@wash, money you have to spend does determine what you can get in both quantity and quality - for everything, It's a rather annoying unfortunate reality to deal with and as far as the speed debate goes, obscuring facts with controversy doesn't help much. IMHO: unfortunately times have changed. by the arguments being pushed on the list, if an ISP connects me on ethernet I should expect in theory 100mbps? (assume thats the interface speed). This particular debate has been ongoing for a while now elsewhere (google for 'net neutrality' and or other applicable terms)....how it ends is really up to the operators/regulators and to some extent consumers. In the US, the government/FCC is very involved on even whether ISP's are allowed to even 'open inspect and umm throttle' packets (like torrents). The one thing I can pretty much foresee is there won't be free lunch, someone has to pay for bandwidth and other resources - thats a fact...either way we're in for exciting times. On this list perhaps we can debate and agree on what we'd like to see, how we would like to have the services we require packaged and delivered to us; because I'm sure someone will point out from the links below that we are not in the US, or europe and we should probably come up with home grown solutions......I for instance would probably like to see free & 'unlimited' speeds for local content or all sites in an indigenous language:-) end to end in and out of bundle or whatever a provider decides to sell in the hope that local data centers/kixp/my=your home servers etc start seeing more traffic..... http://www.mttlr.org/volfifteen/gioia.pdf http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2008/06/05/comcast_blacklists/ http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=116790 http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Sprint-Planning-To-Throttle-Wireless-Cust... http://hothardware.com/News/Google_To_Develop_ISP_Throttling_Detector/ http://www.formortals.com/?p=71 http://gigaom.com/2010/04/13/do-neutral-wireless-networks-require-an-end-to-... JGitau On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
Ads are out on Today's dailies about new internet offers. From what I understand, once you buy the bundles between 300 Mb - 1Gb at thier current prices, you enjoy unlimited internet for a month since date of purchase after the bundles expire. However, the catch will be speed caps at 32 Kbps for 300 Mb, 64Kbps for 700Mb and 128 Kbps for 1Gb.
What determines the speed cap you are tied to? The last top up value?? Since bundle portion can spill to "next month", this needs to be clarified, at least for me. WTF are the speed caps for? It's really a stupid idea. Safaricom still likes treating users accordingly to their "poverty" or otherwise levels.
PS: I hope Orange is watching this, and Zain too:-)
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