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    How Zoltan Miklos slashed his electricity bill

    He has 500W of critical loads. Sure, he can run 5kW off solar or battery, but the key questions for sizing the battery is your critical loads (for load shedding). I also average about 400-500W on critical loads (fridge, freezer, ONT, router, additional APs, alarm system, computers for being...
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    How Zoltan Miklos slashed his electricity bill

    Well, do you want to spend R45000 on 10kWh Pylontechs, or ~R25000 on 5kWh of Revov or Hubble?
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    Openserve quietly upgrades all to symmetrical fibre

    I see there was an article about this (which I hadn't seen before): https://mybroadband.co.za/news/fibre/364064-free-openserve-fibre-speed-upgrades.html
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    Openserve quietly upgrades all to symmetrical fibre

    I noticed that some ISPs are now advertising 10/10 or 20/20 on Openserve, and noticed that my TelkomInternet 10Mbps uncapped (that was 10/5) is now 20/20 (was 20/10 due to Openserve's COVID temporary upgrades). Getting 4x the upload speed I was paying for really helps while working from home.
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    Telkom cuts uncapped ADSL prices

    This information is untrue. Telkom Internet *never* applied a FUP based on Night-time usage, but the "static FUP" from early 2013 (when we moved to IPC) until late 2016 did throttle users during night-time if they exceeded their FUP (outside Night-time). The original "hard FUP" levels from...
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    Telkom Internet Capped/Uncapped User Feedback (Pt2)

    In case no-one noticed before: “In addition, we have recently revamped our Internet Uncapped Product offerings for home broadband connectivity with the removal of FUP (Fair Usage Policies) from Uncapped products, this means no more throttling of subscriber throughput when specific data...
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    Telkom Internet Capped/Uncapped User Feedback (Pt2)

    Yep, my 10Mbps Uncapped on Openserve FTTH has been getting 20 down 10 up for a few days, e.g.
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    Free Fibre Speed Upgrades - Did you get yours

    10/5 Openserve FTTH Telkom Internet 10Mbps Uncapped now:
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    Telkom Uncapped Fibre - Usage query

    Social was only ever for Softcap accounts.
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    Telkom Uncapped Fiber - softcap?

    What does https://customerportal.telkomsa.net say? It would have a notice if there was FUP applied. If it says nothing, can you give a rough idea of what are you are in? I'll try and ask someone still there ...
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    Openserve launches free fibre and ADSL speed upgrades

    My 10Mbps Openserve FTTH with Telkom Internet 10Mbps Uncapped
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    Amazon Web Services Cape Town region goes live

    The blog post on Werner's blog: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2020/04/aws-launches-africa-cape-town-region.html
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    Amazon Web Services Cape Town region goes live

    I think you mean "one of them is", not "it is".
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    Amazon Web Services Cape Town region goes live

    The AWS Blog post includes some details that aren't yet reflected in other pages (e.g. services that are currently available): https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-africa-cape-town-region/
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    Telkom mobile network and website downtime

    > Many customers are reporting issues with mobile and landline Internet, LTE products, and their ADSL connections. No problems at all on Telkom Internet over Openserve FTTH, working at home for the past 3 weeks using all the modern tools (corporate VPN, video conferencing, VoIP) with no issues...
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