Say Bye Bye simultaneous usage

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New iBurst policy on all NEW subscriptions will only allow you to use one device at a time on one access account. Which means if you have a UTD device running at the office and you go out with your laptop and UTC device you will have to switch off your UTD in the office before you can use the laptop.:( You are therefore being forced to purchase an second account. This is crazy! I don't see the logic, because simultaneous usage of one account gets you to your cap quicker anyway.
 
Well I geuss it places (or can place) more stress on their bandwidth? Using two devices at once can clock up theoretically 2mb/s which slows access or something, its the same effect as them having two customers, they dont care about how much you use, its just how much stress you place on the system.

By having a 3gig cap they know that people wont constantly download, becayse then they will be capped and either they dont want to be, or 64kb just dosent make as much impact to Ibursts bandwidth..

Is it correct that they buy bandwidth in BANDWIDTH not in gigs right? As they dont buy from SAIX, whicxh is probably the only provider to charge in gigs? Usually you pay for a 1mb line and you resell that, correct?
 
I have so much to say about this company... but I couldnt be bothered. You will learn yourself in time.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
Is it correct that they buy bandwidth in BANDWIDTH not in gigs right? As they dont buy from SAIX, whicxh is probably the only provider to charge in gigs? Usually you pay for a 1mb line and you resell that, correct?
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AFAIK, UUNET/Verizon/whatever sell on a per megabyte basis (depending on usage). We were looking at implementing something with UUNET as the bandwidth supplier, and their best offer to us was 18c/Meg
 
18c/Meg??????? @Lantic offer 10c/Meg, wonder who they use. Strange!!!!!!!!!
 
Err ... WBS purchase circuits from UUNet. Something like 155mbps satellite link for R1.5 million / month. Not sure of the exact price but I think it was around there. Anyway, point is they don't pay per mb
 
^ Yep thast what I thought...

f0k.. 1.5 million a month? they realise you can get a connection that fast for your home in Korea or tokyo for a few hundred rand?
How exactly do they justify that? i know its not the same thing, and this is sattelite but still isnt that price HUGE?

Strange that they can still provide a service to rival Telkom when SAIX provides Telkom with bandwidth for MUCH cheaper than that shurley? Telkom must buy from them at wholesale prices.. so how can Telkoms prices also be so high.. well I geuss thats what internet in SA comes down to.. these guys overcharging.
 
ZA_medic said:
18c/Meg??????? @Lantic offer 10c/Meg, wonder who they use. Strange!!!!!!!!!
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Well Atlantic use SAIX (or IS) obviously, and those are very diffrent bandwidth types if im understanding properly. the 18c/meg is for reselling as a internet provider, where as Atlantic is simply reselling SAIX's R60/mb thing for ADSL?

Or its just a terrible price for sattelite which is more expensive..
 
firstly, thats rubbish about concurrent connections. i know for a fact it works. secondly its verizon (there is no uunet anymore) and thats not the only place iburst get bandwidth from.
 
tsruBi said:
New iBurst policy on all NEW subscriptions will only allow you to use one device at a time on one access account. Which means if you have a UTD device running at the office and you go out with your laptop and UTC device you will have to switch off your UTD in the office before you can use the laptop.:( You are therefore being forced to purchase an second account. This is crazy! I don't see the logic, because simultaneous usage of one account gets you to your cap quicker anyway.
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New contracts, taken out as of 1 June 2006, no longer have the concurrent functionality.....

So hope it works out for you.
 
But it doesn't matter should you have one desktop Ethernet modem device connected to a Smoothwall, which in turn shares this device between 2 or more workstations?
 
Could be that they would like to make more money or trying to stop unauthorized usage on iBurst accounts???:confused: Or what do you think, guys?
 
Well probably both of those. It is quite clever, noone can really steal my account because Im always connected to it. Unless there are concurrent logons allowed. And most of thier clients either had no idea it exsisted or couldnt care about simultaneous usage.

Oh.. and I think Iburst fancy a bit of money too.. yes. Especially the type of money where you know people are only going to use each account half of the time each day.
 
Seems like perfectly acceptable business practice to me. Otherwise you could "sub-lease" your account to a bunch of friends. So you could be earning money by allowing everyone and their auntie to rent your login for surfing.

Unless there were some way to absolutely authenticate that the owner of the account were using the connection, I wouldn't see the point of allowing this.
 
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