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Can anyone confirm, that they're consistently getting the line speed they have for uploads and downloads?

Gonna be ordering Fibre soon as our suburb is due online in the next few weeks and I'm thinking of trying Cool Ideas.

However, I dont want a situation where I have a 100mbps line and then get stuck behind a transparent proxy that takes forever to cache, or an upstream provider thats throttling me down to 10mbps or similar.

Currently i'm on Telkom LTE and getting about 45mbps. Of course thats with huge latency and my downloads fluctuate massively probably due to congestion either local or elsewhere in Telkom's infrastructure. I hope this will be alleviated with the Fibre...
 
neoprema said:
Can anyone confirm, that they're consistently getting the line speed they have for uploads and downloads?

Gonna be ordering Fibre soon as our suburb is due online in the next few weeks and I'm thinking of trying Cool Ideas.

However, I dont want a situation where I have a 100mbps line and then get stuck behind a transparent proxy that takes forever to cache, or an upstream provider thats throttling me down to 10mbps or similar.

Currently i'm on Telkom LTE and getting about 45mbps. Of course thats with huge latency and my downloads fluctuate massively probably due to congestion either local or elsewhere in Telkom's infrastructure. I hope this will be alleviated with the Fibre...
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So far I always get full line speed no matter the time of the day. I went with Cool Ideas because of their presence on this site and their Netflix and Steam results are always the best it seems. They don't throttle or shape at all and no AUP/FUP that I am aware of.

PS: In which area are you?
 
rvanwyk said:
So far I always get full line speed no matter the time of the day. I went with Cool Ideas because of their presence on this site and their Netflix and Steam results are always the best it seems. They don't throttle or shape at all and no AUP/FUP that I am aware of.

PS: In which area are you?
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Buccleuch
 
neoprema said:
Can anyone confirm, that they're consistently getting the line speed they have for uploads and downloads?

Gonna be ordering Fibre soon as our suburb is due online in the next few weeks and I'm thinking of trying Cool Ideas.

However, I dont want a situation where I have a 100mbps line and then get stuck behind a transparent proxy that takes forever to cache, or an upstream provider thats throttling me down to 10mbps or similar.

Currently i'm on Telkom LTE and getting about 45mbps. Of course thats with huge latency and my downloads fluctuate massively probably due to congestion either local or elsewhere in Telkom's infrastructure. I hope this will be alleviated with the Fibre...
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Very few ISPs would have transparent proxies nowadays. They just wont be able to keep up with 100-200Mbps lines, not to mention the amount of money you would have to throw at them to keep them fast, even when you have multiple of them load balanced. Though I am sure some would still try.

If you want to stay away from shaping, I am 100% certain the following ISPs have shaping devices:

Afrihost
M-Web
IS based ISPs (Web Africa, Crystal Web)
Vox
ect.

Cool Ideas do no shaping, no transparent proxies. Just plain full pipe speed. Your slowdowns usually come from the other networks on the internet or the server you downloading/uploading to/from.
 
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Tinuva said:
If you want to stay away from shaping, I am 100% certain the following ISPs have shaping devices:

M-Web
IS based ISPs (Web Africa, Crystal Web)
Vox
ect.

Cool Ideas do no shaping, no transparent proxies. Just plain full pipe speed. Your slowdowns usually come from the other networks on the internet or the server you downloading/uploading to/from.
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+1

CISP isn't a meme ISP like those above, if you want real internet from people who know what they're doing, sign up with @PBCool (when are we hitting Nandos, Paul?)
 
If you want to stay away from shaping, I am 100% certain the following ISPs have shaping devices:

M-Web
IS based ISPs (Web Africa, Crystal Web)
Vox
ect.

Cool Ideas do no shaping, no transparent proxies. Just plain full pipe speed. Your slowdowns usually come from the other networks on the internet or the server you downloading/uploading to/from.
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I actually know that IS do not shape at all on there ftth(webafrica etc use) unless the network is under heavy congestion, but this is unlikely as they have plenty of transit bandwidth.

I like that Cool ideas peer with Hurricane electric aswell as IS, but i can see majority of their transit goes via hurricane :)

@PBCool, are you guys running mikrotik in the core or cisco etc?
 
Waylander said:
+1

CISP isn't a meme ISP like those above, if you want real internet from people who know what they're doing, sign up with @PBCool (when are we hitting Nandos, Paul?)
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You mean Foundry right?
 
andycol500 said:
I actually know that IS do not shape at all on there ftth(webafrica etc use) unless the network is under heavy congestion, but this is unlikely as they have plenty of transit bandwidth.

I like that Cool ideas peer with Hurricane electric aswell as IS, but i can see majority of their transit goes via hurricane :)

@PBCool, are you guys running mikrotik in the core or cisco etc?
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We run a combination of devices, and yes most traffic is via London and HE, this may change next year once the new cable systems come online.
 
Is anybody on Vumatel Aireal fibre having issues connecting? I am getting LCP timeout errors when trying to establish a PPP connection.
 
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Very poor international speeds.
Keeps buffering... Cannot watch a SD movie.

Cool ideas?
 
Good day,
We are currently experiencing an outage in the area and our technicians are busy onsite localizing the fault. we will keep you updated with all the progress regarding the outage.We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
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Vuma

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I must be lucky because I’m not having any issues

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