Sentech & Infosat

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alchamy

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Does anyone know what Infosats link to Sentech is?

I have application which could benifit from Infosat DVB, just concerned that they might be sharing bandwidth with Sentech.
 
or,

Infosat is now Sentech - may be a better way of putting it - up to you.
 
It is only available via tiscali anyway as Mweb has discontinued it. (That's if you after the "domestic" version.)
 
Mweb said they are not sure if they are going to take over the Sat clients, but they have discontinued it.
 
Yeah, I noticed that it dissapeared from the Mweb site. If they can guarantee 64kps for R350 (tiscali) then I would be happy to use it.

Just dont want 64k for the first 500k ;)

Also dont feel like being subject to Sentechs AUP
 
If you use sat or ISDN, you still pay for the phone call, so ISDN is also an option?
 
nah, I plan to use a leased line 56k for the upstream. But I think I will have a chat with them and see what they have to say.
 
I've just cancelled my Tiscali/Infosat service - I don't want to have anything to do with Mweb. And yes, Infosat is Sentech. *shudder*
 
VQuest said:
I've just cancelled my Tiscali/Infosat service - I don't want to have anything to do with Mweb. And yes, Infosat is Sentech. *shudder*
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Got a spare internal modem you wanna sell? :D
 
Since ST has started capping international, I've started playing with satelite again for d/l . Looks like it's limited to around 128Kb'ish, since 90MB d/l averaged 10.1KB. This used to be thru Infosat, now MWeb. I supposed the *discontinue* was new sales, as there was never a break on my side.
 
Thanks Luke7777, atleast now I have an idea of what speeds to expect, could you possible post some pings? I expect around 2seconds but I could be wrong. Also what are you using for your upstrem?
 
Alchamy, I'll check the actual pings tonight, but on average you can add 300-400 to your existing ping. Current upstream? MW128 of course :D When I was on dialup, I used to disable sat whenever I needed to ssh (unix, no graphics) into work, due to the latency. Gui connectings to a termserver box was better thru sat however. This was when satelite was still allowed to burst (with Infosat), depending on bandwidth. Sunday mornings would see 16 d/l running, often bursting past 1Mb, averaging 300-500Kb. The more, the merrier. Ahhh, those were the days :D

The "legality" of my setup also discussed here
 
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Interesting fact :

Infosat & MyWireless users used to share the same bandwidth pool, until Sentech had their open proxy problem and blamed it on the MyWireless users without justification. They then allocated another bandwidth pool specifically for MyWireless users as it was impacting on the Infosat user's (VSAT)

This is, when everyone noticed, that there was definately a bandwidth problem.

Interesting Fact:

Sentech never apologized to their consumers for blaming them for the bandwidth problem they were experiencing

Interesting Fact:

Most of these problems were caused because they outsourced everything they possibly could, and paid an arm and a leg for a half-assed system. This includes their financial system supposedly customized specifically for MyWireless

Interesting Fact:

Both the Marketing Manager and General Manager of Sentech's MyWireless project almost lost their jobs due to the vast amounts of cancellations and complaints they were receiving, and not acting on it.

Interesting Fact:

Support Centre, although having Casper Cassidy as an employee of Sentech running it, has no clue as to what is happening re: Towers up/down status and 2nd Level support feedback, even though very good ideas and "patterns and practices" from experienced person's in the market, showed them what to do to improve this.

Interesting Fact:

"You are the first person with this problem" is still widely used by their support staff
 
Interesting Fact:

Some people have learnt nothing... They will go through all of this pain
again. This time with iBurst, when they officially go live :)
 
dbnnet, iburst have reached the 1500 user mark before they actually launched. That is 1500 users downloading/uploading at 1meg/384kbps without a cap.

Sentech couldn't even handle that kind of throughput!

All I'm waiting for is the pricing of their bandwidth (because they will be implementing a cap), but I'm pretty confident I'll stay with them...

And I don't expect them to "pull a Sentech"

Then again... People suprise me every day :)
 
Interesting Fact :

Sentech only implemented a seperate local "hub" (meaning, the route local traffic on a faster local bandwidth circuit) after several months of users complaining about the poor service, both local and international

iBurst got that one right from the beginning... full speed locally, around 384kbps internationally. I'm talking single threads here... and it bursts!
 
Luke7777 said:
The "legality" of my setup also discussed here
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Ok after reading that thread I have some issues, but then again to hell with it. Just double read my contract to be and I can't see anything bout solo and all that rubbish, also struggle to understand how greater upload speeds can affect a regulated/contended downstream.

Anyways. I decided that 56k Leased is too expensive, so this is what I plan to.

Build a proxy box with the sat connection for downstream. Use Iburst for upstream. The iburst downstream will be used for latency dependent apps. The sat connection for everything that will munch away at a cap.

So at the end of the day, one 384k upstream shared with a 1mb downstream for latency dependent apps and general browsing, load balanced with the sat downstream to minimise cap usage. Will also put bigger files through the sat connection.

That way I can have broadband for R1000 a month and have a slim chance of ever getting capped. When Iburst brings out smaller packages eg 1GB I might even end up paying R600-700 month.

Ofcourse I still need to figure out how the hell im gonna pull it off, but I have a few theories on that to. Alternatively I will build a box to share the sat connection with dialup on weekends (when most browsing is done) and load balance that.

My goal is to never get capped. I am not the heaviest of users but I would prefer having decent speeds all the way.
 
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