Wireless Online & Uninet .. ..

Well, I have spoken to Christo in new sales and he confirmed with me that they do allow P2P, but between 19:00 & 07:00 weekdays and on weekends. They also confirmed that they don't have caps, but they do put heavy downloading users on a more busy pipe so that the other users don't get affected that much.

I did try and get some sort of idea what they recon is a "heavy" user, but couldn't get an amount in Megabytes that would be considered heavy downloads.

Now, thanks to all of you and per Netcontacts, I know what I'm letting me in for. There is still a very good chance even with the booster equipment that it's not going to work, so maybe my choice will be easy. I'm going to phone Uninet again to hear if they managed to install a user in Uitzicht as planned by them.

I will inform you of any new news.

Cheers
Jaco
 
Christo is the best person I have dealt with in that company. He does know what is going on. It's just a pity about some of the other people I have also had to deal with. If you go the Uninet route you should be ok. They sound like the best WISP I have heard of. The founder of Hellkom uses them.

Good luck getting broadband!
 
Well,

I went and took the R 4 500 plunge and asked netcontacts (megaserve) to do the installation after the tests were succesful(Sorry Ratwiz). They were here yesterday and got everything installed. They used a 24dB Grid Antenna with a SL-2511BG1 Plus Senao Brigde/AP. They did use a 2.4Ghz Booster (sorry guys) to get a better signal through the trees and I'm getting a 44% + signal stength with a 70-75% communications quality.

I did have some issues with getting a 40 MB HP beta driver package for x64 downloaded, it started well and downloaded at 16kB/s constantly, but for some reason would stop randomly and didn't want to resume, but would download if I started a new download. Happened to a few downloads I tried. I phoned them today and Christo said I must try a proxy and see if that did't work. I did enter the proxy addy in and it the download finished without using a download manager. Not so sure if that solved the problem or if it was something else I tried.

I've been connected to a FTP site hosted internationally and I'm getting constant speed of 10 to 16 kB/s. HTTP is very good and I can't complain about that. I haven't yet tried P2P, but will let you know what happens there.

It's still early days for me with Netcontacts/Megaserve, but so far I have no reason to complain. Might be another story if I start to download large files though. Lets see how things go.

Cheers till later.
Jaco
 
Poynted fingers & Amped Signal

ms-** dominate the airwaves
and p2p is a misunderstood concept

good circus to watch

Tally ho lads
 
Someone should find those MS-** people, and explain (in not so nice terms) what their Amps are doing to the spectrum.
What they are doing is completely unfair and unnecessary.
 
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