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According to Ibursts website Iburst is now offering its subscribers an anti virus package at a excellent price.Excellent idea.There are 1or 2 slight problems though.

Anyone not running an anti virus already for which live updates are still on subscription is not very clever.

There are a number of free anti virus packages combined with anti-spyware already available to home users.

I would be very happy if Iburst was to rather address the current IP address problems,frequent disconnections and not being able to access certain sites with certain IP addresses instead.Oh and addressing the slow down in speeds due to tower saturation over the last month would also be nice.
 
Well, its a start?

This is nice for new users, not that im going to use it.

The rest of the problems are getting worked onslowly I guess, the tower saturation can only be fixed by new towers, which Iburst is doing prety quickly. And the IP adress problems for web sites was resolved a few hours after it happened right? I was never affected anyway, I dont think thats a real network problem, it doesnt happen very often.

The product is what needs work now.
 
placebo said:
There are a number of free anti virus packages combined with anti-spyware already available to home users.
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I agree with this. I am on BitDefender and it delivers quality scanning and protection - moved from Norton after a spyware/adware attack that could not be removed by the SymantecAV-:eek: . BitdefenderPro is great for home users. I dont trust what iBurst is offering at the moment.
 
i strongly agree with you on that. if feels like the iBurst farmer is milking us more and more and not giving us enough greens to support the milking sessions :eek:
 
Nice great Idea but Mcafee... urm thanks I'lll pass
Latest news
iBurst Protects Subscribers With Security Suite
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
iBurst has concluded an agreement with McAfee, the largest dedicated computer security company in the world, to provide the acclaimed McAfee VirusScan range of products to iBurst subscribers.
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bitdefender FTW!!!!
 
Oh, I see this is on th front of the site now, but it has been on one of the pages since last week some time.

Anyway, I see another two basestaions went up for this week. Iburst at least are moving on along, and hopefully the product changes will come soon.
its nice to be able to log onto your providers site and see new thigns happenign every week, Sentech and Telkom hardly have any news in a normal month.
 
This is the kind of value added service that is meaningless - my bank offers the same thing. I've been using free alternatives for years - AVG and Kerio coupled with ABBIE (any browser but IE) - and have never had a problem. Come to think of it, if they're into feel good exercises that will cost them virtually nothing, they should promote Firefox and offer it as a download from their servers.

That said, I'm generally satisfied with iBurst because I see them more as an Internet Connectivity Provider rather than an Internet Service Provider. I have never even logged in to my e-mail account (and their SMTP server sucks) because there are better alternatives. However, one thing that would make me very happy would be a decent news server. Oh, and cheaper bandwidth too.
 
It is meaningless to you, and me for that matter, but the majority of the people they sign up have used dial up or had no internet before his nad need some sort of protection, they have no idea bout free alternatives and this makes it easier and cheaper for them.

They also simply dont use ABBIE, however sad it is. So they need it :p
 
I great way to be proactive would be to increase the 3gig cap to 9 gigs, 6 to 12 gigs and 9 to 18gigs. I got capped 3 days ago it's going to be a long month. Anyone here get good torrent speeds while capped? I'm from cpt and I tried the kickass hub, it's slow and I got kicked out for some reason.
 
Hey man, I love you.

You get slow speeds on the hub because it only works for people in the same main areas. Like JHB to JHb, which is what its mainly used for these days. But come on later on and ill be there, im also from cape town, we should get good speeds between each other, and the 1 other CPT guy. (okay he doesnt exist :()

You shouldnt really get good torrent speeds, all p2p is supposed to be dead once capped, oinly soulseek (great for music) and any DC++ hub works. DC++ is generally enough.

You can just try straight up http downloads, they work realyl well capped, and trust me you can find most stuff you want on http.
 
AVG and the SP2 firewall can be quite effective as well.
 
I am running exceptionally short of patience with Iburst to the extent I no longer know which thread to use.In starting this thread I was being totaly sarcastic about I burst and its proactiveness.Those are the words of Allan knott-Craig in the detailed write up of this great new product.Since Saturday I cannot even access my anti virus updates easily nor WWW.timeson line .co.uk/global with the following IP addresses from Iburst.

196.2.103.123
196.2.108.254
196.2.101.42
Finally accessed both with 41.208.195.54.Telkom speed rating 51,4 Kilobytes/sec.Iburst become proactive in the problem areas not those of little meaning.
 
placebo said:
196.2.103.123
196.2.108.254
196.2.101.42
Finally accessed both with 41.208.195.54.Telkom speed rating 51,4 Kilobytes/sec.Iburst become proactive in the problem areas not those of little meaning.
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Any idea why will you access with a particular range and not with the other?

Is'nt macfee SA or who ever distributing the product locally benefiting from the deal, IMO iBurst is not making much out of the Value Added Products.
 
I have no idea.I did not have these problems 10 days ago.Went away for 7 days and came back to them.I have always used what I consider a reasonable anti virus and am happy to pay for it.My local connections are good but not overseas.I still have 2,84GB of my 3 GB cap left.That therefore is not the problem.
 
Placebo I feel your pain, I too actually just see no point in ranting on tons of threads.

I have worse speeds than you, my rating is about 44kbps! Shocking, worse than dial-up, frequent disconnects as well, I'm in Sunninghill which is supposed to have had coverage improved on the 5th of this month?

I get from 3 - 5 signal indicators on my modem, sometimes nothing, speeds improve a little late at night.

I have managed to use about 300mb of my bandwidth this month.

I have to ask iBurst, why gloat about expanding to places like PE, when you can't even cover f&*%ing Sunninghill for gods sake?

As for McAfee? What a joke, they must think we are even stupider than we seem. I bet "they" all sit at a boardroom table, counting our cash, thinking what crap shall be sell to these fools next, "Oh I know, lets sell them an utterly useless anti-virus program this week and tell them it's free, that would be really funny!" Nothing in this world is ever for free, business' don't give stuff away, it doesn't make sense, profit is the only aim.

I personally don't think they should be allowed to market iBurst as "broadband" when it's not guaranteed you'll actually achieve these speeds, which is clearly the case with us.

Ah fook it, just wasting time writing this crap!
 
The divergent nature of this service always surprises me. I can't imagine how pissed off I would be if I was getting 44kbps.

As a matter of interets undefined, what is your area speed suppposed to be in terms of the coverage map?
 
mashu said:
However, one thing that would make me very happy would be a decent news server.
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You tried news.uunet.co.za? Works fine and fast for me via Iburst. I don't use news servers much, so I can't comment on whether it is "decent" or not.
 
Gatecrasher said:
You tried news.uunet.co.za? Works fine and fast for me via Iburst. I don't use news servers much, so I can't comment on whether it is "decent" or not.
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No, I didn't know that we had direct access to any news server - I'll try it out. Thanks very much for the info.
 
Well news.uunet.co.za doesnt work for me? I guess it depends if you use them as your bandwidth provider?

It would have been great if it did work though, a nice plus for iburst, but sadly.. no.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
Well news.uunet.co.za doesnt work for me? I guess it depends if you use them as your bandwidth provider?

It would have been great if it did work though, a nice plus for iburst, but sadly.. no.
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Hmmm, so why does it work for me? It's not like I have an option to use Verison or IS or SAIX. Verison are an Iburst business partner, the principal bandwidth suppliers, hence we get to use their news service.

Maybe you need to use your Iburst/wbs email address when creating the account in your mail/news app.
 
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