kaspaas
Expert Member
From the GLUG-tech mailing list. [
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See the bold part at the bottom
> In my experience with wireless solutions, is that they arent as stable
> as a fixed line and simple things like the weather will leave you with
> no connectivity
Their frequency licence allows them to broadcast at a far higher power
than say, traditional wifi, and they are covering distances of 3 to 5km,
instead of the hundreds or thousands of km that are involved with
satellite connections. I doubt weather will be an issue.
> what type of upstream connectivity does sentech have, no point having
> 1000 512k subscribers with a 2mb international pipe/sat. (clearly they
> do have bigger, just an example)
Apparently they have 14MBps to europe.
It all depends on whether they know how to build networks. <b>ZA engineers are notorious for spending more money on slowing the service down than the on the bandwidth they buy</b>. ZA bandwidth is only expensive and slow because the engineers who built the network designed it that way.
South Africa needs World Class Broadband at World Competitive Prices.
]See the bold part at the bottom
> In my experience with wireless solutions, is that they arent as stable
> as a fixed line and simple things like the weather will leave you with
> no connectivity
Their frequency licence allows them to broadcast at a far higher power
than say, traditional wifi, and they are covering distances of 3 to 5km,
instead of the hundreds or thousands of km that are involved with
satellite connections. I doubt weather will be an issue.
> what type of upstream connectivity does sentech have, no point having
> 1000 512k subscribers with a 2mb international pipe/sat. (clearly they
> do have bigger, just an example)
Apparently they have 14MBps to europe.
It all depends on whether they know how to build networks. <b>ZA engineers are notorious for spending more money on slowing the service down than the on the bandwidth they buy</b>. ZA bandwidth is only expensive and slow because the engineers who built the network designed it that way.
South Africa needs World Class Broadband at World Competitive Prices.
] With a mere 1000 users online that's 14kbps upstream each (assuming everyone's online at the same time) or am i missing sumthing