Western Cape broadband services: how to get connected

Even though I dont live in WC, I am proud to be a DA supporter.

They make promises and deliver on them.
 
I understand a local hotspot will be erected on top of the SPA building at c/r Main Road and Victoria Road, Plumstead and will have a 5km radius footprint. The guys that are supplying the mast told me about it. Cape Town City Council own lots of buildings in strategic points where they can erect towers. Another one is at Waterworks, top of Kendal Road. The list goes on and on
 
Quite interesting, hope people don't abuse it once it goes live
 
proud to say da delivers and cape town is up there with best cities in the world after having lived in London and a few other countries.Long way to go but....imagine zille as president compared to the 'speech reader' we currently have
 
Meantime in ANC controlled Gauteng, they are trying to get us to pay even more for toll gates.

While the DA is trying to make Western Cape better....


Masses needs to start seeing the difference....
 
chrisc4290 said:
I understand a local hotspot will be erected on top of the SPA building at c/r Main Road and Victoria Road, Plumstead and will have a 5km radius footprint. The guys that are supplying the mast told me about it. Cape Town City Council own lots of buildings in strategic points where they can erect towers. Another one is at Waterworks, top of Kendal Road. The list goes on and on
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Very nice. Good news for me :)
 
So let me understand this correctly , will it be like the free wireless you get in Stellenbosch ?
 
jes said:
Western Cape broadband services: how to get connected

The Western Cape’s broadband plans are taking shape, aiming to provide everyone in the province with high speed broadband access
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I'm all for the initiative and believe this Z can produce. However 8 buildings connected and a decision made to use service providers is scraping the barrel as a progress report. Meanwhile a lot of work already being down before the original announcement has halted due to uncertainty
 
From what I have heard, it will be free but severely capped. The one in Cape Town on top of the Municipal Building is already working. You need to park nearby and see what free to air channels you can pick up. In Plumstead, standing on the 6th floor of Protea Place facing south, I could see"DGtest14" which was open and I could connect, but did not receive any data. The signal on an iPad was 39%. Of course this might have been someone else and not the tx on the SPM bldg
 
chrisc4290 said:
From what I have heard, it will be free but severely capped. The one in Cape Town on top of the Municipal Building is already working. You need to park nearby and see what free to air channels you can pick up. In Plumstead, standing on the 6th floor of Protea Place facing south, I could see"DGtest14" which was open and I could connect, but did not receive any data. The signal on an iPad was 39%. Of course this might have been someone else and not the tx on the SPM bldg
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Free? I'd like to hear that too - but I doubt it.

In impoversihed areas, perhaps - but even then it leaves room for abuse.
(Can anyone comment on how the Stellenbosch Free wifi mesh network is holding up? - Perhaps a follow up story on that rpm of Jan?)

Either way - I'n happy that there will be a means to cut Telkom out.

I'm just saying - why don't the existing service providers makes use of DFA's Fibre Rollout in Cape Town - which covers a large footprint!
 
Okay, so how is this gonna work? Is the whole internet gonna be open, or are they gonna block/filter porn sites?
 
beans100 said:
Okay, so how is this gonna work? Is the whole internet gonna be open, or are they gonna block/filter porn sites?
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Read the article!
Speaks nothing of that - ISP's will be provisioning web connectivity to the greater public. They'll be leasing the infrastructure or whatever.
Your porn will still be yours if you're not with the Chrisitan Society of ISP's. :rolleyes:
 
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