The Silver Surfer Thread (iBurst 2Mbps Modem)

^I like. Maybe the new CEO can be convinced to do this to make a splash in the water... Since he/she took over nothing has changed at iburst that I have noticed, he hasn't even pooped in on the forums to say hi. Moving the ibursters who have been around for 2 years+ to wimax will make Mr *insert ceo name here*:? quite the popular guy/girl.
 
Except using a new "deul modem" what about making a new one with 10!! yeah that would give comp to telkom.

But a think a modem with 10 atennas would look freaky, and sadly their base station wont support so many users lol
 
Can these "Dual Modems" be bought or are they available on "upgrade" ??

Are the 2mbit speeds supported by the current towers ?


If the spectrum only allowes a limited speed (1mbit per modem or 2 modems for 2mbit)...

How will you supply the customers demand for Higher speeds?


and as to your Question a few pages earlier in the thread (difference between 128K/10mbit) for email/websites :

This is 2010, all the websites use Flash/Java most of them run 800x600/1024x768 minimum now. The websites are being developed for advanced connections with animated graphical menu's and Adds with slides. (Lots of pictures, might even include video clips)

Emails, not everyone uses plain simply texting these days. We live in a corporate environment, where people send spreadsheets and documents with charts etc.etc. Some of these emails could be as big as 2mb and 3mb per file. Then we're not even taking into account any high resolution pictures being sent. Specially used by Retail Shops,Family and Friends (Adverts, Jokes etc)


My 2Cents
 
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Napalm said:
Can these "Dual Modems" be bought or are they available on "upgrade" ??

Are the 2mbit speeds supported by the current towers ?


If the spectrum only allowes a limited speed (1mbit per modem or 2 modems for 2mbit)...

How will you supply the customers demand for Higher speeds?


and as to your Question a few pages earlier in the thread (difference between 128K/10mbit) for email/websites :

This is 2010, all the websites use Flash/Java most of them run 800x600/1024x768 minimum now. The websites are being developed for advanced connections with animated graphical menu's and Adds with slides. (Lots of pictures, might even include video clips)

Emails, not everyone uses plain simply texting these days. We live in a corporate environment, where people send spreadsheets and documents with charts etc.etc. Some of these emails could be as big as 2mb and 3mb per file. Then we're not even taking into account any high resolution pictures being sent. Specially used by Retail Shops,Family and Friends (Adverts, Jokes etc)


My 2Cents
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Agree here. It takes 5 minutes to open an email account. Point about documents/spreadsheets irritates me, when it takes a few minutes just to open single word file!
 
I understand your predicament rOOigev@@r..

ICASA is holding you back, otherwise you could have made plans to increase speeds/caps... which would lead to increased sales, revenue and expansion etc. (Selling more data, faster. Would also attract more customers while satisfying the current)

From my perspective, it must be hard to sell a product at 1mbit, when all the other products are 4mbit ADSL(in the process of upgrading all to 8mbit/10mbit), Vodacom's HSDPA (7.2mbit / Maybe 21mbit), CellC has advertised 21mbit.


I know that it's not always,"always" about the speed. If a product is good and stable people will still buy it. Unfortunately the "Uninformed" consumer out there only goes by numbers and from what they hear from Co-workers/Friends/family. (Trust me, i've had my share to give)
People talk, thats how the word gets around.. *When they hear 1 vs 4 vs 7.2 vs 8 vs 10 vs 21... how hard is the decision? If they didn't know about things like Internet Stability/QOS... which most consumers don't*

If you offer 1mbit, you have to give some kind of "benefit" that the other providers don't to get new Customers (which is kinda going to hurt you in the long run).


The main problem is also in keeping the customers that you have while getting new customers. (while all these other products are emerging)


It's a tough arena to be in...
 
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I rather have a slow stable connection with low latency, than a fast unreliable one with higher latencies. From my experience with going through using iBurst, Telkom ADSL, 3G and Wimax. Both my experiences with iBurst which is at 1mb and Wimax which is at 512kb-1mb are the most reliable of all, and provide the best latencies.
 
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diegoa said:
I rather have a slow stable connection with low latency, than a fast unreliable one with higher latencies. From my experience with going through using iBurst, Telkom ADSL, 3G and Wimax. Both my experiences with iBurst which is at 1mb and Wimax which is at 512kb-1mb are the most reliable of all, and provide the best latencies.
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I had a go at wimax for a bit with telkom, I have to say the latencies on wimax were amazingly stable (unless there was a storm). I was sitting at about 60ms consistently in tf2 (it was during telkom's trial of the tech). iBurst tends to jump between 70 and 120, usually sits nicely at 80 on normal days, bad bays it's a jump fest between 60 and 250ms, which isn't good (although very rare). 3G is also very consistent, I'd say more consistent than iBurst BUT it tends to be higher, it always sits at about 130ms (again, during a telkom trial).

Funny enough, after the 3G trial during release, the latency went up (150+) and iBurst was actually the better option - I could handle the small jumps around 80ms rather than a consistent 180ms.
 
You guys must be referring to local speeds, because my latency can get pretty bad when playing online internationally. Or what I notice these days is that when I voice chat that the persons voice disappears, to come back after 20 seconds of countless "hello hello?" "are you there?" blabber. We got to see the bigger picture here. 384Kb is the new 56Kb modems, dont give me that crap of Iburst is a 1MB package. If you havent noticed our speed are 80% of the time the same as a 384Kb line (70KB/s) seeing that we are wireless.

sucks having a line that is suppose to 133KB/s when we can only reach these speed when most of S.A is fast asleep.
 
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You guys must be referring to local speeds, because my latency can get pretty bad when playing online internationally. Or what I notice these days is that when I voice chat that the persons voice disappears, to come back after 20 seconds of countless "hello hello?" "are you there?" blabber. We got to see the bigger picture here. 384Kb is the new 56Kb modems, dont give me that crap of Iburst is a 1MB package. If you havent noticed our speed are 80% of the time the same as a 384Kb line (70KB/s) seeing that we are wireless.

sucks having a line that is suppose to 133KB/s when we can only reach these speed when most of S.A is fast asleep.
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I can reach 120KB/s on my connection. Also, my wife plays WoW and as strange as it sounds, iBursts latency is BETTER than 3G when it comes to Raids and dungeons. But anyway, if you hate iBurst so much, how about jumping to 3G? Telkom is decent price, and cellC is rolling out even faster cheaper (provided you can wait)
 
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I can reach 120KB/s on my connection. Also, my wife plays WoW and as strange as it sounds, iBursts latency is BETTER than 3G when it comes to Raids and dungeons. But anyway, if you hate iBurst so much, how about jumping to 3G? Telkom is decent price, and cellC is rolling out even faster cheaper (provided you can wait)
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That's what we will do. :twisted:
Cell © "4G^s" will go for gaming and browsing, iBurst for night-time downloading. :whistle:

P.S. It took me 5 minutes to post this message. :eek:
 
@mad tree u know what i mean bitch :P

@etherza. And when does your wife magically reach these speeds on weekdays??? not including late evenings 11PM onwards ,early morning before 8 am. and up until 10 am on weekends. Im curious REALLY?!?!?!

Your talking grade-A palony saying your wife can reach these speeds in the middle of the day. Basically we are paying to use a 384 KB wireless line during the day, and a 700KB line for the evenings.

Face it Iburst , you lsot so many customers to ADSL and had to lower your prices so much just to compete that your making 10 times less that what you were a year ago. And we the idiot customers that stayed behind, are getting the short end of the stick here
 
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@mad tree u know what i mean bitch :P

@etherza. And when does your wife magically reach these speeds on weekdays??? not including late evenings 11PM onwards ,early morning before 8 am. and up until 10 am on weekends. Im curious REALLY?!?!?!

Your talking grade-A palony
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iBursts latency is BETTER than 3G
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I think you are getting confused between Throughput and Latency buddy. If you want a reality check, latencies during the day are BETTER than latencies during the evening (between 6pm and about 11pm latency gets high). The throughput has very little to do with Latencies when you are talking low usage games (such as wow).
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384Kb line (70KB/s)
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Don't come talking here about "grade-A palony" when you think that 384Kb line is 70KB/s and have not idea what latency is.
 
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