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Wamatt I wondered about your Uncapped UUNET and Uncapped Local UUNET?

I dont really see any benefits in the Local only one for R400 odd?

please tell me what this package would be used for rather than a normal 3gig Telkom ADSL for roughly R240?
 
Clipse said:
I dont really see any benefits in the Local only one for R400 odd?
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Its intended use when/if the local cap on the SAIX 3gb comes into effect.

It would be used for VPNS, VOIP etc where you only need local traffic thats not going to be cutoff halfway through the month..
 
As far as I am aware wether your line is 384 or 512 is controlled by telkom not your ISP . So the accounts will work wether you have 384 or 512 . However lowering the price for 384 users is impossible .

I am trying to make this as cheap as humanly possible because it was originally meant only for the World of Warcraft players but the huge responses I was getting from people made me decide to take the whole thing public . Its going to be R720 wether your 512 or 384 I am affraid .

In my honest opinion these UUNET accounts are amazing , I used them before I came back to university and they really are what UUNET advertise them as .

If you had to go through UUNET to try get an account you would have to buy 10 at a time and you would have to sign a 12 month contract . So I kinda covered all of that , not to sound arrogant but I honestly doubt your going to find a servicer similar to this one at this price in SA for awhile .

I am a student as I stated above so I am not in this for the huge profits . I am honestly doing this for the World of Warcraft Players and whoever else wants to join the bandwagon is welcome . But lowering my prices are pretty impossible because then I start making a loss .

If you have any further questions or anything email me at [email protected] and I'll try to answer you questions .

Thanks =)
 
Hi Icykal & Wamatt

Please consider joining the group of testers. We need more UUNet testers to ensure accurate results, and it will also give an indication of the quality of the product. I am certain many users would like to know where it fits in regarding speed, latency etc.

Regards,

RPM
 
rpm said:
Hi Icykal & Wamatt

Please consider joining the group of testers. We need more UUNet testers to ensure accurate results,
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No problem in my personal capacity, I'll run the tests from my home DSL (its only 384 is that a prob?).
 
I'm running UUnet uncapped for this month, just to test. Will try and post some results over the week-end, but initial indications are that international latency is a bit unstable, and slightly slower than Telkom unshaped. It's somewhere inbetween shaped ADSL and unshaped ADSL as far as quality/performance goes. Obviously the big benefit is that it is uncapped. That's findings from initial ping tests to the USA and UK over a 15-20 minute period at about 11am Saturday 12 Feb.

For now... watching sport!!
 
sybawoods said:
Obviously the big benefit is that it is uncapped. That's findings from initial ping tests to the USA and UK over a 15-20 minute period at about 11am Saturday 12 Feb.

For now... watching sport!!
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Yeah they shape ICMP, which is a double edged sword. Its good because it minimised ping flooders (ping of death etc) DOS attacks, bad because it can distort the health of the network, in many cases against the favour.

I would agree in saying that pings are a bit erratic, I suspect due to the initial tweaking phase and the shaping. At the moment I'm maxing out the line on a single TCP stream from the USA (port80).

We may have to just wait and see how it plays out as a product. I'm really hoping UUnet is committed to it. Its not the problems themselves as much as how they are dealt and remedied that count.
 
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I am not on ADSL at the moment , I have gone back to University but I have aot of clients who are on my netwrok at the moment so if you email me what I need to test I can ask them to do that .

[email protected]
 
one question really, currently i have 2 machines on my adsl line, they both do their own authentication and therefore both receive their own ip address's.

will this still be possible on this account?
 
Dominic Rooney said:
Yeah, I would also like to have a test account before maybe buying one.
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Test accounts available on request at Web Africa.

bboy said:
one question really, currently i have 2 machines on my adsl line, they both do their own authentication and therefore both receive their own ip address's.

will this still be possible on this account?
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Concurrent connections = 1 per account.
 
wamatt said:
Test accounts available on request at Web Africa.



Concurrent connections = 1 per account.
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this totally throws it out the window for me!
 
bboy said:
this totally throws it out the window for me!
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Yeah thats a pity, if you think about it though it makes sense.

Whats stopping you for sharing you 3gb with your friends and family? (... the 3g cap). With uncapped...
 
wamatt said:
Yeah thats a pity, if you think about it though it makes sense.

Whats stopping you for sharing you 3gb with your friends and family? (... the 3g cap). With uncapped...
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huh?

im not wanting to share anything, its just i SERVE my own stuff via the adsl, i need 2 different IP address's for incoming traffic, it needs to go seperate paths! it all still goes down the same 1 telkom line, cant they allow multiple (like current ADSL) simultaneous logons, but only from the same port on the d-slam kind of thing?
 
so if you need 2 ips what is stopping you settings up a 3rd machine (does not have to be a beast by any means a pII will be fine, whack a distro of linux on it and connect to the linux box. that way it will throw u an IP address and will also handel all load balancing and contention on your network behind the linux box.

You could even set up a proxy too allowing other pc's that are not local to connect to it. the question is not on simultaneous connections but rather 1 conection sharing 512k of bandwidth. This is actually a flippen good offer if you wanna share the huge over priced burden of ADSL. It will be even better when they release 192dsl as then you can share this equally between 3 ppl giving u, albeit slower but uncapped adsl 192 for R500.

being a wired option and unshaped an ideal gaming connection and a garenteed low local ping. Thanks UUnet a step in the right direction and screw you telkom you capitalist bastid!!! A pox on u!!!
 
James said:
being a wired option and unshaped an ideal gaming connection and a garenteed low local ping. Thanks UUnet a step in the right direction and screw you telkom you capitalist bastid!!! A pox on u!!!
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Just want to clarify, some people have had success with gaming, however this *is* a shaped service and specifically targeted towards business protocols. Torrents and other P2P stuff will recieve very low priority. Gaming may be ok however no guarentees are made.
 
Hmm..it seems this UUNet service is getting looking less and less like a value for money thing as it was originally advertised as a unshaped service [except for P2P, which is fine by me]
 
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