Cool Ideas Fibre ISP - Feedback

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panayi said:
Beware the ISP that pays for the install and connection fee....most times they lock you in for 2 years or so.....look very carefully at the detail of the offer....

With Cool Ideas, you pay Vimatel the R1710 for install into your house and then no lock in....

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Jip thanx, have seen those. Ok, both my applications to Vumatel and CISP are in, heehaaaaa. That day I can disconnect the ADSL I'm opening a bottle:D
 
Skurf said:
Please tell us more, also what option do you have on wifi extenders/boosters to cover the entire house?
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We don't do boosters or extenders because we don't believe in them. We contract out to cable companies etc in case you need additional APs and cables installed.
 
PBCool said:
We don't do boosters or extenders because we don't believe in them. We contract out to cable companies etc in case you need additional APs and cables installed.
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By believe you mean that the conflicting routers repeating the same signal on the same channel space degrades performance too much due to collision, especially noticeable on higher speed connections.
Just in case anyone calls you out on that. ;)
 
Johnatan56 said:
By believe you mean that the conflicting routers repeating the same signal on the same channel space degrades performance too much due to collision, especially noticeable on higher speed connections.
Just in case anyone calls you out on that. ;)
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For those reasons and more, wireless being dynamic and limited in "airspace" and now people want to use a wireless device to broadcast more wireless. You connect to the repeater and generate traffic, the first/original AP starts to make wireless noise to feed the repeater which then makes more noise. Whereas if you had a cabled AP just one radio is making the same noise and performing better.

This leads to more interference more noise etc etc. They are terrible things. Cable up your fixed devices and wireless is for convenience and your mobile stuff.
 
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ChadKay said:
I picked up my router today, is it please possible to just go past tomorrow and pay for it ''in-store''?
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Not really but we can generate an invoice tomorrow that you can pay online then collect?
 
twitch streaming is dead tonight for me...suck as it has been working well the past week
 
Try force google dns server: 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

coolideas assigned dns servers died completely for me a few hours back and was unable to access any international dns's until I changed my dns servers.
 
John Tempus said:
Try force google dns server: 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

coolideas assigned dns servers died completely for me a few hours back and was unable to access any international dns's until I changed my dns servers.
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Are you in CT or JHB?
 
On good ol vumatel.

The DNS service is resolving international sites again tho, it just so happen to die on me for a couple of hours. Local content was still happily resolving at the time.
 
John Tempus said:
On good ol vumatel.

The DNS service is resolving international sites again tho, it just so happen to die on me for a couple of hours. Local content was still happily resolving at the time.
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Strange probably an upstream issue for that period. I ask because it seems there is a general Octotel issue.
 
I am assuming 155.93.255.1 and 154.0.1.1 are DNS servers run by Cool Ideas?
 
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