After struggling with up and down 3G performance for a while now (and let me be the first to acknowledge that VC and V3G in particular have been trying really hard to fix this), I finally cracked and applied for ADSL. I have a business to run and I really need reliability.
I spoke to Telkom on Monday, the line was installed on Wednesday and I went live with an Axxess semi-shaped package earlier this evening. No special favours, no strings pulled.
Now I'm really glad I bought the Billion 3G/ADSL2 router a few months ago. It works well with 3G (USB Huawei E272) and now I have failover into the bargain.
Will benchmark this later (using 384). I'm not fussed if it doesn't deliver the raw throughput of HSDPA - it's the reliability and latency I'm concerned about.
I spoke to Telkom on Monday, the line was installed on Wednesday and I went live with an Axxess semi-shaped package earlier this evening. No special favours, no strings pulled.
Now I'm really glad I bought the Billion 3G/ADSL2 router a few months ago. It works well with 3G (USB Huawei E272) and now I have failover into the bargain.
Will benchmark this later (using 384). I'm not fussed if it doesn't deliver the raw throughput of HSDPA - it's the reliability and latency I'm concerned about.
Although, you may want to shop around because there are cheaper options out there for IS Semi-shaped.