South African Bandwidth

[Marius Bock]

John

Bandwidth in South Africa is basically controlled by a monopolistic
telecommunications company called Telkom. The people in SA that has Internet
and that is a small % do it via dial-up (56K analog or 64K ISDN). We do have
ADSL but it is very expensive -- start from 192Kb up to 1024Kb with line
rental cost of $40 to $101. On top of this you have to pay around $30 for
3GB bandwidth. When you have used your 3GB of bandwidth you basically get
cut of from the Internet.

I have read somewhere that one of the reasons Mark (sabdfl) gave for moving
to London was the situation recarding bandwidth and telecoms in SA --
correct me if I am wrong here Mark.

To get an better idea about the situation visit http://www.myadsl.co.za/,
also have a look at the forums on that site.

Marius


On 10/8/05, john levin <john at technolalia.org> wrote:
>
> Very OT, but I know there's South Africans on this list, and anyway, the
> sounder is for OT stuff.
>
> I was reading this article
> http://www.tectonic.co.za/viewr.php?id=637
> about MLDonkey, when I read:
> "If you happen to have an offshore server at your disposal, this makes
> for an interesting exercise in avoiding South African bandwidth
> limitations – you can simply log on when a file is done and download it,
> without using South African bandwidth for uploading or for failed
> downloads. "
>
> What are these SA bandwidth limitations? ISP limits? Weak
> infrastructure? Or what?
>
> TIA
>
> John
>
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