WISP recommendation - Cape Town area

[undesign]

I stay in the Northern Suburbs, Durbanville area. ADSL works only 10% of the time due to congested dslam, 3G almost non-existant. I'm looking at a WISP as alternative. Need a stable connection for VPN access to a corporate network, download speed preferably in the 2-4Mb range.

I'm looking at these names, but have no idea how good the service is, any recommendation or advice will be appreciated!

Amobia
Comtel
Wireless Online

Oh, and I'm beyond the point where cost matters, I simply want something that WORKS.

Thanks!

 

[S.T.A.L.K.E.R]

Comtel/Wireless online same thing. Pretty good but with current drop of adsl pricing not my choice.
http://wirelessonline.co.za/

Amobia - Havent used them.


Both setup costs +-R1800

 

[undesign]

Comtel/Wireless online same thing. Pretty good but with current drop of adsl pricing not my choice.
http://wirelessonline.co.za/

Amobia - Havent used them.


Both setup costs +-R1800

Thanks bro! As I said, my ADSL is completely ****ed so pricing is rather irrelevant atm.

 

[portcullis]

Since, you do not have us on your short list, I would suggest the next best option: Amobia.

 

[undesign]

Since, you do not have us on your short list, I would suggest the next best option: Amobia.

Thanks, Wireless Online is sending a techie out tomorrow. If I don't get it sorted I'll contact Amobia.

As a matter of fact I did have a look at Cape Connect. I mean no offense, but your website doesn't look great. I know...don't judge a book by it's cover, but if you're looking at 10 options you invariably will. Oh and of course this on your site -

Our High Speed Backbone Covers

Please note that we are not currently connecting new clients to the west of the R300 ie all areas marked with a *

*Cape Town
*Muizenberg, Marina da Gama & Tokai
*Constantia, Rondebosch, Pinelands, Newlands
*Ottery & Athlone
*Durbanville,
Brackenfell, Kraaifontein & Blackheath
Somerset West, Strand & Gordon's Bay
Firgrove & Eersterivier
Stellenbosch

Thanks for the Amobia recommendation though!

 

[ABCpt]

You can also try http://www.kawuleza.com/index-2.html
A friend is fairly impressed with them.

 

[portcullis]

SiriS,

It's always good to hear honest opinions. Our new website will be launched along with the WiMax service to the west of the R300 in first quarter of 2012.

 

[undesign]

You can also try http://www.kawuleza.com/index-2.html
A friend is fairly impressed with them.

Thank you, nice reference.

 

[undesign]

SiriS,

It's always good to hear honest opinions. Our new website will be launched along with the WiMax service to the west of the R300 in first quarter of 2012.

I'm glad you're taking it in the spirit it was meant.

Good luck with the launch. With so many of Telkom's exchanges going to **** lately there should be lots of upside for your services.

 

[Went_For_Beer]

Go for Comtel because wireless online doesnt have any of its own towers, they use Comtels towers.

 

[portcullis]

And Comtel own towers, Space_Kriek?

Where would these towers be?

 

[Went_For_Beer]

They have a few.... the big one i know of is at the tygerberg quarry

 

[undesign]

Thanks guys, Wireless Online did a survey and I have LoS to the nearest tower. They seem confident that I can achieve consistent 4Mb/s unshaped speed.

Installing tomorrow or the day after, will advise how it goes.

 

[Spyk3r]

Nice one Siris. Please do post as I'm looking at going the wireless route as well...

 

[undesign]

Nice one Siris. Please do post as I'm looking at going the wireless route as well...

Just finished installation and it's flying! Up speed and down speed close to 4Mb. On my way to Kol concert, will play some more later and post results.

Looking very promising, hallelujah!

 

[Spyk3r]

Just finished installation and it's flying! Up speed and down speed close to 4Mb. On my way to Kol concert, will play some more later and post results.

Looking very promising, hallelujah!

Also please post your pings! Latency is almost more important than speed to me. I assume you've gone the unshaped capped route? So they offer an uncapped solution? I saw the website and have been quite impressed with other users stats.

Thanks.

 

[undesign]

Also please post your pings! Latency is almost more important than speed to me. I assume you've gone the unshaped capped route? So they offer an uncapped solution? I saw the website and have been quite impressed with other users stats.

Thanks.

Unshaped, uncapped yes. I think they, like many other wisps, have stopped offering uncapped - which I think is good. After my fiasco with adsl/3g a stable connection is much more important than trying to download the webz.

The first 4 is Wireless Online, the last 3 my adsl line.

 

[Spyk3r]

Wow!

Those are some serious speeds, and the latency is really good!

If I may, what kind of pricing are you paying in total? And what is your usage? I have a R600-R700 budget.

Thanks again.

 

[undesign]

Wow!

Those are some serious speeds, and the latency is really good!

If I may, what kind of pricing are you paying in total? And what is your usage? I have a R600-R700 budget.

Thanks again.

I've gone for their BusinessExtreme 5gig package for around R1,000. It's a 4Mb/s option. The 2Mb/s would also suffice I suppose. Being stable is more important.

The 5 gig is for my wife working at home on a corporate VPN and for general surfing/content consumption on multiple wireless devices. For serious downloads I'll plug in ADSL and let it run over night/weekends - the wisp option is too expensive for really big downloads. Pita, but worth having stable internet in my opinion.

 

[Went_For_Beer]

Who did the installation. A guy with long hair and a beard