y does anyone remain with iBurst

Well I almost went with Iburst,thank you Mybroadband members for changing my mind.
Now if Telkom would only drop the R80 line thingy,I would get Adsl 192K+Axxess 5gb and I`m set.

I doze off waiting for pages to load on dial-up.
 
jjtoymachine said:
i still want to know where you get adsl 384 for R599....tell me, ill jump straight away!
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DSL384 + 5 gig Package + Line Rental = R718 (R359+R279+R80) No Contract - However, you get Line Installation (normal and ADSL) as well as the modem for free if you sign a 24 month contract which will bring the initial installation costs down to R0. No Setup Fee's

iBurst 1 gig Package = R599 (24 Month contract)
iBurst 3 gig Package = R699 (24 Month contract)
iBurst 6 gig Package = R1029 (24 Month contract)
 
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Btw,

5 gig ADSL Package costs you around R56 per gig.
10 gig ADSL Package costs you around R38 per gig.
20 gig ADSL Package costs you around R24 per gig.
30 gig ADSL Package costs you around R19 per gig.

Whereas with iBurst :

1 gig costs you R159
3 gig costs you R399 (R133 per gig)

Comparing the 5 gig ADSL package with how much iBurst asks per gig (extra purchased on the 3 gig Account you already have) they charge you a whopping 2.8 times more than what you'd get with ADSL!
 
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Oh, and seeing as 1mbps iBurst is twice as fast as 512k ADSL, you should be rest assured that you'd not only hit your cap faster, but you'd definately be paying through your nose for extra
 
Another pissing contest? When will it all end? Just for the record I will add my voice as a happy Iburst user. Zero downtime. Always on connection. 110-130KB/s local or international multithreaded, 60-80KB/s single threaded. I haven't phoned the helpdesk since April. Had no need to.

Point is, people come to this forum when they have problems. When things are working fine, they have better things to do. It's like sitting in Baragwanath's Casualty Department in order to judge the health of the nation.
 
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noone said:
DSL384 + 5 gig Package + Line Rental = R718 (R359+R279+R80) No Contract - However, you get Line Installation (normal and ADSL) as well as the modem for free if you sign a 24 month contract which will bring the initial installation costs down to R0. No Setup Fee's

iBurst 1 gig Package = R599 (24 Month contract)
iBurst 3 gig Package = R699 (24 Month contract)
iBurst 6 gig Package = R1029 (24 Month contract)
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Those telkom prices are all EXCL VAT so therefore:
Home384 ADSL (3gig package) R449.00
Telkom line rental R 87.05
Telkom ISP cost R 249.00

TOTAL R 785.05 incl vat

Still dont see the HOME ADSL384 R599.00 all inclusive package

BTW iburst no contract 3 gig package is R599.00 incl vat AFAIK..
 
I'll add in as another happy user.
I managed to hit my cap on the 1st of June already and then went to the 8kB line. But I am getting 8kB/s, 24/7, with pings around 400ms to my game servers in the USA. That is all I really want. I can play online, I can surf without lag, I can leech at a steady rate.
 
I'm not exactly a happy iBurst user, but it's working for me - not at the full rate, but steady. I hit the cap after about 10 days this month, and it's been working happily since too. I don't need sub-zero pings, so this works well for me.

On the side, I'm always looking for the best solution. iBurst will only keep me by lowering prices according to competition decreases (read Telkom) or raise caps...
 
Yeah i will be satisfied with iBurst when they unblock all that crapy protocol shaping like P2P...if i have even 15KB/s on P2P i`ll be happy with iburst but i have 0.5KB/s and i`m not happy...canot P2P at all...why should i always loose like 1h to find a good free proxy and i can download about 5MB with it until it stops running...
Iburst FIX UR P2P and then i`ll stay....
 
woobydog said:
Those telkom prices are all EXCL VAT so therefore:
Home384 ADSL (3gig package) R449.00
Telkom line rental R 87.05
Telkom ISP cost R 249.00

TOTAL R 785.05 incl vat

Still dont see the HOME ADSL384 R599.00 all inclusive package

BTW iburst no contract 3 gig package is R599.00 incl vat AFAIK..
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Nope, my prices are inclusive of VAT.

GateCrasher : It's not a pissing contest at all, I am very well aware that there are happy iBurst users out there. But as my friend commented above, it clearly shows you the inability to see when you get ripped off by a service.

True, you don't HAVE to buy more gigs (see my post about comparing their pricing to ADSL) and that you have 64k "unthrottled" bandwidth for the remainder of the period.

But why throw excuses like "it's faster than ADSL" in my face when you see that people like Bishop hit their cap on the first day of the month and for the remainder of the period, is running on 64k??

Thats great, but I can get better value for money AND speeds (on any kind of protocol) by dialing up with a 56k modem (Im well aware it won't be a 24/7 connection)

The thing is (and probably why it looks like a pissing contest) is because people try and diss the other product the whole time and punt their own... instead of looking at the facts.

Like I said, if it works for your then GREAT... but from my experience with Sentech (and now iBurst, being "it works great for me" on both occassions and then "it sucks") there is ONE thing I can for a FACT tell you that will happen : iBurst WILL stop working for you and the wheel WILL turn............... UNLESS WBS realise what they're doing and fix it.

It took TheRodent a year and a bit to convince me that nothing out there will satisfy my needs re: connectivity other than ADSL. And now I can proudly say that (other than Cable and those nice balloon wireless networks overseas) I have used ALL types of connections, and for a stable affordable product, ADSL wins hands down.

Btw, it's not who can piss the furthest to me. Facts speak for themselves. And again (as I am aware people's attention span's might be a bit short on this forum) If it works great for you then GOOD.
 
noone said:
Btw, it's not who can piss the furthest to me. Facts speak for themselves. And again (as I am aware people's attention span's might be a bit short on this forum) If it works great for you then GOOD.
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Amen to that!
 
Something Fishy with the theory...

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Point is, people come to this forum when they have problems. When things are working fine, they have better things to do...
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Ok, assuming that theory to be correct, why is it that people who never experience any problems with iBurst are also here posting in this very thread...?
 
because its one of those threads isnt it, the ones where adsl is meant to be so much better so occasionally regulars that are happy have to pipe up and question it. But the majority of people here are definatly here because they have problems which is why you can't use this tiny sample as a representitive group of the total iburst user-base. 10 000 users paing every month and they're all unhappy?? I don't think so.

And noone's argument of he has a 42 friends who wigned with iburst, one was a reseller and one was prime minitor of the moon and they all hated it so it must suck just doesn't hold any weight while i'm downloading at 1mbit.

It's just fashionable around here to talk crap about iBurst anyway, and make up lame nicknames for all the internet providers, "telscum", "sucktech", "ipoo", and all the mods kinda like to sway the opinion to anti iburst too, with no objective input it seems all opinion is doomed to be anti iburst from the beginning anyway. But like I said its not going to stop more and more people signing up to iBurst because they are the fastest you currently get, they are cheap enough to be accessable to everyone and its the perfect solution to non-geeks who just want to pick up and play. Fact is if you get what you paid for, and the majority probably did, then adsl looks like dial up
 
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Whatever slimothy dude...:rolleyes:

About my original question which remains unanswered:

If the theory is that:
  • "only unhappy iBurst customers are actively posting here"
  • then why is it that in this very thread there are happy iBursters posting?
Is it just me or does not disprove [a]...
 
ic, he didn't mean "only unhappy users come here", we all know for instance i'm happy and i'm here just about daily... he did however mean the majority of users seeking out this forum do so because they are unhappy, they're looking for answers.

arguing symantics does nobody any good, you knew what he meant, and so did I, and I agree with him entirley.
 
IC we must consider opening a survey with a topic as happy users with Iburst and unhappy users with Iburst...and we`ll see how many users using Iburst visiting this forum are happy and how many are unhappy....and btw in my last thread i mention 95% unhappy users from this "forum" i didnt say from all iburst costumers...but the theory says that probably 95% are unhappy....because its enough to have 1-5 users connected to each tower to say is it good or not good...so we`ll now for all of the users connected to that tower...

For examle...on this forums there is like about 20 people connected to Northcliff tower...and all of that 20 users say "Iburst is not good" so that most of the users or even all of them connected to Northcliff will say the same thing...because the connection is really bad...

And plus again there is like 2-5 people defending Iburst "happy with iburst" and another 1000 offending Iburst "unhappy with Iburst" so here we go we know the percentage of happy and unhappy users...

Thanks (excuse my english)
 
Makedon said:
IC we must consider opening a survey with a topic as happy users with Iburst and unhappy users with Iburst...and we`ll see how many users using Iburst visiting this forum are happy and how many are unhappy....
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that wouldn't tell you much, its not like everyone participates in those polls, I know I don't because they're ussually flimsy little polls that serve no purpose other han to tell us what we already know
Makedon said:
and btw in my last thread i mention 95% unhappy users from this "forum" i didnt say from all iburst costumers...but the theory says that probably 95% are unhappy.....
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actually you said and i quote
For some people Iburst works good...yeah but only for "some people"!...thats like 5% Iburst users are happy with the service but 95% unhappy...
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see you said "iburst users" and not "iburst users on this forum" implying that what you read on this forum is representitive of the entire user-base of about 10 000 users. It isn't representitive either way, whether everyone says they are happy or not, but you'll probably find alot of the iburst userbase are content with thier service, why else would they keep paying month after month, and don't say "cuz they cant get adsl" unless you can go to each of thier houses to substantiate your claim.

and ic of course i'm not getting where you're coming from because you speak in ye old english half the time, and I turn off when I read jar jar binks methinks stuff well that coupled with the fact that you don't actually come out and say what you're saying, I left my crystal ball in my other pants.
 
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like i said before, this forum can't give (within reason) how many happy and unhappy users there are. I just find the stubbornness and "tunnel" mentality of people who are pro-iburst to be really annoying. Especially if someone with a problem posts and they reply with useless "but it's working great for me" crap.

and again (seeing as people are short of memory and can't probably read or comprehend the english language) I say that if iBurst works for you, then GOOD. The thread posed a question WHY you stay with iBurst, it's spun off to other means of connections and how much those connections cost and compare to iBurst cost.

The useless argueing by Slimothy and others to those who post constructive crit and other cheap effective ways is what is bringing this side of the forum down.

Stop trying to argue with those who post their opinions without having the proper facts beforehand!
 
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