Kyalami Castle Tower?

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BucK

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I've heard a rumor that a tower on the Kyalami castle will go live this weekend.
Can anyone confirm this, Shaun?

This will be great as I can see the castle from my window, LOS here I come.

If this is true, why is there nothing on the website about this?

Anyone else heard something like this?
 
Same here - LOS - I'm already getting better speeds from 4ways than from any of the other towers around me when I'm in Randburg, so a Castle tower would rock!
 
unless they do like they did with bryanston and tilt it for other areas so people right by the tower dont get a good feed off it :p
 
hmmm...well I still get good coverage from Midrand tower... doing 1028kb/s at the moment
 
HA! BUCK - i really hope this is true. I'm just off Main Road, Kyalami Castle will be just under 1.5km for me! Connected to Indaba Hotel (5.16km) and i get 900-1000KBp/s - imagine what i would get then?? Really hope this happens :D I'd be the happiest iBurster...
 
it isn't about distance, its about signal strength and frame error rate, you won't get much higher than 1024kbit from any distance, what may improve is latency, so better ping, same speed
 
I spoke to Shaun today and asked him if its true... and yup there is a tower going up and he will be able to tell me tommorrow cuz I also got line of site... I have no idea which tower I connect to (only got it today....) but still KICKS the crap outta Sentech!!!!!!
 
thats nice, would be cool if they could put up another tower near the northcliff area to cut down on the load
 
Noone, I understand there are already 2 towers in Northcliff. Seems you guys out that way are heavy users. Any idea how many users are connecting to the Northcliff Towers?

Soemone at WBS told me that we as Iburters are using more bandwidth than Mweb! Both buy theirs from UUNET. Don't know if I believe this as there is only approx. 3000 WBS customers.
 
well what do you expect, mweb's largest customer demographic is dial up and WBS gave me and uncapped 1mbit connection for 4 months... so yeah, I'm sure we have eaten more bandwith than mweb.
 
Apparently the tower is up and should be switched on today sometime...
 
Yes, it is named Kyalami. It seems like it is active to. That is what their status page shows anyway.
Will have to wait until tonight to see if it really works, another 8 hours...
 
Just got home and managed to see if i do connect to the Kyalami Tower - i don't. Apparently i dont have LOS at all as the back of my house is facing the Tower. Still connecting to the Indaba one in Fourways. They said the external antenna will help if mounted on to my roof as the tower is only under 3kms away.
 
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