Since I haven't really seen much feedback here with regards to Frogfoot fibre, I thought I'd share my experience with you guys.
I'm lucky enough to be in Sector 1 of the Parklands rollout, so I signed up for a 100mbps Cool Ideas package @ R999 per month last year.
The wait was quite long - between wayleaves being delayed, everyone closing for December and a few other niggles, Sector 1 only went live in the last few weeks.
Frogfoot came to do a site survey about 2 weeks ago, sent me some plans for approval, after which Motivity (outsourced installer company) called me and scheduled an appointment for Thursday.
The installation went fairly well, but unfortunately there was a problem with the fibre at the node room, which was corrected on the Friday afternoon.
I didn't want to use the free router from Cool Ideas (already have a Mikrotik hapLITE at home) so I called them up to get the PPPoE details for the connection - they were super helpful and had the details within a few minutes.
I got the connection up and running with no issues and am basking in the great speed:
Local Vox Telecom speedtest.net:
London Vox Telecom speedtest.net:
London Vodafone UK speedtest.net:
London Cybersmart UK speedtest.net:
London Seacom UK speedtest.net:
Fast.com:
The speedtest.net international test results are all over the place, but I guess that's based on the load on the server as well - in realworld use I haven't had anything come down at under 90mbps (updating league of legends, usenet, downloading the new Ghost Recon Wildlands beta).
All in all I'm super happy - I might just need to replace my router, as the CPU seems to hover at >80% when maxing out the internet connection, but that's to be expected for the model I have, as it's a lite version with only 100mbps ethernet + wireless N. Might be time to fork out the cash for gigabit ethernet + wireless AC
I'm lucky enough to be in Sector 1 of the Parklands rollout, so I signed up for a 100mbps Cool Ideas package @ R999 per month last year.
The wait was quite long - between wayleaves being delayed, everyone closing for December and a few other niggles, Sector 1 only went live in the last few weeks.
Frogfoot came to do a site survey about 2 weeks ago, sent me some plans for approval, after which Motivity (outsourced installer company) called me and scheduled an appointment for Thursday.
The installation went fairly well, but unfortunately there was a problem with the fibre at the node room, which was corrected on the Friday afternoon.
I didn't want to use the free router from Cool Ideas (already have a Mikrotik hapLITE at home) so I called them up to get the PPPoE details for the connection - they were super helpful and had the details within a few minutes.
I got the connection up and running with no issues and am basking in the great speed:
Local Vox Telecom speedtest.net:
London Vox Telecom speedtest.net:
London Vodafone UK speedtest.net:
London Cybersmart UK speedtest.net:
London Seacom UK speedtest.net:
Fast.com:
The speedtest.net international test results are all over the place, but I guess that's based on the load on the server as well - in realworld use I haven't had anything come down at under 90mbps (updating league of legends, usenet, downloading the new Ghost Recon Wildlands beta).
All in all I'm super happy - I might just need to replace my router, as the CPU seems to hover at >80% when maxing out the internet connection, but that's to be expected for the model I have, as it's a lite version with only 100mbps ethernet + wireless N. Might be time to fork out the cash for gigabit ethernet + wireless AC
