Crystal Web or Voxtelecom

Icemanbrfc said:
Surely if one has a crappy line like me, does it matter which isp you are with? Ive always wondered this. Ive been with Axxess briefly, and Telkom and Afrihost. Non of them using their data will solve my congestion issues. Or am i talking out of backside here?
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I'm pretty confident that no ISP can work around exchange congestion issues. The difference might be in how the customer support helps fight your battle with Telkom though. Not sure if anything ever comes from doing that though.
 
I'm with both at the moment. For stuff like P2P and streaming, I don't notice a difference between the two.
Gaming wise I also don't notice a huge difference EXCEPT for Overwatch. My latency when playing Overwatch on VOX is 170 -175, while my latency on CW is around 195 - 210, sometimes spiking to the 250ms mark

Edit: this is on 150GB capped accounts on a 40Mbps VDSL line
 
Vox have had their issues in the past, but for 2 months now I've had absolutely no issue with them. For streaming and gaming it's been amazing... downloading has been good, although the daytime speeds can drop every now and again (not a huge issue as I'm at work).
 
Hi DJ

Can you get a sales person to PM me the prices.

20Mbps VDSL + data package options.

G


DJ... said:
I'd say go for the capped and if you feel you need to adjust the package on the same or higher price-point you can do so at any time, and the guys on live chat can actually do so instantly for you.

Welcome to Crystal Web...:)
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georgelza said:
Hi DJ

Can you get a sales person to PM me the prices.

20Mbps VDSL + data package options.

G
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Unfortunately I'm in hospital and mostly unavailable, so best to talk to our staff directly on our website by live chat, or simply by email. Our pricing is all on our website as well...
 
Ripstorm said:
I'm with both at the moment. For stuff like P2P and streaming, I don't notice a difference between the two.
Gaming wise I also don't notice a huge difference EXCEPT for Overwatch. My latency when playing Overwatch on VOX is 170 -175, while my latency on CW is around 195 - 210, sometimes spiking to the 250ms mark

Edit: this is on 150GB capped accounts on a 40Mbps VDSL line
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I do (and more importantly, my wife does :D ).

I also have both and definitely notice the difference (especially at household peak time - 07h00 - 21h00) - the Vox (Fatpipe connection) is slower for general internet (FB, Pintrest <--- the wife's poison of choice) and downloads from specific sites (Apple Store, Google Play Store, wherever Calibre is hosted, etc).

With school holidays fast approaching, I've setup my Mikrotik to automatically switch between Vox and CW depending on who the primary users are at various points during the day.

So the wife always gets premium CW access when she is using the Internet and the kids use Vox data at other times.

PS: I'd forgotten to activate the the rule that switches to CW one evening (before I'd automated the whole lot) and had an immediately chorus of complaints from the wife, so ja, the difference is noticeable (in my household at least).
 
AfricanTech said:
I do (and more importantly, my wife does :D ).

I also have both and definitely notice the difference (especially at household peak time - 07h00 - 21h00) - the Vox (Fatpipe connection) is slower for general internet (FB, Pintrest <--- the wife's poison of choice) and downloads from specific sites (Apple Store, Google Play Store, wherever Calibre is hosted, etc).

With school holidays fast approaching, I've setup my Mikrotik to automatically switch between Vox and CW depending on who the primary users are at various points during the day.

So the wife always gets premium CW access when she is using the Internet and the kids use Vox data at other times.

PS: I'd forgotten to activate the the rule that switches to CW one evening (before I'd automated the whole lot) and had an immediately chorus of complaints from the wife, so ja, the difference is noticeable (in my household at least).
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In line with my VOX experience. It's fine most of the time but slowed down badly in the evening. Netflix would struggle to even play in SD and youtube would buffer while CrystalWeb was full HD.
 
The carry over on Vox was the clincher for me. I'm on capped but it feels like uncapped if you look at how much data I'm accumulating.

And then they went and gave us uncapped during the night.

So now I've got even more data than I could possibly need.
 
AfricanTech said:
I do (and more importantly, my wife does :D ).

I also have both and definitely notice the difference (especially at household peak time - 07h00 - 21h00) - the Vox (Fatpipe connection) is slower for general internet (FB, Pintrest <--- the wife's poison of choice) and downloads from specific sites (Apple Store, Google Play Store, wherever Calibre is hosted, etc).

With school holidays fast approaching, I've setup my Mikrotik to automatically switch between Vox and CW depending on who the primary users are at various points during the day.

So the wife always gets premium CW access when she is using the Internet and the kids use Vox data at other times.

PS: I'd forgotten to activate the the rule that switches to CW one evening (before I'd automated the whole lot) and had an immediately chorus of complaints from the wife, so ja, the difference is noticeable (in my household at least).
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How do you automate the change? Do you need any additional software/tools to do it? (I am running Windows 10)
 
Just a quick update. I went with the 10Mbps Uncapped Premium.

Big difference with the picture heavy websites ! Ed2k alive and kicking.

How are the news servers ? Any one using them and if so what are you using to access them with for windows ?

Flipping cool system you have for sign up !
 
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