R200 = 9Gb

cavedog said:
Yes it works on Win7. You install it. Its a mere 8mb application. Run it then enter your details and minimize it to system tray. You are connectable and get ping to the UK of 200ms just like webafrica's trial. And the best thing. It seems to be unshaped. Cause I get full p2p speeds and lowest latency compared to IS and Telkom.

I don't know why people don't use them. Yes its a app but its cheap prepaid. R37 per GB of prepaid bandwidth for ADSL. Not including the promo which is cheapest per mb offering out now! :D I'm using them. very happy! Will have a free R50 worth of data invite soon! :)
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I don't use the app at all. Just log in and I stayed logged in for days. Every once in a while I have to reenter my password. But I log in on one computer or my iPhone and all computers in the house stayed logged in for days on end. I have a skype phone that keeps the connection active I think. But I turn every computer off at night and the connection is still going in the morning.
 
im sorry but i cannot take any company seriously who quotes pricing on a per megabyte scale... get real
 
LFX said:
im sorry but i cannot take any company seriously who quotes pricing on a per megabyte scale... get real
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Multiplying by 10, 100 or 1000 too difficult for you m8?

And some people use it for mobile access, which is a way to directly compare it to MTN and Vodacom R2 per MB etc.
 
the point i'm trying to make is that vodacom/mtn r thieves and launching products mased on their models doesn't it well with me, it has nothing to do with math.... let's leave it at that.
 
Cloud said:
Multiplying by 10, 100 or 1000 too difficult for you m8?

And some people use it for mobile access, which is a way to directly compare it to MTN and Vodacom R2 per MB etc.
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Uh yes LFX was obviously complaining that multiplying was just toooo difficult </sarcasm> ... not. Please man, nobody here is actually stupid enough to think that that's what LFX's complaint was based on, so your 'clever' comment, isn't. The reason per-MB pricing is annoying, to me anyway, because it's lame, condescending and insulting, because it openly tries to deceive naive customers (the majority, Joe Public, who do NOT have a feel for what 1MB 'means') by making it 'sound cheap' when actually mobile data prices are a rip-off (have you heard of 'price obfuscation'?). It would be a bit like if retailers started labeling their meat as e.g. "just 6c per gram!", or their peanuts as "just 0.4c per peanut!" ... except it's worse, because the general public knows what a gram 'means'. But if it makes you feel clever, keep pretending to yourself that we're all just confused bozos. 1MB is really just the equivalent of one peanut these days, and nobody would advertise peanuts on a per-peanut cost, so why should telecomms be the only industry where it isn't bloody laughable to advertise like that? Imagine everyone else did this ... medicine, "just R7 per pill!", "this can of coffee, just 18.7c per teaspoon!", "carpeting, just 11c per square centimeter!", "cornflakes, just 0.03c per flake!", "airplane tickets for just 90c per kilometer flown!" ... you honestly think that sounds like a perfectly reasonable idea, and that it wouldn't generally serve to obfuscate pricing? Really? Anyone with half a brain cell can figure out that the reason telecoms companies do this is to try make the numbers sound low.
 
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Agree with you 100% Turtle, but dammit man, use some paragraphs. I had to wade through that rant.
 
LFX said:
im sorry but i cannot take any company seriously who quotes pricing on a per megabyte scale... get real
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The reason for "Per MB" pricing is that you buy "Airtime". (Its basically prepaid)

G-Connect allows you to connect with ADSL, 3G and Wi-fi through the same Account! But the "Per MB" tariff for each one is different.

And that other dude , Go Rant somewhere else. ;)
 
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Turtle said:
Uh yes LFX was obviously complaining that multiplying was just toooo difficult </sarcasm> ... not. Please man, nobody here is actually stupid enough to think that that's what LFX's complaint was based on, so your 'clever' comment, isn't. The reason per-MB pricing is annoying, to me anyway, because it's lame, condescending and insulting, because it openly tries to deceive naive customers (the majority, Joe Public, who do NOT have a feel for what 1MB 'means') by making it 'sound cheap' when actually mobile data prices are a rip-off (have you heard of 'price obfuscation'?). It would be a bit like if retailers started labeling their meat as e.g. "just 6c per gram!", or their peanuts as "just 0.4c per peanut!" ... except it's worse, because the general public knows what a gram 'means'. But if it makes you feel clever, keep pretending to yourself that we're all just confused bozos. 1MB is really just the equivalent of one peanut these days, and nobody would advertise peanuts on a per-peanut cost, so why should telecomms be the only industry where it isn't bloody laughable to advertise like that? Imagine everyone else did this ... medicine, "just R7 per pill!", "this can of coffee, just 18.7c per teaspoon!", "carpeting, just 11c per square centimeter!", "cornflakes, just 0.03c per flake!", "airplane tickets for just 90c per kilometer flown!" ... you honestly think that sounds like a perfectly reasonable idea, and that it wouldn't generally serve to obfuscate pricing? Really? Anyone with half a brain cell can figure out that the reason telecoms companies do this is to try make the numbers sound low.
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i think it's great! it's like my per-second billing for cellphone airtime, i would have been really upset if i had to pay only per minute used, even if i ran into only one second of the new minute.

these prices aren't a ripoff - go rant at vodacom if you're upset, g-connect is actually doing something to benefit users, unlike other traditional isps.

this is cheaper than afrihost.
 
ConsiderThis said:
i think it's great! it's like my per-second billing for cellphone airtime, i would have been really upset if i had to pay only per minute used, even if i ran into only one second of the new minute.

these prices aren't a ripoff - go rant at vodacom if you're upset, g-connect is actually doing something to benefit users, unlike other traditional isps.

this is cheaper than afrihost.
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Indeed. Even if they bill per mb what does it matter? They are still cheaper than afrihost! :confused:
 
This might be a crazy question... but, where do i get a voucher number for the 90 day pass?
 
Turtle said:
Uh yes LFX was obviously complaining that multiplying was just toooo difficult </sarcasm> ... not. Please man, nobody here is actually stupid enough to think that that's what LFX's complaint was based on, so your 'clever' comment, isn't. The reason per-MB pricing is annoying, to me anyway, because it's lame, condescending and insulting, because it openly tries to deceive naive customers (the majority, Joe Public, who do NOT have a feel for what 1MB 'means') by making it 'sound cheap' when actually mobile data prices are a rip-off (have you heard of 'price obfuscation'?). It would be a bit like if retailers started labeling their meat as e.g. "just 6c per gram!", or their peanuts as "just 0.4c per peanut!" ... except it's worse, because the general public knows what a gram 'means'. But if it makes you feel clever, keep pretending to yourself that we're all just confused bozos. 1MB is really just the equivalent of one peanut these days, and nobody would advertise peanuts on a per-peanut cost, so why should telecomms be the only industry where it isn't bloody laughable to advertise like that? Imagine everyone else did this ... medicine, "just R7 per pill!", "this can of coffee, just 18.7c per teaspoon!", "carpeting, just 11c per square centimeter!", "cornflakes, just 0.03c per flake!", "airplane tickets for just 90c per kilometer flown!" ... you honestly think that sounds like a perfectly reasonable idea, and that it wouldn't generally serve to obfuscate pricing? Really? Anyone with half a brain cell can figure out that the reason telecoms companies do this is to try make the numbers sound low.
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LOL

NERD RAGE YAARARARG

Like the other (non-OCD) users mentioned, it is because of the wifi, 3g component - where a user typically would not go nuts and download gigabytes due to the costs involved.

Now go play with the other kids, mkay?
 
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