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simons said:
I was on Holiday in Zanzibar and the hotel i was staying at used this as there internet connection... They were paying 80USD pm for a 1MB/s connection
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That looks interesting, but I gotta say that it is screwing with my mind right now, this service is offered in zimbabwe of all places, probably the most backward country in Africa ... yet it is NOT offered in South Africa, probably the most forward and developed country in Africa.

And to make it worse, if I leave SA to go and buy one of these systems and set it up in SA, it is considered a crime. We have more work to do than I thought.
 
you'd prob have to tell them you live outside of SA - telkom is still over protected by the gov (still shareholders you see).
 
latency isnt a problem (I'm not a gamer) so if there's the chance of quietly ending up with a 1meg connection and no cap (or a 'cap' at 100 -200 gigs, followed by a genuine 'soft' throttle down to 512 or higher :P ) each month for a total of say 1500 bux, then I'd be happy. Initial setup costs would, I guess, require dish, and box to control it and pass info back n forth. Whatever prices and specific specs these individual things are, I'm sure they're generic and can be purchased individually for fairly cheap rates either in US, or Asia.

EDIT: Once the initial setup is done, if the above $ price quoted is right - then it means you can have a 1meg connection for $80.00 = R527.47 per month :)
So its just a case of hearing what the b/w limitations,(ie: cap) consists of..

If this local 'government' and their b3tch Telkom don't want to behave, then one has to use superior magic and technology to just bypass them, and ignore them.
 
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LoneGunman said:
EDIT: Once the initial setup is done, if the above $ price quoted is right - then it means you can have a 1meg connection for $80.00 = R527.47 per month :)
So its just a case of hearing what the b/w limitations,(ie: cap) consists of..

If this local 'government' and their b3tch Telkom don't want to behave, then one has to use superior magic and technology to just bypass them, and ignore them.
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Good plan - going to keep us informed of your findings?
 
I like the LoneGunman's thinking - hey last I heard, South Africa is supposed to be a free country, why can't one set up a satellite dish for internet usage from a provider outside the country ... all you are doing is happening to "catch" those satellite signals hitting your dish.

Now I know that is probably not legal, so no one has to correct me on this ... but it seems to me those are the laws the governement need to change, that will force those stubborn Telkom b@strds into submission to their clients.
 
Now how would the international link work on this - do these guys have their own sub-marine cables, or do they have their own satellites?

If they have their own international link, there is potential for quicker international downloads. :D
 
I think they simply book channels on existing satellites, and use any old b/w that they've bought, to relay the required speeds through the sats - kind've a larger scale version of what local resellers are doing with telkom's single pipe..

It got passed to me, so let me pass it on - have a look at the growing invisible networks over Africa (and SA) - see the diagrams showing the different sat services footprints: (prices seem a little steep, compared to that figure of $80 a month once the service is installed, that was mentioned earlier)

have a look at http://www.satsig.net/ivsat-africa.htm
 
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