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Can those with Neotel experience please advise me on the following;

1. Can the neotel phones show up as a voice modem on the pc they are plugged into? My need for this is to send a fax from the PC software.

2. Is anyone running Neotel's modem under Linux as a router/firewall and internet gateway? If applicable, anyone doing this under *cough* *spit* *choke* Windows?

My problem is I have 4 PC's that need internet connection.

3. Is the 0.08c correct per MB? Cause this knocks iBurst sideways.

4. I see you have to open ports for P2P. Have they pulled any iBurst stunts yet? ("We see you have used 20GB of our UNLIMITED service and will now pull the plug because you went over your Unlimited Limit")

5. Do you know if the modem can be given back if the signal is not good? my iBurst signal was once "Good" and I barely got off the red light. So I want to be sure I'm not paying 24 months for a paper-weight with a Neotel logo...

Thanks.

D.
 
#2 Yes - there site tells you how to set it up in LINUX with pppconfig. Its just a standard USB modem for LINUX

#3 That is what I see all over the place, so it must be true.

#4 All the ports are open. According to Neotel on their site and various forums, they do not block any ports.

#5 Not so sure as I will find out on Wednesday if my local Postnet will let me do that...

Personally switching to Neotel once coverage has been confirmed. I am 10m outside their signal as per their website (Somerset West) but have seen a lot of work in my neighbourhood.
 
Cool. I was in Somerset this weekend. Found a coffee shop there called Cafe Manuka. Very nice place.

Anyway, back on topic - I think im going to order the 10GB Prime and see how it goes. My ADSL line has been giving me grief and I'm just tired of it now.

I have an iburst modem lying in the garage but our signal is still marked as poor here in Buccleuch. oh well.
 
My wife likes Cafe Manuka - haven't been there personally but heard from all its good.

Just confirmed tonight that Neotel does cover me - looks like they fixed there maps as I'm now 100 meters inside the "zone". Saw their main transmitters are about 1km from me and we have line of site. I see that their "lite" service has a wider coverage due to its lower bandwidth offering. But I feel the more people that join, the better there infrastructure will become, especially in my area as Telkom has to replace all their aging lines here.

Going for the 2,5 prime to start off. Also tired of dodgy DSL and unstable iBurst.
 
You will need to request incomming ports be opened as they do close them by default. No "Iburst" stunts yet, but there is always a first time. I have personally definately downloaded alot more than 20Gigs a month.
 
Yay!

So my Neotel device arrived today. and I plugged it in expecting to get what
I got from iburst (i.e nothing) but to my suprise it got signal on a desk in the corner (3-4 bars).

Call quality is excellent and the internet speeds are pretty good i must say.

Peer-to-peer is very dissapointing, im only getting 1.4kbps for some reason. Its either a config issue on my side or they're shaping very very heavily.

I'll play with it some more tomorrow. Other than that I can pretty much say Im ready to cancel my Telkom line now. So they should stop billing me for it around 2011.....
 
Chronos said:
Can those with Neotel experience please advise me on the following;

1. Can the neotel phones show up as a voice modem on the pc they are plugged into? My need for this is to send a fax from the PC software.

2. Is anyone running Neotel's modem under Linux as a router/firewall and internet gateway? If applicable, anyone doing this under *cough* *spit* *choke* Windows?

My problem is I have 4 PC's that need internet connection.

3. Is the 0.08c correct per MB? Cause this knocks iBurst sideways.

4. I see you have to open ports for P2P. Have they pulled any iBurst stunts yet? ("We see you have used 20GB of our UNLIMITED service and will now pull the plug because you went over your Unlimited Limit")

5. Do you know if the modem can be given back if the signal is not good? my iBurst signal was once "Good" and I barely got off the red light. So I want to be sure I'm not paying 24 months for a paper-weight with a Neotel logo...

Thanks.

D.
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1 - Bleh, you have the answer so I'll not bother
2 - The Neoconnect prime modem does apparently work under linux (config for router/firewall gateway as per any other modem). It's just like a faster dialup modem. Neoconnect lite is a different story, the modem seems to have issues in linux currently (there is another thread looking into the lite modem and linux).
3 - Yep, unless everyone is lying about it, including neotel and postnet.
4 - While I hope that isn't the case (and AFAIK it isn't currently), I wouldn't put money on it not going that route.
5 - You have 7 days to test the signal etc. After that you are locked into the contract for at least the price of the modem.
 
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kk

everything seems to be working pretty well. I'm happy with it so far. Getting about 25-35kb/s on the p2p which is not awesome but doable.

Normal FTP downloads are pretty quick with the gamco speed testing reporting 630.50kbps which was during a storm tonight with only 2 bars signal on the phone.

The Neotel speed test gave me 935kbps and Speedtest.NET to a local server gave me 951kbps

Speedtest.net to a New York server gave me 482kbps.
 
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