Hi kevin i disagree with some parts of your analysis. Unlimited internet can be profitable with the right tools and pricing strategy and policies, it all depends on what the ISP is trying to achieve. Its not something that you should wake up one day and decide to do (Safaricom/Orange case). It will require some years of careful analysis of user traffic patterns. Like all things technical the more you in a hurry the more you mess up. You are required to ensure that the pricing represents the average network use of people paying for unlimited and do not hammer the links and people that pay for unlimited and hammer the links. Personally knowing kenyans the people that pay and hammer the links will be very near 100% of the total unlimited internet customers, so safcom/orange can figure out what the average data for this users are and price based on that. This should include usage at night where people leave downloading torrents. So basically the charge will be very high for most kenyans. The issue of blocking/limiting torrents bandwidth is out of question as this is like having someone buy a car and then give them rules on how they should use it. There are two areas you can employ QOS, the Backbone and to the end user, Real backbone QOS require an understanding of traffic engineering (ATM, MPLS, Frame Relay, Metro ethernet) while the end users can be under host to host or based on flow QOS. I think i should get you a QOS book for CCIP. Cisco certifications are from layer 4 downwards. The reason people get cisco certified is because of the amount of reading materials provided over the internet. If you carefully understand the contents of the cisco books the knowledge acquired is more than CISCO, since the only part that is CISCO is the commands, the rest are IEEE and RFC standards that all vendors must adhere to. Ofcourse the books always state that a certain feature is only available in CISCO. I think the main problem here is the dumps found all over the internet that cheat a student that once they pass the exams then they qualify to be called Network engineers. I speeak from experience and prefer reading CISCO books even when i intend to do a Juniper Exam or handle other vendors equipment. Then find one of the manuals and figure how to implement my concepts on the said vendors equipment Also traffic engineering principles are very theoretical and that is why we need to observe traffic characteristics over time inorder to come up with a traffic engineering solution. On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Kevin Mutuma <kkmtumah@gmail.com> wrote:
@Moses
Eh Homie, You must have been caged in a GREEN cell wearing a loyalty shirt. Orange 3G does that day in day out. I just looked at my history speed analysis and The least I have gotten at peak times this year is 1.6Mbs.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Moses Muya <mouzmuyer@gmail.com> wrote:
As a result of my frustrations with Limited "Unlimited" by the said company...I am testing Airtel today for possible migration. My jaw is on the floor man! I had these documents that were sent to me, I clicked 'Save' n waited...little did I know they had downloaded immediately n I was there waiting! Oh,did I mention I am also streaming my favourite gospel hip-hop tunes as I download some open source software that I need? Where else have you seen download speeds of 235 KiloBytes/Sec (1.88Megabits/Sec)? :) If this goes on, I'm going to retain my Saf line for sending money to my grandmother in the countryside! :)
On 19 April 2012 10:41, Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyway, who has been using Airtel 3G and how has it been? I have always been sceptical of Airtel but it does not hurt to hear about their services.
And yu? What are they up to these days?
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