Even Microsoft knows about SA's bandwidth

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This excerpt from an email our company's IT nerd received from Mircrosoft:
Microsoft Corporation announced the release of Windows Service Pack 2 on August the 6th.
In the South African market, given our unique bandwidth challenges, we are encouraging our customers install Windows XP Service Pack 2 via CD. These CDs will be available in September and will be shipped to you free of charge. For more information, please send an email to [email protected], call our call centre on 0860-CALL-MS (2255 67) or visit www.microsoft.com/southafrica/security.
 
I heard that Service Pack 2 was going to be available on CD. Thanks to Telkom, if I downloaded it, I would be capped well before the end of the month. Quite ridiculous, isn't it? Those Telkom monkeys didn't put much thought into the 3GB cap, did they?


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United we stand!
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They don't put much thought into anything other than management's bonuses...

Arzy
 
LOL

This is funny. Just another example of how Telkom is pulling is back into the stone-age....

Cheerio
Antowan

### What we need in South Africa is cheap 24/7, always on Internet for under R300 a month. ###
 
Well, like I said in a post many months ago, there is no problem... for those in SA who have the bucks.[B)]
They can just buy their way out of the ****. An interesting question then: Is there a problem?
I guess it depends on your relative position (in the big picture), knowledge, ability etc.. This is why most of us can't imagine how the result of the Telkom Markinor survey came out the way it did.[xx(]<hr noshade size="1">

Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.
 
With regards to SP2, I have heard (not the most reliable source, but nevertheless) that it has got quite a few messups in it, e.g It doesn't allow you to play certain games, etc.

Anyone know about this?

Chow, Nick

Nick Smit
broadband@nicksmit dot za dot net
 
With SP2 the biggest issue is that the firewall is on by default. As an example - "Counter Strike: source beta" starts loading and then seems to hang ... the damn firewall pops up but doesnt take focus so you don't notice that the firewall is asking if it should allow access for hl2.exe to get internet access....

Other than than the firewall I don't see SP2 influencing game play too much.

<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1"><div align="right">Am I surprised they missed their origional deadline for 256K ... <b>nope</b>.
Will they make the 128/512K deadline ... hope so for their sake
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The trouble is there is a very serious side to this. I needed a technical manual from the USA. It is a free download from their site but the file is 200 mbs or something. You want to hear the sniggers when you explain to them why you cannot download it and they say you're the only person who orders the CD version because you cannot download it.

"What, you guys pay that for for what ???" "Are you joking!!'

No Uncle Sam, I ain't.

When the next one is available my brother in the UK can D/L it and burn a CD for me. That's what Telkom have done to SA. Made basic communications unworkable, expensive and backward.
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by keng</i>
<br />As file sizes grow, one of these days, it will be cheaper to fly to UK and cut the CD yourself.[:D]
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Not with the rising petrol price[:o)]
 
look at sweden, i bet one person in his flat has more bandwidth than all the sentech users put together.

when south africa turns into the internet zimbabwe, i hope they burn all of telskum management with flesh eating acid in a public display of hatred.

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death - life is only a dream - and we're the imagination of ourselves.” – Bill Hicks
 
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