Stepping up consumer pressure

[Syndyre]

The Neotel offering is a wireless service, but Neotel has made a point that it isn't a mobile solution. It's portable - but that portability is limited to the city in which you live. That's because your Neotel phone - which is also the modem for its service - is issued with a geographic number (011 for the Johannesburg area) and trying to use it in Cape Town would probably create havoc with the network. However, its voice quality is excellent and in preliminary testing - even with the wireless signal on one bar - there was no degradation of quality.

I seriously doubt that, overseas companies like Vonage manage to let you do this with no issues, from their perspective it makes sense because they'll probably make more on call charges and interconnect fees that way but I doubt there's a real technical reason.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Agge nee man!

Stem saam.

Gee die verbruiker 'n keuse. Ek soek Ethernet (glad nikse USB gemors nie) omdat ek Smoothwall gebruik.

Stel nie belang om venstertjies te laai net om die USB te kan gebruik nie. Venstertjies as vuurmuur is glad nie goeie nuus nie, ek kan nie 'n lisensie bekostig nie, laat staan nog 'n ordentlike rekenaar vir venstertjies...

Het BillG iets vir Neotel gegee dat hulle net USB gebruik? Want dit begin vir my so te lyk...

 

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Do they (Neotel) provide public IPs like an adsl account does? Or do they provide private IPs only? e.g. MTN doesn't hand out a public IP so if somebody was on another provider, they wouldn't be able to connect directly to me. If they do provide a public IP, does it rotate like Telkom's IPs does?

Why don't Neotel provide a 512kbit/s service for R499, unlimited package. Then I would jump ship the first chance I get. I'm asking because, if they say the lower unlimited package can only in theory reach speeds of 152kbit/s then what is the real world speed?

the ip you get is most definately a public ip unlike the mobile providers.