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    South Africa's Post Office alternatives - January 2024

    That (was) the beauty of registered mail, no one trying to dodge debts by saying "well I didn't get any notices or demand." Now even when we do send one we can't trust that it will be delivered. As much as what you say is true and worrying from one side, on the other side if someone actually...
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    South Africa's Post Office alternatives - January 2024

    I'm more worried about Registered Mail. Believe it or not there are still many outdated contracts and even some Laws/Acts that require notices to be delivered by registered mail to have legal effect. I'm not aware of any alternatives - with courier, they can just refuse to accept the package...
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    Which ISP: ClearAccess, RocketNet, HomeConnect and Accelerit

    Thanks Everyone for the recommendations. I have chosen an ISP but it turns out that MFIBRE has some sort of "Network Freeze" from 15 December to 15 January so won't be getting internet until then in all likelihood. Ke'Dezemba strikes again.
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    Which ISP: ClearAccess, RocketNet, HomeConnect and Accelerit

    That's interesting, CISP pops up as a provider when I enter the address. And a promotion is being run as well until February 2024 for 699p/m. It's just not clear what pricing it reverts to after February 2024 for a 50/50 line. Wondering why MFibre didn't put you on the paper form I was sent?
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    Which ISP: ClearAccess, RocketNet, HomeConnect and Accelerit

    Pretty much the thread title. I am moving to an apartment with M-Fibre (which I think is just basically Mesh Telecom). The precint has given me a form (yes, a paper form) to fill out and send back to Mesh telecom to start activation. I only have the option of the above four providers. No...
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    So how's that eSIM coming?

    C'mon rain, you've been working on this for a good long while now (or at least from what I remember). We've had phones with eSIMs now for a while... whole untapped market out there y'know. Most certainly, my dude.
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    My journey to renewable energy - Solar

    Besides the technical reasons for not wanting to do solar on prepaid (meters are sensitive and trip etc.) is there a regulatory reason not to do so? i.e a City Power or National regulation that forbids installing on prepaid?
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    So how's that eSIM coming?

    Just curious as to when rain expects full eSIM support. My iPhone SE has it (and I think some of the new Samsungs have it too?) and I would love to pipe all my phone data through rain and just have Vodacom for calls. Save me some cash on data. I can't be the only one that wants to do this surely.
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    My journey to renewable energy - Solar

    My bad, looks like I got confused by this thread some time ago. Confirmation bias FTW! So this means grid-tie is fine - if you want to export, you need to go on to TOU tariffs (which seem fine except for Winter Peak - R4 per kwh - ow!) otherwise you need to set up some kind of backfeed...
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    My journey to renewable energy - Solar

    From my understanding of the regulations that they have, you have to have a separate solar DB that runs off your solar system. This would be for things like lights, computers and fridges etc. Then you have to have a Grid DB for heavy loads like oven and geyser. This forces you to size up the...
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    My journey to renewable energy - Solar

    Ja, until you need to sell your house and pay money to have it converted... I would do a grid tie microinverter system anyway but how do you stop backfeed?
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    My journey to renewable energy - Solar

    /soobs Very nice OP. I've wanted solar for years but the hoops you have to jump through are apparently a nightmare with COJ/City Power. Which reminds me, are you seperating your "grid" DB from your solar DB? I read some time ago you had to have the two "grids" separated to stop backfeeding...
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    Big Joburg electricity price hikes planned

    Okay so I don't know if anyone is still reading this thread but I made a calculator of sorts to work out where the inflection point is with new electricity tariffs. *drum roll* Looks like it's around 2815 kwh per month. Off to council tomorrow to switch. Haven't included DSM levy since it...
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    Can't activate Pay as you use / R50 per gig

    because I only need about 1 GB a month. Maybe 2 every now and again.
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    Can't activate Pay as you use / R50 per gig

    So all my cellular data goes through rain and my normal SIM is used for calling. It's half the price of Vodacom/MTN data.
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