MikroTik

I am trying to find out if there are any providers that can supply a Satelite link to me.
I'm based in South Africa.


I'm looking for an overseas provider.


Would love to know of possible providers and cost/equipment and speeds.


Anybody?

RouterOS cannot supply a Satelite link to you

ROFL, i know that, and thats why i posted it in the General section hopying it would be a little more appropriate here , even though not spot on.

There are many VSat Provider in the world. I've known with Hawaii-Teleport, HKT(HongKong Tel), SingTel, SpeedCast etc. All of them are VSAT internet link provider.

First try to find out if there any VSAT link reseller in South Africa. Most of the company has such kind of reseller.

Rafiq...

There are no direct resellers.
Telkom has the monopoly over here. Our telecoms is a mess im afraid.

Thats why we actually need to get an overseas provider directly if possible.

Only thing is , it's difficult to find out whether there orbit is within our range.

I would mind phoning up some of these companies if i can find one that can indeed supply to us.


thanks

Hello thavinci,

What part of SA are you, besides, whats the regulation on VSAT in ur country. are you covered with any licence to do this. If yes, you can contact me on the following: Skype: habholler YIM: oseniabiola@yahoo.com MSN: oseniabiola@hotmail.com

I am trying to find out if there are any providers that can supply a Satelite link to me.
I'm based in South Africa.


I'm looking for an overseas provider.


Would love to know of possible providers and cost/equipment and speeds.


Anybody?

Hi Thavinci,

We are providing VSAT services for south africa on EutelSat W3a satellite.
I'd like to know more about your requested services and would like to know if you are looking for Shared or Dedicated internet service. That is in order to provide you the correct solution with the correct hardware and service.

you can contact me by email:
alaa (at) internetvsat.com or send your email to sales (at) alhajjan.com

Best Regards,
Alaa

Hi thavinci,

I am based in a neigboring country Botswana, and we have successfully used VSAT to connect to ISP in itally.

One thing I might add is that your latency will increase using VSAT to connect, and it is not cheaper that using an ISP in RSA. Cost is high, you will be looking at around R10000 per month for a 1mbit download 256upload connection. Whereas ADSL in RSA costs around R500 for the same connection speed, and ADSL obviously has lower latency.

If you still wish to connect to a VSAT provider you can contact bentley-walker via thier website. http://www.bentley-walker.com

They will be able to let you know if they have a licenced re-seller in South Africa (if they have one in Botswana odds are that they have in RSA as well)

I strongly advise using local ISP using ADSL, as costs are lower, speeds are higher, and you have lower latency, you also have access to using P2P, which is against TOS for most Satellite Providers. (Many ports are blocked on VSAT)

Also there are a couple of days during the year where you will have downtime due to the sun shining on the dish which acts like a solar cooker on your LNB, when the LNB is very hot it shuts itself down or somthing and you will not be able to connect.

We were using VSAT only because ADSL was not available in our area, but as soon as we were able to get ADSL we moved over, and we have had less down time, with greater speeds at lower cost and latency. (We can now play online games whereas VSAT average ping is 600+)

Anyways I hope this has provided you with the required info to make your own desission.

Hi Winagain, you have an VSAT connection managed with mikrotik? i have many problem with this. If you have experience with that plesae tell me and i have a few question about that.

Thanks.

start a new topic and send me a link or post the link in this topic, then I can help you out, don't want to go off topic here.