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Bern
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Sounds awesome! Finally a metro that actually progresses
They are not part of Cape Town Metro, rather District Winelands Municipality - part of the reason the CoCT fibre isn't going to Stellenbosch as initially planned, they weren't sure how to sort out the handover point etc. Bloody frustrating that Winelands District Muni are a bit behind CT Metro, but hopefully it improves. They could have been linking fibre to CT shortly and basically being able to connect directly to ISPs and international bandwidth. Not to mention the multitude of additional benefits. Not sure if the TENET connection is DFA fibre or their own link, but pity they couldn't leverage something here
Rouxenator
Dank meme lord
I doubt that we will get coverage in Welgevonden, but then again if they cover places like Pniel and Pnoes then we should get it.
Edit : Forgot to mention, there is free internet in and around my house, just look for the "FreeInternet" SSID
Edit : Forgot to mention, there is free internet in and around my house, just look for the "FreeInternet" SSID
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Skerminkel
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Stellenbosch Municipality rather. The District Municipality is not involved. The DM's only supply services to rural areas, but are being phased out slowly.
That is more than enough, unless you are a ship hunter!
purpleonlineadmin
Senior Member
Stellenbosch are leaders and not followers. This is a great move, we need more visionaries as far as surpassing the "Well we in South Africa so it can't be done" mentality.
ajax
Executive Member
Yippee
EDIT: 1 mbit/sec and 500 MB per day. That's just awesome.
EDIT: 1 mbit/sec and 500 MB per day. That's just awesome.
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simbao53
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Wow, Way to go! I must say, I never saw this coming but wow! What a great Development! Way to go! Way to go Venter!
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Hope they fare better than we did in PTA.
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/2002-free-wifi-access-in-tshwane-to-end.html
The internal politics ruined it.
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/2002-free-wifi-access-in-tshwane-to-end.html
The internal politics ruined it.
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Romito
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Now if only all Municipal Managers had this kind of foward thinking....Great news for stellenbosch.
Is this per person, or to be shared by everyone?
now to get one of the Stellenbosch ct-wuggers to inject that free internet into the our network.
Because every resource has to be raped.
I was waiting for this. I said it tongue in cheek.
Stellenbosch gets free 1Mbps while I have to pay a few hundred rand a month for my 384Kbps. That hardly seems fair
If, as I suspect (because the article does not mention this), this is a shared resource, you are actually better of with your 384kbps ADSL
facepalm\
Dude this absolutely free. before you even use your bandwith you have to pay telscum almost R300. here you get a free connection and 500mg for moehala
skateboardt
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awesome initiative
big up's
big up's
MightyMuffinMan
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Its a bad move IMO. The serice will become saturated and will result in less clients to other actual businesses that proide the service. Thus the businesses will increase their costs to meet ends meet or close down.
Soon stellenbosch will have only one wifi network thats gonna be saturated.
Rouxenator
Dank meme lord
Still beats no wifi network that is not saturated.