VPN for Fun

[cubehre]

I was thinking about signing up for one of the ISP's SDSL packages and found that I actually could not find anyone who'd offer me such a deal in Cape Town.

Either they're waiting for Telkom for lines, or they want 10 users to club together or some other excuse.

So here goes... I'm tired of ADSL. I want more.
Sentech is still very far from my home and nothing else seems like it'll do.

My decision is clear. I AM GETTING A DIGINET LINE.
And this is my offer to you - join my VPN and you can get some of my unlimited bandwidth
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Sign up here...

 

[cjm]

Where in Cape town are you?

 

[cubehre]

Brackenfell

 

[cubehre]

BTW anyone else in the northern suburbs looking for a good DigiNet LL provider? (or perhaps know of one - coz I can only find em in the southern suburbs or Stellenbosch)

 

[zookeeper]

Hell yes...I'm game...the ADSL services in SA are horrific, nothing close to the type of ADSL services other countries have.

 

[cubehre]

if you'd have to share some costs - how much would you be able to contribute?

 

[SuperWedgie]

I'm also considering getting a Diginet line, not because of the unlimited bandwidth; I need some fixed IP's. I’m going for the cheapest option which seems to be the 24/64K. Will this give me a noticeable speed increase compared to my ADSL?

 

[cubehre]

Well, depending on who your ISP will be, your contention ratio should be better, thus meaning a closer to true 64K connection... where ADSL is nowhere close to 512K, and barely sees a real 56K speed []

 

[Bentley]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by cubehre</i>
<br />My decision is clear. I AM GETTING A DIGINET LINE.
And this is my offer to you - join my VPN and you can get some of my unlimited bandwidth
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Sign up here...
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Diginet is not a wise choice; it is not upgradeable past 64kbps. Better to get 128k Diginet Plus ports, but only order 64k circuits.

Oh, yes, and you probably need to buy a somewhat expensive router for your Diginet link also.

Lots of people talk easily about getting leased line ISP. The cost is much more than just the Telkom cost: a big ISP I know charges beteen R6000 per month ("best effort" international connectivity which for them means greater than 10:1 contention) and R10 000 per month (uncontended international connectivity) <u>per 64kbit/s</u> That means it will cost you about R10 000 per month for every uncontended 8 kbyte/s (theoretical limit) that you want.

For R10 000 you can buy about 50 ADSL ISP accounts, which should easily give you between 25 and 50 kbyte/s on most international P2P and a collective cap of about 150 GByte. You will almost have to run your ADSL line flat-out to get all 50 accounts to to the cap. In practice, given the way traffic is measured, you only need a separate account for every day of the month.

You can probably start experimenting with bridging more than one ADSL line if you are prepared to spend that kind of money. Line is only R680 per month and good modem R1500 one-off.

In short, unlimited bandwidth does not exist. You get at most what you pay for and ofthen less.

 

[Perdition]

I agree with Bentley, it is not worth getting Diginet unless you are a business and require static IP's plus guarantees on bandwidth and support. With 64k Diginet you could pull at most 20 gigs in a month. With ADSL this equates to 7 accounts which will cost you (7 x 200) + 680 = R2080 or a little more depending on which ISP you go with. Compare this to Diginet where the rental alone sets you somewhere in the region of R1.5k, the bandwidth will be at least R3000 depending on the contention ratio you desire. For 1:1 you pay with everything on your body that comes in pairs including both testicles []

 

[Easy]

Traditional VPN's are expensive! Thats why we developed an ADSL gateway that enables you to run a secure VPN over ADSL. The gateway includes a fire wall, proxy server,bandwidth management & traffic prioritisation, e-mail server and virus protection for e-mail & downloads. Think about it, no routers, Diginet lines and complicated packages.....just 1 box. O and its not dependent on static IP addresses.