No ISP Guarantees Minimum Speed?

[Billy]

“What we will now do is provide an absolute minimum [speed] per package,” said Smith, adding that other services in South Africa do not provide a guarantee of speed. Smith said Sentech will make this announcement in three weeks' time."

Well I for one would not accept anything less than that available from Tiscali:-

"Q: What sort of speeds will I experience?
A: The satellite service provides a minimum access speed of 64kbps, which is burstable should such bandwidth be available on the network. Download or transfer speeds can however not be guaranteed due to various factors. For example: Traffic congestion on the website, host location of the website ect."

And what do Tiscali say about "Baddie" behaviour?:-

"If you’re a fan of downloading MP3’s, movies and other heavy files, this is the Internet solution for you!"

http://www.tiscali.co.za/services/satellite_index.asp

And to think I was seriously considering replacing Tiscali satellite with MyWireless.

 

[donn]

Tiscali Satellite is Infosat (from Shh, you know who) rebranded []

I'm interested to see what will happen when Telkom buys Tiscali.



Donn Edwards
http://privacy.4mg.com

 

[bb_matt]

I think I can answer that for you :-

1. Service levels will decline and arrogance increase
2. Costs will escalate
3. People will be retrenched

 

[TheRabbi]

I have already seen a steady decrease in speed of my satellite service since "sintech" finally took over Infosat. I used to get 128kbps to 240kbps on weekends, but is now seems 64 kbps is the norm. I am on Mweb's satellite service, but Tiscali is the same as it's all via Infosat (Sentech)

It's sad that Mweb/ Tiscali only offer a 64kbps option in SA, but Mweb offers a 256k option in Zim (http://bsolutions.mweb.co.zw/services.htm.) Why are we being "done in" again??

 

[bb_matt]

Hellkom

 

[Turtle]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Billy</i>
<br />“What we will now do is provide an absolute minimum [speed] per package,” said Smith, adding that other services in South Africa do not provide a guarantee of speed. Smith said Sentech will make this announcement in three weeks' time."
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
So ... what happened to this? This was more than 3 weeks ago now.

 

[gripen]

more lies. thats all.