Africa Online - Infinet Service

At one time, the technology investment done on the iBurst broadband platform was indeed ahead. I've looked up their site on various offering and it does not seem to be clear what they offer. For example the "infinet easy" service is of 4GB allocated bandwidth and @Ksh4999 +VAT. Has anyone used the infinet service bundles and would they share their experiences on the following : - How congested at peak times? What is the minimum data transfer rate in KILOBYTES/SEC? - How congested at off-peak times? What is the minimum data transfer rate in KILOBYTES/SEC? - How is the VOIP facility on shared bandwidth? Do you get a lot of drops on voice convestations? Does the voice sound muffled and is there any echos? - 4GB allocated bandwidth Do they provide a meter for the consumed bandwidth? - For home Wifi, does the modem support built-in wifi or is an external one needed? - Do they charge extra when one exhausts the allocated bandwidth? - If you know of coverage areas? - Link & Service reliability? Assume you want to do a large download, do the connections drop so you have to start all over again? Orange 3g+ has gone over the "patience rule". Frequent drops, very un-even speeds and lower throughputs. Hopefully when 3g comes online, they will improve on the 3g+ service. Rgds.

infinet is appalling...even dialup is better (ok i last used them 2 years ago). Last i heard they had gone bankrupt and their office closed down due to nonpayment of rent. On 11/28/10, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
At one time, the technology investment done on the iBurst broadband platform was indeed ahead. I've looked up their site on various offering and it does not seem to be clear what they offer. For example the "infinet easy" service is of 4GB allocated bandwidth and @Ksh4999 +VAT. Has anyone used the infinet service bundles and would they share their experiences on the following :
- How congested at peak times? What is the minimum data transfer rate in KILOBYTES/SEC?
- How congested at off-peak times? What is the minimum data transfer rate in KILOBYTES/SEC?
- How is the VOIP facility on shared bandwidth? Do you get a lot of drops on voice convestations? Does the voice sound muffled and is there any echos?
- 4GB allocated bandwidth Do they provide a meter for the consumed bandwidth?
- For home Wifi, does the modem support built-in wifi or is an external one needed?
- Do they charge extra when one exhausts the allocated bandwidth?
- If you know of coverage areas?
- Link & Service reliability? Assume you want to do a large download, do the connections drop so you have to start all over again?
Orange 3g+ has gone over the "patience rule". Frequent drops, very un-even speeds and lower throughputs. Hopefully when 3g comes online, they will improve on the 3g+ service.
Rgds.
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