Sentech 128 or ISDN 128

Luciora · Aug 10, 2004

Hi all,

Just wondering if you could help me out here... I am looking for an internet service at home. Mostly for downloading and uploading biggish files and then for some online gaming...

Do I sign up with Sentech when they finally get the tower up by me? or do I go with a 128K ISDN setup?

Thanks for any input.

Luc

arf9999 · Aug 10, 2004

see this thread, should answer your questions.
http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4292

MW128, Tower 60(Northpark Plaza), Signal:16%,S-N-L: 7, BER: 45%

Comrade Borris · Aug 10, 2004

Depends on what games you are looking to play. if you want to play FPS types then the latency on MyWi is terrible. Do a search throu old posts for gaming, you'll find plenty of this has already been discussed before

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lewstherin · Aug 10, 2004

Go with ISDN 128 - low latency, high bandwidth, no contract, comparable cost.

Telkom needs a leash, ICASA needs some guts, and the SA consumer needs to make it happen

chuckl · Aug 10, 2004

Thats assuming you ever get ISDN. 2nd Aug was the first anniversary of my ISDN application - still waiting

buffalobill · Aug 10, 2004

Originally posted by lewstherin
 Go with ISDN 128 - low latency, high bandwidth, no contract, comparable cost.

No, the cost is not comparable - with ISDN you need an additional ISDN ISP at an extra cost of R250 over and above the R680 you get quoted, making it close to a grand a month.

If you want online gaming, MyWireless is not an option because of high latency. Go for ISDN instead but be aware of the REAL cost.

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guest2013-1 · Aug 10, 2004

Well, here I'd actually recommend ADSL, its "always on" and if you can get by the nasty 3 gig cap, then thats perfect, specially for online gaming locally

You can buy a 9 gig cap and with everything (including rental) would be the same as 512k mywireless

Help save the bandwidth. Decent download speeds for TheRodent! Stop downloading now!!!

buffalobill · Aug 10, 2004

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Bugger. I meant ADSL *not* ISDN. Sorry.

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regardtv · Aug 10, 2004

how about just editing your post buffalo ?

TheRoDent · Aug 10, 2004

ADSL all the way baby. I ping sub 20ms to most gameservers in .za

Ingame pings are normally 30-40ms... Even if you're going to be playing the slowest RTS out there, why risk crap like packetloss? Besides if you ever do want to play any kind of FPS, there's just NO WAY, it can be done on MyWireless. It just sucks for it.

In fact, it just sucks. Period.

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regardtv · Aug 10, 2004

I guess quiet diplomacy has died ;-) ... Time to make some noise

kickass72za · Aug 11, 2004

Yip....got GATVOL again myself...... when i phone ORC CENTRAL twice in a week ... then i know that it is time to get doing something.....

Anyone know how well IPW modems fly........... HQ is where again

regardtv · Aug 11, 2004

I think they installed armour plated windows JUST before the wardrive ;-)

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