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    Thumbs up ShowMax

    ShowMax is a South African Netflix competitor by Naspers that only costs R99 per month. Our resident [MENTION=289]Jan[/MENTION] is an expert on it and if it wasn't for him then I wouldn't even have known about it to be honest.

    It looks freaken amazing!

    http://www.showmax.com/eng

    I wish DSTV had a sport only package. Then I would have taken that plus ShowMax.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Solitude View Post
    I wish DSTV had a sport only package. Then I would have taken that plus ShowMax.
    They do, it's called "DSTV Premium". You also get another 120 free shit channels with it.

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    Interesting thing: I can't connect to their website on my home network. It says Showmax is not available in my country yet. I don't have any DNS settings even set up on my network - I have it down to device level. Ah well, guess my Netflix sub isn't in danger of being cancelled.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FarligOpptreden View Post
    Interesting thing: I can't connect to their website on my home network. It says Showmax is not available in my country yet. I don't have any DNS settings even set up on my network - I have it down to device level. Ah well, guess my Netflix sub isn't in danger of being cancelled.
    My wife had the same problem when she tried to look at it at home. What connection do you have? We have BitCo at home.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Solitude View Post
    My wife had the same problem when she tried to look at it at home. What connection do you have? We have BitCo at home.
    Smart Village fibre.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FarligOpptreden View Post
    Smart Village fibre.
    Oh yeah! I must still add you to my ignore list. Lucky bliksem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Solitude View Post
    Oh yeah! I must still add you to my ignore list. Lucky bliksem.
    Hahaha. It's not always what it's cracked up to be, in all honesty. I have a 10Mbps package, 300GB unshaped data. I had to sign a 2 year contract due to the package being "special" at a slightly reduced rate. I all honesty, their usage monitoring is shot, because I easily use 500GB per month and they claim I never use more than 10% of that amount.

    Maybe if I had a faster line it would feel more impressive...
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    Quote Originally Posted by FarligOpptreden View Post
    Hahaha. It's not always what it's cracked up to be, in all honesty. I have a 10Mbps package, 300GB unshaped data. I had to sign a 2 year contract due to the package being "special" at a slightly reduced rate. I all honesty, their usage monitoring is shot, because I easily use 500GB per month and they claim I never use more than 10% of that amount.

    Maybe if I had a faster line it would feel more impressive...
    Ah if it's only 10Mbps then I'm not that jealous anymore. Can't they give you a faster speed? I suppose 10 Mbps is enough but one would expect more with fibre. You are however lucky with the usage monitoring!

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    I'll consider it if they get a PS app. but streaming is bad for my cap

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    Quote Originally Posted by Solitude View Post
    Ah if it's only 10Mbps then I'm not that jealous anymore. Can't they give you a faster speed? I suppose 10 Mbps is enough but one would expect more with fibre. You are however lucky with the usage monitoring!
    Well, I might consider upgrading to 20Mbps soon and, if funds allow it, I might even look at the 40Mbps package. Currently, 10Mbps pretty much suits my needs - I stream Netflix, Hulu and Youtube in 1080p and download modern Steam games in just a couple of hours (averaging 1.2MB/s download speed).
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