To go ADSL or not.

[Bennie Vorster]

To go ADSL or not to go ADSL that is a question we all should seriously consider.

After I did a few calculations and studied a few phone bills I discovered that :

* I was paying much more on dialling up every time I need to use the net for "Banking" prepossess and "e-mails" that ADSL would cost me.

* The time spend by me or anyone of my staff online been unproductive, waiting for transactions to be concluded, cose me to over employ staff at my stores and is the cause of bad client service.

* By making use of ADSL and Voice over IP software like Skype at all my stores and plan the structure in my company a little better, I was able to remove all the Telkom phones from all my stores and the ADSL rates that I pay for in each store is costing me a 3rd of the cost for a dialup and voice bill that used to run up per month, per store. Also with V.O.I.P. all calls between any of the staff are free of charge. :D :D :D

Obviously all of us will not be able to implement this and gain so mush by it, but it stay worth it to do the calculations and see what the impact might be.

It saves me daily to be connected through ADSL 24-7 and it saves me about 2/3 ds of the bill. :D :D :D

http://www.telkom.co.za/attheoffice/pro ... _much.html

[RV4ker (RIP)]

GO ADSL. Fone bill is N/A. Fixed line rental and when low use, the download speeds are . 50+meg files in less than 10min for eg...

I have been without mine for 2 days and am very . Dial up at anywhere between 16 and 52 Kbps when lucky and it keeps dropping the line. I also have bad habbit of having 15-20 web pages open at same time. Not possible with dial up, but adsl no problem. Can have couple users on same adsl account. Telkom not greatest, but by far the cheapest ISP...

2c

[Bennie Vorster]

Yip

Have 11 Pc's connected to one ADSL Router (Line) on a network. Speed = no Problem.

[krusty]

I use www.imaginet.co.za

Best thing about it is that when you hit your cap (I do in a couple of days), they DON'T cut you off, but rather bill you in increments of R100mb instead.

Best ISP IMO.

[Thunderboy]

I am on Sentech. Pay under R500 p/m and have no cap. It works for what I need, can take it home if I need as well. For some it might not work and of course you need to be in the right area for a signal.

[The Agent]

If you look after the pennies the pound will look after themselves.

Bennie I spend a lot of time on the box have a 3 gic cap, have never reached it speed counts but I will also look at the sentech thing.

My bill for adsl plus rental plus 3 gig plus land line calls and plus an incoming fax line R1000.00

[Flying Dutchman]

Nice thing about making Telkom your ISP is should there be a problem they can`t blame it on somebody ells

[Bennie Vorster]

I have been connecting threw a local wireless network before, but also encountered an unstable connection often and then the technical support was a disgrace.

Coz I live on the internet it is of utmost importance that I have a stable and reliable service provider and I found that the frustrations I was spared by paying a few cents more was well worth it.

Unfortunately I can't voice my opinion on the sentech option coz they only operate and are available in the bigger cities.

[Arnulf]

Hi,

if you get ADSL, you won't understand how you survived for so long the frustations of a dial-up connection. I use ADSL for privat use only. It is cheaper, and so far we have not reached the 1 gig cap.

Regards,
Arnulf

[RV4ker (RIP)]

I had an alleged 512K Sentech connection for my business ISP for about 14 (often frustrating) months, but got tired of slow connections, no connections, lost e-mails etc.
I canned them and now havea 1024K Telom ADSL, and it is a HUGE improvement. I have about 21 PC's on the office network, have not lost a mail or connection in 3 months, and the speed is 10x better than the Sentech

Ditto on sentech. Very frustrating. I have had 3G, GPRS, wireless, satelite, radio etc. Telkom although frustrating is stable and cheap (relatively).

When quiet at work I often hot the 3gig cap by 20th of month downloading (aminly) K@K (Have second ISP ADSL account (username & password) for those months , rather than Krustmans R100Meg option....

between 12 & 15 users. Now if I could just get static IP

[Bennie Vorster]

Now if I could just get static IP

How do you mean static IP, I'm battling to setup a fixed IP threw Telkom ADSL to run a VPN.( surveillance cameras exc.)

Seen it been done before.

[krusty]

rather than Krustmans R100Meg option....

between 12 & 15 users. Now if I could just get static IP

R6.75 per 100Mb

Static IP is a no go on ADSL at the moment. Telkom simply won't let it happen and there is no way around this.

The best you can do is use dynamic DNS. If you manage your own DNS, use a site like gotdns.com or zoneedit.com and then setup your adsl router to update your DNS records every time your IP changes.

It's a 97% solution as DNS does take a little time to propogate around the world, but these days it's around half an hour as opposed to the 72 hours it used to take!!!!

I use this so that I can login to my mailserver at home from my cellphone. Mailserver downloads all my mail and Outlook is set to leave mail on the server for 5 days. This way, I can always get my last 5 days worth of mail on my phone.

Thinking about changing this to IMAP so I can get ALL my mail on my phone, but with small screen, I'd rather leave as it is for now. Works great and I basically never get DNS errors.

PS. Similar setup could work for VPN if VPN software is not IP dependant (you can use securemote or similar...)

[Bennie Vorster]

The best you can do is use dynamic DNS. If you manage your own DNS, use a site like gotdns.com or zoneedit.com and then setup your adsl router to update your DNS records every time your IP changes.

Krusty

Yip that is it, that is exactly what I need. :D

Now If possible, will you please help me to set it up so I can use a D-Link camera with it's own IP Address to do surveillance over the Internet.

Please, Please, Please.

[krusty]

Indeed I can.

Let me know what router you use and I'll PM you some instructions.

[Bennie Vorster]

Thanks Krusty

PM is on iets way.