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    Microsoft said fixes to massive undersea cable outage in West Africa have been delayed

    The Léon Thévenin moved this morning, from the Waterfront over to Duncan Dock. Perhaps loading gear in preparation for a mission?
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    *READ FIRST* MTN Network Status & Issues (DNS, Throughput and Latency)

    I'm having a very strange issue with MTN data, and I wonder if anyone here has any ideas. I'm using a Huawei B315 router (old I know but still usually quite reliable) with a prepaid MTN SIM on the SuperData plan. I'm in a rural area of the Western Cape with (as far as we know) only one 4G tower...
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    Vumatel's surprise speed upgrade...

    I'm with Atomic Access on Vuma Aerial, and I also went from 1000/200 to 1000/500. I don't think that was mentioned in any of the info about the promo (not that I'm complaining!)
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    FNOs digging across driveways with no notice to residents?

    A late update if anyone cares: the folks at Cybersmart apologised nicely on the Monday following - evidently their contractor was supposed to notify us but didn't. They also ultimately resurfaced our whole driveway rather than just laying a new strip of tar - so I'm not complaining too much...
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    FNOs digging across driveways with no notice to residents?

    The truly weird part is that there are two FNOs serving the street already - Frogfoot and Openserve. I wonder how it's profitable for a third to be laying fibre in the same street.
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    FNOs digging across driveways with no notice to residents?

    I would have expected a letter or a flyer dropped in our letterbox a day or two in advance. The trenching was indeed a surprise. Having walked around the neighbourhood, it looks like they may have been trenching around the corner yesterday, but it is in the opposite direction from the way we go...
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    FNOs digging across driveways with no notice to residents?

    Woke up this morning to find a huge trench across our driveway and unable to take our cars out - not exactly the best thing to discover when you want to go out on a Saturday morning! According to the workmen they are working for Cybersmart. Located in Pinelands, Cape Town. We had no prior notice...
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    Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread

    Coming back to say - seems like the script ran for us last night as the line is now testing at 100/50. Thanks very much!
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    Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread

    I was just on my way here to ask about this. My parents' line was a 50/25 but since restarting the ONT this morning it is now speed-testing at about 50/50. Once the script has run will they be getting 100/50?
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 4

    My parents' OS line just went down for about 20 minutes as well, but they're with Afrihost not CI. So I suspect the issue is one with OS.
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    Is Vumatel 1000/100 any good?

    I can confirm I get about these speeds on Cool Ideas on a Vumatel 1000/100.
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    3G/HSPA/LTE Routers

    Perhaps this is going against the title of the thread, but are there any LTE modems available in South Africa that are just modems and not also routers and WiFi APs? I already have a router and AP, and ideally I would like to get an LTE modem that I could plug into the WAN port of the router...
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    ONT when moving

    My Vuma Aerial ONT slides on to a mounting bracket which they screwed in to the wall.
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 3

    I'm sure they did, but if you have BC trustees who are awfully concerned about how the trenching will affect the lawn, and who can't see why everyone isn't happy with fixed LTE, it can take time...
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 3

    This happened at my flat as well. If you’re in a complex then it seems the Body Corporate has to sign an agreement/plan with Vuma to get the fibre into the complex, even if it’s already there in the street. If your BC is being difficult (or just slow) it can cause a problem.
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