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[morkhans]

nice table there morkhans,

but why do we need the complexity... why cant we just have the same as telkom even with VGS?

i dont want 4 diff types of connections. i want 1. 1 good fastish connection with bandwidth. And if i run outa my cap i want to be able to upgrade with well priced gb!

1gb is 1gb of data... if its sent via 1mb line or smoke signal its the same size...why the price difference?

The VGS solution very much favours the low end users. If they had to go the base cost for the service and then slap data at whatever amount per gig on top if it we'd be back to them costing either the same or more than Telkom. It would be nice if they could cater for both the low end and high end users (say 30GB for R1000 at 1024k? - still expensive, but a good deal given what is out there).

I am in two minds about the speed. Slicing it up allows you to budget your growth requirements and give everyone a fair service, but on the other hand because there is a cap limiting the speed is actually pointless. You will however sit with a scenario where if one person kicks off a download he/she could hog the whole line causing a slow down for other users. Possibly they could rate limit downloads and allow the normal web surfing to burst so you get a snappy page response and still maintain a good service.

 

[Buddha]

Yeah i can see tha they are targeting the 'lower power users' but they also dont allow telkom to come in and service the high bandwidth users... has any1 managed to get ISGS/VodacomGS to let telkom come in and lay an ADSL line?

If you have please let me know how as i would like to try and get it sorted like that at my place.

 

[xiN]

or find a business/house that you can see outside your window. tell them you will pay for their adsl line. set up a wireless router. have them dial their pppoe and you dial your pppoe wirelessly. easy as pie. make sure its 4mb line though

 

[morkhans]

Yeah i can see tha they are targeting the 'lower power users' but they also dont allow telkom to come in and service the high bandwidth users... has any1 managed to get ISGS/VodacomGS to let telkom come in and lay an ADSL line?

If you have please let me know how as i would like to try and get it sorted like that at my place.

If you look at the beginning of this thread you will see that someone has managed to get a Telkom line installed.

 

[plenty]

Jobmaster this is lame, resurrecting an old thread - your first post... and it's a copy of an older post... so you can get some advertising done...

you FAIL!

 

[Rooivalk]

I know this thread is way old, but I moved to Knightsbridge a month ago and to my utter disgust, I have to use Vodacom Gates Services (VGS) which I refuse to do! If anyone can help, please let me know as I am not allowed to fix any Wire-Less antenna's or anything and prefer to use Telkom with my own uncapped ISP!