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tanka

tanka

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Getting slightly anoid by people not understanding what they are buying. When you purchase and internet account you should always check which network it uses. ATM there are a few. MWeb, IS, SAIX and Web Africa. Now if you are buying cheap uncapped read in to it! You are getting a fantastic deal but realise there are some disadvantages to you cheap internet which as you have seen is mainly redundancy. The uncapped internet mainly uses Seacom so when it goes down you are going to lose your speed or even access all together. IS and mweb are trying to get redundancy through the SAT3/SAFE cable but they are not going to have much as this would rocket up the prices. However if you have a capped account the uses the SAIX network you have redundancy as they connect internationally through the SAT3 and SAFE cable but you are going to pay more for your internet. IS obviously offers their uncapped but allocate far more of their SAT3/SAFE bandwidth to their premium customers like unshapped account and business uncapped. Now please stop complaining.
Also gamers that are whining about their pings on local servers please not that seacom is only the link from Durban to the north of Africa and isn't going to cause you to have high ping locally.
Anyway please research before you buy and remember you get what you pay for.
Also kind of ironic that not long ago Telkom shot down the uncapped adsl and telkom accounts are all working 100%
Finally this is actually the first time the actual Seacom cable has broken so collect facts before making statements about it.
Anyway rant over.
 
tanka,

Currently TENET has given 5GBps of their functioning Seacom BW to MWEB etc. FOR FREE in order to assist with the problems. Their Fibre strands werent damaged to the same extent as the rest, but they also still experience limited downtime.

I know this because I was on the phone with TENET's CTO tonight. (He made fun of me because Spain beat Germany, Bastage! :mad:)

But yeah - people need to show a bit of patience. (And put their torrents on hold.)
 
Voicy said:
tanka,

Currently TENET has given 5GBps of their functioning Seacom BW to MWEB etc. FOR FREE in order to assist with the problems. Their Fibre strands werent damaged to the same extent as the rest, but they also still experience limited downtime.

I know this because I was on the phone with TENET's CTO tonight. (He made fun of me because Spain beat Germany, Bastage! :mad:)

But yeah - people need to show a bit of patience. (And put their torrents on hold.)
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Voicy u know the line speed is 4kb per second XD
 
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If you are paying R1K for just you cap then that is a heck of a lot.
Internet in SA will never be cheap because they have to lay cable thousands of kilometres to link us up to the real internet. Internet in Australia and New Zealand is also expensive and they are much closer to a main hub then we are. The amount we are paying for internet ATM is actually not that bad.

Any way Seacom might end up signing with Essay to allow for redundancy for both of them but until then research before you buy.
 
I have a 4mb uncapped line,and it is &$&@ fast (was)

I usally get 89 ping,instead of 130

So anyone who says mweb sucks,should just stfu XD
 
Telkoms sat3 lines have had problems just like seacom BUT and this is a big but they have redundancy through the SAFE link so pings would be higher but you will still have international internet.

Also no one is saying any ISP sucks it is just that you must realise what you are paying for before you go and whine. If you are buying cheap uncapped you are going to have little or no redundancy.
 
Tanka is right, you get exactly what you pay for, cheap dirty bandwidth is exactly that
Why do you think the US market has shifted away form uncapped back to capped?
 
Bandwidth is expanding in SA and the Seacom problems are part of that expansion. They are going to get redundancy, but at the moment, they couldn't couldn't possibly offer their reduced prices and the same amount of redundant bandwidth through SAT3. SAT3 bandwidth costs are daylight robbery.

When Seacom gets their redundancy through EASSY up, things will go a lot smoother. Basically everyone on Seacom at the moment is an "early adopter" and funding a critical part of the countries bandwidth expansion. Hang tight for a few more months and the SAT3 stranglehold will hopefully finally be over.

As a side note, does anyone here remember the times when SAT3 has gone completely down and the country was running through SAFE? That redundancy is of barely any use at all because of SAFE's VERY limited capacity, it gets so badly congested that things are no better off than they are now.
 
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