You are blaming...who?

Phenomenon said:
v0v, good for us when the SWC ends then. I guess all that additional capacity was reserved.
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Yes. As well as the 2x20Gb optic fibre links from all the stadia to the Midrand control centre - this will take care of some of the backhaul bottlenecks!
 
epeer said:
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The US$ 600 million Seacom system has a design capacity of 1.28 Tbps, but will initially only be equipped at 80 Gbps.
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Everything about the SEACOM cable breaking is a lie!! Zuma just wants faster internet to download pron!! :D
 
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moggie said:
Yes. As well as the 2x20Gb optic fibre links from all the stadia to the Midrand control centre - this will take care of some of the backhaul bottlenecks!
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Each stadium has 2x20Gb fibre links? What are they used for? What WILL they be used for in future?
 
SabreWolfy said:
Each stadium has 2x20Gb fibre links? What are they used for? What WILL they be used for in future?
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Broadcast links from the stadium to the FIFA broadcast centre in Midrand. They are redundant routes, meaning that they follow 2 separate paths from the stadium to Midrand. This is some serious bandwidth that will be freed up after 12 July!!! It won't solve us customers' problems but it will make our life a little bit better!
 
moggie said:
Broadcast links from the stadium to the FIFA broadcast centre in Midrand. They are redundant routes, meaning that they follow 2 separate paths from the stadium to Midrand. This is some serious bandwidth that will be freed up after 12 July!!! It won't solve us customers' problems but it will make our life a little bit better!
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But what is fed across these links? Video streaming? How will links from stadia help us in future?
 
SabreWolfy said:
But what is fed across these links? Video streaming? How will links from stadia help us in future?
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The links from the stadiums to the first/nearest exchange will not help us.

But the optic fibre backhaul from say Durban to Johannesburg or Cape Town to Johannesburg will suddenly have plenty of capacity available. Remember where the two undersea cable landing stations are located? .... Near Cape Town and Durban!!!
 
I love MWEB (No sarcasm there, I find their uncapped solution to be fantastic) - However, I do not pay them to give me access to SEACOM, I pay them to give me access to the Internet. If they can't provide access to the internet, it might not be their fault but it is their PROBLEM.

People are very quick to defend MWEB and say "blame Seacom, blame Seacom" - however like I said, I don't pay Seacom to give me access to the internet, I pay MWEB. I don't actually care how MWEB gives me access, as long as I have it.

Imagine if you were to order something from Kalahari.net on 24 hours delivery, but the delivery van had a tyre blowout and you only got your order after 48 hours and as much as you moaned, all your friends told you to shoose and blame Dunlop for making lame tyres, you would think your friends were morons! People jumping to the defence of MWEB don't seem to understand that whilst it isn't MWEB's fault, it sure as hell is their problem and they rightfully deserve 100% of the flak they're taking for both relying on an unstable system as well as having virtually no backup plan.
 
Some more examples:

  • Municipal strike. Garbage bins staying in the streets. City Council doesn't care, it will stay there until the strike is over. Also, no refunds.
  • Eskom or City Council cuts my power off due to a fault in the network. They will fix it "ASAP" (took 3 days last time it happened) and I won't get a refund there.
  • Street lights in my street has been off for over a month recently. Repeated calls to City Council got no-where. No rebates on my rates & taxes for this.
  • Something happens to my ADSL line Tuesday evening. Back up again Saturday afternoon. Telkom says "best effort" and does no refund.

Compared to the above, which people accept as normal, MWEB has actually been stable this month. I counted 12 hours of international downtime so far where I got no international access at all. For a "Best Effort" service it's not bad at all. With all the money I saved by subscribing to them, I can afford 1 or 2 GB of WA bandwidth to tide me over.
 
Valerion said:
Some more examples:

  • Municipal strike. Garbage bins staying in the streets. City Council doesn't care, it will stay there until the strike is over. Also, no refunds. (guess that's why we don't have rates payers associations withholding money for councils)
  • Eskom or City Council cuts my power off due to a fault in the network. They will fix it "ASAP" (took 3 days last time it happened) and I won't get a refund there. (how are you managing to pay for electricity you're not using, my meter only tends to run when I'm using power???)
  • Street lights in my street has been off for over a month recently. Repeated calls to City Council got no-where. No rebates on my rates & taxes for this. (guess that's why we don't have rates payers associations withholding money for councils)
  • Something happens to my ADSL line Tuesday evening. Back up again Saturday afternoon. Telkom says "best effort" and does no refund.

Compared to the above, which people accept as normal, MWEB has actually been stable this month. I counted 12 hours of international downtime so far where I got no international access at all. For a "Best Effort" service it's not bad at all. With all the money I saved by subscribing to them, I can afford 1 or 2 GB of WA bandwidth to tide me over.
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Next up, DSTV satellites taking out by Chinese - subscribers continue to pay happily knowing its not Multichoices fault - and T&C do not guarantee signal reception/transmission.
 
Does anyone know an ADSL supplier that guarantees ADSL connectivity? I would love to find one for personal use. All my suppliers offer it as a "best effort" service and require diginet lines for guarantees.
 
Does anyone know any product that is guaranteed to be 100%? I'd love to have it.
 
Cause all the people I know say the same thing:


The Main Limitations of ADSL Broadband are as follows.
1. ADSL is not a Guaranteed Bandwidth Service. Unlike conventional
leased line services, the achievable performance of the ADSL network is
not guaranteed.
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http://www.h320video.com/images/pdfs/ADSL_BASICS.pdf

Is SatWeb ADSL a guaranteed service?
As the Service is provided over Telkom infrastructure and Telkom does not provide any guarantees in respect of quality of service over its ADSL infrastructure, no guarantees in respect of quality of service are given by SatWeb!.

The only thing we CAN guarantee, is that we look after our customers!
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Q: What is the difference between ADSL, ISDN and Diginet services?

ADSL

Telkom’s ADSL access service will offer you a permanent connection to the Internet with no dial-up necessary. It operates over the same copper wires used for your telephone service. You can make and receive calls or send a fax and surf the Internet at the same time. You pay a monthly line rental and no dial-up costs. Telkom doesn’t guarantee any throughput speeds on an ADSL access line. A cap or limit is enforced, and traffic is ’shaped’ to cater for normal business usage.

Diginet or leased line

Diginet or leased line provides you with an always on service. You can host websites or email servers on a Diginet link, but cannot do so using Capped ADSL. It provides guaranteed bandwidths between any predefined destinations. You will experience no traffic congestion, as the connection is not shared with other customers.
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http://www.kingsley.co.za/?page_id=225

I notice Diginet is guaranteed.

Personally I would love to have guaranteed ADSL like you get guaranteed diginet... but then it would cost me an arm and a leg :(
 
Not even flying to japan and getting the data there is guaranteed - your plane could crash.
 
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