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  1. 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...
  3. 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...
    • Jan
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    • afrihost cool ideas fibre-to-the-home (ftth) metrofibre octotel openserve vox vumatel
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  4. 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...
    • Jan
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    • afrihost axxess cell c cybersmart mtn rsaweb telkom vox webafrica
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  5. 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...
    • Jan
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    • afrihost metrofibre vox webafrica
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Fibre Networks
  6. 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.
    • ShadowR
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    • latency modern warfare 2 vox
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Gaming
  7. 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...
  8. L

    VOX MTN cannot provide working equipment but expect payment

    So, I ordered a VOX MTN packet. They forced me to buy their router saying that the service cannot work in another router. I bought the router and subscribed for the MTN service with VOX. (I could have rented the router, but I prefer to pay for things upfront - bottom line it had to be THEIR...
  9. Jan

    The biggest ISPs in Gauteng, Cape Town, and Durban

    South Africa's biggest ISPs in Gauteng, Cape Town, and Durban A new report by Analytico revealed that Rain is the largest fixed-broadband Internet service provider (ISP) in Gauteng, while Telkom reigns supreme in Durban and Cape Town. Analytico is a research company that provides research...
    • Jan
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    • analytico axxess herotel rain telkom vodacom vox webafrica
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  10. Jan

    Afrihost and Vox discuss their work-from-home approaches

    Work-from-home policies of two major South African Internet service providers Afrihost's and Vox Telecoms' employees may still work from home if they prefer, even after South Africa's Covid-19 restrictions were lifted. The Internet service providers said they had noticed improved productivity...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • afrihost jacques du toit sean nourse vivica vox webafrica work-from-home (wfh)
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  11. Jan

    Uncapped LTE and 5G price comparison

    Uncapped mobile data prices in South Africa compared South African residents in the market for a plug-and-play uncapped home data package have several options from which to choose, with some providing speeds of up to 25Mbps for less than R500 a month. The cheapest uncapped mobile data package...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • afrihost axxess mtn rain supersonic telkom uncapped 5g uncapped lte vox
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  12. Jan

    VoIP operators say they are filling a gap left by the decline of Telkom's copper network

    The end of copper-based voice — And the rise of VoIP Voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) providers are stepping in to fill the gap for telephony in South Africa left by the demise of copper-based networks. Once South Africa's dominant provider of fixed analogue voice services, Telkom has seen...
    • Jan
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    • euphoria telecom gregory massel john woollam nic lashinger switch telecom telkom voice over ip (voip) vox
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  13. Jan

    Vox rebranding as Vivica and launches Nymbis Cloud Solutions

    Vox in major restructuring as it launches Nymbis Cloud Solutions Vox Holdings is rebranding to Vivica Group and is restructuring its business into several sister companies, including smaller “incubator” businesses. Well-known companies in the group like fibre provider Frogfoot and email...
  14. Jan

    Mweb's terms and conditions would take you 2 hours to read

    One South African ISP has T&Cs that take 2 hours to read It will take over 2 hours to read through all the terms and conditions related to buying a broadband service from Mweb. It was one of the findings from a comparison of the length of the terms and conditions from prominent South African...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • afrihost axxess consumer protection act (cpa) cool ideas home connect mweb rsaweb supersonic telkom vox webafrica
    • Replies: 15
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  15. Jan

    South African ISPs are hiring developers, network engineers, and sysadmins

    South African ISPs are hiring — 34 tech jobs you can apply for now Many of South Africa's big Internet service providers (ISPs) are recruiting developers and engineers in various roles. According to the Skills Development Corporation, the most employable field at the end of 2021 was...
  16. Jan

    Vox data - How much Netflix dominates in South Africa

    Netflix absolutely dominates on South African fibre networks Netflix is South Africa's favourite online service by far, new data from major Internet service provider Vox shows. The Internet domain where it hosts video content received more than double the hits than YouTube, and it also...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • akamai content delivery network (cdn) dstv fibre-to-the-home (ftth) netflix showmax vox youtube
    • Replies: 31
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  17. ReaperSanta

    VOX - LTE Gone Wrong

    Hey all. Does anyone experience bad service from vox or is it just me? I have had sim card issues with the telkom sim card that i was issued from VOX and it stopped working completely. Not a single VOX consultant knows the process of what to do when a client no longer has access to the telkom...
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    Vox Telecoms' crimina behaviour (also terrible service)

    Vox not only failed to deliver my product in a reasonable timeframe (should be instantly activated on signup), not only failed to communicate, they also employ criminal behaviour. I'm an existing client on their system. The bandwidth package I signed up for was only activated A WEEK LATER, which...
  19. Jan

    Fibre ISP email support tested

    ISP email support tested — and only one could answer a simple question An email support test of South African Internet service providers (ISPs) by MyBroadband revealed that only RSAWeb provided a complete and reasonable answer to the questions asked. Email is a core part of any ISP’s support...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • afrihost axxess cell c cool ideas herotel home connect metrofibre networx mtn rsaweb supersonic vodacom vox
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  20. Jan

    Uncapped FTTH price comparison

    Cheapest home fibre deals in South Africa South Africans can get an uncapped fibre package for as little as R297 per month, thanks to price cuts from fibre network operators and Internet service providers throughout 2021. Several fibre packages have download speeds ranging from 10Mbps to...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • afrihost axxess fibre-to-the-home (ftth) frogfoot home connect octotel openserve openserve web connect rsaweb telkom vox vuma reach vumatel webafrica
    • Replies: 27
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  21. E

    vox Telecom

    Please people, anybody looking for a ISP please stay away from VOX, please take some time and go and read all the complaints regarding VOX on hello peter or on mybroadband.co.za no customer support at all. Thanks
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