18/09/2021
I have been in the Telecommunications game for over 40 years, the latter 20 years in sales.
Satellite is not a replacement for fibre but can provide backup for these products. It is however a replacement for LTE with certain restrictions, in that the latency may prove problematic for gaming first player shooter games and programmes that require less than 600ms latency.
With the 3 meg up, 20 Meg down service I supply for between R1200-R600, You can make WhatsApp voice calls no problem. I have not had a customer hosting webinars yet. Skype, Zoom and MS teams work well, I regularly attend Zoom meeting with 3 attendees and MS teams with over 40 attendees. I constantly watch Showmax and stream you tube, even in the background whilst doing work such as quoting systems and emails and WhatsApp.
Realistic speed is 2.5Meg upload and18.5Meg download. I have had zero downtime in the last 4 months since my personal satellite was installed, compared to my previous LTE, which sometimes suffered 9hrs failure for no reason, suffered 2-3 hrs outages whenever there was load shedding at my providers tower and outages due to vandalization of the tower. This is despite having an extended aerial on a pole mounted on my farmhouse. According to the suppliers only dust accumulation on the dish due to dust storms (in Saudi Arabian installations) and heavy precipitation on the dish would affect it. I have not experienced downtime despite my DSTV served by DSTV dish being affected by heavy storms. I also run my burglar alarm through it and customers of mine view their remote security cameras through it. I have also had satellite systems running up to 4 voice channels connected to PABX in remote areas like ski resorts running satisfactorily on VoIP for over 15 years! Anyone can. contact me for advice or service, anywhere in the country
