IS Fiber ADSL offering hits the market

excuse the stupid question, but do we need to pay a line rental.. or is this the final price.. (will call them tomorrow and find out).
 
Great stuff Openweb!!! A step in the right direction! :cool:

ShadowGlow said:
excuse the stupid question, but do we need to pay a line rental.. or is this the final price.. (will call them tomorrow and find out).
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You still need to pay line rental, this is only for the amount of data you use
 
As I understand this product it effectively means that local bandwidth costs as much as international bandwidth but after you hit the cap the local bandwidth is actually free.
That does not make any sense to me.
 
You first part is correct, local costs as much as international, but, after you hit the cap, you only get 10GB of local bandwidth, so, it's not really free, you did pay for it as part of the whole package.

Currently, your only recourse at not paying a premium for local bandwidth is to run 2 accounts simultaneously, one that is used exclusively for international bandwidth, and the other for local.
 
So what they saying is that your LOCAL will count towards the international cap and just to shut you up - we will "THROW" in same amount of local after you reach the cap. VAK VAK
 
Woopy bloody doo...

What are you guys so excited about? From what I read, this offering is worse than the current TI offering, at almost the same price. 1Gig cap plus 1 gig local. Now why is this something to get excited about? What am I missing here? :confused:
 
It's unshaped at certain times. People who play games on overseas servers will find it useful, and cheaper than existing unshaped accounts (If used for the same non-office-hours purpose).

e.g. SKYPE calls at night to overseas numbers.
 
Notice how stoke says "unshaped at certain times"
I read this news and I think... and why would this be a first?
This shouldn't be a first, we should've had this long ago - no excitement here.
 
Marketing bull

What are they saying here?
"These accounts utilize the new Internet Solutions Fibre International ADSL network" ........ "international traffic will be routed over the SAT 3 Undersea cable"

This is bullsh....t.
1. You can't use fibre and ADSL in the same scentence.
2. New???? Did IS finally install a "new" fibre cable down to the cape? Surely they have some infrastructure already.

What they should have said is this:
IS finally put in a new fibre cable down to the cape that will be used to route international traffic from the ADSL network. They have spent months negotiating with Telkom to get a little piece of the SAT3 cable so they can give you better speeds. This does, however, come at a price.
 
What a strange offering. What use is local-only to most people? The post-cap allowance is just lip service. The idea of unshaping after hours is great though. My ideal package would be:

6GB shaped/unshaped international PLUS local concurrently... so I don't get screwed after the cap is reached.
 
stoke said:
It's unshaped at certain times. People who play games on overseas servers will find it useful, and cheaper than existing unshaped accounts (If used for the same non-office-hours purpose).

e.g. SKYPE calls at night to overseas numbers.
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Hmm ok, fair enough, but now I'm thinking, IS has proved to oversell themselves in the past, they will probably do it again, and there goes the better latency down the drain.

The other worrying part is that you can then look at IS being direct competition to Telkom (as far as int connectivity is concerned), using the same tech. So where is the "competitive pricing" we've been waiting for? That is asuming that they have direct access to SAT 3, and not just buying capacity from Telkom.

Bha, and just maybe I'm in a bad mood this morning :rolleyes:
 
Not all that impressive. For R9 more you can buy 5GB pure SAIX banwidth from Openweb plus a 10GB local only account, instead of the 5GB of local you would get with this service. Then you aren't stuck with only local after your cap.

Does anyone have a use for plain local with no international?

And the prices aren't very good for SAT3 international, even with the mostly useless local.
 
Still being capped for local access

IS is not solving my problem. They will CAP/STOP/PREVENT local usage after I have used the allocated local bandwidth... BLA, BLA....

At least with TI, I am able to use uncapped local bandwidth without having to change my account, but then again the cost is ridicules!!! We never really win!!

Go Zuma!! Everthing for free please!!! Lets milk this country while we still can....
 
Oh man you people are stupid. UNCAPPED!!!! How many time must poor Stoke say it.
Think of your average gamer, or XBOX Live which is a P2P network, or like someone pointed out Skype.
With your average account those ports are throttled.
Gamers should see a marked improvement in performance.
I currently pay Axxess R240 bucks for a 4gig shaped account. Which equates to R60/gig.
If I wanted the equivilent unshaped account it would cost me R400. Which is R100/gig.

With this deal I am effectively getting unshaped for R63/gig.

Provided this is on the up and up and there is no loopholes, etc. It is a pretty sweet deal for your average consumer working a 8-5 job.
 
Or think of your average internet user. How much does unshaped help? I'm not paying much more for it, that's all I know. You only have a few gigs, you can still get whatever you want over P2P.

Even gamers are fine on all the local servers with shaped accounts. So it will benefit some XBOX360 and international gamers, and who else? Skype calls were already fine, especially after hours (probably after 12) when the network is fastest.

It is weird that Openweb can offer partly unshaped on the SAT3 network though, for reasonable prices compared to what everyone else charges.
 
still flippin expensive

save a couple of bob

now if i saw 30 gig int for 299 and unshaped at night i might get excited
 
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