Small business Internet in Namibia

[Sapphiron]

Hi All

we are about to acquire a client based in Namibia.

Since our application is completely browser based, we need an understanding of the Internet landscape in Namibia.

how is packet loss and upload speeds?

I take it fibre connectivity is not quite there yet, outside of Windhoek CBD?

How are the wireless providers? do they fill the ADSL to Fibre gap as well as they do in SA?

whats the state of mobile broadband?

 

[lerouc]

Depends on where in Nam.

My parents live in rural part of Nam and they get adsl/mobile via a satelite/radio/wireless connection to the "town" and its crap. Whatsapps dont even work half the time. But like i said thats in rural parts. In windhoek self i "heard" its actually not that bad, and their prices are/were better than ours.

 

[Thor]

Hi All

we are about to acquire a client based in Namibia.

Since our application is completely browser based, we need an understanding of the Internet landscape in Namibia.

how is packet loss and upload speeds?

I take it fibre connectivity is not quite there yet, outside of Windhoek CBD?

How are the wireless providers? do they fill the ADSL to Fibre gap as well as they do in SA?

whats the state of mobile broadband?

Beats south Africa hands down.

 

[Haterade]

Fiber availability is extremely random, but you can get ADSL pretty much anywhere in towns and cities.

http://www.telecom.na/index.php/products/broadband/928

latency should be about 40-50ms to Cape Town. About 70-100ms to JHB

You could also get LTE from MTC (http://www.netman.com.na/netman_postpaid.php) which will set you back R999 p/m for a softcapped connection, which on average will give you about 10-15mbps down and up with about 50-60ms latencies to Cape Town with similar latencies to JHB as the ADSL line. The softcap allows you 90gb of bandwidth before the connection is throttled to 1mbps.

 

[Sapphiron]

thanks guys, that helps.