Cool Ideas Fibre ISP - Feedback

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Anyone looking for a fibre provider? Stuck between Cool Ideas and VOX? Use real-debrid seedbox? This might help you with your final decision...

VOX

http://30.download.real-debrid.com/speedtest/test.rar >2.5MB/s
http://proof.ovh.net/files/1Gb.dat >2.5MB/s
http://5.download.real-debrid.com/speedtest/test.rar >1.6MB/s
http://ping.online.net/1000Mo.dat >1.2MB/s
http://150.download.real-debrid.com/speedtest/test.rar >error
http://mirror.nforce.com/pub/speedtests/10000mb.bin >5MB/s
http://32.download.real-debrid.com/speedtest/test.rar >1.5MB/s
http://ams.download.10gbps.io/10000mb.bin >180KB/s
http://4.download.real-debrid.com/speedtest/test.rar >1.2MB/s
http://speedtest.ams03.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip >1.4MB/s
http://speedtest-ams3.digitalocean.com/100mb.test >1.5MB/s

Cool Ideas

http://30.download.real-debrid.com/speedtest/test.rar > 22MB/s
http://proof.ovh.net/files/1Gb.dat > 15MB/s
http://5.download.real-debrid.com/speedtest/test.rar > 14MB/s
http://ping.online.net/1000Mo.dat > 24MB/s
http://150.download.real-debrid.com/speedtest/test.rar > 25MB/s
http://mirror.nforce.com/pub/speedtests/10000mb.bin > 6MB/s
http://32.download.real-debrid.com/speedtest/test.rar > 3MB/s
http://ams.download.10gbps.io/10000mb.bin > 600KB/s
http://4.download.real-debrid.com/speedtest/test.rar > 2MB/s
http://speedtest.ams03.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip > 1.5MB/s
http://speedtest-ams3.digitalocean.com/100mb.test > 1.5MB/s
 
sand_man said:
Anyone looking for a fibre provider? Stuck between Cool Ideas and VOX? Use real-debrid seedbox? This might help you with your final decision...
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Why pay for a seedbox when you have fibre internet? Just get a rutorrent docker with openvpn installed.
 
Ranger_JoJo had question a couple of days ago regarding user experience on CISP in Cape Town. I'm in the same boat as him/her, and if the peering stats are correct I do find it quite concerning that Cape Town is lagging so far behind in capacity.

Ranger_JoJo Question
 
standerr said:
Ranger_JoJo had question a couple of days ago regarding user experience on CISP in Cape Town. I'm in the same boat as him/her, and if the peering stats are correct I do find it quite concerning that Cape Town is lagging so far behind in capacity.

Ranger_JoJo Question
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The peering in Cape Town has more than enough capacity as things stand. You need to understand that most of the content providers are only in Johannesburg. So having a 10G port when you are only using 200Mbps on the local exchange wouldn't make any difference.

The speedtest you are running is over wireless which is the first thing to avoid. Plug a device in with cable and try again. If you don't get line speed it's something else. Not the capacity of our peering ports :).

You are also testing to our speedtest server in Johannesburg which actually has nothing to do with peering.
 
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Ranger_JoJo said:
Morning all,

Vumatel is currently installing in my suburb (Cape Town) and I'm looking at ISP options to move off Telkom ADSL + VOX isp.
Will most likely be going with a 100Mbps/100Mbps line from Vumatel; but got stuck on ISP to go with.

Compared staying with VOX vs moving to Cool Ideas. Trying to get a feel for both ISPs network in good old "Slaap Stad" and looks like Cool Ideas is heavily biased towards deploying up north? Any on hear with experience of both ISP from Cape Town; latency and speeds to London would be important consideration. As see complaints against both for bad international connectivity, depending on who you ask.:confused:

Wondering if it comes down to where you are at with Cool Ideas.

See this for them vs good old Telkom

peeringdb - Vox Telecom
https://beta.peeringdb.com/net/3586
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peeringdb - Cool Ideas Service Provider Pty Ltd
https://beta.peeringdb.com/net/7976
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peeringdb - Telkom SA
https://beta.peeringdb.com/net/5014

peeringdb - Telkom Internet
https://beta.peeringdb.com/net/6708

Any Cape Town based war-stories/advise for either ISP?

Thanks
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standerr said:
Ranger_JoJo had question a couple of days ago regarding user experience on CISP in Cape Town. I'm in the same boat as him/her, and if the peering stats are correct I do find it quite concerning that Cape Town is lagging so far behind in capacity.

Ranger_JoJo Question
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Ok I will answer his questions.

Currently on 20/20 in Cape Town on Vumatel with CISP, but was on 100/100.

It was easy to get 101 up and 101 down in speedtests to CPT servers and JHB servers. International was never that high, usually 70 down 15 up.

Latency, was a solid 142ms to London pretty much always, still is.

Streaming is usually solid, goes straight to 1080p quality. Downloads also are solid.
Gaming usually solid stable. In fact, the international gaming is amazing, because the variance for latency is far less than with ADSL. On ADSL it would be anything from 180-250ms and never stay the same. On FTTH with CISP is stays solid at 150ms in game! Best part of FTTH and CISP I believe.

Only reason for downgrading, I found that I don't really use it and we only 2 people at home so 20/20 is perfect.

Used to have VOX on ADSL, wasn't really impressed but the value for money was too good on the R59/month after hours uncapped.
 
Just a heads up there is a general issue on the Octotel network, we are busy working with them to try and resolve.
 
So my Vumatel installation was live when I got home tonight, so I signed up with Cool Ideas 20/20. Can't wait to be activated!
 
MandM said:
So my Vumatel installation was live when I got home tonight, so I signed up with Cool Ideas 20/20. Can't wait to be activated!
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Vuma aerial or trenched? If trenched you can activate right away if you have a router :)
 
MandM said:
Trenched and I have a router. My order number with Vumatel is Order number: O000000051478. I filled in the application at www.cisp.co.za/application too, my reference is Ticket ID: COOL-20171003-41734. Am I missing something?
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Did you plug in your router, then your PC, navigate to shop.vumatel.co.za (the only address that will work) then create an account, sign in and select your package from the All Packages area ? Once you do that, within a few minutes, you will be live. Note that Vumatel use DHCP and will lock the line to your MAC address.

HTH
 
coop said:
Did you plug in your router, then your PC, navigate to shop.vumatel.co.za (the only address that will work) then create an account, sign in and select your package from the All Packages area ? Once you do that, within a few minutes, you will be live. Note that Vumatel use DHCP and will lock the line to your MAC address.

HTH
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Yes, I did that. I can however only access the Vumatel page and it shows my package selection on my account page.
 
MandM said:
Yes, I did that. I can however only access the Vumatel page and it shows my package selection on my account page.
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That's odd, the above is all I did and within about 15 mins it started working. Not sure if I had to reboot my router, that might be worth a try.
 
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I am online! Thank you for your help PBCool
 
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