Free SEACOM testing

[freeek]

someone do some gaming latency tests

 

[johndoe1983]

Can we bring our own laptops?

 

[LordFoom]

Only in South Africa will people moan about something given away for free.

They're not "giving" anything away - they're taunting us!

 

[labratza]

lol so take it everyone is taking leave for that week no one is going to be at work

 

[LazyLion]

They're not "giving" anything away - they're taunting us!

At the week-long public exhibition visitors will be able to experience the SEACOM service first hand through free broadband connections which users can test. There will be 155 Mbps of bandwidth collectively for the event which will include international bandwidth provisioning by SEACOM.

 

[nictron]

It's like a fancy car being displayed that only the rich few in the world could afford.

What the point if DATA is at it's current cost!

I honestly don't understand our telecoms, it's been proven that we will use the data if priced correctly. What is stopping Telkom, Neotel, VC and MTN from just supplying the data at a lower cost.

Market penetration will be higher as well as we will download more for the same buck, their revenue streams will improve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not decline :-(

 

[Hunted]

um, I think they are trying to get more ISPs and customers on board... that is actually a good thing.

Only in South Africa will people moan about something given away for free.

Soz Off topic, Garyvdh, Sept is here, when and we going to hear about the good news you were talking about, surely it wasn't the Webafrica going to a Tier 1 ISP?

The news still going to come, I recall it was Telkom related?

 

[drukkie]

pointless....we know how fast it must be....

 

[LazyLion]

Soz Off topic, Garyvdh, Sept is here, when and we going to hear about the good news you were talking about, surely it wasn't the Webafrica going to a Tier 1 ISP?

The news still going to come, I recall it was Telkom related?

um, I said October... not September. Talk to me at the end of October.

 

[Hunted]

um, I said October... not September. Talk to me at the end of October.

Ooo, soz apologies.... /me makes note

 

[Nutty Grandad]

Ummm

were it not for the "freak shows" imagine how DULL your SA IT life could be!

 

[Johan449]

Is that 155Mbps on the existing fibre ring or did they lay it for this event?

Imagine, a shopping mall with more bandwidth than the whole of SA

 

[Optimal01]

Hopefully its wireless aswell *searches for old cantenna*

 

[johndoe1983]

cant wait, live 1 road away from it! If its open to public, I'll open a 4 days ISP from my place. haha

 

[ldmelsa]

you guys are killing me
what is a distro?

 

[savage]

Pointless excersize untill the bigger players wake up and smell the coffee... Nothing in this country will change untill this per MB pricing regime goes bonkers.

None of them buy bandwidth based on per MB - it's a cash sucking monkey making donkey.

 

[pmbellis]

Long lunch breaks ...

I work a block away! HeHe ...

 

[tjunyat]

What's the point of this demonstration? Anyone whose been overseas knows what true/real broadband is and this is merely taunting everyone to show what we can't/don't have and are unlikely to in the near future.
Sure, in 5-10 years time we _might_ have something resembling true broadband, but we might also have flying cars. No one is holding their breath.

 

[gregmcc]

So now we have to queue up like the unemployed to go and get 'free' highspeed bandwidth.

 

[porchrat]

what is a distro?

It is a kind of yoghurt.