iBurst very slow

no, I'm not expecting it to be dirt cheap. The prices that they are charging at the moment, I feel, are "reasonable".

I don't mind paying R600 a month for a high-speed connection, but that's just me.

At the end of the day there is one company that is responsible for all the nonsense we have to go through wrt internet connectivity in SA... Telkom.
 
Actually, I do think that R200..R300 per month is reasonable and R700 is totally unreasonable. Add to that a higher (than ADSL) speed connection, that is throttled down to far less than it's potential, and you are restricted in what you can and cannot do with it, would you still say that R700 per month is reasonable?

PS: don't start talking about R454 per month, I am talking about what we can expect from April, seeing as it looks like we have a taste of what is to come.
 
that's what I'm saying IC - it's not worth R700 if we're going to be restricted and such... if they want to charge us R700, then it should be unrestricted

pipe dreams...
 
What really gets to me is that we are meant to get 64k and shaped services, we were all prepared for that, obviously the whiz kids at WBS could not get it right so they just killed the ports all together.
 
AFAIK, WBS have never mentioned what the contention on that 64K is going to be (perhaps it is 64K & we are all contending for it).
 
ic, thats very possible. If thats the case then WBS is Telkom version 2. :(
 
There is nothing wrong with the Iburst technology - its the application of it and the people that manage it. Believe me the Iburst technology seems much better than the 3G nonsense of Sensuck.
I have said it many times, I am willing to pay R500-600 for decent service with minimum interference in type of traffic and even with a cap, but then something decent like 6 - 10GB - I don't want to download the internet that gets very boring very quickly.
Tibby what technology did you adopt just out of curiosity.
 
aborg, I can only agree with you, iBurst seems quite sound as a technology, it is just this whole capping, shaping & to a lesser extent prioritisation thing that has me worried- shelling out R700 a month for a 3Gig limit, with Suckingtech-like shaped limiting of downloads, to a highly contended 64K.

Not fair IMO, if we are willing to pay R700 a month it should be better than ISDN and 56K.
 
Yep, I'll be sticking with ISDN for the moment, WBS can keep their faggy ass offerings. With ISDN at least I know what I'm getting, no shaping or capping and with InfinitCall it works out to less than these "broadband" offerings. The only downside is no surfing in the daytime during the week but I can live with that.
 
Side note: It seems that you all forget about 3 years ago what kind of internet connection R599 would get you :D Lets just be thankfull that we can finally enjoy a 24/7 connection for a fixed rate!

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Anybody used iBurst in Boksburg... namely Sunward Park etc.?
 
We haven't forgotten but when it is blatantly obvious that every player in the market is just out to bleed the public dry rather than help bridge the digital divide one loses faith very quickly.
 
nexushub said:
Side note: It seems that you all forget about 3 years ago what kind of internet connection R599 would get you :D Lets just be thankfull that we can finally enjoy a 24/7 connection for a fixed rate!
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Hmm i wonder what type of connection you could get overseas with that same price at the same period. Lets not make it acceptable now..
 
nexushub said:
Side note: It seems that you all forget about 3 years ago what kind of internet connection R599 would get you...
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Sorry mate, no idea what you are talking about, 3 years ago I didn't even look sideways at any ISP offering with that sort of pricetag :confused:
 
Perdition said:
We haven't forgotten but when it is blatantly obvious that every player in the market is just out to bleed the public dry rather than help bridge the digital divide one loses faith very quickly.
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Hey what are you talking about Perdition ???.

"Bridging the digital divide" ... ag please ... my poor bleeding liberal heart ... you just want to leech movies and mp3's and pay as little as possible just like the rest of us :).

We are really a priviledged lot in S.A .... able to afford a PC and the cost of 24/7 internet compared to the rest of the population and yet some of us are still not satisfied and keep on whinging because our porn don't download any faster.
 
tibby, you're missing the point: Those of us that DON'T download pr0n (like myself) still want a fast connection for browsing, so that I don't have to sit and wait for a page to load 'till the cows come home or wait for ages to download something from downloads.com - not everyone is a pirate!

Priviledged? You have GOT to be kidding me! Most people in SA can't afford a 24/7 connection and that's exactly the point we're trying to make: that it's unaffordable and out of reach for most people in SA.

Let's put aside broadband and 24/7 connections - let's talk about dial up. Not even that is affordable to some people! If it were, wouldn't more people have internet access?

Face it... it's a money-making mess... nothing more, nothing less.

Hey, that rhymes! :)
 
TheYak, you have yakd the nail on the head there.

I would like to add: my browsing experience is on an iBurst go-slow this morning- perhaps I am now contending for that 64K for http as well?

Also, most South African people cannot afford even a Telkom landline in this country, and I think that it is everyone's basic human right to have access to a landline (if they so choose), so arguments of priveleged few doesn't wash with me at all.
 
LOL @ "yakd"

Browsing was VERY slow for me last night. Didn't check this morning.

Are they capping allready, or is it still download-as-much-as-you-can?
 
This morning I am experiencing a definite problem trying to get anything done, and everything I'm doing is local http traffic (including 2 minuscule local downloads off the ICASA website for the updated VANS Gazette notice, and those took a decade to download as well).

Pages are taking about 60..90 seconds from the time of request to the time when iBurst sends the http to my PC (DUMeter is registering no traffic inbetween).

Initially I thought there might be a router and/or latency problem somewhere, but pings to these local sites are averaging on 95ms, so I can only conclude that I am being capped in a major way.

Internet Banking- I cannot even transfer money due to the lag as I am being logged off automatically in mid-transfer.

Added: Just tried international browsing - even slower - looking at 120 seconds before the page can be rendered.

This is actually waaaaaay worse than 56K, at least you can do what you need to on dial-up, with this you can do virtually nothing, and it is even slower than dial-up. My guess, I'm contending for that 64K.

Am I the only one experiencing this ATM, or are you not able to get here to post about how awfully contended your browsing has become?
 
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I am at work at the moment, so I can't check. I'll have to check tonight at home. I'll let you know.

If what you're experiencing is their idea of a cap - they better wake up! There's no way that that is 64k contended!

The downhill spiral has begun... :(
 
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