You are blaming...who?

[w1z4rd]

Not even flying to japan and getting the data there is guaranteed - your plane could crash.

Try diginet, its guaranteed bandwidth.

 

[xrapidx]

Try diginet, its guaranteed bandwidth.

Until the cable gets accidental unplugged.

 

[w1z4rd]

Until the cable gets accidental unplugged.

Then because its guaranteed, Telkom would send a technician out to you right away and resolve the problem. Unlike with adsl... where they have no commitment to restore the services quickly. Its kinda a "best effort" service

 

[bekdik]

v0v, good for us when the SWC ends then. I guess all that additional capacity was reserved.

Them empty stadium thingies would make great Internet Cafes!

 

[Tpex]

Yawn... fanboys will be fanboys....

 

[Kosmik]

Then because its guaranteed, Telkom would send a technician out to you right away and resolve the problem. Unlike with adsl... where they have no commitment to restore the services quickly. Its kinda a "best effort" service

Actually Telkom still f*** thier diginet customers around quite often. We were down for over 5 hours at one stage. Poor service

 

[Nanfeishen]

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.
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.

Couldnt agree more, as this is not the first time this has happened.
One would think that Mweb would have learnt from earlier episodes, and had a comparative working alternative in place in case of future problems regarding Seacom.
Its not like they dont have the ability or the finacial resources to do so for the interim period.

 

[Kosmik]

Couldnt agree more, as this is not the first time this has happened.
One would think that Mweb would have learnt from earlier episodes, and had a comparative working alternative in place in case of future problems regarding Seacom.
Its not like they dont have the ability or the finacial resources to do so for the interim period.

:wtf:

Have you pray chanced missed all the discussions regarding the redundancy and impossibility of it till more cables come online? That by throttling down p2p they can still route customer web access and mail across redundant links when the "redundant" company allows them access. Kind of dificult to get out the country if you have two pipes where one is down and the other now restricts you from their network.

 

[Xyber]

i blame the vuvuzelas

 

[Phenomenon]

:wtf:

Have you pray chanced missed all the discussions regarding the redundancy and impossibility of it till more cables come online? That by throttling down p2p they can still route customer web access and mail across redundant links when the "redundant" company allows them access. Kind of dificult to get out the country if you have two pipes where one is down and the other now restricts you from their network.

If they were only throttling/blocking p2p then it would be a different matter. The "redundancy" they acquired was a last minute thing they did when the **** greeted the fan, instead of having an actual plan in place.

 

[Valerion]

If they were only throttling/blocking p2p then it would be a different matter. The "redundancy" they acquired was a last minute thing they did when the **** greeted the fan, instead of having an actual plan in place.

This redundancy will cost them money, when not used. How much are you willing to pay to ensure they provision it? Double your current ISP cost? More?

 

[mika1000]

There's no "redundency" till EASSY goes live.