Neotel NeoConnect put to the test

I think that im one of the fortunate guys out there,

I had dsl 4 days after calling telkom.
Decent internet at work
Free HSDPA from work

Oh and im a WA customer, which makes me even luckier ;)

So there's no immediate rush for me to switch to anyone for that matter.
 
Is it possible to call Neotel and ask if I have signal at my current address?
 
lol i got my work uncapped internet so yeah thats pretty cool just i keep forgetting to switch router off when i go home so i can use account at home
 
yea it does lol i never thought about that. i just hate it that IS does not allow 2 concurrent connections i hate them for that. cos then could get the most out of the line
 
IS is very sacred on that wireless 1200ms disaster backbone of theirs ;) The only good it can do is provide nice intnl downloads, but still they wont give out multiple logins. Well i guess thats just what people pay for :)
 
hyperian said:
So no-one knows why the p2p in SA is so crap even though you can get 30 local gigs for just over R100?
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Since upload speeds are so incredibly rubbish here, SA people rather use an FTP site to upload once and download multiple times. It just makes more sense.
 
TiredOfWaiting said:
Since upload speeds are so incredibly rubbish here, SA people rather use an FTP site to upload once and download multiple times. It just makes more sense.
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Ah, makes sense. Although, I used p2p with my dial up connection for quite a while, chugging along at 3k :P You still need an uncapped server for ftp.
 
kaspaas said:
The question is how many non-geeks need uncapped at R500pm and how many need 10GB per month ar R100pm?

Us Geeks are a very small minority of the total community.
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There is so much good educational stuff on the net that even to subsidise 10Gb at R100/m would be a good investment for the government.

Right now, looking at most of the audio-visual content on the net is just a very painful experience. In terms of the educational possibilities the current caps, speeds and prices are an abomination.
 
Dotnerd:
I think were all missing something here.

Remember that Neotel now also uses the SAT3/SAFE submcable, same as entire RSA. Even from my work we don't get anything below 175ms, and they have their own segment on this cable.

Wait until Seacom comes, this cable would provide far better signal quality. Since its new it hasn't been patched and joined that often yet. And with a theoretical capacity of 1.8tbits (+/-) it should start opening up the pressure on the low caps we all have.

so instead of just expecting miracles, use your head for a second. No capacity means no capacity weather its Telkom, Neotel or Brakpan-Wireless.
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Firstly, i think you are missing the point here. The international latency is not the concern, however local latency of 150ms is absolutely crazy. Also to access local sites they do not have to go anywhere near the SAT3/SAFE cable so that is no excuse.

I will understand a reasonable cap on international data from Neotel, but if they go the same route as Telkom and let your local bandwidth use up your international cap (atleast they use to) then they are no better than the BEAST. Surely with the Terabits of local bandwidth they have just lying around they will be able to offer a truly uncapped amazing speed local internet.
 
Wyzak said:
Surely with the Terabits of local bandwidth they have just lying around they will be able to offer a truly uncapped amazing speed local internet.
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Where they could make a difference is to facilitate cheap local web hosting, because unless they have a news server (unlikely), all that amazing local speed will just go to waste.
 
Gatecrasher said:
Where they could make a difference is to facilitate cheap local web hosting, because unless they have a news server (unlikely), all that amazing local speed will just go to waste.
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Theres no chance of using the available amount of local bandwidth without using any media-rich activities, like p2p or a local version of youtube or something. I think that could be the next step for SA before international bandwidth becomes more affordable: local companies providing media-rich content to South African internet users; like a south african version of youtube.
 
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