We have had a number of customers move their ADSL accounts over to the automatic top-up functionality where-by your bandwidth is automatically increased once you hit you cap. You are still sent an SMS notification of your bandwidth usage and you will not have to call. Full functionality is available to subscribers to allocate how much they want their automatic top-up to increase to and there is even a price saving. To apply please click here
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011New Product Offering on the horizon
Thursday, April 7th, 2011Watch this space for the new cloud based offerings that we are in the final stages of testing. South Africa has been behind the technology curve for a number of years due to our bandwidth infrastructure but that is due to change this year and WIT wants to be at the forefront of implementing cloud solutions…learn more
What’s the best option for me?
Thursday, April 7th, 2011The majority of SME companies in South Africa still use capped solutions. With the advent of cloud solutions ADSL is becoming a very important part of your business. We offer a variety of internet connectivity solutions including solutions with static IP addresses and wireless connections with 3G failover and a host of other redundancy offerings. Every business is different so call us so that we can advise you on the different offerings that would suit your particular working business model
Home/SME ADSL vs. Business Premium
Thursday, April 7th, 2011We are now launching a business premium ADSL service. The main objective of our Home/SME ADSL packages is offering bandwidth at the lowest possible rate and the Business Premium packages focus more on the quality of the bandwidth. Business Premium bandwidth will be given priority in the unlikely event of a cable break of problem at an upstream provider. Business Premium speeds will overall be faster because of its infrastructure that will constantly be upgraded to accommodate a low ratio of users for the bandwidth it offers.
Here is a basic breakdown of how the tunnelling will differ between the two packages.
| Home/SME | Business Premium | |
| Browsing | Medium | Top |
| Medium | High | |
| VoIP | High | Top |
| Gaming | Medium | High |
| Streaming | Medium | High |
| VPN | Medium | Top |
| FTP | Best Effort | High |
| Download Servers | Best Effort | High |
| P2P & Binary USENET | Best Effort | High |
| Other | Medium | High |
Uncapped ADSL for business – what are the are the differences?
Thursday, April 7th, 2011The vast majority of advertising regarding uncapped ADSL is focused on the low cost consumer (home user) model and not on the business offering. These offerings are marketed in a typical sales manner with the lowest possible cost advertised and only once you express interest are the rest of the conditions explained. These accounts cannot effectively be used for SME or SMB customers due to restrictions such as concurrent connections (only one on uncapped versus four on capped) and static IP addresses. If you go to the various websites you can browse their business offerings and see the vast price differences. WIT sells uncapped shaped ADSL account which runs at 4.096kps for R650 excl. VAT per month.
What is the difference between capped and uncapped ADSL?
Monday, March 28th, 2011There is a lot of hype regarding uncapped (unlimited bandwidth) ADSL since it went on offer over a year ago. Unfortunately there is very little information on when it is practical for the business environment and when it should be looked at as an option. We delve a little deeper so that you can understand the speed differences between the two:
Capped vs. Uncapped Speed:
The performance of Capped accounts and Uncapped accounts differ in subtle ways no matter the company you choose to use.Generally Uncapped ADSL runs off a higher ‘contention ratio’ than Capped ADSL.This means that generally more users are allowed for a certain chunk of bandwidth in Uncapped than in Capped.This means that the number of users downloading at any one time affects Uncapped more than Capped. At any given moment if a ton of users are busy simultaneously then Uncapped will be slightly slower than Capped.
A very simplistic metaphor for this would be:
Uncapped is like eating at a Pizza place on ‘All You Can Eat’ night. The speed you get your separate single slices of pizza delivered to you is dependent on how busy the restaurant is at that moment. This means it may take slightly longer to eat a whole pizza but you can eat more over time.Capped is like eating at that same Pizza place but ordering the pizza size you want off the menu – you’ll get your full pizza quicker and can eat it faster but you have a set amount to enjoy.In essence Capped is a slightly premium service if speed is an issue to you while Uncapped is the way to go if solid speed is good enough and you don’t want to worry about getting capped at any time of the month.
You will find that the speed of Capped vs. Uncapped most differs during office hours – Thus if speed is of primary importance to you during office hours then Capped may be the best solution for you.