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SP's vs IS ,SAIX
- Thread starter Aquiva
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PostmanPot
Honorary Master
Hi Aquiva,
Cybersmart is actually running off the SAIX backbone. No ISP has its own backbone. They might have some deal with SAIX, I'm not sure, maybe someone could explain. You will notice though that as the speed increases with the different offers, the prices become normalised.
Cheers,
PP
Cybersmart is actually running off the SAIX backbone. No ISP has its own backbone. They might have some deal with SAIX, I'm not sure, maybe someone could explain. You will notice though that as the speed increases with the different offers, the prices become normalised.
Cheers,
PP
OK Thanks!
So what would the advantages be of having Telkom as my ISP apposed to going with Cybersmart. I've heard that if you are with Telkom, you sometimes don't get billed for going over your Cap. Also do all SP's have the 30GB local Cap included?
Cheers!
So what would the advantages be of having Telkom as my ISP apposed to going with Cybersmart. I've heard that if you are with Telkom, you sometimes don't get billed for going over your Cap. Also do all SP's have the 30GB local Cap included?
Cheers!
PostmanPot
Honorary Master
Evening,
Yes, the advantage is that you can definately pull more than 3GB from a Telkom Internet account (on average I'd say around 7 - 10GB -- there are Telkom Internet account usage threads in the ISP discussions section). But that said, as soon as you do go over 3GB, there's nothing stopping them from capping you in no time at all... So it's the risk you take. Would be best to let the downloads go flatout over the last few days of the month just to make sure you don't get capped earlier.
Unfortunately only IS accounts come with 30GB local bandwidth. What some people do is use a program called RouteSentry which basically uses 2 accounts at once - 1 IS account to route all local traffic to, and 1 SAIX account to route international traffic to. Search for 'RouteSentry'
In most cases these people use a 1GB IS intl. + 30GB local with a 1GB SAIX prepaid WebAfrica account (with the prepaid account, any unused bandwidth rolls over to the next month).
Otherwise there is no difference, both use the SAIX network. Only difference is the capping.
Cheers,
PP
Yes, the advantage is that you can definately pull more than 3GB from a Telkom Internet account (on average I'd say around 7 - 10GB -- there are Telkom Internet account usage threads in the ISP discussions section). But that said, as soon as you do go over 3GB, there's nothing stopping them from capping you in no time at all... So it's the risk you take. Would be best to let the downloads go flatout over the last few days of the month just to make sure you don't get capped earlier.
Unfortunately only IS accounts come with 30GB local bandwidth. What some people do is use a program called RouteSentry which basically uses 2 accounts at once - 1 IS account to route all local traffic to, and 1 SAIX account to route international traffic to. Search for 'RouteSentry'
In most cases these people use a 1GB IS intl. + 30GB local with a 1GB SAIX prepaid WebAfrica account (with the prepaid account, any unused bandwidth rolls over to the next month).
Otherwise there is no difference, both use the SAIX network. Only difference is the capping.
Cheers,
PP
PostmanPot
Honorary Master
No probs! 