The Hatfield connection

Broadband standards

Well now, without taking anything form the Hatfield guys, haven't we had long winded debates of what is and is not considered broadband?

Last discussion I recall we where all slating commercial providers calling anything a broadband that is less than 256KBps!

Any how be that as it may, props to Hatfield and town of Pretoria.
 
DblD said:
Well now, without taking anything form the Hatfield guys, haven't we had long winded debates of what is and is not considered broadband?

Last discussion I recall we where all slating commercial providers calling anything a broadband that is less than 256KBps!

Any how be that as it may, props to Hatfield and town of Pretoria.
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"These services have download speeds of 128KB per second."
128 KB/s and 128 Kb/s is different.... Unless they meant 128 kbits and made a mistake... if its 128KB/s then it essentially means its around a 1 meg connection. Which compares favourably even with most of telkoms offerings...

I dunno which it is, could someone please clarify....
 
ye ur right i think... then 128kb/s is not that fast at all....
but for R300 a month its worth it i think
 
fergus said:
I thought wifi was illegal if it crossed a public road. Rodent whats the deal with that? Do you guys have a VANs license?
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Think municipalities are allowed to self-provide now so its probably covered under that provision.
 
The Hatfield network belongs to the Municipality. They have a PTN license. They can pretty much do what they want. Think Knysna. Same thing, no difference.
 
128kbps is like very unreliable dual line ISDN. *sigh*

At least it seems like they are providing bandwidth at a good price taking Telkom into account. (last part more important than the first part, unfortunately)
 
Quo Vadis, Cape Town?

Anybody know what, if anything, is happening in our politics-riddled corridors of local guvmint here in the sleepy seaside village of Cape Town?
 
wireless @ 128 kbits is slowwww. I ran a test of GPRS which came to just under 90 kbits so its not much faster than GPRS.

So unless they mean kilobytes I dont think this is broadband :/

But at least now we know what all that cabling on the streetlights is i guess :)
And with this "last mile" I wonder if it improves wireless latency at all?? Although I feel I may just be asking too much lol
 
*The Hatfield network belongs to the Municipality. They have a PTN license. They can pretty much do what they want.*

*laughing.... indeed Rodent, indeed....


toady:D :D
 
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