Fibertime tests 1Gbps fibre in Alexandra, and it will cost R5 per day or R120 per month

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1Gbps uncapped fibre for R120 per month

Fibertime founder Alan Knott-Craig said that the fibre network operator has just tested 1Gbps broadband in Alexandra, Johannesburg, which is available for R5 per day or R120 per month.

"Just tested 1Gbps in Alex. That's right folks, for R5 you get 24hrs of unlimited uncapped unshaped Internet at 1000Mbps. It's great working with Nokia," Knott-Craig said.
 
So why do we have to pay over R1000 for 100 Mbps here in the suburbs? Alexandra gets free electricity too to an extent. Life in the townships must be paradise and I have no idea why they keep complaining. They must not know how good they have it.
 
One connected device? Haa, people find a way around that. What blocks me from getting a OpenWRT router, connect to the fibre router as the connected device and connect everything in my house to my OpenWRT router?

Unless there is a captive portal, but that can be bypassed too.
 
ThinkCentre said:
That is not a problem!
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Yup, just get something like a GL.iNet travel router, connect it to that "single user connection" and then broadcast your own private WiFi for multiple devices to connect to. Works great in hotels with restrictions and captive portals, etc.
 
Also note the "up to 1000 Mbps" note. I think while 1Gigabit is entirely possible, but your WiFi device might not support the high data rates. At best, on a midrange smartphone, 350Mbps or around 450-500 is viable. Does this include a wired connection, or only wireless ? The RF spectrum will be swamped in Alex.
 
Wonder what the contention ratio is, that speed must be dependent on how saturated the connection is. Maybe you'll see 1gb for a second and most of the time you'd be hovering around 70mbps?

Also for suburbanites asking why, well density makes it feasible. If you're willing to live in a shoebox with a thousand other people within arms distance from you, you too could be living the high-speed fibre life 😁
 
The Gilded said:
So why do we have to pay over R1000 for 100 Mbps here in the suburbs? Alexandra gets free electricity too to an extent. Life in the townships must be paradise and I have no idea why they keep complaining. They must not know how good they have it.
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Because input cost for FNOs is not measured in Mbps but in meters of fibre. Parktown is Jhb has about 400 households per square kilometer. Alexandria has close to a 10000 per square kilometer.

I don't think people understand the insane difference in input cost. People think maybe it is twice as cheap to pass a household in a township. It is much much cheaper.
 
Johand said:
Because input cost for FNOs is not measured in Mbps but in meters of fibre. Parktown is Jhb has about 400 households per square kilometer. Alexandria has close to a 10000 per square kilometer.

I don't think people understand the insane difference in input cost. People think maybe it is twice as cheap to pass a household in a township. It is much much cheaper.
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Thank you for clarifying that but we're still being ripped off. It's not like faster speeds actually cost the FNO's more but are used to subsidize the slower speeds.
 
AirWolf said:
Important context missing, Alan Knott Craig former CEO of the please-call-me saga. I skimmed the whole article. Disappointed.
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Eh? This is Alan Knott Craig junior - which was never CEO of Vodacom. You are confusing him with his father.
 
The Gilded said:
So why do we have to pay over R1000 for 100 Mbps here in the suburbs? Alexandra gets free electricity too to an extent. Life in the townships must be paradise and I have no idea why they keep complaining. They must not know how good they have it.
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These links feature an extremely high contention ratio.

At 2am you'll be jumping with joy with 20:1 so you'll be cruising at 50mbps because most people are sleepinb, but at 12pm you'll go postal at 500:1 ready to beat up anybody who mentions the word internet.
 
The_Ogre said:
These links feature an extremely high contention ratio.

At 2am you'll be jumping with joy with 20:1 so you'll be cruising at 50mbps because most people are sleeping, but at 12pm you'll go postal at 500:1 ready to beat up anybody who mentions the word internet.
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At 7 PM primetime here when most of the area is streaming Netflix, I still get 50 Mbps. That's the difference.
 
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