Satellite Internet advice

[ezras]

HI there.

I stay outside Durban in a area that is semi Town and farm, constant power breaks for days.

No electricity = No cellphone reception, not even 1 bar. (Not even the cellphone repeater works.)
Lots of Fibre outages in the are, due to the infrastructure and mountain hills.

I work from home:

• Emails
• Day time ZOOM training sessions.
• Night time maybe Netflix

Any recommendations for a good ISP? I see most of them have 5mb upload, have anyone tested that especially with services like ZOOM?

Any feedback would be highly appreciated.

 

[B-1]

Seems like some are having luck with starlink. I don't know how long that will work though.

Northern Cape ISP selling Starlink in South Africa

This ISP sells Starlink in South Africa — here is how much it costs Northern Cape-based Internet service provider IT LEC is reselling the Starlink satellite Internet service to South Africans for a monthly price of R1,799. Although Starlink is not officially supported in South Africa, the...

mybroadband.co.za

 

[Mal1ce]

HI there.

I stay outside Durban in a area that is semi Town and farm, constant power breaks for days.

No electricity = No cellphone reception, not even 1 bar. (Not even the cellphone repeater works.)
Lots of Fibre outages in the are, due to the infrastructure and mountain hills.

I work from home:

• Emails
• Day time ZOOM training sessions.
• Night time maybe Netflix

Any recommendations for a good ISP? I see most of them have 5mb upload, have anyone tested that especially with services like ZOOM?

Any feedback would be highly appreciated.

Got a more precise location for us to recommend a WISP?

 

[Snyper564]

Have a look at Telkom mobile its the one network we have better reception in more obscure locations Durban included. Telkom mobile is not Telkom been with them for years and been happy.

Get a sim and try them out

 

[netstrider]

HI there.

I stay outside Durban in a area that is semi Town and farm, constant power breaks for days.

No electricity = No cellphone reception, not even 1 bar. (Not even the cellphone repeater works.)
Lots of Fibre outages in the are, due to the infrastructure and mountain hills.

I work from home:

• Emails
• Day time ZOOM training sessions.
• Night time maybe Netflix

Any recommendations for a good ISP? I see most of them have 5mb upload, have anyone tested that especially with services like ZOOM?

Any feedback would be highly appreciated.

Speed is not so much of an issue as latency—about 600ms for the traditional satellite, making Zoom a very unpleasant experience if not unusable.