Fortunately the tide is turning with providers like 8ta and Vodacom competing on data dominance the internet has become so cheap that unless you don’t heed to my advice you'll get duped.

Not only is the 3G,HSDPA fast but cheap and easily movable, the worry of shifting location is something of the past as a reception is 80% Guaranteed in most provinces in South Africa. Sharing this data is just a matter of will, with internet routers as cheap as R600 you can easily share the costs involved...

Surely 20 Gigs of Data is way too much for a family of 10 to use a month, for R500 a month you can easily share this with 5 of your neighbours...That’s R100 per house.

Unless you only use internet for mailing without any attachments don't even dare go uncapped.

Before opting for a "cost-effective", "extremely competitively priced" - read "cheap" - uncapped ADSL solution for your Business or Home, ask yourself the following questions:

•  Is the service shaped or unshaped? A shaped solution is extremely slow.
• Is it throttled in some manner or form? A throttled solution is extremely slow.
• Is priority given to some kinds of traffic over others such as peer-to-peer applications? And if so, how will this affect you? Trust me 80% are
• Is there a rolling threshold on the uncapped allowance? If so, what happens when you reach that threshold?
• Does the service have connectivity redundancy on its international links - essential if one link goes down?

Note Telkom provide most of this bogus providers with ADSL....They buy a specific amount and redistribute it...With these tough times they all want to stay afloat.

Don’t get ripped off and if you do remember you were warned.

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