Am I missing something? (Lightspeed FTTH)

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LeafMuncher

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Hey all, I only just noticed I fall under Cybersmart Lightspeed coverage (Plumstead, about 10 meters off Gabriel Road).

I'm using Afrihost business uncapped (to avoid throttling...), but lately my Telkom line has gone from perfect stability at 8Mb/s to losing sync every 5 minutes on anything above 2Mb/s

As the title says, is there any reason I shouldn't go for their home package? Contention ratio affecting speed? Huge amount of throttling? Bad ping to gaming services? (my monthly usage is around 200GB-300GB)

This offer just seems too good to be true; R899pm for 20MB Fibre? Am I missing something here? Data not included? Another hidden cost besides the R1500 installation? (apologies, I'm a complete noob when it comes to fibre)
 
I have spoken to one of there sales people.

R33000 guaranteed from an area. Installation cost is high to pull fibre in then that needs to be covered. Then 1.5k for the home install. This product is more for your apartment building and gated community. But if you can get a lot of people interested in your area then this can work.

You need DP (distribution point). They need more than 10 people signed contract for this.

The R899 is uncapped and p2p is throttled to 2mbps.

Just because you fall inside there network map doesnt mean fibre is there already.
 
What Hapy said if your res - Leaf that just means that they have access to backhaul fibre they don't have a fibre line running into your property yet.

Business you just need one interested party.
 
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Thanks for the info. Pretty sure my neighbours would be keen, we're all in a pretty dead pocket for all forms of broadband (even 3g) and I've got two apartment complexes within 20 meters
 
LeafMuncher said:
Thanks for the info. Pretty sure my neighbours would be keen, we're all in a pretty dead pocket for all forms of broadband (even 3g) and I've got two apartment complexes within 20 meters
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I am personally trying the same. busy working up docs and stuff to promote it in a way and show people benefits and cost savings over couple months then years.
 
HApyM3al said:
I am personally trying the same. busy working up docs and stuff to promote it in a way and show people benefits and cost savings over couple months then years.
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thats essentially where my delay was, convincing people that this product is better, took me a year and half but it was worth it
 
HApyM3al said:
how did you do it and get it right?
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I had to lobby the trustees' first, this took quite a bit of doing since three are lawyers. The trick here is to demonstrate that it would cost the BC nothing to convert to fibre. Once I got the buy in from the trustees one of them assisted with contacting owners, she is an agent and knew quite of few of the owners from previous dealings.

That was the low hanging fruit, after that I did extensive canvassing in the building but most residents are tenants who rent through agents, so getting an owner to sign a contract with the BC proved difficult because of delays in communication. Here I had to convince owners who rent out their units that supplying cheap high speed internet was beneficial to their businesses- this was a surprisingly difficult thing to do.

The actual contract between the BC and ISP also proved problematic and I had to negotiate terms with the ISP and get clarification on other areas.

It was a nightmare really, I spent a month trying to get the chairman to sign the contract after all the terms were agreed to.
 
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