DataPro Business 1MB ADSL

[cyberbob]

Hi,

our company is getting the above installed some time this week, anyone have any experience with the package?

I'm curious about the "uncapped" part ... is it truely uncapped or is it a "fair usage policy" ???

Also, what is the shaping like? The DataPro guys say it is totally uncapped, and not a badly shaped as SAIX, and almost no shaping after hours????

Feedback would be appreciated

 

[MrGray]

We haven't upgraded to the 1mb Datapro package yet, but that's only because we were so unimpressed with the 512k uncapped Datapro package we're on. Hopefully, you'll have a different experience but we've had ongoing international outages, slowdowns, peering issues and router configuration issues (on Datapro's side). It seems a little better this week but most of October was a disaster and their support wasn't very forthcoming. The thing to remember with Datapro is that they are at the mercy of IS and SAIX - and when IS or SAIX, or both, have problems you are one step away from the source - very often Datapro themselves don't seem to know what is going on upstream.

 

[lemaC]

We don't have much luck with their 512 B-Uncapped package either? They use like a proxy/vpn type setup which doesn't really work

 

[Shoove]

During the day International is so slow, however you must remeber this is an IS product, so IS really messing up at the moment not Datapro.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Well it is uncapped, no usage S$%^ billing.

 

[JayM]

Apparently there's an AUP which means it's not truly "uncapped". Try and push 100gigs in a month and you'll get a friendly call for sure. That's if it's fast enough to push 100gigs in a month.

 

[kilos]

Hi,
Feedback would be appreciated

Installed the IS 512k Business ADSL with 5 static IP's last Friday.

Installed a Web & Ping based utility
http://196.211.2.162/cgi-bin/ping.cgi
http://196.211.2.162/cgi-bin/traceroute.cgi

Also installed a Asterisk VoIP PBX server
checkout thread
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=345210

Time: 08:40pm (Test rather during the day)

196.211.2.161 (196.211.2.161) 1.166 ms 1.481 ms 1.828 ms
2 196.211.129.13 (196.211.129.13) 64.934 ms 66.200 ms 69.303 ms
3 196.36.80.209 (196.36.80.209) 69.906 ms 64.814 ms 64.928 ms
4 196.26.96.203 (196.26.96.203) 69.363 ms 67.268 ms 66.290 ms
5 196.26.0.250 (196.26.0.250) 68.678 ms 64.361 ms 64.071 ms
6 168.209.86.166 (168.209.86.166) 70.403 ms 66.218 ms 65.537 ms IS <-> SAIX Peering (IS Side)
7 196.25.5.29 (196.25.5.29) 68.425 ms 67.090 ms 63.933 ms IS <-> SAIX Peering (SAIX Side)
8 wblv-ip-essr-1-atm-2-0-0-2.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.43.11.30) 91.394 ms 92.568 ms 88.109 ms
9 igubu.saix.net (196.25.1.1) 90.319 ms 92.410 ms 89.821 ms

During the day that increase to at least 250ms

 

[cyberbob]

During the day International is so slow, however you must remeber this is an IS product, so IS really messing up at the moment not Datapro.

DataPro told me that they also have their own bandwidth in addition to what they get from IS and SAIX ... that is apparentley what makes them so "good" and able to offer such a competitive price.

There better not be an AUP eek: ) as we specifically asked them about that, since we will be maxing or very nearly maxing our line 24/7

guess I will soon find out!

 

[JayM]

DataPro told me that they also have their own bandwidth in addition to what they get from IS and SAIX ... that is apparentley what makes them so "good" and able to offer such a competitive price.

There better not be an AUP eek: ) as we specifically asked them about that, since we will be maxing or very nearly maxing our line 24/7

guess I will soon find out!

I specifically asked "what if we put 100Gig a month through the line" and their salespeople said "thanks for being honest, the price is now 4 grand a month".

We're going to buy 10xSAOL 10GB accounts as it's cheaper and I've heard SAIX is faster than IS/Datapro. We don't need a static IP address.