3Com
Well-Known Member
Hi Peeps!
Who should i use for uncapped adsl, i am looking for a good upload speed for servers.
Thx!
Who should i use for uncapped adsl, i am looking for a good upload speed for servers.
Thx!
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Who to use for Uncapped?
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[OUPA]MrNutz
Expert Member
It doesn't matter - majority of the uncapped accounts anyhow go via Internet Solutions
I'd go for something like axxess uncapped express or the express+
Daytime speed is a problem tho - check the other products from axxess.
my2c
other providers u might wanna check - webafrica/openweb.
I'd go for something like axxess uncapped express or the express+
Daytime speed is a problem tho - check the other products from axxess.
my2c
other providers u might wanna check - webafrica/openweb.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
OpenWeb or Axxess.
diabolus
Executive Member
Well you need to ask and answer a few more questions there:
1. What is your line speed and what speed are you happy with .
2. Do you want it for bulk down/uploading or latency sensitive tasks (alot of the uncapped solutions are fine for bulk "schedule and go to sleep" downloading, but poor at anything in real-time (like gaming and streaming)
3. What is your "price bracket" , is it R500 or R1000 or R1500 or R3000 . In the R500 bracket the options are pretty much limited to 2-3 ISPs and all of them are limited to 384 kpbs [and lower] line speeds.
and finally
4. Instead of saying "uncapped", rather consider "how much GBs are you REALLY hoping to push". There are offerings that are not labeled "uncapped", but if you do the calculations combined with your line capacity and amount of GBs you expect to push , you'll realise they are "effectively uncapped" AND cheaper (because you don't pay a flat flee, if you use less, you pay less). Example would be these R14 p/GB offerings. Advantage of the "p/GB" offerings are there's usually NOT a speed/throttle restriction. Uncapped accounts -ALL- have a speed throttle.
1. What is your line speed and what speed are you happy with .
2. Do you want it for bulk down/uploading or latency sensitive tasks (alot of the uncapped solutions are fine for bulk "schedule and go to sleep" downloading, but poor at anything in real-time (like gaming and streaming)
3. What is your "price bracket" , is it R500 or R1000 or R1500 or R3000 . In the R500 bracket the options are pretty much limited to 2-3 ISPs and all of them are limited to 384 kpbs [and lower] line speeds.
and finally
4. Instead of saying "uncapped", rather consider "how much GBs are you REALLY hoping to push". There are offerings that are not labeled "uncapped", but if you do the calculations combined with your line capacity and amount of GBs you expect to push , you'll realise they are "effectively uncapped" AND cheaper (because you don't pay a flat flee, if you use less, you pay less). Example would be these R14 p/GB offerings. Advantage of the "p/GB" offerings are there's usually NOT a speed/throttle restriction. Uncapped accounts -ALL- have a speed throttle.
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Do you need uncapped 24/7, during work hours or after hours and is it for home use or office use? If uploading is your most important factor then you may struggle as the guaranteed speeds even on the 4MB linesare pretty damn slow.
3Com
Well-Known Member
We have 2 x combined 4mb lines running at 3.7Mbs Download and 0.38 Mbs Upload per line. Combined it is 6 - 7Mbs Download and 0.6 - 0.7 Mbs Upload.
Also have 5 IBM Servers that upstream 10kbs 24/7. Each server use about 30GB per month. 5 X 30 = 150GB for the servers needed.
Currently use Afrihost for access, nice upload. No probs, but cost run to R 4500 per month. We can to scale down to below R 1000.
3Com
Well-Known Member
Its 10kbs per server
InTheCube
Expert Member
Wait till 1 March, when WebAfrica launches their new packages - it's only 20 days away. Hopefully they will bring us some sweet offerings. And hopefully the competition will respond as well.
March is going to be a good month for ADSL users.
March is going to be a good month for ADSL users.
We use IS Business ADSL with a 50Gb threshold. We normally get between 3 Mbps and 3.6 Mbps downlink and only 0.4 Mbps uplink (normal for ADSL). Local pings are 22 ms with jitter of about 10. Oversea pings are 300ms to 450ms. This costs us R 2,985 per month excluding Telkom line rental.
IS's full uncapped account used to cost about R 3,500, but is limited to 1 Mbps downlink.
I've noticed that on Vodacom HSUPA i got 1 Mbps uplink and 1.5 Mbps downlink. The uplink is quicker than adsl, but data is prohibitively expensive.
We struggle with the uplink speed of ADSL as we use VPN fairly often and it is deadslow for users to download anything meaningful from our servers.
IS's full uncapped account used to cost about R 3,500, but is limited to 1 Mbps downlink.
I've noticed that on Vodacom HSUPA i got 1 Mbps uplink and 1.5 Mbps downlink. The uplink is quicker than adsl, but data is prohibitively expensive.
We struggle with the uplink speed of ADSL as we use VPN fairly often and it is deadslow for users to download anything meaningful from our servers.
AndrewGoldy
Active Member
Like he said : Openweb!