Anyone using Lightspeed FTTH?

[giovannidc]

I see Lightspeed is advertising 400Mbps fibre connection with 200Gb of date for R899pm and wanted to know if they are any good as an ISP. I pretty much only use my internet for gaming and streaming Hulu + Netflix.

I'm currently paying R990(line rental + 10mbps dsl + 200gb data) so this fibre deal does seem appealing.

 

[Johnatan56]

Question is, do you fall in the correct area and does your neighborhood have enough sign-ups?

 

[saturnz]

I've been using lightspeed for exactly a year.

In terms of uptime, it hasn't gone down once that I can recall. Throughout the day I will have the bloomberg stream running and I will sometimes simultaneously stream other things during the course of the day (sports, DSTV catch up, netflix etc).

Gaming to SA servers is amazing, low stable ping that hardly moves, if it does its more to do with other issues than the fibre itself.

I'm sure others will find something to complain about, but compared to what I had previously (10mbps ADSL shared by 30 people at R200/10GB) this is significantly better.

 

[Johnatan56]

I've been using lightspeed for exactly a year.

In terms of uptime, it hasn't gone down once that I can recall. Throughout the day I will have the bloomberg stream running and I will sometimes simultaneously stream other things during the course of the day (sports, DSTV catch up, netflix etc).

Gaming to SA servers is amazing, low stable ping that hardly moves, if it does its more to do with other issues than the fibre itself.

I'm sure others will find something to complain about, but compared to what I had previously (10mbps ADSL shared by 30 people at R200/10GB) this is significantly better.

Wtf? Who were you with?

 

[saturnz]

Wtf? Who were you with?

a company called Redbutton- a reseller

They begged me to not switch to lightspeed, but I begged them for 3 years to drop their prices.

Once we switched they immediately shut down, I was happy to see them go under.

 

[Johnatan56]

a company called Redbutton- a reseller

They begged me to not switch to lightspeed, but I begged them for 3 years to drop their prices.

Once we switched they immediately shut down, I was happy to see them go under.

If you were on ADSL you should have swapped easily, they don't own your line, Telkom does. I get R2/gig at Afrihost currently (not counting midnight data) which is about the norm for all ISPs.

 

[saturnz]

If you were on ADSL you should have swapped easily, they don't own your line, Telkom does. I get R2/gig at Afrihost currently (not counting midnight data) which is about the norm for all ISPs.

yeah my situation was slightly unique

I live in a sectional title building, none of the flats have a telkom line, we had one ADSL line coming into the basement into the server and then shared.

The only service provider willing to supply us data was Redbutton, and they charged us as a result.

 

[giovannidc]

Question is, do you fall in the correct area and does your neighborhood have enough sign-ups?

I do fall in the correct area. Doubt my street has enough signups but willing to do some canvasing. I know dfa runs in a street parallel to mine.

 

[Johnatan56]

I do fall in the correct area. Doubt my street has enough signups but willing to do some canvasing. I know dfa runs in a street parallel to mine.

Send them an e-mail first and ask what the required signups/costs are, then make up your mind. For my area they wanted R65k/month in signups which was not feasible. (That's with the DFA being about 150m away)

Here is a feedback thread on the 50Mbps package: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/765174-Cybersmart-50mbit-FTTH-feedback-thread
I know there are more, just search the forum.

 

[Faziki]

FYI

I see Lightspeed is advertising 400Mbps fibre connection with 200Gb of date for R899pm and wanted to know if they are any good as an ISP. I pretty much only use my internet for gaming and streaming Hulu + Netflix.

I'm currently paying R990(line rental + 10mbps dsl + 200gb data) so this fibre deal does seem appealing.

FYI its not 400mbps Upload and download. its 200mbps up and 200 down they say its 400mbps so that it looks appealing

 

[Sapphiron]

I heard from their service desk that their 400Mbit service will be available in the next 2 weeks. Its 400Mbit that you can configure the way you like it, say 350 down 50 up, or 200 down 200 up, etc.