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Ou grote
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There`s probably more than 500 people in SA who are familiar with Usenet...
They don`t all post here.
I`ve been using it for around 5 years, although on dialup.
I`m sure things like MAME32, Torrents and The!Checker are big secrets as well, not
many people know about them.
Perhaps if more people used newshost, things would get quicker.
Everyone was a n00b at some stage.
They don`t all post here.
I`ve been using it for around 5 years, although on dialup.
I`m sure things like MAME32, Torrents and The!Checker are big secrets as well, not
many people know about them.
Perhaps if more people used newshost, things would get quicker.
Everyone was a n00b at some stage.
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...maybe the "more" use proper binary servers like giganews with guaranteed throughput and 200 days retention ?
Rocket-Boy
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Just the opposite happened!
Agreed!
I think we should change chocolate to marklar because then every marklar would use marklar but not marklar about marklar, then marklar would still be moving like marklar used to marklar.... marklar?
general_koffi
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Doesn't SAIX also have a news server?
Rocket-Boy
Honorary Master
Yeah and their servers are good, but SAIX local bandwidth is way more expensive than IS local.
Apparently there is a drop in SAIX local price coming soon so that should make for some interesting change.
kris860911
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I gets annoyed when people say that If you know about chocolate, then you must not tell anybody else about the chocolate. This mentality is annoying. Why not just put everything out in the open. If it slows it down tough. You are not better than anyone else on the net, so why should you know about it, but not the next guy.
Like Alf said. Everybody was a Noob at some point.
If the servers really wanna put limits, do it that you cant register. But if it is accessible to everyone, then whoever knows should share their knowledge. Chocolate was not made for the cool people. Its even for noobs
Like Alf said. Everybody was a Noob at some point.
If the servers really wanna put limits, do it that you cant register. But if it is accessible to everyone, then whoever knows should share their knowledge. Chocolate was not made for the cool people. Its even for noobs
Rocket-Boy
Honorary Master
I think im going to leave this one alone soon, cos its starting to get onto topics of morality.
The thing is the more people are on it the more chance you have of the few spoiling it for the many.
Personally speed doesnt matter much to me as im on a 384k line and i dont pull that much from it anyway, but I can understand frustration from a 4MB line crawling along.
The thing is the more people are on it the more chance you have of the few spoiling it for the many.
Personally speed doesnt matter much to me as im on a 384k line and i dont pull that much from it anyway, but I can understand frustration from a 4MB line crawling along.
There are some who are obviously confusing news groups with torrents. News servers are like any other server and therefore the more people that use it the slower it will go - there is no denying that because over the last year speeds have decreased dramatically.
Do yourselves a favour and try an Easynews or Giganews account for a month and you'll see what speeds are supposed to be like - iow what they were like not too long ago. IS is not interested in improving things - that much should be crystal clear by now.
Do yourselves a favour and try an Easynews or Giganews account for a month and you'll see what speeds are supposed to be like - iow what they were like not too long ago. IS is not interested in improving things - that much should be crystal clear by now.
kris860911
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Rocket-Boy
Honorary Master
Does anyone think this will improve when more international bandwidth is available?
It should be easier for more news servers to be created in SA due to more available BW for replicating, but i spose considering International BW would be cheaper that we would be able to use giganews or one of the 100's of others.
It should be easier for more news servers to be created in SA due to more available BW for replicating, but i spose considering International BW would be cheaper that we would be able to use giganews or one of the 100's of others.
kris860911
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Yea. that depends how much more we get...
Rocket-Boy
Honorary Master
True, Im hoping its not going to be like the other empty promises of cheaper bandwidth, I recon if it wasnt for the soccer world cup then nothing would be done.
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kris860911
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If you think about it. The IS R70 for 10Gigs would be nice for international. But we have been ripped off for so long, that us South Africans will think that is way too much for that price. And Telkom and Neotel know that. So they won'y give it to us for low prices.
When will this ever end?
it wont be long untill this country has around 5-10 TB's of interntional banwdith.
Prices will fall, and uncapped will become viable.
At the moment, uncapped would probably kill sat3.
The soccer world cup, is our saviour.
Prices will fall, and uncapped will become viable.
At the moment, uncapped would probably kill sat3.
The soccer world cup, is our saviour.
Rocket-Boy
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We have promised 500TB/s bandwidth in total for the world cup,granted some of that is for redundant links but the infrastructure will still be here when its all done and Telkom wont be able to say there isnt enough bandwidth to go around after that.
I really hope it gets better and we get decent speeds to be able to do normal things we want to, like online gaming without the latency.
I really hope it gets better and we get decent speeds to be able to do normal things we want to, like online gaming without the latency.
Not sure where you get that figure from and it's certainly not TerraBytes per second but the vast majority of those bandwidth upgrades will be on local only infrastructure to get the video feeds to the broadcasting centers. From there most of it will be sent via satellite.
Rocket-Boy
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My bad, i meant GB's and yes they have promised just on 500GB's
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/1028.html
You are correct with most of it being local as it supposed to be between stadiums, but does satellite have enough bandwidth send it all overseas considering its all going to be in HD format and South africa probably wont be supporting that on local stations?
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/1028.html
You are correct with most of it being local as it supposed to be between stadiums, but does satellite have enough bandwidth send it all overseas considering its all going to be in HD format and South africa probably wont be supporting that on local stations?
Gbps not GB/s.
500 Gbps equals approximately 50GB/s when you factor in protocol overheads.
The broadcasters will be using other satellites overseas and not the DSTV type junk that floats within our reach. They can set up their big dishes at the IBC and communicate with the ones out of consumer reach.
Once the games are over they'll pack up their equipment and leave - we'll get none of that capacity.