I contacted Afrihost on Friday, 3 April to report intermittent disconnections that required me to manually restart my router and ONT every time. The following day, Saturday 4 April, a Frogfoot technician came out, ran some tests, and left me with the assurance that Afrihost simply needed to...
My fibre has been down since Wednesday. Cool ideas informed me it’s due to fibre outage in the area. It’s now Saturday and the frog foot fibre line in my area still hasn’t been fixed. Genuinely curious as to what takes so long to fix the issue? Previously issues were usually fixed within a...
Hi everyone,
I’m really hoping someone here can advise or connect me with the right person at Frogfoot or Afrihost, because I’m at the end of my rope with this installation saga.
Context:
I recently moved into a new unit in a small complex (4 units total).
I applied for fibre with Afrihost at...
Prepaid fibre options in South Africa
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South Africa's biggest FTTH networks share achievements and challenges in 2023
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We've received emails from Webafrica customers being notified about line speed and price changes on their Frogfoot FTTH packages. Just checking to confirm whether more people from other ISPs had received notice of the changes. @Afrigirl @AfriGuy
I live in a complex in Lynnwood, PTA - like many other complexes, it has an "exclusive" agreement with FrogFoot to provide the infra for all fibre in the complex. The complex is a newly renovated place, and we have been here for over a year using Afrihost+FrogFoot.
I constantly experience full...
Day five.
Still offline. Unacceptable.
Needs urgent resolution. We need a technician this morning but Frogfoot says hopefully tomorrow and Vox have been useless when trying to escalate it.
HOW is this acceptable when their turnaround time should be 72 hours???
Just a question out of curiosity, but what is Frogfoot like today?
Did they get better, do they still cause issues more than they should, or does it depend on which area you are staying or which ISP you are using?
Frogfoot appoints new CEO
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These fibre networks punish ISPs when customers downgrade to cheaper packages
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The issue of fibre downgrade...
Okay, well, not really. Certain FNOs tend to have weird packages, and some ISPs to my knowledge haven't updated their website yet to reflect those new speeds. For example, Openserve began a 300/150 package, but a lot of ISPs still have the 250/125 package on their website. Unless they did a free...
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I would like people's opinions in the matter of Frogfoot's "upgrades" and price increases without giving the consumer a choice in the matter and expecting them to pay upgrade or downgrade fees. I am of the opinion that this is in violation of the Consumer Protection and/or Competition Acts.
I...
Frogfoot charges R750 to downgrade after hiking prices
Fibre network operator Frogfoot is charging Internet service providers (ISPs) a R750 fee if their fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) customers on its network want to downgrade their speeds.
MyBroadband learnt of the charge after receiving an email...