highly unstable connection if you were able to make one in the first place. I think If the signal were so weak as to only get 1/28th the speed then it would be highly unstable and would land up causing more headaches (frequent disconnects/packet loss) than anything else.

By the time Rev B is released i think their network coverage will be a heck of alot better than it currently is anyway.
 
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SuperMonkey said:
CDMA the next update could go up to 14.1mbps right? so then could NEOTEL extend coverage to anyone who has minimum 512k of that?

"For the NeoConnect service Neotel is using CDMA EV DO, with maximum throughput rates of 2.4 Mbps. This will increase in future to 3.1 Mbps when EV DO Rev A is employed while EV DO Rev B promises peak speeds of up to 14.1 Mbps."

When willl Rev B become available?
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Where did you get the source from ?
Neotel website? If so paste link please.

CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision B

The Revision B (Rev B) is an evolutionary step of Rev A that consists of aggregating multiple EV-DO Rev A channels to provide higher performance for multimedia delivery, bi-directional data transmissions and VoIP-based concurrent services. The Rev B standard was published by the Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) under document number 3GPP2 C.S0024-B and by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and Electronics Industry Association as TIA/EIA/IS-856-B. Rev B will be commercially available in 2008.

Rev B builds on the efficiencies of Rev A by introducing the concept of dynamically scalable bandwidth. Through aggregation of multiple 1.25 MHz Rev A channels, Rev B enables data traffic to flow over more than one carrier and hence improve user data rates, latencies on both forward and reverse link. Peak data rates are proportional to the number of carriers aggregated. When 15 channels are combined within a 20 MHz bandwidth, Rev B delivers peak rates of 46.5 Mbps in forward link and 27 Mbps in the reverse link. With the 64-QAM scheme, the peak data rate in the forward link increase in a single 1.25 MHz carrier to 4.9 Mbps, an aggregated 5 MHz will deliver up to 14.7 Mbps and within 20 MHz of bandwidth up to 73.5 Mbps. By increasing the bandwidth, an operator can support more users per sector or lower their cost per megabyte to encourage longer usage. To achieve this performance, the 1.25 MHz carriers do not have to be adjacent to one another, thus giving operators the flexibility to combine blocks of spectrum from different bands. This is unique benefit of Rev B that is not available to WCDMA/HSDPA.

In addition to supporting mobile broadband data and OFDM-based multicasting, the lower latency characteristics of Rev B improve the performance of delay-sensitive applications such as VoIP, push-to-talk, video telephony, concurrent voice and multimedia and multiplayer online gaming. Rev. B also allows operators to consider the deployment of “hot zones” where the demand for data is high.
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RichardG said:
Please get your facts right, nowhere in the article did it mention Rev. B, but great info..

Just did some reading this has not deployed officially yet. So, maybe next year we will see other networks doing trails on this ;) But great info off course.
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Actually the article does mention Rev B :)

"Internet Access

The NeoConnect service is based on CDMA 2000 technology, a wireless mobile technology similar to 3G/HSDPA.

For the NeoConnect service Neotel is using CDMA EV DO, with maximum throughput rates of 2.4 Mbps. This will increase in future to 3.1 Mbps when EV DO Rev A is employed while EV DO Rev B promises peak speeds of up to 14.1 Mbps."
 
RichardG said:
I suppose you do not read..

DSL speeds cannot be guaranteed due to factors including line length, copper quality and network availability. Telkom does not have control over the throughput speeds once the World Wide Web or your ISP's equipment is reached.


So, there we have it.
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CDMA Also Cant Guarantee The Speed
 
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