July 19, 2010
Skyrove
Wi-Fi Hotspot Usage Almost Double During World Cup 2010
July 17, 2010
Skyrove
South Africa Internet Speed 93rd in the World
According to statistics published by Speedtest.net, South Africa’s internet speeds are slower than those in Rwanda, Uganda, Tunisia and even Azerbaijan.
The statistics are collated from more than 1.6 billion crowdsourced - that is, done by individual internet users - speedtests done at the website Speedtest.net and through its iPhone and Android apps.
The good news is that South Africa - at an average 2.32 Mbps - is faster than the average African download speed of 1.6 Mbps. The slowest speeds in the world are the be found in Zambia, at an average 0.26 Mbps.Test your own connection speed at Speedtest.net. Also have a look at Pingtest.net to get a good idea of whether your connection will work for VoIP and gaming.
Note: Speedtest.net & Pingtest.net are owned by Ookla, which was started by entrepreneur, former cab driver, SpeakEasy founder and allround great guy Mike Apgar)
July 12, 2010
Jonathan Carter
Welcome to new Ubuntu members from Debian!
Stefano Zacchiroli became the new Debian Project Leader earlier this year. In my opinion he’s doing quite good at delivering on his promises so far. In particular, I like how he’s reached out to Ubuntu as part of communicating better with Debian derivatives. In May he provided a talk at the Ubuntu Developer Summit titled “Collaboration with Ubuntu (from a Debian point of view)” (video).
Not sure if this is as a direct result of Stefano’s efforts (and as pointed out in the comments, it isn’t), but the last week we gained 2 new Ubuntu members who have already been long-time Debian contributors. Both report that the process didn’t take too long:
Raphaël is also involved with Utnubu, a collaboration layer between Debian and Ubuntu that’s currently being revived. Gerfried has been active in MOTU doing sync requests from Debian to Ubuntu as well as loads of bug triaging.
It’s great to see that there’s more links being formed between the two projects! Welcome again to our new members from Debian!
July 04, 2010
Jonathan Carter
Canada!

After a long wait for my travel documents I finally arrived in Montréal, Canada on Friday afternoon!
Sherbrooke will be my new home from now on. I have lots to say but if I do that now this blog entry will never get finished, I’ll do some subsequent posts instead
So far everyone I’ve met here have been super nice, I’ve met quite a few of my colleges at Revolution Linux over the weekend and tomorrow is my first day actually at the office (already had a tour yesterday
). It’s certainly taking some adjustment being here but I’ve already had Poutine and learned some important local words so I’m already on my way to becoming an official Québécois!
I’ve been more or less absent from everything the last two weeks, but that should also be better now. Have a good week!
May 05, 2010
WAPA
Thank you
February 03, 2010
WAPA
WAPA’s Goals for 2010
November 25, 2009
GeekRebel
Opera Browser in Africa
November 07, 2009
GeekRebel
Top 10 Windows 7 Applications
September 03, 2009
Johann Botha
iWeek Self Regulation Presentation
My iWeek presentation about WAPA and wireless industry self regulation: 2009-09-02-wapa.pdf (90KB)
September 01, 2009
Johann Botha
Joe on EngineerIT
From an interview with EngineerIT: Self-regulation is the way to go
Can’t say I like that photo too much but it’s a good article.
June 16, 2009
Frogfoot
Solutions for Small Business
This blog has been a bit quiet for a long time.. so here is something I found on our sales mailing list today which Abz sent to explain our entry level solutions..
We differ from most consumer oriented ISPs in that we specialize in custom specific solutions and the way our products and services are structured.
For instance, if you wanted to host a static website, domain, and 3 email addresses you could probably get a shared hosting package from one of the popular consumer ISPs for R20/m.
We can do all of the above, but we don’t offer shared hosting so we would either give you rack space in our data centre to host your own server(s) or offer you your own dedicated server with Apache, PHP, etc pre-installed, a mail server and domain hosting. Our quotation would look something like:
Xen Virtual Server (128MB Memory, 3GB Disk Space) @ R 250 + R 70/m
Mail Server @ R 600 + R 295/m
Domain Hosting @ R 30 + R 12/m
Internet (1GB, 20c/MB thereafter) @ R 370/m
Labour (1 hour @ R 550/h - Web/FTP setup) @ R 550Total: R 1430 + R 747/m
As you can see a lot more expensive.
But now let’s say you want a firewall in front of your servers, you have an office which you want to connect to the Internet, some staff members that have ADSL at home, and you want to manage all of your services for you, we could add offer you an ADSL package which is uncapped, bandwidth shared among all your accounts for your staff members, an ADSL VPN / Wireless for your office with static ips, direct connectivity to your hosted services at our data centre, we’ll take over the ADSL lines from Telkom and manage them for you, offer you a managed firewall, etc.
As you can see, you don’t necessarily need to be a big company to deal with us, but it doesn’t really make a lot of business sense to say only host a website and domain with us. If we look at all your connectivity needs it may be a completely different story.