With the current economic crisis under way everyone is looking for ways to save money and cut costs. Well over here at  Cyber Connect we have always looked at ways of helping our customers use their ADSL connections to improve business efficiency and cut costs. Here is a list of the top 5 things that we recommend to our customers:

It is amazing how quickly the Internet has become a critical part of our lives in such a small short of time. It is often easy to forget how reliant we have become on the Internet until a service interruption brings it home to us. Its like the beginning of this year when we all realised that without electricity and energy our way of life is unsustainable and therefore we had better plan to make it less vulnerable.

Cyber Connect's pre-paid ADSL is an ideal solution to those broadband consumers who do not want to lose bandwidth in a month when they do not fully utilise their data quota allocation.

This is a prepaid account. Unused data does not expire at month end but carries forward to the following month until the bandwidth is used up.
This is a unshaped, data only ADSL account with a fibre link for international bandwidth.
Shaped ADSL means that web, ftp and mail traffic get priority while peer-to-peer, voip etc gets a lower priority. If you are a normal internet net user shaped ADSL will suit your needs. Power users may wish to consider unsahped ADSL.

This is a prepaid account. Unused data does not expire at month end but carries forward to the following month until the bandwidth is used up.
This is a shaped, data only ADSL account with a fibre link for international bandwidth.
Shaped ADSL means that web, ftp and mail traffic get priority while peer-to-peer, voip etc gets a lower priority. If you are a normal internet net user shaped ADSL will suit your needs. Power users may wish to consider unsahped ADSL.

This is a data only unshaped, fibre contract. Unshaped means that all traffic on the network is given equal priority so sevices such as skype, peer-to-peer networks and games will work better with an unshaped account.
What do you need

• An existing Telkom phone line,
• An existing ADSL line,
• An existing ADSL modem

This is a shaped, data only ADSL account with a fibre link for international bandwidth.
Shaped ADSL means that web, ftp and mail traffic get priority while peer-to-peer, voip etc gets a lower priority. If you are a normal internet net user shaped ADSL will suit your needs. Power users may wish to consider unsahped ADSL.
Data only means that there is no modem included with this contract. This package is ideal if you have an existing ADSL modem and wish to obtain an ADSL account.

Many people are confused by the alphabet soup of broadband options that are available today and the marketing efforts of the various providers often serve to confuse. The net result is that people end up paying for functionality they don't need or use.

ADSL, 3G/HSDPA, iBurst?

When deciding which option, ADSL, 3G/HSDPA or iBurst is best for you should remember the following:

1) ADSL offers the best value for money, followed by iBurst and then 3G/HSDPA. Cost per Mb of data is by far the cheapest with ADSL.

This is a data only local contract. Data only means that there is no modem included in the contract. Local account means that you will only be able to visit site hosted in South Africa. This is idea for business with remote offices that need to connect or for access to local game servers etc.
What do you need

• An existing Telkom phone line
• An existing ADSL line,
• An existing ADSL modem

This ADSL offering has no cap but connection speed is limited to 512Kbps. It is ideal for businesses or heavy Internet users.