Starlink launches in Eswatini with rand pricing

They should look at cutting these costs a bit, especially to the North of South Africa.
 
Archie1 said:
I'm sure it's cheaper to have it shipped here without having to spend 8 hours of your time + R1500.
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True. Since I was contemplating R800 for a overnight AirBnb in Ngwenya, setup the kit, test it, throw away the packaging and then driving back the next day... kinda like a road trip.. might it might not be worth the hassle.
 
kwaggawerner said:
True. Since I was contemplating R800 for a overnight AirBnb in Ngwenya, setup the kit, test it, throw away the packaging and then driving back the next day... kinda like a road trip.. might it might not be worth the hassle.
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Worth a try
 
Thank you, our beloved ANC, for keeping this white monopolistic technology, where it belongs.
Far away from us South Africans, who refuse to wear the yoke of colonial oppression.
 
Petec said:
Thank you, our beloved ANC, for keeping this white monopolistic technology, where it belongs.
Far away from us South Africans, who refuse to wear the yoke of colonial oppression.
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I think more than that. Our Gov is clearly aligning to the propaganda of Russia, China and other less savory nations and they have blocked StarLink licensing in their countries primarily on politics. The whole "license" thing i think is just an excuse for them to appease their new Masters.

Also, China is apparently planning to launch some Starlink competitor (obviously 3rd-rate and useless) that will be behind their great firewall but no doubt South Africa will be there kissing their *** to bring it here so more tender money can be made.
 
Im curious. How does it perform during bad weather and lightning, because DSTV honestly is totally rubbish during that period.
 
neoprema said:
I think more than that. Our Gov is clearly aligning to the propaganda of Russia, China and other less savory nations and they have blocked StarLink licensing in their countries primarily on politics. The whole "license" thing i think is just an excuse for them to appease their new Masters.

Also, China is apparently planning to launch some Starlink competitor (obviously 3rd-rate and useless) that will be behind their great firewall but no doubt South Africa will be there kissing their *** to bring it here so more tender money can be made.
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China is what you pay for.

1. You want an original, you will pay more. You want a 4th grade knockoff, you will pay cheap. Both will get made in China, it just depends on the consumer. Japan does the same. The Chinese makes way better stuff than the Americans actually, you will just have to fork out more for the stuff. You should visit them sometime. Even their train stations looks like something out of Star Wars or Star Trek.

So if you want it cheap, China will make it cheap, however it wont be the same quality.
 
We had Satellite internet years ago already, pre ADSL. I think when we still had ISDN lines? If I can remember than naming. But honestly it was crap, and any storm would cause downtime, so a physical cable would be better. With the cabling thats being brought into SA for those use AWS data centres, our internet speed should start working much faster.
 
Corelli said:
We had Satellite internet years ago already, pre ADSL. I think when we still had ISDN lines? If I can remember than naming. But honestly it was crap, and any storm would cause downtime, so a physical cable would be better. With the cabling thats being brought into SA for those use AWS data centres, our internet speed should start working much faster.
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was it true that SA had a unique law that said its illegal to upload to the satellite internet, I remember reading satellite internet was Download only,
you MUST have a 56K modem to upload, therefore hobbling the service.

this was in the days of Skype being illegal.
 
neoprema said:
I think more than that. Our Gov is clearly aligning to the propaganda of Russia, China and other less savory nations and they have blocked StarLink licensing in their countries primarily on politics. The whole "license" thing i think is just an excuse for them to appease their new Masters.

Also, China is apparently planning to launch some Starlink competitor (obviously 3rd-rate and useless) that will be behind their great firewall but no doubt South Africa will be there kissing their *** to bring it here so more tender money can be made.
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Those countries expect to have forced routing applied into their "Government Approved" internet gateways which I suspect Starlink doesn't want to comply to.

Same as with every other satellite provider operating in those territories.
 
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