home-connect

  1. RogueEquinox

    HELP PLEASE... Best ISP in George - FROGFOOT is our only FNO option

    Sorry for the long message. I have done research and still need informed advice. Hi Members, this is quite urgent as I have cancelled my fibre broadband service (ends 30 April) with Home-Connect due to a complete lack of service whenever the atrocious Frogfoot service is offline here. In my...
  3. Jan

    Competition Commission unconditionally approves Afrihost acquisition of Home Connect

    Afrihost acquisition of Home Connect gets green light The Competition Commission has unconditionally approved Afrihost’s proposed acquisition of Cipherwave Home Connect. MyBroadband first reported that the two companies had concluded a deal for an undisclosed sum in May that will see Afrihost...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • afrihost cipherwave competition commission home-connect jonathan mason wayne d'sa
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  4. Jan

    Symmetric 100Mbps uncapped FTTH price comparison - May 2023

    Fibre war in South Africa — 100Mbps uncapped packages compared Wirulink provides cheaper 100 Mbps fibre packages than some of its larger competitors, such as Afrihost and Axxess, a MyBroadband analysis has shown. There was generally a difference of R100 to R200 between the cheapest and most...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • afrihost atomic access axxess cool ideas herotel home-connect rsaweb wirulink
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  5. Jan

    Afrihost acquiring CipherWave FTTH ISP Home-Connect

    Afrihost to buy Home-Connect Afrihost has concluded a deal with CipherWave for an undisclosed sum that will see it take a majority stake in Internet service provider Home-Connect. In a note to staff, Afrihost said the acquisition is subject to the necessary regulatory approvals and that they...
  6. spamsam

    Who murdered the Home-Connect support staff?

    My ISP is Home-Connect (home-connect.co.za) on a Vumatel line. My internet has been flapping for the past 2 weeks - and it is getting worse. I live in Cape Town, Bellville. The sign-up and pre-sales was easy and painless. The link has been fine and stable for years. No problemo. But something...
    • spamsam
    • Thread
    • customer service home connect home-connect kidnapping murder over bill saps satire vumatel vumatel broken fibre
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Fibre ISP Discussions
  7. M

    ISP Hall of Shame: Home-Connect

    Shamed for: Dishonorable and extortionist business tactics. aka "Good luck downgrading or cancelling your line" due to "problems with their website". I was sharing a flat with a pensioner and got a fast Home-Connect fiber line on Vumatel. After moving out I tried to downgrade it to cut costs...
  8. Jan

    Vuma Reach offering fibre for R19 for the first month

    Uncapped fibre for cheaper than a litre of petrol Several Internet service providers (ISPs), including Fly.cool, Webafrica, and Home-Connect, are running promotions with Vumatel to offer uncapped fibre packages that will cost you less than a litre of petrol for the first month. Available on...
  9. Z

    Openserve fibre with Home-Connect ISP: How to use with my own router if my own router does not support VPN

    My setup: I have 25mbps download / upload with Home Connect on Openserve fibre. I have a Hauwei B525 as the first modem/router and use Google Wifi routers for my mesh wifi. The problem with Google Wifi is that it does not have ability to configure a VPN which is required when using Home Connect...
    • ZainAjam
    • Thread
    • fibre home-connect l2tp openserve port forwarding pppoe
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Fibre Networks
  10. D

    Supersonic and Vumatel

    I've been without internet for the 3rd day now on Home-Connect. Tuesday night my internet got disconnected unexpectedly. I logged a ticket and never got a reply. I called them the next morning and they logged another ticket. After several calls, I found out that my connection got transferred by...
  11. D

    Single Connection Performance - Home Connect & Frogfoot

    Hi All, I recently got Fibre, 15 October 2020, and couldn't be more excited until I started running some speed tests lol. I decided to sign up with Home-Connect as they were the cheapest...and Frogfoot was the only available FNO in my area. I opted for the 200/200Mbps package they offer. So...
  12. D

    Metrofibre price increases?

    Hi All, I just want to query if I am alone, but on Friday I received notification via my ISP that the infra provider for my Line, Metrofibre has just pushed price increase across the board on all their ISP's. Essentially From 1 September, my package goes up R100pm, a 16% increase in this...
  13. D

    Amazing service from CipherWave Home-Connect

    So I placed an order after getting massively fed-up with another LTE provider who I won't name. Less than 2 days after signing up with Home-Connect my Fibre line was activated (CPE Already installed from previous ISP) and the next day just after 5 my router was delivered, after an initial setup...
  14. Amine

    RocketNet or Home-Connect ISP on MetroFiber Networx

    Hello Everyone I'm about to sign up with one of these two ISPs, they are both around R1200 for 100/100 Mbps. in HelloPetter Home-Connect has 4 starts with TrustIndex of 7.9, ranking #3 as Internet Service Provider while RocketNet has 3 starts with TrustIndex 4.4, ranking #8 as Internet Service...
  15. C

    Home-Connect Fibre Packages. Do you have issues with them?

    Hi All Currently SADV is installing fibre in our complex. I'm looking at capped vs uncapped packages. The uncapped packages usually have either a low fair use policy or the contention ratio is very high, sometimes up to 80:1. The capped packages start getting expensive when looking at...
  16. Espee

    Home-Connect ISP Feedback

    I have been using Cipherwave / Home-Connect's 100/100Mbps package for the past two weeks and I have SADV (SA Digital Villages) as my fibre provider. My experience thus far has been extremely positive. I have been seeing constant speeds of 95Mbps+ and my downloads on Steam, Origin, etc...
    • Espee
    • Thread
    • 100mbps cypherwave fibre home connect home-connect sa digital villages sadv speedtest tenda
    • Replies: 844
    • Forum: Fibre ISP Discussions
  17. H

    Home-Connect (CipherWave) FTTH

    Hi all What is anybody's experience with CiperWave's Home-Connect products? I'm looking at the 20/20 FibreTrend. They seem to be really well priced. Thanks in advance... Regards
    • h00va
    • Thread
    • ciperwave home connect home-connect
    • Replies: 71
    • Forum: Fibre Networks
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