How much International Bandwidth does Sentech have

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Anyone know for a fact or can take a wild guess?

I read somewhere someone said M-Web has 40 Mb/s?

How do Sentech compare as they can <b>potentially</b> have much more clients than M-Web?
 
Heya Mean Monster...

I could be way off the mark... Remember that Sentech is a contended service... 30:1 if I recall. This could possibly mean that if Sentech's international bandwidth pipe is saturated and there are 30 512K sentech users downloading from overseas, their download speeds could theoretically be 512K / 30! Which would equate to around 17K... I could be wrong... its just a thought :)
 
I would think that for every 30th 128K customer, they will try purchase another 128K from IS... and so on for 256K and 512K. But you are right... I dont think IS has an unlimited supply! I think that recently IS bought the last remaining available bandwidth from the SAT2 cable... perhaps a large portion of that has gone to Sentech! If im not mistaken, they bought between 30 and 40 mb/s I think... Im just relying on memory and have no source to give you. Perhaps someone else would know
 
It is an easy calculation. Take x number of MyWi users (say 2000). Multiply x by about 750 (a guestimate average that each user pays) so you would have R1.5mil. Now take 20% of that and ask telkom what that amount will buy on SAT3. So effectively, R0.3mil which in Telkom terms is about 10Mbps (or less).

I dont know if this is accurate at all. But it might make sense when you divide 10Mbps by 2000 = 5kbps each.

Correct me if wrong. The 20% figure may even be optimistic. Those Benz's are costly.
 
you forget, bandwidth from Telkom is a premium.

Actually, in South Africa corruption and backhanding is the premium.

Added to my little calculation above is the fact that there is a R500 startup cost (multiply by 2000). So dont come with the infrastructure excuse.

Put another way, if Telkom halved their bandwidth retail costs, what kind of reduction do you think we as MyWireless subscribers would get in monthly dues? (assuming the contract allowed a reduction).
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Mean_Monster</i>
I read somewhere someone said M-Web has 40 Mb/s?
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I should hope we aren't comparing our situation with an ISP renowned for overpricing and underservicing in regards to bandwidth (I say underserviced only in regards to bandwidth, as their portal is quite useful for the average user)
 
My worst speeds I get is around 17-29kb/s average, very unstable though, shoots up to 55kb/s and drops back down to 14-19kb/s

thats the slowest, the last 3 months when you guys started experiencing problems, I started to get 45-55kb/s, before that it used to shoot up to 67kb/s and sometimes 88-96kb/s (but only for short bursts)

downloading constantly without failing, a 512k user can easily hit 90 gig a month

Help save the bandwidth. Decent download speeds for TheRodent! Stop downloading now!!!
 
Don't forget that a certain percentage of the amount we pay has to go into training the orcs to read and write.
 
I just wish sentech would wise up and start using their satelites for bandwidth, I was told they were going to use their "virtually unlimited" satelite bandwidth and there should be no issue with it, but when we actually got MyWireless, TheRodent was the first to realise and post, that indeed they are peering through ONLY IS

What their reasons are for not using the huge amount of bandwidth available to them is beyond me...

Help save the bandwidth. Decent download speeds for TheRodent! Stop downloading now!!!
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by noone</i>
<br />I just wish sentech would wise up and start using their satelites for bandwidth, I was told they were going to use their "virtually unlimited" satelite bandwidth and there should be no issue with it, but when we actually got MyWireless, TheRodent was the first to realise and post, that indeed they are peering through ONLY IS

What their reasons are for not using the huge amount of bandwidth available to them is beyond me...

Help save the bandwidth. Decent download speeds for TheRodent! Stop downloading now!!!
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Would be great if ISPs could split latency sensitive traffic over sat3 and the rest over sat. Best of both worlds ...

I take it that int sat bandwdith is cheaper than sat3?

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...if you have your own satelites, yea

from what I know (which is very little) satelites aren't subject to constraints normally experienced by cable, hence the term VIRTUALLY unlimited bandwidth

Help save the bandwidth. Decent download speeds for TheRodent! Stop downloading now!!!
 
Sentech had direct contracts with Level3(USA) as well as with BT(UK)
for international bandwidth. (These were negotiated some time back by
their then Multimedia Group Executive Angelo Roussos - if I recall)
I wish I knew what Sentech is actually doing with this bandwidth,
as the initial plan was to become less reliant on IS??

(Last year Angelo apparently got fustrated with the Executive Management and left the company).

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Id get frustrated too with those bunch of morons running the company... nice to have a monopoly of something in this country...

Help save the bandwidth. Decent download speeds for TheRodent! Stop downloading now!!!
 
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