Web Africa representatives better ANSWER!!!!

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Okay great, now that I have your attention ;)

With your new network up and (almost) running, would you say that you would be able to define between local and international traffic, giving us, for example:

30 gig local and 10 gig international, but ONLY deduct international off of the international portion and local off of the local portion without having to go through the international cap first to get to the local?

I seen many a thread pop up splitting local vs international with 2 accounts and everyone jumping on that bandwagon etc, so if you could offer a true split in traffic and account for local being on the local portion and international on the international portion you would certainly be my hero!
 
Haha! Fat chance of that happening. I had the IS reps at my office the other day and asked the same thing and got a blank look. We all know they have the technology to do it but no damn ways will they. I would love WA to prove me wrong.
 
Grep said:
Haha! Fat chance of that happening. I had the IS reps at my office the other day and asked the same thing and got a blank look. We all know they have the technology to do it but no damn ways will they. I would love WA to prove me wrong.
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I would certainly label Web Africa the most innovative ISP EVER if they can pull that off. Put the others to shame!

They'll sell bandwidth like there's no tomorrow like that. No more worrying about your local downloads affecting your international cap!
 
Seeing you DEMAND like the rest of the masses I can tell you that they already answered your question if I'm not mistaken. It's a work in progress and you might see it in 2010.
 
ponder said:
Seeing you DEMAND like the rest of the masses I can tell you that they already answered your question if I'm not mistaken. It's a work in progress and you might see it in 2010.
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Stuff like "might see it in 2010" to me is no real answer, and I would like an official stance on this. Nowhere did I demand anything. Did you notice my carefully placed question mark?
 
Guys, guys, guys!!! What are you talking about?

In 2010 we shouldn't see a working split of local and international bandwith.
No,we finally should see real internet. Internet! Not Afronet.
Why is SA the only country in the world where not even the ISPs understand the meaning of the term internet?
When I, as consumer and paying client for internet services, surf to a site, why should I even bother where on this little planet of ours the server of that site is located?
The state of things is bad enough as it is. But by wanting an easier way to split your local and international bandwith you're sending out a clear sign. You're telling the providers that you've given up, rolled over and accept their crap.

No way!
 
HermanTheGerman said:
Guys, guys, guys!!! What are you talking about?

In 2010 we shouldn't see a working split of local and international bandwith.
No,we finally should see real internet. Internet! Not Afronet.
Why is SA the only country in the world where not even the ISPs understand the meaning of the term internet?
When I, as consumer and paying client for internet services, surf to a site, why should I even bother where on this little planet of ours the server of that site is located?
The state of things is bad enough as it is. But by wanting an easier way to split your local and international bandwith you're sending out a clear sign. You're telling the providers that you've given up, rolled over and accept their crap.

No way!
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Why? Because it's run by technophobes. People are put in charge of stuff they don't understand, and the people in charge only has one driving factor. Money. But that's besides the point...

I wish WA would have responded already
 
We need low cost uncapped solutions, not this.
 
Uncapped, paying for the line speed not bandwidth. Unshaped. Regarding the Afronet comment: I dont think its fair on the other African countries like Kenya and Morocco to call the pathetic excuse we have for internet access Afronet.

Its Saffanet.
 
HermanTheGerman said:
Guys, guys, guys!!! What are you talking about?

In 2010 we shouldn't see a working split of local and international bandwith.
No,we finally should see real internet. Internet! Not Afronet.
Why is SA the only country in the world where not even the ISPs understand the meaning of the term internet?
When I, as consumer and paying client for internet services, surf to a site, why should I even bother where on this little planet of ours the server of that site is located?
The state of things is bad enough as it is. But by wanting an easier way to split your local and international bandwith you're sending out a clear sign. You're telling the providers that you've given up, rolled over and accept their crap.

No way!
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bwana said:
We need low cost uncapped solutions, not this.
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+1 on both counts.

It's like our country is a huge LAN :rolleyes:

The web is the web.
We're likely the only country that's found a way of disecting it.
 
Lol, a huge lan where you pay for your bandwidth...
 
gregmcc said:
+1

But I think it might be a while before this happens. On the meantime if they could just split local and int.
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IMO splitting just further intrenches the idea that it's ok to do so.

It's the world wide web - and everyone else seems to have it but us.
 
Freshy-ZN said:
Uncapped, paying for the line speed not bandwidth. Unshaped. Regarding the Afronet comment: I dont think its fair on the other African countries like Kenya and Morocco to call the pathetic excuse we have for internet access Afronet.

Its Saffanet.
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Exactly!
 
You should pay for either bandwidth (speed), or cap (data used), not both. We are getting double billed currently (triple if you factor in dsl line rental).
 
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