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Dear Valued Customer

In December 2009 iBurst launched a brand new range of packages on the iBurst Wireless offering. As a means to ensure that our current subscribers are afforded the same value as any new subscribers on these packages we automatically upgraded you to the new data bundle thereby significantly increasing your monthly cap at no additional fee.

As a part of this change, the throttled 64Kbps service was no longer available as standard on all packages and was made available as an optional value added service. We understand this has caused frustration with some customers; however as a month to month contract holder you are still able to subscribe to this service for R199 per month. Also available is a 128kbps throttling service at R249 per month.

If you would like to subscribe to one of these additional services or should you have any further questions in this regard, please email [email protected].

Kind regards

The iBurst Team
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Theres no mention of what package you have to be on to use the VAS so one can only assume that the package you're on doesn't matter... Sooo Ronald, Gcebile I would like to be migrate to the Wireless 1 package with the 128K throttle, according to the e-mail I can do this so yeah lets get it rolling.
 
Still too expensive and too little too late. You never know when iWorst is going to change its mind about its contracts, so even if I still had a year left on my contract, I'd rather buy it out and take my business to someone who is serious about what they're doing.
 
ZombiePriest said:
Still too expensive and too little too late. You never know when iWorst is going to change its mind about its contracts, so even if I still had a year left on my contract, I'd rather buy it out and take my business to someone who is serious about what they're doing.
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Amen
 
R199 = 4-5GB in booster purchases depending on which package you're on. Downloading at 64kbps is so 1995 and not wortwhile. Just think how much juice you waste in terms of having to power your machine and HDDs and the wear and tear of running harddrives and machines continously to trickle download some files. 128kbps is also slow. When a file takes 13hrs to d/l now it only takes 7.

iBurst should offer full speed uncapped, after all we're moving to 21Mbs HSDPA and 8Mbit/sec Telkom and frankly even 1Mb/sec is becoming SLOW. EASSY is landing and SEACOM is here. iBurst shouldn't p&ussy foot around and just offer good prices such as 50GB caps or uncapped accounts at affordable rates.
 
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R199 = 4-5GB in booster purchases depending on which package you're on. Downloading at 64kbps is so 1995 and not wortwhile. Just think how much juice you waste in terms of having to power your machine and HDDs and the wear and tear of running harddrives and machines continously to trickle download some files. 128kbps is also slow. When a file takes 13hrs to d/l now it only takes 7.

iBurst should offer full speed uncapped, after all we're moving to 21Mbs HSDPA and 8Mbit/sec Telkom and frankly even 1Mb/sec is becoming SLOW. EASSY is landing and SEACOM is here. iBurst shouldn't p&ussy foot around and just offer good prices such as 50GB caps or uncapped accounts at affordable rates.
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Someone should go do his maths sometime
64kb may "seem" slow , but it possible to pull down over 20Gb in a month without any funny jippo'ing to get past the crap iburst capping software.
I know people that have pulled >50GB in a month.

All this for a measly R200/pm. You pay for what you get for. It is up to you to get the most out of what you have.
Now, you say electricity , wear and tear is a prob ?
I had a machine that to replace now would cost < R2000(If you buy cost). It ran a few vmware sessions ( Firewall and download ) , on 24/7 31 days a month. The machine itself is over 2 years old ... SO figure ..
 
My problem was Iburst's extreme throttling of torrents. When I was on Iburst I rarely got speeds above 4KB/s on torrents
 
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Gary Waterworth said:
Someone should go do his maths sometime
64kb may "seem" slow , but it possible to pull down over 20Gb in a month without any funny jippo'ing to get past the crap iburst capping software.
I know people that have pulled >50GB in a month.

All this for a measly R200/pm. You pay for what you get for. It is up to you to get the most out of what you have.
Now, you say electricity , wear and tear is a prob ?
I had a machine that to replace now would cost < R2000(If you buy cost). It ran a few vmware sessions ( Firewall and download ) , on 24/7 31 days a month. The machine itself is over 2 years old ... SO figure ..
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I would like to know how they do it. Last night my 2 gig was finished and i sarted to Dl from fileservers like rapid ect. If i DL more than one file at a time, it just cuts the 7-8 KB/s in half.
 
kaaskop said:
I would like to know how they do it. Last night my 2 gig was finished and i sarted to Dl from fileservers like rapid ect. If i DL more than one file at a time, it just cuts the 7-8 KB/s in half.
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Well yeah thats what would happen, you can only (in theory) pull a max of 7-8KB/s in total when you're throttled...Not 7KB/s per download or something if that's what you were hoping for :)
 
Gary Waterworth said:
Someone should go do his maths sometime
64kb may "seem" slow , but it possible to pull down over 20Gb in a month without any funny jippo'ing to get past the crap iburst capping software.
I know people that have pulled >50GB in a month.
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CR@P
Yes 20GB per month is the mathematical maximum, but thats i pure signalling speed. Remove about 25% of that for protocol overhead and wireless contention
And im sorry, to 50GB/m on a 64Kbs line is more than double the mathematical maximum. Achieving 20GB/m might still be theoretically possible if youre the only user on that tower, but 50 is just a lie....
 
Well I know I have had > 20GB in a month on occasion and I know of people that were constantly over that.
It is not only theoretical , but possible..
But not if you use P2P. That is shaped to hell and gone.
 
Gary Waterworth said:
Well I know I have had > 20GB in a month on occasion and I know of people that were constantly over that.
It is not only theoretical , but possible..
But not if you use P2P. That is shaped to hell and gone.
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To get that 20gigs your pc would have to be on 24/7 or you would have to do that other thing that enables you to get better speeds.
 
iBurst sometimes opens the system up so that it's uncapped. It is possible to do many many GBs.
However you can't rely on that. At 64kbps you can only do 64k x 60 (sec) x 60 (min) x 24 (hr) x 30 (d) = 165,888,000kb (kilobits) = 20,736,000KB (kilo bytes) every 30 days 24/7 downloading.

In theory it's worth it but honestly that leaves your modem tied down to a queued Rapid/MU account. You'll need a dedicated box to run 24/7 chewing power with a harddrive spinning virtually non-stop since 64k is written to it every second. If you switch off the screen you maybe will save some money on power but you are still burning a lot of electricity.

Equipment wear and tear is an issue, I don't want to scr-w up my notebook with ext drive by having it powered on 24/7, you know for a few gigs.

I think UNCAPPED ADSL is cheaper. You get 384kbps which is 6 times more or 120GB per month of downloads for a little bit more.
 
R449 (SAINET's current offering) - say R50 (your package subscription fee) - R99 (your package data fee)

This is R300. That is what your competitors are asking for a competing product. I would argue that this is a good starting point.
 
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