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Question to ProAsm:

What is the upload speed? You mention a contention ratio of 35mb/1000, is that the same for uploads as well? I.e. can I safely host a website?

Thanks,
Pierre
 
Hi Guys,

I would like to know has this technology been used overseas?
What type of wireless modem they they using? If they provide more info we can do some research on the internet about the technology.

Just my 2 cents worth
 
And to be a further pain in the ass, JHB areas covered with the initial roll out?

I'm about to spend a couple of grand on ADSL, now this thing... if you can tell me Constantia Kloof / Weltevreden Park / Florida / Northcliff will be covered on roll out I will call Telkom now and cancel my order for ADSL.

a speedy response would be appreciated
 
HELLO GUYS ... YES NICE PRICING ... BUT WAIT FOR IT ... 128K shared 50:1 .. with that pricing everyone is going to go on it. Means you are guaranteed 1k up and 1k down... Worse than the dial up. I personally think that people on this package have no idea what they are doing. AND ALL THIS NEW STUFF ON SENTECH IS BEING POSTED BY SENTECH THEMSELVES I FOUND OUT. My personal opionion is that there service is shocking and they are ruining all wireless and satellite bandwidth by the way they are sharing it and I will never support them. I rather stick to Telkom.
 
Tommy - Are you a Telkom customer or employee just curious becuase whenever Sentech is mentioned you start flaming them over a product which hasn't even been tested yet mmm? And 2nd question does ADSL give 1k up and down to international sites when capped? Anyone? would love to know what the contention ration is to that :P

Anyway the contention ration isn't on the 128k it's the total bandwidth of the tower i.e the actual contention ration is 35mb:1000 users which I worked is around garenteed 40kb/s if everyone is doing major d/l and the tower actually gets 1000 users. I hope they take off the blasted Contract thing it spoils the product. I will wait and see I've actually specifically asked what modem they are using as well as that blasted contract thing I hope they listen(unlike some company I know)
 
tommy, why dont you just wait for them to launch and hear what people have to say, before commenting on how terrible it is. The proof is in the pudding mate, and unfortunately we're no where near dessert yet.
Also, where the hell did you get 128k 50:1? ProAsm said it's going to be 34mbit:1000. He didnt mention anything else.
 
LOOK!

Now this is the kind of attitude that inhibits the progress of south african telcomunications.

The speed you pay for *is* your guranteed speed. If you understand the idea of contention. you would only end up with 1Kbps if *everyone* was using the same routes at the same time.

Sentech will upgrade the bandwidth as the contention increases.

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http://www.iactive.co.za
 
Well this is the first service I know of that has offered a contention ratio nation wide so yes I am a little hazy on what I should expect from the service I take worse case senario. ADSL doens't have a public contention ratio so how do we as customers know what it's suppose to mean to us?

Regards
Cerberus
 
please can someone explain to me how this contention ratio thing works? i know so far that each tower has a 35mbit connection and a maximum of 1000 users, now does each user share this in a ratio some how? say someones on a 128k package and anothers on a 512k package is the ratio 1:4 between them!?! ek weet niks. [8)] so can someone elaborate
 
if you look at the following page :

http://www.f2s.com/adsl/power.php

I am currently on the 1024k Power User package and it has a 50:1 contention ratio ... you get it everywhere in the world !!!

taken from adslguide.org.uk :

<b>Contention - What is it?</b>

Contention is basically sharing. If you live in a house with teenage girls then you contend the bathroom with them - which can mean waiting hours to get in. Your electricity is contended - normally not a problem as there's more than enough to go around however tell that to the residents of California last year who had rolling blackouts due to a lack of generating capacity. Everything in life is contended - it's an effective way to utilise a shared resource.

Regarding ADSL - there are two levels of contention on the BTwholesale network at the moment:

50:1 for the home user (Home 500, Home 1000 etc.)
20:1 for the business user (Business 500, 1000, 2000 etc.)

If you take the worst case scenario for the home user then that means you're sharing your 500kbs with 49 other people. If you are all downloading at the same time then you'll get 10kbs - about a quarter of the speed of a normal dial-up analogue modem. In reality, it's unlikely BT will allow this to happen. Despite extremely rapid broadband takeup during 2003, most users are still able to download and upload at the maximum quoted speed
 
PierreLeRiche, the upload speed in all cases is 128.
128/128 - 256/128 - 512/128
Regarding a Website, mmm... well there is one way to find out is'nt there [:)]

LOL @ tommy, if I got my ADSL modem for free, only paid R280 pm and had no cap I would also be full of praise for ADSL [:D]
 
aels, I have no idea about the whens and wheres for other centers atm, but I'm sure once the 3 main ones are done the others will follow very soon afterwards as we have a massive installation drive in 2004.
 
Hey everyone! I'm a bit new with this. Can you tell me if I take a 128k package form sentech does that mean I'm guarenteed say 14Kb/s,but I can dl more that that?? (for instance 40Kb/s)

and this contention ratio thing... is the 35mb:1000 for all packages?
I would think that if you have a 512k package you'd have a lower contention ratio as where 256k,128k would have a larger contention ratio.[?]

BTW is this for gamers aswell,cos I cant see ppl being happy with a 40ms-80ms ping. [B)]
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by chopsky</i>
<br />Perhaps I lack the gaming experience...but isn't a ping of 40ms relatively good?
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A ping of 40 is good, 80 is not so good. The higher the ping the greater your disadvantage. An ADSL user might have a ping of around 50 or less on the SAIX servers depending on where they connect from.

I imagine that Frisket would not be happy to have a higher ping than the ADSL people.
 
Yeah your right I wouldn't be happy if adsl ppl got better ping than me [:p]

You do know that adsl ppl get between 10-30ms ping,don't u? (on SAIX servers)

O! and about that 128k thing what I meant was... ISDN 128k can only dl between 14-16Kb/s(8kbs = 1Kb),now what I wanted to know is,is this the same with wireless also or does it mean that you won't dl less than 128k?? [?]
 
10-30 is fairley rare...pings are normally around 45-50 on saix servers. 80 is nearly as bad as isdn so i don't see gamers liking that.
 
The indication from a bit of reading about the IPWireless technology is that the speed rating (i.e. 128k, 256k and 512k) are only the average approximate maximums.. in other words it's possible that the connection will be burstable (one of the great advantages of wireless technologies over fixed line) from time to time.
 
hmm.. ok

Here is a simple question for the sentech ppl... How fast wil I be dling with the 128K pacakge+- ?

PLZ lemme know
 
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