Affordable fixed wireless uncapped broadband for homes without fibre

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Cheapest 50Mbps uncapped Internet for homes without fibre

There are several uncapped wireless Internet packages on the market with at least 50Mbps download speeds for South African households that don't have a fibre network available in their area.

While fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connectivity has proliferated in the past few years, many households in the country still don't have access to fibre and must use other services for their main home connection.
 
Going to see a lot of consolidation in this space as the smaller players sell up due to the bullshit BEE sell 60% of your business laws - 30% black, 30% previously disadvantaged.


I guess Starlink is going to take up some of that at least for those who can afford it, and can't get fibre yet, cough me, cough.

No 5g yet where I am either, and 4G is saturated to crap, so point to point wifi it is, until I can persuade Frogfoot to add more POP's in our suburb. Nearest points is < 100m away, but they won't roll it out, gah.

Wibernet is not terrible though, so i sits and waits. Sits and waits...
 
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There's a reason axxess is the cheapest. I would often get speeds less than 1-2mbps well before reaching my cap. This happened on 2 different accounts at addresses 25km away from each other so it wasn't location related. Support was not helpful as usual. Switched to mymtn home a few months ago and getting proper speeds again.
 
notinterested said:
There's a reason axxess is the cheapest. I would often get speeds less than 1-2mbps well before reaching my cap. This happened on 2 different accounts at addresses 25km away from each other so it wasn't location related. Support was not helpful as usual. Switched to mymtn home a few months ago and getting proper speeds again.
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Yeah Axxess has gone to the dogs used them long ago but yeah you pay for what you get
 
notinterested said:
There's a reason axxess is the cheapest. I would often get speeds less than 1-2mbps well before reaching my cap. This happened on 2 different accounts at addresses 25km away from each other so it wasn't location related. Support was not helpful as usual. Switched to mymtn home a few months ago and getting proper speeds again.
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The 5G up to 500mbps one?
 
notinterested said:
There's a reason axxess is the cheapest. I would often get speeds less than 1-2mbps well before reaching my cap. This happened on 2 different accounts at addresses 25km away from each other so it wasn't location related. Support was not helpful as usual. Switched to mymtn home a few months ago and getting proper speeds again.
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Also because they are borderline useless with support.
 
wingnut771 said:
The 5G up to 500mbps one?
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one was a lte uncapped pro and the other was a lte 50mbps.

the uncapped pro is permanently 'on promotion' for 780 bucks and is supposed to be an unthrottled speed. it would regularly drop below 1mbps for weeks at a time. i was eventually lucky to get 5mbps or better. glad i got rid of it.

axxess' model seems to be to get you to sign up, give you decent speeds for a couple months then completely degrade the experience til you give up and cancel. their prices are low enough that people will choose them over their competitors so they can just keep doing this over and over again.
 
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notinterested said:
There's a reason axxess is the cheapest. I would often get speeds less than 1-2mbps well before reaching my cap. This happened on 2 different accounts at addresses 25km away from each other so it wasn't location related. Support was not helpful as usual. Switched to mymtn home a few months ago and getting proper speeds again.
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For fixed Telkom LTE (what I'm using) Axxess aren't the cheapest (or weren't last I checked), but I far and away prefer them over some of the others.

I generally get great download speeds - my phone momentarily registered 21.7 MB/s (173.6 Mbps - don't believe it myself) this weekend on a download through a VPN.

I think a difference between what I have (only a Telkom supplied SIM from Axxess) and what you were using (MTN SIMs which to my knowledge are provisioned by way of Afrihost's Air Mobile network) had a bearing on the difference in experiences.

Correct me if wrong, but I think Axxess also use Air Mobile for MTN ?

Not to say everyone will be affected like you were, but when I used Air Mobile through Afrihost a few years ago (fixed MTN), the service suffered daily from dropped connections.

Think they fixed it after I'd left to go back to Axxess, for better Telkom LTE pricing.
 
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