Cheapest uncapped 100Mbps fibre packages on Openserve

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Cheapest uncapped 100Mbps fibre packages on Openserve

Uncapped 100Mbps fibre – the dream of many Internet users.

Download speeds of 100Mbps and no usage limits are almost necessary in the tech-heavy household, thanks to bandwidth intensive applications like video streaming, game and file downloads, and torrent usage.

One of the biggest fibre network operators in South Africa is Openserve – the networks and infrastructure division of Telkom.
 
No mention of the FUP, IIRC Webafricas one is something silly like 150gigs on the cheapest package
 
Quick question. If I buy lets say Rain lte or cellc LTE from openweb or afrihost. I am pretty much a normal Cellc or rain client simply doing my billing through the service provider.

So with fibre, If I get fibre through mweb vs lets say webafrica but both is openserve, do i still get the same situation. Where mweb basically just does the billing and caps and so on. Or do I go through mweb completely so mweb may be slow but my neighbour on webafrica have better actual speed ? In other words is there any reason not to take the cheapest fibre option? Other than support and those things?
 
albert123 said:
Quick question. If I buy lets say Rain lte or cellc LTE from openweb or afrihost. I am pretty much a normal Cellc or rain client simply doing my billing through the service provider.

So with fibre, If I get fibre through mweb vs lets say webafrica but both is openserve, do i still get the same situation. Where mweb basically just does the billing and caps and so on. Or do I go through mweb completely so mweb may be slow but my neighbour on webafrica have better actual speed ? In other words is there any reason not to take the cheapest fibre option? Other than support and those things?
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You and your neighbour would share infrastructure basically to the interexchange where it splits off to different ISPs. I've tested this with a couple of colleagues who live close to me. One is on WebAfrica as I am, the other one is on Axxess. We're all on 100 Mbps capped connections. Most of the time everybody gets more or less the same speeds. But there has been days where WebAfrica takes a knock but Axxess keeps on going.
 
Just pay a bit more for a truly uncapped, unshaped and unthrottled connection. R1499 on Cool Ideas for Openserve is where it's at.

albert123 said:
Quick question. If I buy lets say Rain lte or cellc LTE from openweb or afrihost. I am pretty much a normal Cellc or rain client simply doing my billing through the service provider.

So with fibre, If I get fibre through mweb vs lets say webafrica but both is openserve, do i still get the same situation. Where mweb basically just does the billing and caps and so on. Or do I go through mweb completely so mweb may be slow but my neighbour on webafrica have better actual speed ? In other words is there any reason not to take the cheapest fibre option? Other than support and those things?
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The reply below is a bit misleading.

- All your billing relating to fibre will run through your ISP, yes
- Openserve is merely providing infrastructure, as the reply below says
- Both your fibre network and the ISP data account impact the quality of your connection. Neither can succeed while the other sucks.
- Webafrica and Axxess are not in the same league as Cool Ideas. Speed tests are not the full picture. Cool Ideas has no FUP, is totally uncapped, never throttles or shapes and isn't adversely affected by peak network times due to network congestion.

ebendl said:
You and your neighbour would share infrastructure basically to the interexchange where it splits off to different ISPs. I've tested this with a couple of colleagues who live close to me. One is on WebAfrica as I am, the other one is on Axxess. We're all on 100 Mbps capped connections. Most of the time everybody gets more or less the same speeds. But there has been days where WebAfrica takes a knock but Axxess keeps on going.
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It definitely should not be implied that there isn't much between the various ISPs. It makes a massive difference.
 
No issues for me with C-fibre, on the 100mb line and with the sign up free months' promos has effectively been closer to R1,000/mth. I watch most of my Netflix etc in 4k, no sign of throttling, as for usage, like Cool Ideas etc no way to even track usage. So far so good, touch wood.
 
They may be the cheapest deals but they are still expensive. I sure am grateful I don't pay that much for my 100/100 uncapped fibre line.
 
Without the FUP in the table, that table is worthless.

Currently on a 100/50Mbps line with 20GB Afrihost cap + Vox 300GB for about 1050, uncapped midnight with no FUP. I'd take that over any of those offered products, and I would consider my household a "tech heavy" household.

If I increase my usage I'll move to Vuma uncapped at 1200, when Frogfoot completes and my Afrihost contract runs out, moving to them with Cool Ideas 100/100 uncapped for R1009.
 
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