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    Eskom won't fine residential customers for failing to register their solar systems by 30 September 2026

    They’ll find a way to just have a fixed monthly cost tariff which would make solar unattractive enough for new installations and completely invalidate and return-on-investment for existing users.
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    Eskom won't fine residential customers for failing to register their solar systems by 30 September 2026

    Fyi, here is the tariff information for when you register your system. And you can’t go back to prepaid either. The average home will use Homeflex 1. The fixed monthly fees run R667 before any usage. I’d be perfectly ok with complying with registration if I could declare that I won’t be...
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    Eskom won't fine residential customers for failing to register their solar systems by 30 September 2026

    I’m on Eskom and haven’t registered my solar installation. When you register your system you are forced to give up prepaid and use a postpaid time-of-use tariff with a roughly R1000/m connection fee, capacity fee, delivery surcharge etc. And you have to pay for the new meter and kiosk and...
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 6

    Same here. CPT northern subs on frogfoot
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 6

    Anyone else on Frogfoot down? In Burgundy CPT, i’m dead. GPON is up and pppoe scan shows two access concentrators but no link established. Last Link Down Time 2025-06-11 03:10:59 Edit: support ticket created COOL-20250611-2406135 Edit: Found several users reporting multiple ISPs on...
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 6

    Yup dead FF in northern subs CPT
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    AfriForum demands clarity on the mandatory registration of small-scale embedded generators

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    AfriForum demands clarity on the mandatory registration of small-scale embedded generators

    Not quite. City of Cape Town requires the registration of solar installations and requires you to pay for a bidirectional meter IF you wish to export power. Eskom requires the registration of solar installations and demand an installation of a bidirectional meter and change to TOU (time of...
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 6

    I used that excuse to leave the call and play Overwatch which was a dumb idea. Temp banned because of all the disconnects now.
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    South Africa's direct marketing opt-out registry planned for 2025/26 financial year rollout

    As far as I know that is an organization that marketers can voluntarily sign up to. I don’t think the DMASA has any legal clout. The proposed changes will have legal consequences on marketers. At best, the DMASA will be able to have civil suits against marketers whereas the government would...
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    Eskom misleading public about grid-tied solar registration requirement - installer

    Eskom supply area in Cape Town. I did my install in 2020 and coincidentally we had a major Eskom project in our estate in 2021 where a couple of regional mangement Eskom staff were present. I was quite apprehensive of them noticing my rooftop solar installation, but when I spoke to one of the...
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    Proposed annual roadworthiness test for vehicles fundamentally flawed, says expert

    Restrict the annual roadworthy to vehicles which are used to carry passengers for money and I'm fine with it.
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 6

    I’m getting lots of disconnects tonight. Problems seems to be related to PPPoE though. Internet stalls completely, then Mikrotik log shows “Peer is not responding” for CISP interface. After this, the mikrotik drops the connection and reconnects and then everything is fine again for about 5...
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 5

    Thanks! That was it. Changing the MTU to 1437 did the trick.
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 5

    For the last couple of days, my OpenVPN connection to the office simply doesn't work right on CISP. Both ends, office/server and home/client are on CISP. Office is Openserve/CISP. Home is Frogfoot/CISP. OpenVPN client established a connection, but the data rate is in bytes/sec. When I swap the...
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