The Octotel Premium (Multi-gig fibre 2.5/5/10Gbit) Thread

IOPS said:
I see, what looks like Cool Ideas, seems to be hosting the Frugal/Blocknews Africa Usenet server.
It flies, grabbed a 10GB test file only using that server:


Source - https://sabnzbd.org/tests/test_download_10GB.nzb
Download - Downloaded in 37 seconds at an average of 257.6 MB/s

Yes please!
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That URL is Cloudflare hosted, with a bit of latency back to JHB it will impact performance. No real way around that.

Should still be good with the multiple 100Gbps backhauls either way.
 
IOPS said:
I see, what looks like Cool Ideas, seems to be hosting the Frugal/Blocknews Africa Usenet server.
It flies, grabbed a 10GB test file only using that server:


Source - https://sabnzbd.org/tests/test_download_10GB.nzb
Download - Downloaded in 37 seconds at an average of 257.6 MB/s

Yes please!
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Just signed up, struggling to get much over 120MB/s. Started at 50 connections (too slow) bumped it up and found the sweet spot at about 100. Going over that seemed to do more harm than good.

Together with my Newshosting account it helps, but that one expires in a couple months and won't be keeping two.

I'll test later again to see if it's a time of day thing.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Just signed up, struggling to get much over 120MB/s. Started at 50 connections (too slow) bumped it up and found the sweet spot at about 100. Going over that seemed to do more harm than good.

Together with my Newshosting account it helps, but that one expires in a couple months and won't be keeping two.

I'll test later again to see if it's a time of day thing.
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Ah ok, if I test with the sample download it maxes out the line. Real downloads seem to be quite a bit slower.
 
PBCool said:
Not enough uptake to drop prices, if customers arent taking a 30Mbps they arent going to go for a discounted 1Gbps.
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We pay R1999 for a business uncapped 1000/1000 on Cybersmart network at my work

Meanwhile Vuma FTTH 1000/500 is R2329

So R330 cheaper for a business product with a very good SLA.

When the whole Cybersmart network went down last year we were up and running whole day

If Vuma said R999 for a 1Gbps i'd shift over... Paying R700 for a 50/25...
 
CrypticZA said:
We pay R1999 for a business uncapped 1000/1000 on Cybersmart network at my work

Meanwhile Vuma FTTH 1000/500 is R2329

So R330 cheaper for a business product with a very good SLA.

When the whole Cybersmart network went down last year we were up and running whole day

If Vuma said R999 for a 1Gbps i'd shift over... Paying R700 for a 50/25...
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We've had a long discussion around this on one of the other threads and its about deployment and area typically. Cybersmart has a small deployment mostly into dense buildings.

It's the same as us having really good rates in Rosebank Johannesburg. Its because we own most of that fibre and it plugs into one of our backhaul rings back to a couple of major datacentres. That is what makes the limited area cost effective.

Vumatel cant build specific products depending on the costs to deliver them, the model needs to be flat and to offer said services nationwide comes with lots of additional costs.
 
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Does anyone know if there are currently any plans for any of the other fibre providers like metrofibre to offer multi-gig internet like this? I know its a want and not a need, but i very much want to get this.
 
Abatis_ said:
Does anyone know if there are currently any plans for any of the other fibre providers like metrofibre to offer multi-gig internet like this? I know its a want and not a need, but i very much want to get this.
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Nothing we're aware of but will mention it to them.
 
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