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Cool Ideas Fibre ISP - Feedback
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marine1
Honorary Master
Loving the service. It's great. No more lag. No more TS issue. Things are stable and fast and line doesn't drop. Thinking about upgrading to the 50/50. Do i need it ? No 
sand_man
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Loving the service. It's great. No more lag. No more TS issue. Things are stable and fast and line doesn't drop. Thinking about upgrading to the 50/50. Do i need it ? No
What's the price difference? 25/25>50/50?
I'm on 100/50, SUPER happy with it!! R999 all in on Fibrehoods network, great value considering the performance and volumes I'm currently moving!!
marine1
Honorary Master
50/50 is R999
25/25 is R799
Wish they offered a high download and slow upload I mean who needs 25 up or even more?
sand_man
Honorary Master
Yeah, in Norwood our 100Mbps option is 100/50 while the others are 20/20 and 50/50. Our pricing is excellent...
Looney
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Cool Ideas Fiber ISP - Feedback
I wouldn't necessarily say that the Vuma pricing is that bad. Yes slightly more expensive, but also more options. It's only a R200 difference on the 100mb option for double the upload speed.
I wouldn't necessarily say that the Vuma pricing is that bad. Yes slightly more expensive, but also more options. It's only a R200 difference on the 100mb option for double the upload speed.
marine1
Honorary Master
For 999 I would definitely take the 100 /50 If we had that option
Pho3nix
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I wouldn't necessarily say that the Vuma pricing is that bad. Yes slightly more expensive, but also more options. It's only a R200 difference on the 100mb option for double the upload speed.
It's just more expensive. Moving down a tier on CI to 50/50 will save me R100
If i move to CW I'll save R250 or something.
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So areas are treated differently since the Vumatel acquisition (old fibrehoods vs Vumatel aerial). Sadly all fibrehoods areas pricing will fall in line by the end of the year. This will then open the network up to higher uploads etc.
Looney
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I have absolutely no problem paying R200 more for double the upload speed, but I understand that not everyone will feel the same.
marine1
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I don't think people as r high upload speeds they want fast download
Looney
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Best of both worlds. But yeah, not everyone needs it.
Pho3nix
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Just feel Fibrehoods model made more sense price wise. Service with CI is amazing.
marine1
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Don't really see the need for more than 5 mb upload anyway for home use.
We want fast download not upload
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People who back things up.
People who use cloud services to sync documents and such.
People who run Plex servers.
Large families.
Looney
Executive Member
You don't see the need, others do. That's why you have choice.
coop
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I also went for 100/100. There are 5 of us using this link and all it takes is for one of us to take a few photos and then arrive home (so google photos on android detects the wifi and starts syncing photos to the google servers) and the connection would be unusable for gaming / streaming. Let alone if all of us have taken photos and arrive home. There are many other similar scenarios that make me want the up-link capacity.
marine1
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You guys talking about home use? Sounds like a lot of stuff happening at your homes
marine1
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For me personally I don't see the need for such high speeds up. I download mainly and even for my cctv don't need more than 5
mithrandi
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High upload is one of those things where if you don't have it, it's pretty hard to get into the usage patterns that would require it (eg. cloud backups), so if you don't have it already you often won't feel the need for it; I think over time, people will come to demand it just like they do with high download, though.
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