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Greetings all ...
had a visit from a vc techie at my place in napier as i was getting worse than pathetic download speeds...
funnily enough, i had my worse connection speed every (excluding zero speed) , was downloading at prob 50b a sec if i was lucky ...
so, i talked to him 4 about 3 odd hours while we tested many aspects, with signal boosters and what not...
the end results is that the tower is 100% perfect ... the problem is more deeper and sinister ...
basically, vc has the data relayed from ( i stand corrected, fgot the whole list but 18 odd towns) napier to swellendam, and other towns in the area, and all the towers between towns and the n2 are all routed to swellendam. from here it goes over what they call a "data highway" to bellville where we get connected to the net.
There are currently 2 data highways between swellendam and belville servicing all the users here. And as telkom dont put lines out to farms anymore, most farms are using the cell networks to get there inet.
heres the turd in the pudding....
each data highway is a 2mbps line !!! A whole 4mbps servicing 1-2 3rds of the overberg !!!!
in this scenario, you will get about 1-3k/s if your lucky... dns resolves about 50% of the time. Sometimes, your not gonna get anything through, however, there are some lucky few seconds, where you may get a spike up to 8-10k !!! but there far and few between...
for those in the overberg, vc is waiting for helkom to put in 2 more data highways (whoohoooo
) so now we will prob get an extra k/s and maby a few % increase in dns resolves...
so if your stuck in a small town, staying or going through ... and your data connection sucks ... its just vc having to little data highways 4 the mount of data needed...
on and ending note, app hellkom charges vc around 3k p/m per hop between towers for the data ... sic i tell you .... (not vc own microwave hops)
cheers
had a visit from a vc techie at my place in napier as i was getting worse than pathetic download speeds...
funnily enough, i had my worse connection speed every (excluding zero speed) , was downloading at prob 50b a sec if i was lucky ...
so, i talked to him 4 about 3 odd hours while we tested many aspects, with signal boosters and what not...
the end results is that the tower is 100% perfect ... the problem is more deeper and sinister ...
basically, vc has the data relayed from ( i stand corrected, fgot the whole list but 18 odd towns) napier to swellendam, and other towns in the area, and all the towers between towns and the n2 are all routed to swellendam. from here it goes over what they call a "data highway" to bellville where we get connected to the net.
There are currently 2 data highways between swellendam and belville servicing all the users here. And as telkom dont put lines out to farms anymore, most farms are using the cell networks to get there inet.
heres the turd in the pudding....
each data highway is a 2mbps line !!! A whole 4mbps servicing 1-2 3rds of the overberg !!!!
in this scenario, you will get about 1-3k/s if your lucky... dns resolves about 50% of the time. Sometimes, your not gonna get anything through, however, there are some lucky few seconds, where you may get a spike up to 8-10k !!! but there far and few between...
for those in the overberg, vc is waiting for helkom to put in 2 more data highways (whoohoooo
) so now we will prob get an extra k/s and maby a few % increase in dns resolves...so if your stuck in a small town, staying or going through ... and your data connection sucks ... its just vc having to little data highways 4 the mount of data needed...
on and ending note, app hellkom charges vc around 3k p/m per hop between towers for the data ... sic i tell you .... (not vc own microwave hops)
cheers
