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Comment on Direct Marketing Association – South Africa by Chuck Hash

Chuck Hash — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:32:44 +0000

Marketing is mostly about misleading the consumer. Only a very small part of marketing is about informing the consumer of a product, the main aim of marketing is to create a sense of need where there is none. Since Capitalism relies on an open exchange of actual needs, marketing is one of its worst enemies.

Comment on Direct Marketing Association – South Africa by Amelie Griffiths

Amelie Griffiths — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:19:49 +0000

marketing always makes a product more popular and is necessary for its success.:,:

Comment on ibdriver and the 2.6.31 kernel (iBurst Linux drivers) by Hosting Habitat

Hosting Habitat — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:05:17 +0000

Awesome! Will send you some visitors from a post we did way back when…

To everyone with a new install just run sudo pppoeconf after Jaco’s suggestion.

Comment on South Africa and Asterisk (DAHDI) by Ross

Ross — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:43:19 +0000

Jaco,

Thank you. Without your help I would’ve been screwed. It took 3 hours into the middle of the night but we got it in the end.

I have a transcript of our chat and will be editing it as a troubleshoot. I’ll send it to you once I’m done and you can post it.

Thanks again!

Comment on Capped, Uncapped and Unmetered by Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:16:11 +0000

Yes, I meant 350KBps
I have used Axxess SAIX accounts before and rarely managed to get constant 400KBps. I also doubt that many people will get full capacity on adsl, but I’ve never used 4mbps adsl in a big city environment, so I can’t really comment on that.

I also failed to mention that I have a Vtun vpn running from my home to the office and do various things, such as VoIP, SSH and RDP over it and it runs all very good.

Although I agree with your post, since all the other ISP’s out there have soft caps if they’re not shaping the living hell out of it. I’m just impressed with what mweb has done so far. I have been hesitant to use them in the beginning because I class them in the same category as Telkom when it comes to customer service.

Comment on Capped, Uncapped and Unmetered by Jaco Kroon

Jaco Kroon — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:24:03 +0000

Keep in mind that MWeb has peerings with TENET which is hosting a local google (youtube) content cache, so most of that bandwidth is local, and going over a fast fibre link.

Keep in mind that these accounts are generally shaped in order to favor http traffic, so that browsing will be responsive. http traffic can also be cached very aggressively, further enhancing the browsing experience.

Streaming will most likely vary on where you’re streaming from, and the protocol being used for streaming. Seeing that MWeb themselves are pushing streaming technology chances are quite good that they have optimizations in place in order to enhance this experience as well.

I don’t personally use torrents, but I do make heavy use of VPN, both IPSec, OpenVPN and pptp and I can promise you, many of my clients that have uncapped accounts that try to VPN in to our systems are bitching like there’s no tomorrow.

Regarding the 350mBps … I have no idea how you’re managing to exceed the physical DSL capacity by a factor of almost 100, unless you intended to state 350KBps in which case you’ve just made my point: It should be 440KBps.

Comment on Capped, Uncapped and Unmetered by Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:16:38 +0000

Apart from the usual Seacom problems, I’ve been using Mweb home uncapped at two different locations and the quality is actually quite good.
I rarely do any torrents over it, so I can’t comment on that. Web browsing, ftp and streaming is always fast.

I can download at 350mBps and still stream youtube without buffering and browse as normal.

From the few times I checked, the latency was good, but I never got 10ms locally.

I don’t work for mweb Just my 2c

Comment on Capped, Uncapped and Unmetered by Jaco Kroon

Jaco Kroon — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:10:27 +0000

There is a secondary issue I forgot to mention which may or may not get sorted out for good some time soon. Without exception the uncapped accounts all make use of Seacom bandwidth, which at the moment breaks down just about as often as it’s working. I can’t build a business on something that only works half the time.

Comment on Direct Marketing Association – South Africa by Jaco Kroon

Jaco Kroon — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:22:15 +0000

There is a difference between promoting your products legally and stepping over the law. Electronic communications are governed by the ECT act and just about every online marketing company I’ve dealt with is in violation of this act.

In particular:

Buying email addresses and telephone numbers from people whom I have not explicitly granted consent to to share my details is illegal.

Contacting me without being able to show prior business relations, or being able to tell me from whom you obtained my details and when, along with showing me that I’ve consented to them sharing my details with you for the purposes of marketing, is illegal.

In all cases preventing me from opting out, is illegal.

Comment on Cell C following in the footsteps of Vodacom? by Jaco Kroon

Jaco Kroon — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:11:08 +0000

Well, I must say, Cell C, you’re extremely responsive. I just received an email from the CIO of Cell C, had a chat with the guy, and kudus to Cell C, and thanks for the chat. It’s good to know that some companies are on the lookout for improving their customer service. I am severely impressed. I’m not easily impressed.