Nelson,
I give up. By saying VSAT has lower costs, better bandwidth, data rates, throughput and less interference than fiber, means you do not know what you are talking about. Am out of here Stephen From: mwebaze keikara nelson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 5:08 PM To: Stephen S. Musoke; 'Uganda Linux User Group'; 'Reinier Battenberg' Subject: Re: [LUG] Uganda Internet Steven, Am not saying Fiber is not good. Am trying to clarify that prices would have been much more lower considering the bw, data rates, throughput, less interferences a fiber has compared to VSAT access and actually what makes VSAT expensive is the first installation, purchase of Antennas, modems and other accessories. None of us is as smart as all of us _____ From: Stephen S. Musoke <[email protected]> To: 'mwebaze keikara nelson' <[email protected]>; 'Uganda Linux User Group' <[email protected]>; 'Reinier Battenberg' <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:49 PM Subject: RE: [LUG] Uganda Internet Mwebaze, Bundled data was too expensive to be offered as a viable internet access option. You may say times have changed, but the reality is the benefits of fiber far outweigh the disruptions due to the cuts (not that they are acceptable). My current ISP has connections to all three backbone, so while there is noticeable degradation, its not too bad. VSATs just never worked Stephen From: mwebaze keikara nelson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:27 PM To: Stephen S. Musoke; 'Uganda Linux User Group'; 'Reinier Battenberg' Subject: Re: [LUG] Uganda Internet Stepehn..... And the last customer running on bunddled data? Regards. None of us is as smart as all of us _____ From: Stephen S. Musoke <[email protected]> To: 'mwebaze keikara nelson' <[email protected]>; 'Uganda Linux User Group' <[email protected]>; 'Reinier Battenberg' <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:16 PM Subject: RE: [LUG] Uganda Internet Mwebaze, Maybe you have not been using internet for long, but I will tell the costs have gone way down, you can get a 1MB link for ~$400 as compared to $5,000 on VSAT. Stephen From: mwebaze keikara nelson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 3:54 PM To: Reinier Battenberg; Uganda Linux User Group Subject: Re: [LUG] Uganda Internet Hello Reinier, I have not realised any big differences in data prices even with decreasing fiber installation costs (60%) and the fact that its expanding beyond its original realm and major application in the carrier backbone and is moving into the local loop, and through technologies such as FTTXs and PONs (broadband). None of us is as smart as all of us e _____ From: Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]> To: mwebaze keikara nelson <[email protected]>; Uganda Linux User Group <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [LUG] Uganda Internet Hi Nelson, Am quite sure that you would not want to be paying the price your telco would charge you if they had not decommissioned their VSATs. I hope they did jail the captain that anchored in a demarcated zone on the coast of Mombassa. Our misery is his sole responsibility. rgds, reinier On Thursday 15 March 2012 02:27:00 mwebaze keikara nelson wrote: > Hello, > > We had more relaible Internet connections off VSATs before fiber. Well, > Fiber is good and also considering VSAT's high mantainance costs, most > companies had to run fiber as their primary links but my worry is; how can > a whole tier 2 ISP switch off redundancy links on VSAT. Am told even others > decommissioned them. How do they expect to achieve service Availability? > I believe this has been a lesson to most Engineers and companies to always > plan for fail-overs and tolorence. > > > Regards. > Nelson. > > > > None of us is as smart as all of us > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bernard Wanyama <[email protected]> > To: Uganda Linux User Group <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:00 AM > Subject: Re: [LUG] Uganda Internet > > This is something I found regarding TEAMS repair status: > > > . The cable ship NIWA arrived at Salalah spares depot on 11-03-2012. > . Preparations are now ongoing to load spare cable and > jointing kits onto the ship > . Cable mobilization for the Mombasa mission is expected on > 12-03-2012 . So far we are still on schedule (cable ship expected > to > arrive at Mombasa on 18-03-2012, for 4 day repair works ending > 23-03-2012, all going well) > > . We will continue to update regularly, at least every 48 hours. > . Once again we thank you for your patience and understanding > as we try our level best to repair the cable and restore full services > asap. > > > With TEAMS and EASSY down, I think there is little QoS and a lot of > oversubscription on SEACOM. > > Kind regards, > Bernard > > On 15 March 2012 10:38, Simon Vass <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone got a comprehensive picture of what is up with our Internet. As > > far as I can tell. > > > > EASSY - Down - Since three weeks ago > > TEAMS - Down - Since yesterday > > SEACOM - Barely holding it together - Last couple of weeks. > > > > As of this morning I know both Orange and MTN are using Seacom? May be > > the others are not down but just traffic being routed via Seacom. > > > > ? > > > > > > > > Simon Vass > > Managing Director > > E-Tech Uganda Ltd > > > > http://www.etech.ug > > Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 > > email: [email protected] > > skype: e-techservicedesk > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > > [email protected] Mailing list archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them > > in any way. -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. www.mountbatten.net tel: +256 758 801749 twitter: @batje
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