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Just wanted to share my ideas on why I think the caps dont bother me, just my 2c, I dont expect anyone to agree with me, nor do i want to start any fights or arguments
Okay, my understanding is that ADSL is aimed at the average home user and the SOHO market. My ADSL experiences have so far been pretty good, a step in the right direction compared to 56k. I will generally refer to ADSL from a small business perspective and why I think it really is possibly a good solution for a small business.
ADSL gives SOHO businesses peace of mind from a cost point of view as costs are fixed, something you can stick into the budget unlike the traditional ISDN and 56k dial-ups.
In incorrectly configured ISDN / 56k connection used for business purposes easily run Telkom bills up to R10k/m. Does that peace of mind not make up for some of the cost of an ADSL line.
For SOHO businesses, paying R1700 for a 9Gb cap, I think is quite a good deal. I think 9gb worth of data transfer is quite substantial for a SOHO PROVIDED that data transfer is LEGITIMATE LEGAL traffic used for business purposes.
By LEGITIMATE & Legal, I mean no illegal P2P traffic, illegal software downloads from warez sites, MP3's, DivX rips, hacked games etc, etc. Isn't this where a lot of the large data transfers happen?
Question: Is R1000 - R1700 that bad if you benefit from downloading say, a DivX rip of a movie. 700Mb x4 gives you 2.8Gb, possibly 4 decent DVD rips. If you had to buy these DVD's in our stores, that would set you back say, R1100. What about the time and effort it would have taken you to go and get that stuff. The same goes for music, games, software etc., but the point is, it's illegal content anyway, so in my screwed up mind, that type of content shouldnt really be included when considering whether you got your value for money for 3Gb of transfer.
The illegal trasfers issue aside, how long would it take you to download 3Gb (6Gb, 9Gb) over a 56k line? I'd say about 150 hours for 3Gb? I would think being permanently connected on the telephone line will also cost quite a bit, close to or more than what you would have paid if you did it with ADSL. Time is money, how much time does ADSL save you because downloads are generally much faster? (from my experience)
If your business requires hosting of web servers, requires large amounts of traffic to be transferred, hosts ftp sites that clients connect to etc, etc, then ADSL isnt the solution, in South Africa at least. You need to match the right solution for the type and size of network, the larger your network, the more its going to cost you.
For SOHO's, you can get around the dynamic IP issue and still get your users to POP their mail off the office server, or use remote desktop, or even use VPN over the ADSL link.
I dont think we can compare ourselves too closely to first world countries like the UK, USA and Australia yet, i think our infrastructure is just not at the same level and we don't the economies of scale they have. Just what i think, i probably don't know any better...
Remember, just my 2c
Just wanted to share my ideas on why I think the caps dont bother me, just my 2c, I dont expect anyone to agree with me, nor do i want to start any fights or arguments
Okay, my understanding is that ADSL is aimed at the average home user and the SOHO market. My ADSL experiences have so far been pretty good, a step in the right direction compared to 56k. I will generally refer to ADSL from a small business perspective and why I think it really is possibly a good solution for a small business.
ADSL gives SOHO businesses peace of mind from a cost point of view as costs are fixed, something you can stick into the budget unlike the traditional ISDN and 56k dial-ups.
In incorrectly configured ISDN / 56k connection used for business purposes easily run Telkom bills up to R10k/m. Does that peace of mind not make up for some of the cost of an ADSL line.
For SOHO businesses, paying R1700 for a 9Gb cap, I think is quite a good deal. I think 9gb worth of data transfer is quite substantial for a SOHO PROVIDED that data transfer is LEGITIMATE LEGAL traffic used for business purposes.
By LEGITIMATE & Legal, I mean no illegal P2P traffic, illegal software downloads from warez sites, MP3's, DivX rips, hacked games etc, etc. Isn't this where a lot of the large data transfers happen?
Question: Is R1000 - R1700 that bad if you benefit from downloading say, a DivX rip of a movie. 700Mb x4 gives you 2.8Gb, possibly 4 decent DVD rips. If you had to buy these DVD's in our stores, that would set you back say, R1100. What about the time and effort it would have taken you to go and get that stuff. The same goes for music, games, software etc., but the point is, it's illegal content anyway, so in my screwed up mind, that type of content shouldnt really be included when considering whether you got your value for money for 3Gb of transfer.
The illegal trasfers issue aside, how long would it take you to download 3Gb (6Gb, 9Gb) over a 56k line? I'd say about 150 hours for 3Gb? I would think being permanently connected on the telephone line will also cost quite a bit, close to or more than what you would have paid if you did it with ADSL. Time is money, how much time does ADSL save you because downloads are generally much faster? (from my experience)
If your business requires hosting of web servers, requires large amounts of traffic to be transferred, hosts ftp sites that clients connect to etc, etc, then ADSL isnt the solution, in South Africa at least. You need to match the right solution for the type and size of network, the larger your network, the more its going to cost you.
For SOHO's, you can get around the dynamic IP issue and still get your users to POP their mail off the office server, or use remote desktop, or even use VPN over the ADSL link.
I dont think we can compare ourselves too closely to first world countries like the UK, USA and Australia yet, i think our infrastructure is just not at the same level and we don't the economies of scale they have. Just what i think, i probably don't know any better...
Remember, just my 2c
