MyBroadband wrote:New ISP DigiChilli (http://www.digichilli.com/) has entered the South African market offering uncapped services utilising SEACOM bandwidth. The packages offer very competitive pricing compared with other uncapped services on the market.
Is anyone else a little sceptical about this at this stage? R500 p/m sounds great in theory, but 256kbps? That's slower than Telkom's slowest ADSL offering. The concurrent connections sound attractive enough.
Stuart, It does sound a bit dodgy. As well as the fact it sounds like a pure seacom offering. Meaning if the cable gos down you are stuffed (or the overland routes as we saw earlyer).
However it allows two concurrent connections so it is possible to split the cost and it becomes a R250p/m for 256kb uncapped.
I'm not sure I could handle 256kbps. Depending on how this goes, however, I might look at the 512kbps offering. We're moving in December to a property that has two houses on it, and some good friends are staying in the other house. It might be worth our while taking a 512kbps offering and splitting the cost.
justinufo, agreed about the quantity. But ya, I don't think I could handle the 256. Unless I used that acc purely for downloads and use my Afrihost one to surf (Or my rents Telkom one)
Hopefully prices will start dropping on Uncapped soon
freeloader wrote:However it allows two concurrent connections so it is possible to split the cost and it becomes a R250p/m for 256kb uncapped.
Like Stuart says though, it's STILL 256. 256 is nothing. That's a THEORETICAL maximum download speed of 32KB per second, which you're still not likely to achieve. What's the point of an uncapped connection with slow downloads like that. I'm on a 384K line and with my download speeds topping out at about 42KB per second MAX, I'm already going nuts.
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freeloader wrote:However it allows two concurrent connections so it is possible to split the cost and it becomes a R250p/m for 256kb uncapped.
Like Stuart says though, it's STILL 256. 256 is nothing. That's a THEORETICAL maximum download speed of 32KB per second, which you're still not likely to achieve. What's the point of an uncapped connection with slow downloads like that. I'm on a 384K line and with my download speeds topping out at about 42KB per second MAX, I'm already going nuts.
Indeed. It's better than what we currently have on offer in SA, but that is not saying very much.
Screamer Telecommunications today announced its entrance into the ADSL market with a full ADSL product range which includes an unlimited 384kbps service for R399 per month.
My problem is the same. I was getting very slow speeds with the Seacom test and I have a 4meg line (living at home for now) so 256 is going to be insanely slow.
I hit 1 meg a second download speeds a few days ago. it was at 2 in the morning on a friday night (sad I know) with a direct telkom account.
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