This is where it gets interesting, when you are paying more for Internet than for your house
Okay, so we are testing a diginet link with MTNNS as the ISP, the link tested is 256KB CIR Local and 64KB CIR International. The connection is routed through a Cisco 1600 and a regular Telkom NTU does the linkup.
There are no surprises with Diginet, the speeds are exactly as promised. The local test shows that we are getting the promised speed.
International is also pretty close to the agreed 64KB
As expected the expected speeds are easily reached even with single threads, I did not even bother grabbing a screenshot of a multithread download since there is no speed difference at all. Infact the connection requires very little tweaking.
Latency is pretty impressive, although I find that it can jump around at times, local pings are very nice.
International pings bounce around a little and would not be too great for gaming but they are still pretty low.
In all honesty the cost of this service makes it impossible for any regular home user to afford but for a business looking to host its own mail server or infact any simalar server then this is the way to go. Uptime is great and service levels are very impressive.
A point in case, MTNNS will give me a call to let me know the router is not responding even before I notice it and if its a Telkom fault they will push Telkom to be there within an hour or two.
There is little I can say, Diginet is Diginet, the only down sides are the high cost and the fact that the technology is archaic.