1Gbps fibre prices compared

Jan said:
The Ferrari of Internet connections in South Africa pricing compared

Among prominent South African ISPs, RSAWeb and Webafrica offer consumers the most affordable 1 Gbps fibre packages across four of the country's biggest fibre networks, a MyBroadband analysis shows.

We compared the 1 Gbps fibre products from Afrihost, Axxess, Cool Ideas, Mweb, RSAWeb, and Webafrica across five open-access fibre network operators (FNOs).
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how do you guys go on to not include an isp like websquad but then you include webafrica?
 
Why would the average person need these speeds? I'm on 100/100 and even that I think is overkill. Even if all 4 in the house are streaming, I don't think we even use 30mbs. Few times we downloaded games, it seemed it server depended and download at 10-20 Mbs anyway. Think I will change to 50/50 sometime, not that there is really big difference in price.
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Why would the average person need these speeds? I'm on 100/100 and even that I think is overkill. Even if all 4 in the house are streaming, I don't think we even use 30mbs. Few times we downloaded games, it seemed it server depended and download at 10-20 Mbs anyway. Think I will change to 50/50 sometime, not that there is really big difference in price.
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Why not? Even on current 1gig WebAfrica fiber ....YouTube loads at 240p.....ISP needs to upgrade there Infrastructure
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Why would the average person need these speeds? I'm on 100/100 and even that I think is overkill. Even if all 4 in the house are streaming, I don't think we even use 30mbs. Few times we downloaded games, it seemed it server depended and download at 10-20 Mbs anyway. Think I will change to 50/50 sometime, not that there is really big difference in price.
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Have you ever tried downloading a 120GB game?
 
Looking at the pricing of gigabit it makes the almost R700 pricing of a 20mb absolutely ridiculous.
 
Polymathic said:
Looking at the pricing of gigabit it makes the almost R700 pricing of a 20mb absolutely ridiculous.
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Almost equals fixed costs, only slightly higher variable cost. Unfortunate product of free market.
 
MJAnderson said:
Almost equals fixed costs, only slightly higher variable cost. Unfortunate product of free market.
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No much cost difference with the entry level package being 50mb vs 20mb, no?


Some FNOs offer too many options. (I feel)
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Why would the average person need these speeds? I'm on 100/100 and even that I think is overkill. Even if all 4 in the house are streaming, I don't think we even use 30mbs. Few times we downloaded games, it seemed it server depended and download at 10-20 Mbs anyway. Think I will change to 50/50 sometime, not that there is really big difference in price.
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Downloading games off of steam should definitely max out, and most of the time origin and epic also managed to max out my 200Mbps line.

I think you're confusing megabit and megabyte.
 
Polymathic said:
No much cost difference with the entry level package being 50mb vs 20mb, no?


Some FNOs offer too many options. (I feel)
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I don't understand your question. The cost of 20Mbps and 30Mbps isn't much higher to the FNO (or ISP really)

Same applies with 50Mbps and 500Mbps (ISP might start to care a bit more, but FNO not so much)

I agree that ISPs offer too many choices though. Especially with these new asymmetrical packages that are just silly.
 
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