Backup Internet Connection?

OnlyOneKenobi

OnlyOneKenobi

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With more people working from home these days, it seems one must have an alternative internet connection in case your primary connection goes down for whatever reason. Ideally you would want the secondary connection plan to be reliable, fast and reasonably inexpensive.

If you have one, what is your backup connection?
 
I have 3 if my VDSL should go down..

Backup 1: Afrihost Pure LTE 30GB
Backup 2: Afrihost Air Mobile 1GB and 4GB
Backup 3: Cell C Mobile data

Cell C is a last resort :)
 
ThatGuy_ZA said:
I've been thinking of getting a R250/month Rain 4g sim for this. It's uncapped for 19 hours a day so it would cover us during work hours.
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I tried that, needed to use a VPN to our systems so them limiting the speed on VPN's killed the notion.
 
OnlyOneKenobi said:
With more people working from home these days, it seems one must have an alternative internet connection in case your primary connection goes down for whatever reason. Ideally you would want the secondary connection plan to be reliable, fast and reasonably inexpensive.

If you have one, what is your backup connection?
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I have Herotel/BronbergConnect fibre as my main connection with a large MTN 2nd SIM in my phone that I use as backup via HotSpot.

I've had to use it a few times as my fibre doesn't have backup when there's loadshedding and in the first few month since I got them they had a lot of issues, so needed a backup.
 
MavChat said:
I tried that, needed to use a VPN to our systems so them limiting the speed on VPN's killed the notion.
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Tried that too... and while Rain has been a little bit better these past few days - I wouldn't call them reliable. The VPN thing is a killer though.
 
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