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  1. K

    VOX Fibre Down Germiston/Bedfordview - Please Help

    Our Fibre has been on/off the whole morning and now it’s down completely. We have reset the router and extenders etc. Is there an outage?
  2. Hanno Labuschagne

    Vox's new fixed 5G packages vs Axxess, Afrihost, and MTN

    Vox's new fixed 5G packages vs Axxess, Afrihost, and MTN Internet service provider Vox recently launched two uncapped fixed-5G packages offering speeds of up to 300Mbps. Vox senior product manager Chris Boshoff said the offering was designed to be competitive on both pricing and service...
  3. T

    Vox Telecom - Octotel Poor Speed on gigabit

    Recently upgraded to Gigabit from Vox Telecom on Octotel, and the speeds have been horrible. Steam downloads (over 70GB) maxed out at a peak of 700mbit per second. Initially we thought it was the router so we upgraded to a new router that had gigabit ethernet, but it stayed the same. Any tips...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Satellite and wireless Internet price comparison

    Satellite and wireless Internet price comparison South Africans living in areas without LTE, 5G, or fibre coverage have limited options when it comes to Internet connectivity. However, some reliable options are available, such as satellite Internet connectivity and Wireless Internet Service...
  5. Yoda Arain

    Big Data for Cheap

    I live in an area where there's no fiber, DSL, etc. But LTE service is exceptionally good. I've tested @vodacom, MTN, and @Cell_C (MTN). I'm looking for a high-volume bundle, but with the condition of being most economical. I rely on 200 GB for R349 from Vodacom, or R399 from MTN, or 100 GB for...
  6. Yoda Arain

    Looking for a VoIP service provider (except Switch Telecom)

    I'm in the market for a VoIP service provider that offers an unlimited calling plan or at least a fixed bundle. Please! Give your recommendations. Most people recommend Freshphone after Switch Telecom, but I can't go with Switch Telecom because they blacklisted me. I know there are ways to get...
  7. JLD2023

    Frogfoot are useless

    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???
  8. Lashie130

    Vox and Openserve Connection Issue - PLEASE HELP!

    Okay so after 2 days of router reboots, router resets and a call to Vox here I am on the MyBroadband forum trying to find a fix or a answer to my issue, router is not from Vox using a Linksys WRT ACM3200. Issue started on Tuesday evening whereby playing Rocket League on my Playstation my...
  9. J

    Vox FTTH IPTV Throttling?

    Hi All So I have signed up and tested various IPTV providers, and have had quite a few issues over the last few months. I realize its not the best and most stable platform for all content, and don't expect it to be, but have now after a lot of frustration realized a common denominator - I...
  10. tkrige

    VOX free to use router

    Many years ago I signed up and paid an upfront installation and setup fee for VOX fibre on octotel. The upfront payment reduced the month to month charge which included a free to use router (the reason I made the upfront payment) since then as bandwidth costs have decreased VOX has periodically...
  11. Jan

    Analytico: ISPs with the strongest brand in South Africa (April 2023)

    Afrihost crushes the competition Afrihost has extended its lead over Vox, Telkom, and Rain as the Internet service provider (ISP) with the strongest brand in South Africa. This was revealed in Analytico’s 2023 South African Broadband and ISP Brand Report released this week.
  12. W

    Vox and Vuma wont upgrade my fiber line

    I signed up for Fiber with Vox and Vuma in May. At that time they where running a promotion of R650 for 50/50mbps. They only conditions for this promo is that you can't cancel within 12 months of signing up for this promo, or you would have to pay R2733. I made it clear to the sales rep that I...
  13. Rayza-73

    Vox or Saicom?

    We're looking at changing our VOIP SP and my 2 choices are either VOX or SAICOM. This change will include changing our fibre connections at all our branches too, so its a big project. What would you recommend or what are your experiences with either of these ISP's?
  14. K

    Vox Fibre Down

    Have had this Vox line for about a month and a half, seems like every hour for about 20 minutes my line drops from 100mb to 1.5mb a sec. Help, considering canceling.
  15. Hanno Labuschagne

    SA's biggest bandwidth hogs of 2022 revealed

    SA's biggest bandwidth hogs of 2022 revealed Prominent Internet service providers (ISPs) had several fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) customers who consumed well over 500 terabytes (TB) of data in the first 11 months of 2022. MyBroadband asked the country's biggest ISPs for the consumption figures of...
  16. Jan

    One Vox / Frogfoot gigabit subscriber used 101TB in November 2022

    The 101TB man — Biggest bandwidth hogs in South Africa Several demanding fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) users consumed over 50 terabytes (TB) of data in November 2022, feedback from three major Internet service providers (ISPs) has shown. However, traffic on major fibre networks appears to have...
  17. Jan

    ISP's plans for fixed LTE in South Africa

    Fixed-4G isn't going anywhere — here's what South African ISPs have planned Mobile network operators in South Africa have focussed on launching 5G Internet solutions for some time now, but 4G isn’t going anywhere. MyBroadband asked South African Internet service providers about their plans for...
  18. Jan

    MetroFibre outage - 14 November 2022

    Major MetroFibre outage Fibre Network Operator MetroFibre is experiencing a widespread outage, with multiple customers and Internet service providers reporting the issues on social media. Downdetector also shows a significant spike in reports on connectivity issues with MetroFibre's network...
  19. ShadowR

    Modern Warfare 2 Latency

    Hi guys. Anyone else on Vox fibre noticed that some of the matches in modern warfare 2 (2022) has a high latency of 110-120ms? It's very frustrating and happens about every 4-5 games. The line itself is fine when I speedtest getting 2ms latency. Cheers.
  20. BamboozledAttorney

    Webafrica's confusing strategy... that still works

    So, we know Webafrica is struggling to keep-up in regard to responding to customer queries (they don't have a helpline, everything occurs on Whatsapp business). They're encountering a big churn risk (customers moving away from them and going to a different ISP is happening more and more, and I...
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