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Hey,

A guy at my office started raving about The Wireless Guys - does anybody know them? He says their speeds are really great and pricing is ok.

Website: www.wirelessguys.co.za

They're in Garsfontein (I think I've seen their advertising at the back of a wall driving in Atterbury).
 
I dunno, but I stuggle to take a company with a WIX site seriously... they're a specialist ISP who cant be bothered to have a proper site?
 
jem said:
I dunno, but I stuggle to take a company with a WIX site seriously... they're a specialist ISP who cant be bothered to have a proper site?
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Agreed, and if you DO go that route then at least take off the WIX Facebook / Twitter links.
 
jem said:
I dunno, but I stuggle to take a company with a WIX site seriously... they're a specialist ISP who cant be bothered to have a proper site?
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Lol, absolutely... "This site was created with..." "No!"
 
Ok so the guys gave me a call today - coming to do a site survey tomorrow. Apparently their actual site is www.thewirelessguys.co.za - little bit better.

The guy knows my neighborhood quite well so we'll see...will get pricing etc then.
 
Right, so the guy was there. I have LOS to three of their towers (Moralettapark, Garsfontein and Olympus) so I can get the service.

They offer up to 4 Mbps uncapped with a static IP symmetrical. Contention ratio on international traffic is 4:1. Capped services are 4 - 5 Mbps symmetrical with a 10 GB cap (yuk) costing around R600 if I remember correctly.

Apparently they do lots of work for Bankserv SA - the guy claims they have the most sophisticated network management equipment in the market of all WISPs (shame they can't say the same about their website).

The 1 Mbps uncapped connection is R560 or so a month - which isn't bad for a symmetrical connection with a static public IP. Most ports are closed by default but you can e-mail them and have them open it for you, which is cool.

Only thing - they shape gaming (which I don't mind) and torrents / P2P traffic (sucks) heavily. The guy outright said don't use them if I was planning on gaming on my PC (apparently XBox Live and PS network are fine).

They use Ubiquity 5Ghz Wifi links. The CPE costs between R5k and R6k - which is heavily expensive - but you can work out a payment plan for it. You get to keep the CPE stuff in the end.

Still waiting for an official quote - then we'll see!
 
OK so they're charging me R3,300 for the installation costs - which I must say is quite hectic. I can work out a payment agreement with them, but still.

Costs:

1Mb Uncapped Internet R 699.00
2Mb Uncapped Internet R 899.00
3Mb Uncapped Internet R 1 199.00
4Mb Uncapped Internet R 1 399.00

Anybody think this is a good deal? Amobia has no coverage at my place.
 
ebendl said:
OK so they're charging me R3,300 for the installation costs - which I must say is quite hectic. I can work out a payment agreement with them, but still.

Costs:

1Mb Uncapped Internet R 699.00
2Mb Uncapped Internet R 899.00
3Mb Uncapped Internet R 1 199.00
4Mb Uncapped Internet R 1 399.00

Anybody think this is a good deal? Amobia has no coverage at my place.
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Sucks that Amobia doesnt cover you as their 2mb line is R499 (new price) and install is only R999
 
thread resurrect

ebendl said:
"No infrastructure"

Been the same way for the last 3 years.

Believe me if I could ADSL I would have done so ages ago. I hate wireless internet services!
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So what did you end up getting?
 
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