Exactly. If you can, then why not? Price difference between 100 & 200 isn't super huge either...
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You need higher speeds to backup the internet
This made me laugh
Downloading FF15 with 4k textures in under 2 hours instead of 4?
I hear you; but I prefer my games hard copy. But yeah, they often still need a download.
I'm not arguing anything, just wondering if the extra expense is worth it, currently. One can change quite easily these days I think.
No, it's not. But no need to waste money on something that isn't quite needed yet, when one can just upgrade when needed?
But I suppose bragging rights are always cool
Make sure your network at home supports the speeds. 
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Any feedback on pricing yet ?
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Shared. Small office.
Got a mail from Axxess about it today. The guys that did the connection to and in the house many moons ago claimed to be the fastest at 200 at that stage.
Maybe 200 would do for my 7 kids all playing online games at the same time
Maybe 200 would do for my 7 kids all playing online games at the same time
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damn, ya'll still getting raped on prices. for my 400mb/20mb cable, I pay $60'ish a month.
crackersa
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Got a mail from Axxess about it today. The guys that did the connection to and in the house many moons ago claimed to be the fastest at 200 at that stage.
Maybe 200 would do for my 7 kids all playing online games at the same time
7 KIDS?????????
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Apparently it happened before they got internet.
So I have a question. When I had fibre installed it came with that GPON thing that my router plugs into. Now last I saw that GPON was only a 100mb device. So even though my router has gigabit ports I am connecting to the GPON at 100mb. So 200mb seems useless then if you can't get more than 100. Does this mean Telkom/ISPs will swap out that device?
Gpon supports speeds higher than 100M, many ISP's though only provide a router with crap wifi and Ethernet ports that don't work higher than 100M, above is via 5G ac wifi in my home office. Make sure you get a good router with 802.11ac with MIMO antenna's and multiple GE Ethernet ports.
Damn, was hoping it would be a small increase. I would have assumed that beyond 100Mbps usage doesn't change much.
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R480 increase if you look at data only, and that the account is unmetered...
Which you can also see as half a thousand extra per month for something that makes an extremely marginal difference to anyone's life.
100Mbps is already fast. I'd be happy to pay a bit extra for 200Mbps just for lols, but not half a grand.
Ah thats awesome!
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I'm currently on a 100/50 Openserve line and capped data (I have numerous 400GB fatpipe promo accounts) - the price increase for the 200/100 line speed is around R271 which I'd gladly pay the increased TX speed alone - Most of my time is spent shifting images around so it's pretty reasonable for double the speed.
Make sure your network at home supports the speeds.
Yep, it has come to this now. Never thought we'd actually talk about something like that
Great that we're getting really decent line speeds in SA, now we just need our ISPs to sort out their crappy routing/peering infrastructures and we'd be in good shape.
Never thought I'd see the day where Telkom is way ahead of them.
Never thought I'd see the day where Telkom is way ahead of them.
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