The most affordable uncapped satellite Internet packages in South Africa

[Daniel Puchert]

Best prices for Internet in the middle of nowhere

The most affordable uncapped satellite Internet package available in South Africa is priced at R764 per month and supports download speeds of 5Mbps.

However, like all current approved satellite Internet services in South Africa, this product comes with a tough fair usage policy (FUP) that severely throttles speeds after certain consumption.

 

[Sopbeen]

Starlink PoP in JHB is active. Pings are down to 40-50ms with some spikes to 100ms. Lowest pings I've seen are ~25ms.

Highest speedtest yet at about 440mbit Down and 50mbit up, with torrent downloads avg about 200-300mbit.

Service is now truly flying, as we have access to the local CDN's and DNS.

 

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Starlink PoP in JHB is active. Pings are down to 40-50ms with some spikes to 100ms. Lowest pings I've seen are ~25ms.

Highest speedtest yet at about 440mbit Down and 50mbit up, with torrent downloads avg about 200-300mbit.

Service is now truly flying, as we have access to the local CDN's and DNS.

Is that not the PoP near Maputo though? Would be very strange if they went live here without having licencing.

 

[Sopbeen]

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarlinkEngineering/comments/1j2sts0/starlink_as14593_adds_200g_at_jinx

I'm breaking out in JHB. The Maputo to JHB leg doesn't seem to add a lot (if its running that way).



Do they need a licence if they are not actually selling the hardware to Zaffers? Is it illegal to route customers from other countries via JHB without one?

 

[Hanno Labuschagne]

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarlinkEngineering/comments/1j2sts0/starlink_as14593_adds_200g_at_jinx

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I'm breaking out in JHB. The Maputo to JHB leg doesn't seem to add a lot (if its running that way).

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Do they need a licence if they are not actually selling the hardware to Zaffers? Is it illegal to route customers from other countries via JHB without one?

Damn that's cool!

 

[Randomwasavailable]

Starlink PoP in JHB is active. Pings are down to 40-50ms with some spikes to 100ms. Lowest pings I've seen are ~25ms.

Highest speedtest yet at about 440mbit Down and 50mbit up, with torrent downloads avg about 200-300mbit.

Service is now truly flying, as we have access to the local CDN's and DNS.

Not bad. Better latency than testing through a VPN.