Iburst Contract Renewal. Why?

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iBurst just contacted me stating my contract is up for renewal.

Why should I renew if I own the modem after the 24 months? With cellphone contracts it's awesome because you get to choose a newer better cellphones. From what I've seen on the forums locking yourself into a 24 month contract for a silly ‘Double Your Data’ for only 6 months makes no sense with the way things are moving.

Why should I renew? Makes no sense?
 
No need to renew contract for another 24 months. You can just pay on a month to month basis after your initial 24 months period and that way, you can cancel at any time if you wish.
 
What are rates for month-to-month? Is it me or they are horribly overpriced than contact rates?
 
Suspected as much, lets see what they say about leaving it as is without signing for another 24 months for no good reason....
 
Jagtiger said:
What are rates for month-to-month? Is it me or they are horribly overpriced than contact rates?
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They are the same minus the overpriced modem. It actually works out cheaper the pay the modem cash and go for month to month from the begining instead of signing any contracts.
 
Don't renew your contract, go month2month. The ISPs are always changing, don't be stuck with an ISP for 2 years.
 
Where I can find rates on their website? They have overpriced pre-paid offer, nothing about month-to-month on their standard page, which says "contracts only".
 
I wouldn't renew right now - at least not on a 24 month contract. With iBurst as it is, it's not a sane choice. It's nice, this 'free' top-up...but let's wait and see how long it lasts before going too gaga over it...but unless Rooi's hint that March (I think?) may bring interesting changes, useful ones, I would go onto a month-to-month set-up. I like the idea of more bandwidth, but to be honest what I want coupled to it is speed - am sick to death of waiting three, four hours for a 200 MB download. That said, I also have to point out that at the moment, my WebAfrica ADSL account, via *sob* Telkom, is about a third of the speed of my iBurst account. Supposedly we're on a 10 MB line, but have been syncing at 1274 for the past three months. And we route from Randburg CBD, via Pretoria North...before we head to Cape Town and out to the Internet. And Telkom tells me there is nothing strange about that. So be careful choosing your lesser of the two evils...
 
Durandal said:
I wouldn't renew right now - at least not on a 24 month contract. With iBurst as it is, it's not a sane choice. It's nice, this 'free' top-up...but let's wait and see how long it lasts before going too gaga over it...but unless Rooi's hint that March (I think?) may bring interesting changes, useful ones, I would go onto a month-to-month set-up. I like the idea of more bandwidth, but to be honest what I want coupled to it is speed - am sick to death of waiting three, four hours for a 200 MB download. That said, I also have to point out that at the moment, my WebAfrica ADSL account, via *sob* Telkom, is about a third of the speed of my iBurst account. Supposedly we're on a 10 MB line, but have been syncing at 1274 for the past three months. And we route from Randburg CBD, via Pretoria North...before we head to Cape Town and out to the Internet. And Telkom tells me there is nothing strange about that. So be careful choosing your lesser of the two evils...
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That sounds like a compliment? BTW: No Telkom from home to the world on iBurst.

Typically, I use Downthemall on Firefox and my downloads are fast.
 
Durandal said:
And we route from Randburg CBD, via Pretoria North...before we head to Cape Town and out to the Internet. And Telkom tells me there is nothing strange about that. So be careful choosing your lesser of the two evils...
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On the topic of routing, in the past four years I've been wireless, first MTN, then Vodacom, then iBurst and now concurrently Cell-C. I'm in Cape Town and when I want to connect to my servers at work, all the other ISPs route my traffic via Joburg. 5 hops to my servers on iBurst! :D

Back on topic, what do iBurst offer for someone renewing a contract? Since the new double caps, does one now get quadruple data for the first six months?
 
Here what I was talking about:

Notes:

* These prices apply to new and migrated contracts only.
 
r00igev@@r said:
That sounds like a compliment? BTW: No Telkom from home to the world on iBurst.

Typically, I use Downthemall on Firefox and my downloads are fast.
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+1 add the the scheduler to downthemall, and i set all my downloads to only download during happy hour, and most nights i get full speed, and average about 2gigs a night
 
r00igev@@r said:
That sounds like a compliment? BTW: No Telkom from home to the world on iBurst.

Typically, I use Downthemall on Firefox and my downloads are fast.
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Hehe! Yes, it is, actually. Currently my iBurst outperforms the ADSL at work hands-down. If I was forced to switch from iBurst to ADSL I'd actually consider it a downgrade!
 
Durandal said:
Hehe! Yes, it is, actually. Currently my iBurst outperforms the ADSL at work hands-down. If I was forced to switch from iBurst to ADSL I'd actually consider it a downgrade!
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Yes, but with how many people are you sharing that ADSL connection? :erm:
 
SharkBait said:
Yes, but with how many people are you sharing that ADSL connection? :erm:
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We had iBurst when we first moved to the Randburg CBD but the speed was appalling and the service was unreliable. Then when it became available, we switched to ADSL. Was great at first, but things have just got worse and worse over the past year. As Shark says, they most likely have 80 000 businesses using same line, knowing Telkom. Calling the fault in was a laugh from the get-go: First I ask the guy why we are being routed from Randburg, via Pretoria North, to Cape Town (Web Africa). No, he tells me, their system chooses the best route. Then he tells me that our 10 MB line is 4. So I query and he tells me that yes, it's a 10 MB line, 'but their system chooses the speed best for me'... I think we were syncing at 1275. It improved for about an hour, but it's rubbish again today.
 
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