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 Telephony and Broadband solutions for a residential complex |
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| Enigma_2k4 |
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  Joined: Sat Dec 23 2006, 08:59AM Posts: 2739 | Hey all, I am hoping those who are in the know can help me out here please. I live in a complex with 46 units in Town of the Cape and have jumped on a rather large grenade. I've tasked myself (in conjunction with my Body Corporate) with finding out if there are any solutions we could look into within our complex whereby we could give:
Now I am not sure if it's possible to get the DSTV and TOP TV stuff included with it but if I am doing the research I might as well check it out. Does anyone have any idea's as to what I can/should look into here? Priority 1 would be data throughout the complex, priority 2 would be joining up to the Cape Town WUG as that would be awesome, Priority 3 would be telephony and Priority 4 would be DSTV / TOP TV signal. What do you all think? I know that firstly I'd need to get infrastructure in place, however, I need to look around and see if it's better to do the wireless route for my complex of fixed ethernet cable for each unit.  | ||
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| Synthetic_Darkness |
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  Joined: Sat Jun 03 2006, 10:14PM Posts: 610 | Well you would have to get a fibre line into the complex which everyone can then picky back on.....I think. DSTV and Top TV.......I think you would need a satellite per home......Also this is just an "I think" Life's a grave, DIG IT Taking SPAM SERIOUSLY Friend of SPAMDAMONIUM.    Codefridge - Where cool code comes to chill ~Intel E6600~XFX 7600GT XXX~DDR2 800 mhz~ASUS P5N32-E SLI~500GB Seagate~ | ||
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| Siversmith[PCD] |
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   Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 04:29PM Posts: 5285 | Ok, well usually complex's have a telkom line facility in them already and you would only need to get the people to talk to telkom and they will put a line into the individual places. This way everyone can get their own solutions with regards to bandwidth on what they can afford and you don't need to worry about someone not paying. Secondly you could do 1 of 2 options for DSTV. You could get individual satellites once again leaving it up the individual to pay their own way and not leaving everyone hanging. Or you could get something like a hotel setup where you can get signal all the places but with limited channels and you can add that to their monthly rentals. As for the WUG, I would really look at it like a wireless solution. All you would need is to setup a tower and you could wire the rest of the people with cables or with a wireless solution to the station. Lastly until Neotel is an option I would look at going telkom for phone lines.   http://siversmith.mybrute.com | ||
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| Enigma_2k4 |
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Joined: Sat Dec 23 2006, 08:59AM Posts: 2739 | Thanks guys, S_D - that's not true, we currently have 1 specialised DSTV dish serving all the units in the complex, it's each unit's responsibility to get and pay for their own DSTV decoder and connect up to the co-ax connection in the walls of the units. Top-TV has a similar option. I doub't we'd change this as it's working well enough. Ssmith - I have a company coming out to quote for broadband and VOIP connectivity for the complex as a whole. I'd get them to lay ethernet (or investigate wireless) for the complex for the sharing of the interwebs as well as for joining the WUG. | ||
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Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 04:29PM Posts: 5285 | Good man.  http://siversmith.mybrute.com | ||
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| Banlam |
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  Joined: Wed Aug 22 2007, 06:35PM Posts: 1359 | Most complexes where I know of people who live, it's pretty much an everyman for himself affair. You want DSTV, you get it setup yourself, ADSL? sort it out yourself etc. I wonder what happened to my sig =/ | ||
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| Enigma_2k4 |
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Joined: Sat Dec 23 2006, 08:59AM Posts: 2739 | OK, The few companies I have had come thru to do this are proving to be quite a mission. Does anyone know any more companies that could set this up. Secondly, how difficult would it be to setup a wireless network thru the complex connected to two 4mb ADSL uncapped lines? Does anyone here have the ability and want to make some bucks? | ||
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| B@kg@t |
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 Joined: Mon Apr 03 2006, 05:41PM Posts: 4431 | Nigs,have a look at  I've been with them for ages.  And the beatings will continue until morale improves! | ||
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Joined: Sat Dec 23 2006, 08:59AM Posts: 2739 | Thanks Bakkies, I sent them an email. Lets see what they have to say. | ||
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| Synthetic_Darkness |
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Joined: Sat Jun 03 2006, 10:14PM Posts: 610 | Dude thats pretty wicked. Life's a grave, DIG IT Taking SPAM SERIOUSLY Friend of SPAMDAMONIUM. Codefridge - Where cool code comes to chill ~Intel E6600~XFX 7600GT XXX~DDR2 800 mhz~ASUS P5N32-E SLI~500GB Seagate~ | ||
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