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Luke7777

Luke7777

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Any idea whether this will work ? Currently running mweb dialup/ satelite. When I need lower latency (i.e. ssh into the Unix box at work for some coding), I just kill the sat (vpn) connection and continue with the dialup. Was thinking that this might come in useful for multiple d/l, using MyWireless for up and Sat for down, therefor not being limited to 128K. I think this has been reported to work with ADSL
 
Note that what you suggest is in breach of your satellite service contract.
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by dw</i>
<br />Note that what you suggest is in breach of your satellite service contract.
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?? You've lost me here. I never read the small print [:)] I don't see how, since my sat connection (vpn) require an existing internet connection (dialup, isdn,etc.) Can't remember that the "up" connection had to be something specific (i.e. dialup)
 
The satellite product is called a “SOLO” at Sentech and is being repackaged and resold by the likes of M-Web. You obviously knew that this was also a Sentech product. The product design and costing was based on an analogue dial-up scenario and the small print in the SOLO contract reads something like “single human analogue dial-up user”. Fairly specific :)
 
Strange, I had infosat too and I always carefully read contracts like that.

Anyway, yes it will work. All a satelite connection needs is some internet connection type jobby telling it what to request/receive via any internet connection.

Why this is such a sore point with Sentech only our dear Father up in heaven would know, because all you're doing is basically the same as what you're doing now, nothing special, nothing to "cheat" them out of money, only ditching your telkom line for a 24/7 connection with 128k upload speeds instead of the normal ****ed up 4-5kb/s

But yea, try telling that to dw...

Why do you have to "put your two cents in"... but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?
 
BTW, just to add to this "arguement" (dumbass dw)... if you have for instance an ISDN line instead of a normal analogue dialup, you're in breach of contract as well... because ISDN is digital, not analogue.

Why do you have to "put your two cents in"... but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?
 
The reason it's specified in the contract and why this a breach of contract is because the faster your connection can upload, the faster the satelite downloads, so you get more than what you and others using the same service are paying for.

But it's not like they really enforce it. Lots of people used this in conjunction with megawan to get awesome download speeds

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Yeah, and under ADSL it all probably counted as local traffic. It's quite strange that ISPs don't have better technology to throttle their clients more "equitably", considering how precious bandwidth is.

The best idea is to have a weekly credit system, where the guy with the most credits have preference. This will allow P2P users to have the system to themselves during night time, and business users will have a responsive system during business hours.
 
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<br />The reason it's specified in the contract and why this a breach of contract is because the faster your connection can upload, the faster the satelite downloads, so you get more than what you and others using the same service are paying for.
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Interesting theory. Flashvc, you can't be serious. On good days my sat d/l would burst at over 1Mbps over a normal analog "up" . Can you imagine what the d/l speed would be over a broadband "up". Like I said, very interesting theory [:)]
 
This is partially correct.

At the end of the day each TCP packet needs a response packet via the return path.... so yes faster upstream would to an extent improve downstream.

There is however still bandwidth contention ratios in effect.

R
 
Regardtv/flashvc - accepted, but I think the impact of the faster upstream will be negligible

noone - In total agreement with you. I really don't see what the issue is. The use of sat for d/l can't hurt the wireless side (consumer or provider) since less wireless bandwidth will be needed by me, although I'm paying the same as everybody else. It certainly can't hurt the Mweb side, they already have my 325/month. Strange indeed

dw - Agreed, SOLO is/was a sentech/infosat offering, but I do not have a sat contract with them. Although they still provide the infrastructure, my contract is with Mweb, so I don't think the SOLO fineprint apply. You'll have to agree, when SOLO came out "broadband" was a female rock group and a "wireless" was used to listen to them [}:)], so connection sharing was probably a bigger "evil" than 24/7 connectivity. Therefor the reference to "single user", who knows

Anyway, since all this is hypothetical, it really doesn't matter, does it [;)] Thanks for the input, it's been educational
 
Just to let you guys know, i had a analogue leased line and could usually download CONSTANTLY about 1.5mbps

That is AFTER they throttled the downloads to 16kb/s (ISDN speed) when infosat starting to get a bit ***. Cool thing was, I could download like 16 files at once @ 16kb/s

Don't know how it is now. So upload speeds have nothing to do with this.

Why do you have to "put your two cents in"... but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?
 
It’s a real pity that service providers need to implement extreme measures to ensure a fair quality of service over their entire customer base. Especially when those abusing the service are blatant enough to admit their abuse openly in detriment of other users.

Noone, your derogatory statements on this forum (there are many) only manages to make this an unpleasant environment for those trying to make a positive contribution. You claim expertise any many areas yet I often cringe, but refrain from commenting, when I think that someone might actually take you seriously.

My apologies to any other members of this forum who would consider this a flame. I have been biting my lip too long.
 
I'd follow any advice Noone has to say... he's been there done that and knows what he's talking about...

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