Cool ideas through Vumatel or Openserve ?

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Hi

I am currently on Cool ideas 20/20 package on Vumatel (for the last 3 years) which I'm currently paying R929 per month, when browsing around I realised I could be on 40/20 package for R599 through Cool ideas Openserve which is also available.

That's R330 difference for R4k saving for the year.

If I changed would there be any experience differences ? D/L, peak congestion, ping etc
I'm happy on Vumatel decent ping to the EU servers, I get my 20 or currently 50 any time of the day, but if I can get the same service for R4k saving why not.

I originally went with Vumatel as they were faster to put fibre in, Openserve had fibre on the pole 3 months earlier than vumatel but took forever to actually make it available to clients. 2nd At the time I didn't want to support a company that was keeping SA internet in the dark ages and giving so so service. But times have changed Vumatel hiked their prices, everybody rolled out fibre and fibre is a commodity now vs exclusive product for the select few.

What are your guys' views?

Also not sure I'm comparing apples with apples, since the openserve price is data only and there is Data line option for R819. I don't know if the line refers to voip / landline etc
 
At the end of the day it's about affordability to you.

I was on openserve on a 200/200 line and it performed well for over a year but the ISP increased the price to over R2k/m.

So I moved to another ISP on Vumatel/SADV which was also available and I'm much happier with what I'm paying now. The performance is good but affected by my wifi setup.
I have mesh router in the office and speedtest in there show that I'm on 500/250. Which I didn't even know till halfway through July.

In the tv room where the xbox is connected to mesh satellite I dont get over 200 down.

Anyway I'm happy with how much I'm paying.
 
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20/20 is R820 on OpenServe. You were looking at the 10/10 with the double up promotion which is ending today.

@PBCool do you mind getting your devs to fix the favicon on the site:
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Vue icon displays on most pages instead of your logo, and rather use the page title than the page/post number as the name of it. Was trying to find the tab again so I could paste it here, but couldn't find it until I started typing Cool Ideas into the address bar and it told me I already had it open.
One also can't find pricing on the new site unless one uses check coverage.

Google still indexes: https://coolideas.co.za/fttb/openserve-business/ which is a dead page now, rather have dead links go to a page not found than an empty page.
 
PURE said:
Also not sure I'm comparing apples with apples, since the openserve price is data only and there is Data line option for R819. I don't know if the line refers to voip / landline etc
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The data-only option is for people who have an OpenServe fibre line already, perhaps with another provider and simply wants a PPPoE account.

In your case you would have to look at the Data + Line option.
 
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Johnatan56 said:
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20/20 is R820 on OpenServe. You were looking at the 10/10 with the double up promotion which is ending today.

@PBCool do you mind getting your devs to fix the favicon on the site:
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Vue icon displays on most pages instead of your logo, and rather use the page title than the page/post number as the name of it. Was trying to find the tab again so I could paste it here, but couldn't find it until I started typing Cool Ideas into the address bar and it told me I already had it open.
One also can't find pricing on the new site unless one uses check coverage.

Google still indexes: https://coolideas.co.za/fttb/openserve-business/ which is a dead page now, rather have dead links go to a page not found than an empty page.
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Thanks all of these bugs are already being addressed :)

Re the static pricing page you can use: https://coolideas.co.za/ftth-products/ this will be made more accessible soon as well.
 
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