Taking the plunge

caroper

caroper

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I decided at 4:30 pm yesterday that the time had come to split one of my clients into two seperate units for internet access. Primary requierment being email and syncing a database with JHB.

Telkom could give me a second ADSL line in +- 4 weeks, if ports were availible. WBS, on the other hand, pitched up at 9am today, with a demo unit, and installed it with a test account for me to play with.

After an hour playing with the antenna and software, everything is working fine and 80% signal strength.

Guess who is getting my bussiness in future.

I have already spoken to two other clients, who only use local internet (branch access and posible VoIP), about switching over, now that Telkom intend to charge extra for local access.

I have 7 more ADSL lines under my management, it may not be much, but if I dump them all, Telkom will lose several thousend a month.

Cheers
Chris
 
Thats why I have a demo unit :>)

I did some research first, and it seems to be a lot more stable in Cape Town.
May be it is not oversubsribed here yet.
And it runs in parralell to the ADSL line so they can back each other up.

Only time will tell in the long run.
 
lol the signal is always good then dies then good then dies

then username login wrong then works then dies

adsl always on maybe once a month is down for a bit
 
I think that ADSL will be more stable but the way things are going ATM I don't know anymore. I am not affected by the local cap cos I'm on UUnet but If I had to choose I think I would go with iBurst if they have good stability. They have 64K after the cap right? If that is the case it is a much better solution than adsl. Don't know what the price is on iBurst but if it is less than ADSL and stable I say go for it. I hope they don't go the Sentech route.
 
Caroper, although it does look grim with regards to local capping, the situation could get better with the reduction and/or the complete abolishment of it. Also the cap is more than likely going to get bigger - by how much is yet to be determined but 20GB-30GB sounds about right.
 
for business -> adsl
for home where you don't care about speed/stability or anything else where beer can apply -> adsl
 
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