Hi all, Vumatel have recently finished installing fibre in my area and im trying to decide on which ISP to go with. From the various packages listed on Vumatel's site, Web Connection and Cybersmart seem really good. Both are cheap, uncapped, unthrottled, and come with VoIP (which is important as...
Hi everyone,
I am a member of the body corporate of a building here on the Durban beachfront. Ideally we would like to get rid of Telkom for obvious reasons. So i did some research and found that DFA has fibre at the end of the street. I decided to contact a few ISP's for installation...
I would like to research and report on South African hosting providers' uptime (percentage of time website is online and accessible) as well as connection speed (miliseconds to reach site). While most web hosts claim 99.9% uptime, from experience I know this to be false.
For the investigation I...
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Has anyone had the issue where their telkom lines went dead for days with no telephone or ADSL. I am currently with Cybersmart (line and data) and want to know if its possible to get a refund for the days of no service?
So we've had a 2mb line with cybersmart for about a year, with very few problems and a good download speed (200-220kbs) and good international gaming latency (170m to EU servers).
Recently (about 2 weeks ago) we decided to upgrade to a 4mb, hoping for better streaming and download speeds...
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We're having problems with Cybersmart's phones. They haven't worked for 2 days now and we constantly call and email them to ask what's going on with canned "we'll look into it" responses. The phones have been wonky for the last week, with settings getting wiped 2 times since last Monday and...
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Hi guys
So this is what I've been having a problem with.
I switched ISP's from Vox to Cybersmart at the beginning of the month; and since then I have been having persistent issues with my internet. Although the SpeedTest results always show up as being fine; the actual usability of the...