Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread Part 2

[Afrigirl]

Hi, new line installation here, still waiting for the ONT / line to be activated by ThinkSpeed, the Tp-Link EX511 was sent by Afrihost and received yesterday and it's got certain Wi-Fi details on a piece of paper that came in the box, however when I connected to the router via ethernet cable it was as if it's been reset to factory defaults, it asked me to set an admin password and the Wi-Fi SSID was factory default but the credentials were set to a guest afrihost login. Is the router waiting for the ONT and line to be active at which point it will connect to Afrihost and then configure itself to the predetermined setup?

Hi.

Please configure the router to DHCP and visit login.afrihost.com to complete the activation.

 

[killerbyte]

Hi, new line installation here, still waiting for the ONT / line to be activated by ThinkSpeed, the Tp-Link EX511 was sent by Afrihost and received yesterday and it's got certain Wi-Fi details on a piece of paper that came in the box, however when I connected to the router via ethernet cable it was as if it's been reset to factory defaults, it asked me to set an admin password and the Wi-Fi SSID was factory default but the credentials were set to a guest afrihost login. Is the router waiting for the ONT and line to be active at which point it will connect to Afrihost and then configure itself to the predetermined setup?

Yes, it uses TR-069 to install the config from the ACS server.
But you can factory reset and set it up manually. They send the routers out like that so that less technical customers can just contact support and then the wifi credentials can be changed remotely.

 

[RogueTr00per]

Hi.

Please configure the router to DHCP and visit login.afrihost.com to complete the activation.

Thanks I'll do that, will I need any sort of details or credentials to proceed because I don't have any info from the landlord who placed the order with Afrihost.

 

[killerbyte]

Thanks I'll do that, will I need any sort of details or credentials to proceed because I don't have any info from the landlord who placed the order with Afrihost.

Credentials would have been sent to the landlord (to the email address the order was placed with).

 

[RogueTr00per]

Hi.

Please configure the router to DHCP and visit login.afrihost.com to complete the activation.

Is this where I should configure it ?

 

[RogueTr00per]

Credentials would have been sent to the landlord (to the email address the order was placed with).

Thanks in any event the LOS light is red on the ONT and it seems they may have to redo one of the in-between segments of laid fiber, perhaps only on Monday :/

 

[killerbyte]

Is this where I should configure it ?

View attachment 1800286

Yes, now you give the router the rest of the settings, then once its saved go to login.afrihost.com

 

[Gtx Gaming]

500Mbps Vumatel Black Friday Promotion Pure Fibre

Anybody know what price will be from april?

Did not get price increase email

 

[Afrigirl]

500Mbps Vumatel Black Friday Promotion Pure Fibre

Hi.
The promotion is valid for 12 months; the price change will not affect you.
You will lose the promo if you upgrade or downgrade.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Hi.
The promotion is valid for 12 months; the price change will not affect you.
You will lose the promo if you upgrade or downgrade.

I signed up 2023 though

 

[Afrigirl]

I signed up 2023 though

I signed up 2023 though

Did you opt in for the black Friday promo or not?

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Did you opt in for the black Friday promo or not?

Yep black Friday 2023 promo

 

[Afrigirl]

Yep black Friday 2023 promo

Oh, you will receive the price change email.

 

[RogueTr00per]

@Afrigirl is this perhaps indicating that the line might not be active on afrihosts side?

"No response from the remote server"

 

[killerbyte]

@Afrigirl is this perhaps indicating that the line might not be active on afrihosts side?

"No response from the remote server"View attachment 1800478

LOS light?

 

[RogueTr00per]

LOS light?

LOS light is off.

 

[killerbyte]

LOS light is off.

View attachment 1800487

what are the options under ISP type?

 

[RogueTr00per]

what are the options under ISP type?

Other than Normal, it's Russia, Unifi, Maxis, Celcom

 

[AfriNatic]

Other than Normal, it's Russia, Unifi, Maxis, Celcom

View attachment 1800494

Please select skip all the way until you complete the setup then go to wan settings and select dynamic IP.

Please also send me your router wan mac address in the pm so I can have a look if we see dhcp requests from you

 

[AfriNatic]

I will check with the team on our KZN Google Caches .



No, there are no known issues yet. We will request for the EX511 so we can test it and monitor.

As I was writing this reply, a 4K vid just buffered lol

It looks like it has been raised with Google, and our team will meet soon to discuss the issues being experienced.
@AfriNatic will provide more insight once they have concluded the discussions.

We received an upgrade proposal from Google where they want to send us 6 more servers. When we raised the issue about our DBN caches being at 95% utilisation they responded with this.

Please note that GGC nodes can typically run at a very high utilization without any impact to end users. Google will reach out to you when the next node augmentis required so you will not need to reach out to us for augments.You can always reach out to us to discuss special circumstances.Thank you for your cooperation in the GGC program.Kind Regards,The Google Global Cache Team