Sling

[flightcrazee]

I am using a slingbox pro (http://www.slingmedia.com/indexa.php) plugged into my Cable TV (bright house networks) at my home in Florida USA. With Sling I stream my TV from the cable box on to the net, as i dont care for DSTV.
At home in Florida I have a 15Mbps boradband line.

At home in South Africa I have a 512mb ADSL line and subscribe to IS with a uncapped fibre 512line. At most times I get 80 - 130Kbps, so the image is blurred. Sometimes it goes up to 300 - 350Kbps and then it is clear and easy to watch. (although Sling says i should have 500 - 800Kbps)

How can i get the data transfer I need all the time?


Thanks

 

[m0zy]

Move back to South Africa?

 

[ziglet]

Stay in florida?

 

[PostmanPot]

get a 4mbps line in SA?

 

[Wisemansa]

yeah get the 4mbps........speeds wil be much better

 

[Syndyre]

4mbps uncapped fibre won't be cheap though.

 

[GreatBigMouth]

Are you using SAIX or IS?

 

[Syndyre]

He said IS fibre.

 

[ic]

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At home in Florida I have a 15Mbps boradband line.

At home in South Africa I have a 512mb ADSL line...

Just goes to show that Telkodemonopolies does not supply SA with decent broadband [even 4Mbits/s pales in comparison internationally] - I do hereby declare that in SA, Telkodemonopolies only provides a Borat-band service...

 

[UnUnOctium]

ah, life in the normal world that is not south africa

 

[Paul_S]

At home in South Africa I have a 512mb ADSL line and subscribe to IS with a uncapped fibre 512line. At most times I get 80 - 130Kbps, so the image is blurred. Sometimes it goes up to 300 - 350Kbps and then it is clear and easy to watch. (although Sling says i should have 500 - 800Kbps)

There's the problem - IS international sucks.
Get your line upgraded to 1mbit and get an unshapped SAIX account.

 

[GreatBigMouth]

How is it that SAIX is better than IS? They're both run by the same crap company...

 

[Paul_S]

How is it that SAIX is better than IS? They're both run by the same crap company...

Huh?
IS are a division of Dimension Data
SAIX are part of Telkom
Two different providers using two different networks.

 

[ic]

Huh?
IS are a division of Dimension Data
SAIX are part of Telkom
Two different providers using two different networks.

The IPConnect links that exit from the IS building [as I understand it in Rosebank about 400m away from the Rosebank local loop exchange], still belong to Telkodemonopolies, IS is currently only allowed to rent bandwidth links until IncompetentCASA gets its act together [eta for sorting out ECA licensing is ~3 years]... My point being that most of the network that IS is forced to use [outside its own buildings] is all belongings to Telkodemonopolies...

 

[GreatBigMouth]

Two different providers using two different networks.

Yes, but IS bandwith still belong to Telkom. Therefore, if Telkom is down, IS is down.

 

[Paul_S]

The IPConnect links that exit from the IS building [as I understand it in Rosebank about 400m away from the Rosebank local loop exchange], still belong to Telkodemonopolies, IS is currently only allowed to rent bandwidth links until IncompetentCASA gets its act together [eta for sorting out ECA licensing is ~3 years]... My point being that most of the network that IS is forced to use [outside its own buildings] is all belongings to Telkodemonopolies...

Yeah but from looking at the ISP map IS don't get any of their international bandwidth from SAIX. You can't tell me that IS and SAIX based accounts are the same thing and will give the same performance because they don't.

SAIX based accounts get a lot closer to the advertised speeds on international traffic than IS accounts do which is why I suggested the user rather get a SAIX based account.

 

[ic]

Yeah but from looking at the ISP map IS don't get any of their international bandwidth from SAIX. You can't tell me that IS and SAIX based accounts are the same thing and will give the same performance because they don't.

SAIX based accounts get a lot closer to the advertised speeds on international traffic than IS accounts do which is why I suggested the user rather get a SAIX based account.

Yes, I think you're correct there, I should have been more specific - I meant the local part of the network used by IS for ADSL, IOW the IPConnect links, actually belong to and are run by Telkodemonopolies, and thanks to ICASA's ongoing incompetence, it is unlikely that IS or Versizon Business or any other company can actually get a licence out of ICASA to lay its own fibre directly into the Rosebank [or any other] local loop exchange - for the next ~3 years - just another way that her Poisonous Ivyness' narcolpetic incompetence [mis]managed liberalisation effectively kills competition to Telkodemonopolies...