SAWireless - Installation & Usage

lantoris said:
Hi Everyone

I have been on the lookout for a wireless provider in my area for quite a while now and finally SAWireless installed a tower in my area.
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I hear what the others say about staying away from a Wisp, but it works for me. I got kicked off MyWireless - I guess I must have been one of the "abusers" though God knows how, given their performance problems. I wanted something uncapped and cheap at a fixed price, so I went with Gwisa and their 128Kb package.

What can I say? I'm happy compared with Sentech - downloads quicker than advertised (14-16Kb), relatively little downtime and I'm doing 10Gb a month down and about the same up. That's just off my machine - there are two others on the home network. Drop me a message if you want contact details. I have no reason to think their higher speed packages won't deliver.

As for the ADSL users, if you can get similar for the same price (350pm) or less, let me know. Broadband internationally is regarded as being high-speed and always on. The unspoken given is that it must be cheap with very high caps - better yet, uncapped. This is not the case for SA and as far as I'm concerned, we don't have proper broadband yet.

One downside with wireless is that you most likely will not be assigned your own IP address. This makes torrents a problem. The uTorrent forum reckons you can't do torrents without, but you can - DHT works and with some tweaking, proper tracking. But on the slow side.

Where are you?
 
Hi.

We will soon have a connection available for clients in Midrand, please could you email your general location. We will also be able to provide your own Telephone number 087 *** as well. Voip traffic on your line will not count towards your traffic allowance nor speed if our Voip service is used. If any of the WUG are interested in terms of Voip and Telephone numbers please contact me.
 
What packages will you be offering? Any uncapped offerings like your current uncapped ADSL packages?
 
lantoris said:
I'm in midrand.
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zerofocus,

Check out www.globalwebintact.com you can download their tower data sheet that works in google earth the you can see where is the towers closet to you.

Im also using 128K uncapped line from them their uptime is 98%, only down when maitenance or upgrades is being done, also download speed avarages 14-16KB on large downloads and your smaller downloads it bursts up to 50kb.

Never had a download time out or anything like that.

For 350pm i think its affordable.
 
diebaas said:
zerofocus,

Check out www.globalwebintact.com you can download their tower data sheet that works in google earth the you can see where is the towers closet to you.

Im also using 128K uncapped line from them their uptime is 98%, only down when maitenance or upgrades is being done, also download speed avarages 14-16KB on large downloads and your smaller downloads it bursts up to 50kb.

Never had a download time out or anything like that.

For 350pm i think its affordable.
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Thanks man!
 
No sorry but see the thread Webintact under wifi, some of the people that works for gwi places posts there or just contact their sales office the number is under the thread as well.
 
I guess R350 for a 128K uncapped account makes sense. They can easily get an uncapped 1024K account from IS and then share it between 8 users and still make money of it. So I guess there won't be any limits whatsoever on your 128K.
 
lantoris said:
I guess R350 for a 128K uncapped account makes sense. They can easily get an uncapped 1024K account from IS and then share it between 8 users and still make money of it. So I guess there won't be any limits whatsoever on your 128K.
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What scared me off is that R2,700 installation charge. @!$#!@#$!@ insane if you ask me.
 
Yes that put me off as well. I wonder what the hardware cost will be for wimax.
 
The installation is only heavy if you decide to purchase the antanna and bridge,

I know they now offer a rental option whereby you can rent the equipment for an additional R100 per month, dont know if there is any aditional costs to that, will find out
 
diebaas dont know how much you know about wireless but i bought myself a top of the range wireless kit a few months back and i paid under R2000. And it is 5.8 and a 31dbi grid, so its a expensive kit, but still cheaper than what they charge. And for the price mentioned above they probably give a cpe from miro which the payed R1300 for!
 
Kloon if you buy direct from miro of course your gonna get it cheaper its like buying a pc from incredible connection for R7000 and you can get the same pc at corex for cheaper,

Ok lets say the hardware is R2000, now the installation and setup must stille be done and you still havent bought the tripod an so on, the cat 5 cable differs in lenght from each client. Also their installation cost includes your first months rental.
 
see you dont know that much, a cpe is a complete setup. They come to your home, drill holes for the bracket and lay the cat5. Thats that. If you think 2700 is decent price you are free to do so, but my opinion is its a bloody ripoff!
 
Lets just leave it there, all i can say is a wisp is a wisp is a wisp! You are obviously a client of a wisp, and i can see how much trouble you having with them cause u posting allot in their thread about it. But in the end its your choice, so ja if you think 2700 is cheap go ahead and do the install.
 
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