Grubscrew
Executive Member
Nah I think form next week we see some magic till the end of the year.
As much as this excites me. Dual land line rentals on ADSL and general high cost of ADSL needs some work now.
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Nah I think form next week we see some magic till the end of the year.
As much as this excites me. Dual land line rentals on ADSL and general high cost of ADSL needs some work now.
Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
Less contended uncapped accounts are great news.
JIMMYtheSKULL
Expert Member
maybe this is the mweb upgrade?
LCBXX
Honorary Master
Poor grammar in the thread title
Natas
Expert Member
Price War!! My second favorite kind of war!!!
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
Wasp_21
Expert Member
Bugger cheaper. Stability, no limits, and speed is what we need.
It's not like these cables lack capacity or are technologically ancient - at R2.5k per mbps, the only inhibiting factor (at least insofar as speed and limits are concerned) is price.
porchrat
Honorary Master
I wouldn't mind bandwidth being cheaper too. Maybe move to unshaped bandwidth for around what I'm paying now maybe a little less, that would be nice.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
I wouldn't mind all that... but I'll still take cheaper any day of the year.
I don't get people who say no to cheaper prices.
I wouldn't mind all that... but I'll still take cheaper any day of the year.
I don't get people who say no to cheaper prices.
It might be that they're the same kind of people that are into self-flagellation?
Cost Conscious
Senior Member
All these new cables are great news, but how come international speeds haven't improved?
We will shortly be awash in bandwidth so it's about time this translated into web pages instantly appearing on our screens....
We will shortly be awash in bandwidth so it's about time this translated into web pages instantly appearing on our screens....
Telkom = Bottleneck
I'm not too worried about how fast the pages load, I just want a decent amount of unshaped bandwidth every month.
Gatecrasher
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The barrier to faster, more reliable and cheaper broadband is Telkom.
Line rental, ADSL rental and IP Connect are all ridiculously overpriced.
The price of international bandwidth is now a minor issue.
The "price war" will be no more than a skirmish until competition hits the Local Loop.
Line rental, ADSL rental and IP Connect are all ridiculously overpriced.
The price of international bandwidth is now a minor issue.
The "price war" will be no more than a skirmish until competition hits the Local Loop.
Dan C
Honorary Master
HUH ? of course it make a difference... why upgrade your pentium I to a super fast phenom II .. speed is becoming more important seeing that we are transporting more data xxxx times more than we use to.
Cost Conscious
Senior Member
I think the issue of local-loop only affects ADSL users. I'm coming from the wireless perspective.
I use Neotel who are cosy with Seacom, and ought, in theory, to be able to deliver fast internet, but the actual speed I see is quite variable. I check a good mix of local and international sites with line speeds averaging 600-700 kbps, and then sometimes surprising me with 1-1.6 Kbps!
I'm tired of this on/off speed and am hoping that, after 5 years here, and with Cell C, that SA will finally catch up with the real world. I reckon SA still lags Europe by about 2-3 years. Still that's better than the 5 years it was in 2009.
IMHO of course!
I use Neotel who are cosy with Seacom, and ought, in theory, to be able to deliver fast internet, but the actual speed I see is quite variable. I check a good mix of local and international sites with line speeds averaging 600-700 kbps, and then sometimes surprising me with 1-1.6 Kbps!
I'm tired of this on/off speed and am hoping that, after 5 years here, and with Cell C, that SA will finally catch up with the real world. I reckon SA still lags Europe by about 2-3 years. Still that's better than the 5 years it was in 2009.
IMHO of course!
I dont see why ISP's dont build their own local loop...
Probably waiting for the cheap and easy option. Until then, we should be bashing them and not telkom as they are the ones who refuse to spend their own money on their own network.
Probably waiting for the cheap and easy option. Until then, we should be bashing them and not telkom as they are the ones who refuse to spend their own money on their own network.