What type and which ISP

[Amii]

I need to get an internet in ZA to be able to send files to and from the UK. Most of the files will be Word/Excel but there may be some things like Sage backups in the future. Everywhere I look it seems to be a capped service - I'm used to UK uncapped services, so haven't got a clue on what level I should be looking at and which ISP! ie I don't know how the usage stacks up in terms of the cap.

Any thoughts anyone?

 

[Browser]

Not sure I understand your situation but,,,

Well if you have some idea of how much bandwidth you need for 1 month you could just get an account with an appropriate cap. If you don't know how much bandwidth you need yet you could get a prepaid voucher for Axxess like 1GB or maybe 4GB I have no idea how many or how big your documents will be so you'll have to guess, then if you run out of bandwidth you can just get another voucher and carry on, then on month 2 you should have a good idea of how much bandwidth you need and can get an account that will fill your needs without being excessive.

Beware of the uncapped services as they use IS bandwidth that is currently very slow and unreliable.

 

[SilverNodashi]

Something that's a determining factor, is how much data you need to transfer, and how often. The ISP you choose doesn't really make a difference, since they all cost about the same, with R10 - R20 difference here & there. I would suggest you take something that's unshaped, and setup a VPN tunnel between the two connections, cause then you can use normal windows browsing, otherwise you might use email, if the files aren't too big.

heh, I had a problem @ one client yesterday, she phoned me and told me her email is slow, and I should fix it. Working on the same mail server, my email was quick (I use 384K ADSL, and they use 1024K ADSL!), so I went over to see what the problem was, and someone send them a file that's 44MB BIG!!!! So, if you do want to use email, keep it below say 10MB per email. You could probably also use FTP / SFTP for this purpose.

With 99% of the ISP's you go with, you'll get a dynamic IP address, so to make it a bit easier, use http://www.dyndns.org to setup a a fix hostname(s) (like sa-pc.dyndns.org & uk-pc.dyndns.org) for the dynamic IP's, which will make it easier to get to each PC.