Best 100/100 Uncapped Vumatel ISP

Johand

Johand

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Vumatel is rolling out in my area and I am now looking for an ISP.

I am a long-time WebAfrica client but their service went south (they close tickets that has not yet been resolved) and for some reason they are expensive compared to other ISPs on a 100/100 package. Also with the split into gridhost my domains and hosting is anyway managed separately now so no reason to stick with them.

So which ISP will you recommend on a 100/100 package?

My thinking is Vox - price seems descent and I heard from friends on it their network is descent. Anybody else to consider? I am skeptical about the smaller ISPs because I am worried they are running with too high contention and I will not actually get 100/100.
 
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I use C-Fibre 50/50, No Issues so far. I choice it because of free installation and 3 months free promotion.
A friend uses Cool Ideas, also no issues so far.

Cool Ideas, Cellc Fibre and Crystalweb are good alternatives. Vox is also great.
Cool Ideas - R1199, R1710 installation, No Connection Fee, No Contract, Free Router
CellC Fibre - R1249, No Installation(24 months claw back pro data), No Connection Fee(24 months claw back pro data), Cancel Anytime, Free Router(12 months claw back pro data).
Crystalweb - R1195, R1710 installation, R999 Connection Fee, No Contract, No Free Router, Free Premium News Server(Newsgroups), Lately they have major issues and will stay away until its resolved.

I will recommend Cool Ideas and Secondly VOX.

For VOIP you can look at freshphone.
 
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If you go cool ideas they do voip with Telkom porting as well
 
Cool Ideas is simply the best, consistent and transparent with @PBCool to offer assistance on the forum too.

Other options to consider are:
Crystal Web (no forum presence, oddly targeted by DDoS more often than any other ISP, has good live support, a reseller of IS)
Vox (little forum presence, excellent network, poor support)
 
I will also suggest cool idea's, NO FUP, NO SHAPING, NO THROTTLING. Have been with them for 2 months and so far haven't had any problems from their side. i am on the 100/10 package and i get 96mbps down and 11up... my pc is running 100mbps network so its a bit of a bottleneck
 
Yeah, Cool Ideas is your best bet.

I've just spent a month on VOX after being on Cool Ideas for 6 months. I wanted to try them for perspective.

Cool Ideas performed consistently better on all protocols, from what I could ascertain. Back with CISP now...
 
Cool Ideas or Rocketnet, both uncapped unshaped no weird FUP etc. Rocketnet is a little cheaper
 
I went with Cool Ideas. 99% happy with blazingly fast speed. My only complaint it that Twitch streaming for some reason is terrible on their network. Everything else (including other streaming) is amazing.
 
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