Skytec? Athlone Park coverage

[JC3105]

Hi

I am moving to Athlone park in 3 weeks and need to know if anybody has had any experience with Skytec??

I am looking for a wireless internet provider as I will be renting an apartment and dont want install adsl.

If there are any other companies that offer wireless internet is this area please let me know.

 

[JC3105]

Its Athlone park between Amanzimtoti and Durban.

 

[diebaas]

Its Athlone park between Amanzimtoti and Durban.

Search the threads or google it.

 

[JC3105]

I have searched the threads and googled it and couldn't find any usefull info about this company.

I just thought one of the members may have had knowledge of them!

 

[diebaas]

I have searched the threads and googled it and couldn't find any usefull info about this company.

I just thought one of the members may have had knowledge of them!

Well it does not seem if any one knows off them, why dont you just get HSDPA

 

[skydog]

I remember something about them in a thread a long time back or maybe it was another WISP. after all very easy to confuse WISPs and they all much of the same thing.

yeah why not get 3G or ibust or something like that?

 

[ambo]

Had an interesting conversation the other day...

Apparently some of the big name WISPs are trying to sell up shop... with a handful of B-grade infrastructure and no clients on their books...

Doesn't bode well for fly-by-nights

I personally feel that WISPs have done their part and that they are part of an era that is now over. Get a real Internet connection from one of the other licensed providers. You'll be glad about it later.

 

[Kloon]

Apparently some of the big name WISPs are trying to sell up shop... with a handful of B-grade infrastructure and no clients on their books...

Ooh cheap second hand equipment for wugs.

 

[snail]

ok, so i am a skytec user and in terms of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act. 2002, chapter 8 section 51 sub section 1 and 2 (and sub section 6 in terms of the broadband data base), no matter what i say...my personal information cannot be used what so ever without my consent (and i do not give any consent), so here goes......

i have been a skytec user for a long time now, and yes......skytec customer service needs an upgrade, and yes.....skytec are some times like a jack in the box where they are up and down, but most of the time they are up and running fine. if i run downloads at full capacity for 24 hrs, on their slowest line i get over 1GB....yeah.....OVER 1GB per day at full capacity. sure, the gaming on skytec is pretty slow, but considering what u pay for.....R350 a month uncapped, and hell....i even got traffic reports (which i monitor) for an entire month, but i will not release actual GB's downloaded as then skytec can get a general idea of who i am (not like i can hide who i am from this post anyway lol).

my opinion....skytec need to in deed set up a forum for complaints, jack up customer service (which would be my biggest complaint), but honestly......i cant really complain about them. when you look at it statistically.....telkom have hundreds of thousands of customers.....and i can just imagine the complaints they must receive, i have heard of complaints of people waiting for several weeks for their line to get up and running again with telkom, the only reason why everyone thrashes skytec is because they might have a couple hundred people, and receive maybe 1/3 complaints (as toti is a small area so everyone talks), but travel across the country and find all of telkoms complaints and then see it's just as bad. no one is perfect, but yes.....certain issues have to be addressed (ie: customer service).

so...my opinon....if you dont have skytec dont complain...stick with your 3GB cap with telkom for a couple hundred rand a month and leave us to use our 1GB+ line per day in peace, and if you have skytec, then sure, voice your concerns here and bring it to management's attention, and request for a skytec forum to broadcast you complaints.

telkom have been running for years, and they still got issues so you cant complain that much. i know some of you that have posted in this thread, and i have not mentioned any names so i request the same from everyone else

 

[snail]

Wow! So they give their website a facelift after four whole years, geez... about bloody time I'd say, though it doesn't necessarily mean their service will improve. Thank you but no thank you, my 384k from Webafrica is far more reliable. Even though it's capped it's infinitely better than anything Skytec can offer me.

lol, guess you didnt stick around to see how they progressed. i have the 256k line, and here are my speedtest.net results during peak hours

http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=12521&cat=500

 

[snail]

a few points....

- 1Kb/s = 8Kbps
- the results i posted were real, it's because of the bursts that i get this speed
-i live several Kilometers away from the closest antenna
- if you try ping either your DNS server or alternative DNS server you get timed out so that doesnt mean anything
- a few more options would be to cut down your neighbor's tree that could be in the way, had that problem myself lol, but now it's sorted out.
- BIGGEST FACTOR...........if you havent formatted in a while then get all that crap off your pc and FORMAT! it's one of the biggest problems, apart from ur actual pc specs, as my friend's line was running like crap for a few days, so he formatted and now he doesnt have any problems since, same goes at my girlfriend's house.....her pc is slow (as it's packed with crap), but her laptop has hardly anything on it and it runs like a dream off the same connection

 

[snail]

I think I rest my case here.
I can stream Videos off Youtube, and they download faster than you can watch it

Yeah, until you run out of cap within the first 2 day ha ha ha

 

[Parasite_ZA]

I think Ill stick with what I got thanx

 

[snail]

takes me just under an hour to do a 120MB file (international)

 

[steeka]

World of Warcraft

Hi there. I would just like to know if you can play online games with Skytec. How is the latency issues please. I want to play my world of warcraft on there setup.

Thanks


Stuart

 

[snail]

i have the 256k line and my brother plays WOW without issues

 

[Drake2007]

Telkom was down in Toti today.

and I mean totally effed up, even affected MTN.

 

[Cosmic_Nomad]

/me whispers ghost in the machine..........

 

[snail]

Telkom was down in Toti today.

and I mean totally effed up, even affected MTN.

i know, you couldn't even use your cards at the local shops to pay for items lol, thats what happens when telkom runs everything

 

[snail]

I have spoken to him on numerous occasions but he cant solve the problem i having. Strange because the problem is on his side

what operating system are you using?