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well im back.... been gone now for a couple of months since clinton came to fetch my modem and they promised to take me off the baddie list. i used to be somebody else but changed my alias so sentech doesnt know its me now. reason im back.... i need wireless broadband (again) and i know they still all crap, but seriously need some advice, 3g,burst or sentech? i have to be mobile, email, surfing, odd download, no gaming, minimul p2p and thats it... adsl is not an option here. im thinking even with all their crap sentech is still the way to go, bigger cap, better coverage etc????

you dont have to warn me about the probs, i know them all. im just comparing services, been out of touch for too long now.

thanks guys :D
 
iburst has far more superior coverage than sentech could ever dream off, and it's fast. they will be implementing a cap though, but who cares. it's twice as fast as adsl and sentech's 512k package, and cheaper.

You dont sound like you mind a cap, so go iburst. totally mobile, so much so, you can drive down the n1 while downloading ****
 
wow im blown away by the involvement of iburst staff on the myadsl forum..... me swings a bit their way...
 
if you've every dealt with Sentech support, try calling iburst support. It's like comparing a donkey to a race horse
 
??? noone. are you saying iburst support better or worse than sentech?

oh and my mtn cellphone now has an advert rolling across the screen saying... yello broadband. i called mtn advanced support and they say the service will be up and running by april and it will be better than vodas 3g..... anyone heard more details?
 
My personal opinion is that iBurst will end up exactly like Sentech, here is the scenario the way I see it:

- iBurst is great now, just like Sentech was great in the beginning. I was one of their first subscribers on MyWireless 128 and it was a dream, I thought "Finally, true broadband in SA". I would download constantly at 16KB/s and it was sweeeet.

- iBurst will get more users, just like Sentech got more users. And, like Sentech, money is more important than happy customers - they will not be able to get more bandwidth and will start playing with contention ratios, caps and other crap to equal it out.

- iBurst becomes iBust. Too many users, not enough bandwidth, staff, etc. - same as good old Sentech.

I hope I'm wrong, but the fact that I found out about iBurst by them SPAMMING ME doesn't make me all too trusting of them. Did anyone else get the iBurst spam mail? I wasn't impressed. I wonder if it has anything to do with the Sentech subscriber-details leak last year. Hmmmm....

In short, the root of the problem is that South Africa doesn't have enough bandwidth available to make any solution viable at the moment. Until our country finds a way to make bandwidth more financially viable, there will be no good choice.

But if I had to choose between the two I would go with Sentech, for the simple reason that they have been around longer and will probably sort out their crap sooner.
 
I'm a ex-MyWireless customer who like many others, gave up with Sentech.
in my case, in August last year.
I have again started testing MW (after a 5 month break), and can confirm that
there is a noticeable improvement in this network…. with many of my old issues now resolved.
The helpdesk too is vastly improved and there is now a definite turnaround in attitude.
Sentech may not be perfect (their Management concerns me), but I will in all probability reactivate my contract soon!
 
ZA has plenty of local and international bandwidth (SAT3 ~ 120 gbps) ... its not the capacity, its the (international) price!
 
hArTh said:
ZA has plenty of local and international bandwidth (SAT3 ~ 120 gbps) ... its not the capacity, its the (international) price!
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Does anyone know what percentage of 120gbps We are using at the moment ,during peak hours ?
 
Not true. It's carries a substantial amount of data including the bulk
of ip traffic into and out of SA.
 
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